You are in for a treat, Helen. You are in a position to explore the world of classical music on the Internet.

The Internet is simply rife with sites that share classical music. (For example, check The Classical Music Archives.) It's easy to find a famous piece and listen to it. However, if you really want to add the piece to your repertoire, you buy a music-composition program and download the MIDI file. Then you can do all sorts of things to it - change the key, change the octave, move melodies from one staff to another, compose new accompaniment lines, remove parts, and then print the result.

Unfortunately, MIDI files comes in two types - those that people played directly into their computer with a keyboard, and those that people entered as notation. The first group is only good for listening to, as it records all the subtle variations in note length as a confusing mass of dots and wee rests. The second type is what you need. I'm telling you this so you won't get discouraged if you encounter the bad type first in your searches.

This needn't cost a fortune. The program I use (and I use it a lot) is Noteworthy Composer, which only costs $39. I'm not saying it's the best program. However, you can spend forever trying to decide what's the best program.

It takes a while to get competent with a music program, but it has the advantage that your computer is being put to a new and noble use.

If you are interested, get back to us.