Talk:Free Music

James Paige: If anyone can identify the composers of the songs marked "???", the help would be much appreciated.

Calehay: There's some errors on this page that I'm going to attempt to correct, so I thought I'd put them all here before I made any changes to see if there were any objections:

I can't find anywhere where Sonata is written as Sonatta when referring to Mussorgsky's Sonata in C Major. I'm also going to add that it's the second movement.

Same thing with the Toccata and Fugue, it's misspelled. I'm also going to add that it is in d minor, BWV 565. There are a lot of Bach Toccatas and Fugues.

The first Dvorak Humoresque on the page is Humoresque No. 7.

This doesn't have to do with the wiki, but the MIDI of the Gavotte from Mignon is extremely broken and hardly sounds like the piece. I might be able to get my hands on the music and make a better version of it.

The Soldier's Chorus from Faust leads to Snow Flurries.mid. Also, while Jules Barbier and Michel Carré wrote the libretto to Faust, Charles Gounod wrote the music. Is there any special reason to mention the librettists?

"Hark ten thousand angels sing" is actually called "Hark, Ten Thousand Harps" or "Hark, Tne Thousand Harps and Voices." The music was written by Lowell Mason and the words by Thomas Kelly. This is also a MIDI that is extremely funky. The melody is right, but the harmonization has quite a few strange notes in it.

The "Crusader's Hymn," also known as "O God of Loveliness" and "O bello, Dio, Signor del Paradiso" is a Silesian folk song. The author of the text is Alfonso M. de’ Liguori and was later translated into English my Edmund Vaughn.

Again, there's tons of Fugues in E Minor by Bach. The particular one listed here is Fugue X from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

Baby Elephant Dance is NOT Baby Elephant Walk. Even if it were, Baby Elephant Walk is not in the public domain. I have no idea what this music is, though, but it was not written by Henry Mancini.

That's all I can recognize. Any objections before I make the changes?

Bob the Hamster: All those changes sound great. The mistakes and inaccuracies are all due to my own ignorance of classical music combined with my own imnabilaty to splel corunctly. If you upload and link new copies of those files with corrected, my scripts will automatically bundle them up so the filenames will be corrected in the next stable distribution too. As for Baby Elephant Dance, Now that you mention it, I believe that might something that Brian Fisher composed in Notate, which was probably just inspired by Baby Elephant Walk. Oh, and the (misnamed) "Hark, Ten Thousand Harps" midi is funky because I transcribed it from a hymnal to notate, and whenever I saw a notation that I didn't understand in the book I just made something up :)