Description & Musical Analysis
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is presented as a long-form orchestra-and-band MIDI, with 26 active tracks spanning piano, clarinet, brass, saxophones and strings.
How to Play & Trivia
About this MIDI
This MIDI follows a multi-part arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The file runs about 15:07 and contains 30,604 notes across 26 active tracks, including clarinet, piano, saxophones, brass, banjo and strings.
Practice focus
The clarinet line opens the score before the piano moves through the changing jazz-influenced sections alongside the orchestra and band colors. Use the playback and sheet-music views to follow one family at a time rather than reading the full texture at once.
Score source: PDMX v9, Zenodo record 15571083; this entry is marked CC0 in the dataset metadata.
Available Instruments: Piano (Grand, Upright, Electric), Synthesizer, Organ, Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Viola Caipira, Ukulele, Bass (4 and 5 strings), Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp, Kalimba, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Recorder, Flute, Ocarina, Saxophone, Clarinet, and Trumpet.
