About 'Best Classical Tunes.com'.       

BestClassicalTunes.com  - is a web site dedicated to music lovers, music students and music teachers. Its objective is to make it easy for people to listen to the best tunes that classical music has to offer, and to provide free access to the sheet music for these tunes.

One of the key criteria for a musical work to be included in this site is its tunefulness. You won't find any atonal or 12-tone compositions here. Nor will you find jarring or discordant music. You will find stirring patriotic tunes, plaintive beautiful romantic songs, heart-wrenching soaring lyrical melodies, familiar and well-loved folk-songs, nursery rhymes, christmas carols and sacred works, and famous immortal classics from the great masters.

The most important objective for users of this site is to reach the tune details page devoted to a specific 'tune' or musical work that is of interest to them. This page displays the musical score in 'Scorch' format for an increasing proportion of the tunes, or else it displays a media player control which enables the tune to be played from a MIDI file. It also contains a description of the work, technical details such as key, time signature and tempo, and a list of the main themes.

There are many ways to reach the desired TUNE DETAILS, the most common are listed below:-

There is a dictionary of musical themes, which can help you identify tunes you know, but cannot name. All you have to do is pick out the first ten notes, using the mouse on a virtual piano. The system will look up your tune in its database. It may find more than one tune matching your notes. All matching tunes are listed, and you can click on any one to reach its 'Tune Details' page.

There is a 'Site Search' panel at the top right corner of every page. This is text-based, so you can type up to four key words, and all titles, descriptions and other text fields will be searched, and a list of matching tunes displayed. You can click on any row in the list to reach its Tune Details.

There is comprehensive information about composers, with lists of their tunes. You can click on any row in the list to reach its Tune Details. In a similar manner, there is data on periods, categories, ensembles, instruments and countries. All of these display lists of tunes belonging to the selected period, category, etc. You can click on any row in the list to reach its Tune Details.

There is a list of tunes for which 'Scorch' scores are available. Once again, you can click on any row in the list to reach its Tune Details.

There is a 'Hit Parades' section, listing the top twenty tunes in various categories, as voted by radio listeners in USA, Australia and Britain. You can click on any row in the list to reach its Tune Details.