Name this tune!

[Bob]

The rules?  I don't know. We'll figure them out as we go.


The pitches are exact.  Take your best guess at the rhythm.

Let's start with one that looks easier.  If you need help I can give more clues.



                                                                               G
                                                                          F#

                                                             Eb
                                                                 D
                               Ab
                           G
                    F#   
            Eb 
C                                      C
                                            B




If you can think of a better way to do this, tell us!


But for now.... Name!  That!  Tune!

[m1469]

*drooling profusely*


Mozart's (my  ) Fantasia in C minor  KV 475

[Bob]

Dang.  That was too easy.  I'll have to find a harder one.

[m1469]

Dang.  That was too easy.  I'll have to find a harder one.

ooo ooo, I know !!  Can the next one be : Mozart's Sonata in C minor KV 457 ?   

he he


*drools slightly harder now*

[Bob]

Ok... Name this tune then.



                                            F
     Eb                        Eb   E     Eb              Eb
          D                 D                     D      D
               C        C                              C
Bb               Bb

[Bob]

I have stumped the m1469.

[m1469]

I have stumped the m1469.

yeah, Bob, could I have a clue    ?


he he... it looks like a snake 

[stevie]

hahaha , snakes on the brain mayla? nawty!

randomly looks fun, randomly cant get it yet

[m1469]

Just Great !!  Bob's gone and I fell to the bottom of this thread and I am stuck in here with some phantom tune sounding in my head...


Help me !!  Someone !!!  Can you hear me ??  I am stuck at the bottom of this thread !!

Lassie, go tell ma.... !!

[stevie]

i see

[m1469]

i see

oh... you're here.  How do you see anything ?  It's pretty dark, it seems.


This is going to drive me crazy now...

[Bob]

The title is close to the title of the first piece up there.

It's not Mozart.  (duh)

Three flats in the key signature.  Common time.

[perfect_pitch]

It isn't a beethoven Sonata in E flat major... God knows which opus???

IS IT???

[pianistimo]

just to make it difficult for us, bob pulled out some of his vocal music from the 1930's and is trying to confuse us (by not writing in the vocal line).  it's probably 'shiek of arabia' and has a picture of some actor on the front cover with eyeliner around his eyes.

or?  offenbach?  it's obviously an interlude between a really romantic arabic setting, where the chorus watches the couple escape on a camel.

 

[pianistimo]

wait....i know...it's ave maria rearranged by a deranged arranger.

no.  hold on.  it's coming to me.   it's 'the swan' by saint-saens.  bob- tell me i got it right!

[pianistimo]

ok.  here's one for the lone ranger

C    CCc   CCC  A F A C A C F C A F A C A C F C   

i can always identify that one!  and the second movement (second movements are really hard to identify) of mozart's elvira madigan concerto.

[m1469]

The title is close to the title of the first piece up there.

It's not Mozart.  (duh)

Three flats in the key signature.  Common time.

I feel like I am an obvious music/piano-baby 


*bangs on keys*


ps- I will concentrate more now and try to guess it 

pss- well, soon anyway 

[Bob]

Ha ha ha...


The composer lived after Mozart.

Two things in the title of the Mozart piece above are the same as this new piece.

It's not the very beginning of the piece (as far as I know). 


Don't feel bad.  I don't know if I would get any of these.  Not off the top of my head.  Some, but probably not this one.

I don't think this is an obscure piece.

That's all for now.  I'll start giving out more notes I guess.

[m1469]

no no, don't give out more notes.  At least I don't want any more.  I want to try to figure it out from what you have given.  I don't want anymore clues, I just need to look harder, okay ?

I don't mean to take over the game though, I mean, do as you please.  I am just speaking my mind 


m1469

[pianistimo]

i don't remember how schubert's wanderer fantasy goes - but that's my wild stab in the dark. 

[Bob]

Pianistimo is getting close...  but not quite.

I'll give you a second.

[TheHammer]

As I think this belongs back on top... (warning for m1469, solution follows)

After figuring out that this piece got to be a fantasy in the key of C, with at least a part of it in c-minor, and knowing that it isn't the Wanderer, and after looking at Schubert's other Fantasy, which is also in C (and surprisingly close to the Mozart...) - the Schumann Fantasy op. 17 was the only one left.
So I looked at the sheets, and indeed... deep down (2nd page) in the second movement, as a little melody, well hidden, it was there....(https://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/compositions_b/schm17_2.pdf)

That was a bit tough in my opinion (that is, without the other information). Not because the piece was obscure or something - it is just that you wouldn't really associate this melody with the Fantasy, would you?
Still fun though.

[Bob]

Congratulations.   I was getting worried there.  I didn't know how easy or tough it would be.  I thought the introduction would be too easy.

"Once again the world has returned to normal.  Wrong has been set right.  All by... The Hammer!"




Ok.... new one....

           D#

B                                    A    Bb A

                F    F#                           F#
                     
                                                               D#



This one might be a little tougher too.  I tried to keep it as easy as possible.

[pianistimo]

must be chopin.  all those sharps witha  d flat put in.  or is it brahms?  bob, why do you take exerpts from the middle of the piece?  now, i am going crazy.  i must know this.  *tries to meditate very deeply.   ahh - yes, it is from one of chopin's etudes.

 

[Bob]

It is the main theme as far as I know, or at least one of them.

Pianistimo is waaaay off.  It's not a Chopin etude.  It would begin to be "beyond" Chopin.  I do see a B Major chord there which surprises me.  But it's an earlier work in this guy's career I think.  This wasn't quite the example I was thinking of.

[mrchops10]

schoenberg six little pieces op. 19/1...gee, Bob, what next...Xenakis? Boulez? <gasp> Sorabji?

[Bob]

Mr. Chops has it.   Hey, I don't want to type a gazillion notes here.  Simple is easier.



Getting back to it, here's a third one.



                                      C   C   C 
                                  Bb               Bb
                                A                         A
                              G                                     G
F                          F
                         E
                       D
                    C
                 Bb
               A
            G
   F



Explain my sentence in red to for those that don't get it please.

[pianistimo]

it's obviously a cadenza of some sort.  out of gershwin's rhapsody in blue?  yes it is.  and i win a million dollars (money rains down).  give me something harder.

[llamaman]

It is? Isn't it Bach's Italian Concerto, Third Movement?

[pianistimo]

oh.  you might be right.  the top notes are C's instead of F's.  ok. you win.

[perfect_pitch]

Oh Bloody hell, trust bob to put up an easy one while we in australia are asleep...

And then to have someone answer it before I even wake up....

Nuts.... 

[pianistimo]

do what i do and wake up at odd hours of the night.  (don't really know why this has been happening to me).  it varies from 3 am to 4 am or somewhere inbetween.  of course, i go on piano forum.

[Bob]

Getting back to it, here's a third one.

Back... it.... third one
Bach  It.    Third mvt, first theme


Tricky eh?



Hmmm.....

                                                      Bb
       A       A         A        A       A
   G       G     G        G       G       G        F
F        F       

[pianistimo]

sounds like a rooster to me.

[llamaman]

I think I recognize it. Sounds like something Stravinsky or Prokofiev.

[Bob]

Hmmm..... I wonder if I've got this line correct.  I might be off.


Llamaman is getting close.


These letters are squished together.  The piece is slow.