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Offline samdudek

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Name that tune!
on: January 10, 2011, 03:38:27 AM
Hi all,

I've got an opening to a song stuck in my head that I want to learn how to play. Except I can't remember the name of the song! The song starts with descending arpeggio triplets. I played out what I remembered on the piano. The notes I came up with are as follows: A, (A Ab E), (E C A). (Sorry if I broke any notation conventions.) This pattern repeats down a number of octaves.

Can anyone help me out with the name of the song? Thanks.
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Offline richard black

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Re: Name that tune!
Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 11:22:56 PM
Grieg piano concerto, first movement.
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Offline retrouvailles

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Re: Name that tune!
Reply #2 on: January 11, 2011, 05:34:15 AM
Quote from: richard black on January 10, 2011, 11:22:56 PM
Grieg piano concerto, first movement.

He said it was a song!
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Offline richard black

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Re: Name that tune!
Reply #3 on: January 11, 2011, 09:33:23 PM
Yeah - I have mixed feelings about this appropriation of the word 'song' to any piece of music - see my tagline!
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Re: Name that tune!
Reply #4 on: January 12, 2011, 07:02:05 AM
Quote from: richard black on January 11, 2011, 09:33:23 PM
Yeah - I have mixed feelings about this appropriation of the word 'song' to any piece of music - see my tagline!

Brilliant!  :)
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Offline samdudek

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Re: Name that tune!
Reply #5 on: January 12, 2011, 09:37:56 PM
Richard, thank you very much. Point taken about use of the word song.
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