Here’s a challenge for you musically-inclined Dopers. I heard these tunes over 6 years ago in my elementary school music listening program. I guess the idea was to pipe classical music over the PA system and sit back and watch as we turned into geniuses, or something. Most of the stuff was pretty common - Pachelbel’s Canon, Spring, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik etc. But there are 2 pieces that still have me baffled. As it happens, the were my favourite two so I’m trying to track them down. To hear them go here (warning: Java) and copy and paste the following sequences into the box.
I remember some snatches of information but I’m not sure if it’s for this piece so take it with a grain of salt: it was a duet, composed by a violinist for him and his guitarist friend to play together. The piece shows off the abilities of the violinist while the guitar is in the background as an accompanying instrument. It is called “Rondocino”. I think the composer may have been Paganini. (Yes, even knowing the name and composer I couldn’t find the freaking song :smack: )
The second is a bit harder. It’s for trumpet or maybe some other brass instrument but I don’t know how many.
The second one is “Fanfare for trumpets, timpani, violins, and oboes” from the first Suites de Symphonies by Jean-Joseph Mouret. You may be familiar with it as the theme from Masterpiece Theatre.
For #1: Perhaps you’ve tried this, but I prefer the text based method (same link as yours) which only goes on relative pitch, without tempo. I think you enter …
No, that’s not it. I tried the curve thing returns weird crap like “obscure American folk song” and “national anthem of Portugal”. I’m pretty sure it’s not a hymn. The problem is that what I remember seems to have been an intro of some sort so I don’t know the part that most people might actually remember.
Maybe it’s the “Minuet - Rondoncino” from the Guitar Sonata No. 4 in D major by Paganini?
I’ve never listened to this piece, so I can’t verify that it’s the one you’re searching for. But I do receive an e-mail newsletter from Naxos, the well-known classical music label. The latest issue mentions that they’ve just released a recording of various guitar pieces by Paganini (including the above). I thought of this thread when I read that.
(I think you might have to subscribe to their music streaming service to be able to listen to the audio clip they have up. Or else my Internet connection doesn’t like me today. But at least you can borrow a recording of the piece from the library and check if it is the right one.)
One last idea. Since it was a fairly small list, could they have been all off of one (cheapo) CD? Something like “Greatest Classical Hits of the Pimlico Pops” with a bunch of commonly heard tracks on it? If so, you could look for it on towerrecords or amazon by looking for a CD that has the rest of the tracks on it. A desperate attempt, I admit.
And if all else fails, give up and listen to Grieg. Everybody likes Grieg.
It was from a set of CDs made for playing over the PA at schools. It was the something something non-instructional music listening program or something like that. It had a funny logo like a rooftop TV antenna.
