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Offline avetma

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What's your favorite tune?
on: August 11, 2008, 09:45:40 AM
I haven't seen topic like this around and it could be interesting to hear your opinions on this. Well, the question is - what's your favorite tune? The one that always make you sing from the top of your lungs. :D And it doesn't have to be piano piece and it can be just a note or an excerpt.

Mine is Nessun Dorma from Turandot and slow movement from Rachmaninov e-minor symphony. I just have to sing it while i'm listening. :D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 04:54:22 PM
I haven't seen topic like this around

True, there has not been one for at least 4 hours.

My fave is Om Pah Pah from Oliver.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 05:12:27 PM
True, there has not been one for at least 4 hours.

My fave is Om Pah Pah from Oliver.

Thal

Haha, no no! ;D It is not yet another "Fur Elise and Turkish march" thread. I meant someting cooler, like just a bar or a note that makes you "high".  ;) Or I am the only one who has it ???

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #3 on: August 12, 2008, 06:26:30 AM
"I'm up in the clouds.... I'm up in the clouds... and I can't, I can't come down.  I can watch and not take part where I end and where you start."
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #4 on: August 12, 2008, 10:31:21 AM
Depends on my mood.

This one is totally out of tune, but that's the way I like it  ;D
"I stiiiiiiill dreeeeeaaam ooof Decembeeeeer...
Dancing togeeetheeeeeer, wiiith riiings
on our fiiiingeeeeers........
And theeee twoooo shall beeecooooooome...
Beeeeecoooooooooome!!!.................."

This is another favorite, romantic but much much milder
"re sou sou xi dou xi la
RE SO SO TI DO TI LA

sou la xi xi xi xi la xi la sou
SO LA TI TI TI TI LA TI LA SO

chui zhe qian zou wang zhe tian kong
Playing a prelude, gazing into the sky

wo xiang qi hua ban shi zhe diao luo"
I think of petals about to fall
I'm sinking like a stone in the sea,
I'm burning like a bridge for your body

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #5 on: August 12, 2008, 02:06:09 PM
Baba'o'Riley that part in the beging when piano comes in with those three chords... :D F......C...Bb......

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #6 on: August 12, 2008, 02:54:19 PM
Final Climax of 1812 Overture.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #7 on: August 12, 2008, 02:55:20 PM
Final Climax of 1812 Overture.

Is that the one with the cannon?
I'm sinking like a stone in the sea,
I'm burning like a bridge for your body

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #8 on: August 13, 2008, 01:40:18 PM
my favourite is..... that mozart!! what is the title actualy...??!!  ;D
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #9 on: August 13, 2008, 01:47:59 PM
my favourite is..... that mozart!! what is the title actualy...??!!  ;D

You forgot to write funny part ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #10 on: August 13, 2008, 01:49:41 PM
whatkind of funny part, av?  ;)
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #11 on: August 13, 2008, 03:46:33 PM
Shostakovich Symophny No. 5 4th movement its just massive i love the Timpani part at the beginning

Wagner Tanhauser Overture
"Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit, Genius is hitting a target no one else can see"

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #12 on: August 15, 2008, 03:43:27 AM
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, First Movement... the climax after the first theme I believe. It's like halfway or 2/3 of the way through the first movement.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #13 on: August 15, 2008, 05:47:05 AM
This song is just six words long, by your weird uncle Fred
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #14 on: August 15, 2008, 01:04:00 PM
the piccolo part to 'the stars and stripes forever'

any sousa march

all leroy anderson songs

'somewhere my love' from dr. zhivago - played by the allentown band and arr. by alan dempke?  there is something about the 'wandering' of the melody that makes the wandering words sound right.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #15 on: August 15, 2008, 01:56:45 PM
tune, tune.... errrr.....
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #16 on: August 16, 2008, 10:58:25 AM
Suicide (and SNAKES) on a *******************ing (air)plane
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #17 on: August 16, 2008, 01:55:03 PM
hmm.....  :) school's march!!!  ;D
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #18 on: August 17, 2008, 08:11:36 PM
Dies Irae.
Instrumentalists are all wannabe singers. Discuss.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #19 on: August 18, 2008, 04:50:52 AM
someone's........ errrn... (grrr... I forgot the title!!  >:()
when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #20 on: August 18, 2008, 04:54:40 AM
Dies Irae.

I'll second that. I'm also a big fan of any piece that uses it (effectively).

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #21 on: August 19, 2008, 08:40:27 PM
Dies Irae.

I second it too! Last appearing in paganini variations is just incredible... Makes me sing dies-irae melody with deepest bass voice ;D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #22 on: August 20, 2008, 06:09:20 AM
I second it too! Last appearing in paganini variations is just incredible... Makes me sing dies-irae melody with deepest bass voice ;D
No, it doesn't have Dies Irae.

Regards.
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #23 on: August 20, 2008, 07:06:28 AM
If he meant the Rach Paganini Rhapsody, then no, he is right. Dies Irae pops up a few times in that piece. You can find Dies Irae in many Rach pieces.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #24 on: August 20, 2008, 03:05:10 PM
Well, Paganini Variations is usually thought of to be THE Paganini variations.  I thought it might have been the Liszt, but it doesn't have it either. 

Actually, All of Op. 39 and half of Op. 33 have Dies Irae in them (Rachmaninoff), making the 39 set like a paraphrase of Dies Irae, or an interconnected set of pieces like Schumann.
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #25 on: August 20, 2008, 04:46:53 PM
No, it doesn't have Dies Irae.

Regards.

I was reffering to Rach's paganini variations, as retrouvailles understood.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #26 on: August 20, 2008, 04:51:46 PM
Well, it should also be noted that the Rachmaninoff isn't named "Paganini variations", but rather "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". The word "variations" isn't even in its name.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #27 on: August 20, 2008, 04:56:09 PM
Well, it should also be noted that the Rachmaninoff isn't named "Paganini variations", but rather "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". The word "variations" isn't even in its name.

I thought everyone would understand what 'paganini variations' were in my mind without writing exact name of the piece.

Anyway, I'm sorry for missunderstanding.

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #28 on: August 24, 2008, 12:01:44 AM
Teddybears picknick.
 Picnic time for Teddy Bears
The little Teddy Bears are having a lovely time today.
Watch them, catch them unawares,
And see them frolic on their holiday.
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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #29 on: October 02, 2008, 09:48:50 PM
dadadadadadadadadada dada dadadadadada dooo ddooooo  :D
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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #30 on: October 20, 2008, 12:27:14 AM
"I'm up in the clouds.... I'm up in the clouds... and I can't, I can't come down.  I can watch and not take part where I end and where you start."

Also one of my favorite tunes   :D

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Re: What's your favorite tune?
Reply #31 on: October 20, 2008, 01:35:48 PM
"SUTE-JI no hashi no PIANISUTO he-
Ikiru koto konna uta no subete
Ima kono me no mae ni hirakareta sekai
Kurikaesu atarashii PRERYU-DO"

(to the pianist at the edge of the stage
to live is everything for this song
the world that was opened right before my eyes
the new repeating prelude)
 ;D

-Allegro Cantabile, Suemitsu and the Suemith-  ;)


when dignity, love, and joy meet...

OMG, it's spa time!!! ;D
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