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Offline lisztoholic

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Name that tune (and composer)
on: May 22, 2025, 03:54:34 PM
Hi Everyone. Many greetings from London, England. I have just discovered and joined this group so this is my first post. I look forward to participating in this wonderful group and hopefully sharing contributions. I am a piano tutor, pianist and church organist and love most types of music, but especially classical, jazz, ragtime and the "novelty" genre. I was wondering whether I could ask a question please?

Years ago there was a TV show called "Face the Music" and in part of the show Joseph Cooper would play a famous piece of music (such as Three Blind Mice, for example) disguised in the style of a particular composer, as they "might" have played it. For example Chopin. The contestants had to name the tune and the style. He called them "Hidden Melodies" and I have three of the books. Bruce Adolphe does something similar in his "Piano Puzzlers" series. I have those books too and they are great fun. I was wondering whether anyone else has done something like that? Well-known tunes hidden in the styles of various composers. There is also Sciarrino's "Anamorfosi" which brilliantly combines Ravel's "Jeux d'eau" with "Singing in the rain."  Does anyone have any suggestions please? Thanks very much.

Offline liszt-and-the-galops

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Re: Name that tune (and composer)
Reply #1 on: May 27, 2025, 05:30:11 AM
Years ago there was a TV show called "Face the Music" and in part of the show Joseph Cooper would play a famous piece of music (such as Three Blind Mice, for example) disguised in the style of a particular composer, as they "might" have played it. For example Chopin. The contestants had to name the tune and the style. He called them "Hidden Melodies" and I have three of the books. ... Well-known tunes hidden in the styles of various composers.
I'm a bit late on this thread, but personally I've never liked the "if blank wrote blank" thing.
IMO it's a lot more fun to try to find snippets of pieces from centuries ago that have been slipped into a modern song/piece.
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