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Offline Rach3

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Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
on: December 15, 2003, 04:41:26 AM
I'm almost certain it's Chopin, and it might be in D-flat major... it's polonaise-like, in 3/4 time, and this is from a fortissimo section, as best as I can communicate:

F Db Ab | Bb | Ab(tr) G Ab Bb C Db | D Eb En | F...

Please help! It is getting very irritating!
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Offline robert_henry

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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #1 on: December 15, 2003, 08:09:49 AM
It's Chopin Nocturne in C# minor, Opus 27, Nr. 1.  You are hearing the Db major section at the end of the B section.  I love that piece.

Robert Henry

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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #2 on: December 18, 2003, 01:04:59 AM
yup its definitely op. 27 no. 1
one of my favorite nocturnes, very powerful emotionally...even though it seems to be overlooked by alot of people
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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #3 on: December 19, 2003, 12:42:59 PM
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yup its definitely op. 27 no. 1
one of my favorite nocturnes, very powerful emotionally...even though it seems to be overlooked by alot of people


Overlooked? I'm listening to it now and if someone overlooked a song like this then they just don't understand music...
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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #4 on: December 19, 2003, 03:31:54 PM
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Overlooked? I'm listening to it now and if someone overlooked a song like this then they just don't understand music...


And if someone calls this piece a song then they just don't understand music...
Ed
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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #5 on: December 21, 2003, 07:09:35 AM
Agreed Eddie!

Thanks Robert, you're exactly right.

I have been reading through the score again, having not heard this piece in literally years. Rather amazing composer, Chopin, no? Stays with you.
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Offline leemay001

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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #6 on: December 21, 2003, 11:13:06 AM
Don't understand music huh... Heh, I'm just used to my hopless piano teacher (which I'm going to change) calling them "songs". And you really don't have to get so annoyed, a simple correction is quite enough.  :'(
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Offline bernhard

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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #7 on: December 21, 2003, 01:08:38 PM
I doubt he gets annoyed. I think he derives great pleasure from it. ;D
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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #8 on: December 21, 2003, 04:25:02 PM
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I doubt he gets annoyed. I think he derives great pleasure from it. ;D


Not great pleasure but moderate pleasure,
Ed
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Re: Help! Unidentified piece stuck in my ear!
Reply #9 on: December 22, 2003, 09:43:31 AM
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Not great pleasure but moderate pleasure,
Ed

Hehe, fair enough
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