I’m trying to identify a piece of music I heard that accompanied an online video, trouble is, I can’t remember much in the way of detail.
I think it was one of those time-lapse clips where you see a drawing or painting taking shape and the music itself was a sort of restless plucked-string piece. I can sort of hear it in my head, but I don’t know how to describe it.
It isn’t Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse.
No link to the video? That would be most helpful.
You could also try this: Musipedia: Musipedia Melody Search Engine
That’s the trouble, I can’t remember what the video was either - it was definitely some kind of time-lapse thing, and I think it showed something being drawn or sketched, but that’s about it…
This?
(I don’t know what the tune is, but I’ve heard it before)
Thanks, but that’s not it - the music for that one is called Popcorn, BTW
The music accompanying that video is an instrumental called Popcorn
Aaagh! Beaten by **Mangetout ** I see! But I provided a link! Nyah!
Busy plucked strings? Could it be David Rose’s Holiday for Strings? (RealAudio link)
Thanks for that - it’s not that piece of music, but it has the same approximate pace and rhythm. It’s more monotonous though.
Maybe the Sabre Dance from Gayane?
I’m glad you posted that, initech because although it’s not that piece of music, I would have mentioned it as being very similar (in terms of tune) - only I didn’t know it was called the Sabre Dance, so I couldn’t say “it sounds like that other bit of frantic music that I also can’t remember the name of”.
So, anyway, we’re looking for a piece that has a similar tune to the Sabre Dance and a similar pace and rhythm to Holiday For Strings…
I’m guessing it’s not Gershwin’s An American in Paris, but is it more like or less like that?
The tunes already mentioned sound like the sorts of things they play behind jugglers, acrobats, tumblers and even clowns at the circus or on TV variety shows. Is that genre what you’re talking about?
Perhaps “Plink, Plank, Plunk” by Leroy Anderson?
His “The Typewriter” and “Fiddle Faddle” are used for busy scenes, too, but they don’t really fit your description.
excerpts here:
An arrangement of Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca, perhaps? Found this clip on YouTube; not the original instrumentation, but close enough to recognize if it’s the one you’re looking for.
Maybe “Dance of the Tumblers” by Rimsky-Korsakov
There’s a link to play a sample on http://www.amazon.com/Rimsky-Korsakov-Greatest-Hits-Nikolay-Andreyevich/dp/B000002C5Z
Two possibilities:
Happy-Go-Lively, production music piece by Laurie Johnson (album)
The Land of Chocolate, Holiday for Strings-style piece composed by Alf Clausen for The Simpsons (scene)
I thought about both, and wondered if the OP’s piece might be on this compilation of production music:
There are samples from all the tracks, so listen to them all! A lot of the pieces were used in the old Ren & Stimpy cartoons.
EDIT: I see you linked to the same thing I did, sorry.
This is my guess as well… I was just going to post this same tune and noticed you beat me to it! If it’s not this, I’d suppose it’s probably some other KPM or de Wolfe library track. But Happy Go Lively is often the go-to piece for that kind of thing.
My guess: the Pizzicato from the ballet Sylvia by Léo Delibes.
I once heard a portion of the Pizzicato Ostinato from Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony used in a time-lapse video in which flowers were bursting into bloom and grass was shooting up out of the ground.