This directory contains songs in standard midifile format.
Some files are packed in archives, if they form a coherent set.
If possible each file has an accompanying .doc file giving a short description.
For a complete list of the songs in all subdirectories see the file LIST in
this directory. 

drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff        512 Jan 16 09:57 CHRISTIAN
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff       1024 Dec 15 17:53 CHRISTMAS
drwxr-xr-x    4 piet     staff       3072 Mar 29 11:37 CLASSICAL
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff       4608 Feb 20 12:22 GMIDI
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff       1536 Jan  6 10:55 GUS
-rw-r--r--    1 piet     staff       1692 Sep  1  1994 INDEX
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff        512 Oct 14  1993 JAZZ
-rw-r--r--    1 piet     staff      68422 Mar 29 11:40 LIST
drwxr-xr-x    4 piet     staff       4608 Feb 17 15:19 MISC
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff       1024 Oct 14  1993 MT-32
drwxr-xr-x    3 piet     staff       2560 Mar 22 10:31 POP
drwxr-xr-x    2 piet     staff       7680 Feb  2 15:11 cakewalk

LIST		- A list of all (I hope) the songs in the subdirectories
CHRISTIAN	- christian music (including ccm)
CHRISTMAS	- subdirectory for christmas music (secular and christian)
CLASSICAL	- subdirectory for classical music
GMIDI		- songs arranged for General MIDI
GUS		- songs arranged for the Gravis Ultrasound
JAZZ		- Jazz music
MISC		- unclassified
MT-32		- songs arranged for the MT-32
POP		- pop music
cakewalk	- Cakewalk files (.wrk). These are NOT in standard midifile
		  (.mid) format

The main site of this archive is ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] (The
Netherlands) in /pub/MIDI/SONGS. Please use a mirror that is geographically
close to you.

Mirrors of the SONGS (or the whole MIDI archive) can be found on the
following sites:

Taiwan 	   ftp.cis.nctu.edu.tw	/MIDI/SONGS/
Japan	   ftp.pu-toyama.ac.jp	/pub/ftpmail/ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/SONGS
Australia  ftp.monash.edu.au	/pub/midi/SONGS
Finland	   ftp.funet.fi		/pub/sounds/midi
France	   ftp.ibp.fr		/pub/midi
Canada     ftp.synapse.net      /contrib/music/midi
				http://www.synapse.net/ftp/contrib/music/midi/