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Topic: Need help with piece identification  (Read 7721 times)

Offline langstaff

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Need help with piece identification
on: February 29, 2008, 03:12:52 AM
Okay I'm trying to figure out what this piece is called and who the composer is.

I don't know what key it is in, but trying playing this:
(Start one octave above middle-C)
C E G B C-D-C - The B there is below the starting C

That's the main melody.

If anyone can identify the tune from that, you're awesome. If more of the melody is required then I'll go to my piano and figure that out.

Gonna blow my brains out if I don't find out what this piece is!

Offline i heart xenakis

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Re: Need help with piece identification
Reply #1 on: February 29, 2008, 04:30:30 AM
You're gonna have to be more specific.  Tempo would be helpful, first off.  Also, is the C --> E ascending or descending?

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Re: Need help with piece identification
Reply #2 on: February 29, 2008, 04:39:01 AM
C     E G = ascending
1 2  3 4

B       C D C      = the B is below the starting C, and the C that follows is the starting C, then go one
1a 2  a  -  3 4      whole tone to D, then back to C. 

I'm not sure what the standard counting format is, but that's how I learned it, with the "a" meaning "and".  The "a -" for C and D are eigth notes.

I'm not 100% sure on the note values, but I think they're right.

The piece is played at a brisk tempo, probably Allegro. 

Let me know if more specifics are needed.

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Re: Need help with piece identification
Reply #3 on: February 29, 2008, 04:42:03 AM
Mozart Sonata K 545, 1st movement
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach

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Re: Need help with piece identification
Reply #4 on: February 29, 2008, 04:48:32 AM
Yes that's the one!

Thanks
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