How to batch download files from web page?

[sj]

I wish to download hundreds of files from the University of Iowa sound
archive.  Doing it manually would be a daunting task especially since the
files are each a few mega bytes long.  Is there a standard way of using
Python for such a task?  I have a fair amount of programming experiance but
very little of it relates to networks.  

For those who are intrested the University of Iowa's sound archive may be
found at http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html

Thanks in advance
Steven Jones