How do I play a midi from the command line in Ubuntu?

I'd like to do something like

$ play filename.mid

and hear the midi file played without opening up a graphical program. Is there a package for Ubuntu that can do this?

From ubuntu

• You'll likely want the playmidi package (sudo apt-get install playmidi) which will allow you to play midi files from the command line.

  playmidi filename.mid

  From Marco Ceppi

• There are many different packages/commands you can try:

  1. wildmidi (as used by gstreamer)
  2. timidity (found this very CPU intensive)
  3. playmidi (never tried personally)
  From fluteflute