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Johann Sebastian Bach wrote hundreds of pieces of music, about half of them based on popular hymn tunes of the day, called chorales.

Many of these tunes were used several times in his organ music, and in his dramatic music, the passions, oratorios, and cantatas.

He wrote 4-part harmonizations of these tunes that are used to this day to study the practice of harmony and composition.

MIDI files contain computer information about music. They can be:

• imported into a notation program and printed out,
• imported into a sequencer and played through a MIDI instrument or sound module, or
• they can be played directly from the Web or converted to a QuickTime movie with QuickTime. For this you will need the necessary sound cards in your computer and the QuickTime Musical Instruments in your extensions folder.
• For MIDI players, utilities etc, take a look at: Charles Kelly's MIDI Page.

For general information about MIDI check out these resources.

Download Chorales 1-403, midi.

Download Chorales 1-403, QuickTime.

These packages are accompanied by a tab delimited text data file with the name of the midi file, its BWV #, and its number in current editions of the chorales.

A ReadMe file with bibliographic information and an explanation of the file names is also included.

Here are sets of other chorales:

The Schübler Chorales in midi format

The Vom Himmel hoch Variations in midi format

The Leipzig Organ Chorales in midi format

The Vom Himmel Hoch Variations in QT format

The Schübler Chorales in QT format

The Leipzig Organ Chorales in QT format

To unZip compressed files, see this page

Individual Chorales

For lists of individual chorales, see this page.

For lists of the Schübler chorales, see this page.

For lists of the Leipzig chorales, see this page.

For some of my favorite chorales, see this page.

For more MIDI files, visit Standard MIDI Files on the Net
The Internet midi community's comprehensive list of sites with midi files

For general information about Bach, check out these pages.

Here is a bibliography of sources used in preparing these files.

Here are some books about Bach.

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This page was made on a Macintosh, music files were made with Coda's Finale and playback files were prepared with QuickTime.

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