# Mystery Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578 "2016-11-04T01:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/1 "2016-11-04T01:39:05Z")
I have a mystery… This is neoclassical – I think it’s French, perhaps impressionist. It might be ballet music. I’ve heard it on the radio, but never heard the attribution. I’ve done a kind of hack job coding it, and here is a link to an mp3 file on SoundCloud: [https://soundcloud.com/hexagon-dampfleur/mystery-music-1](https://soundcloud.com/hexagon-dampfleur/mystery-music-1) (FWIW, here is a picture of the sheet music for the above, on [Imgur.com](http://Imgur.com): [http://imgur.com/a/RKJgC](http://imgur.com/a/RKJgC)) My treatment doesn’t do it any justice; it should be more syncopated, more jivey and jazzy, more FUN. But I’m not that good at coding music, so this is a dead-ass version. At least you get the idea… (If nothing else, it’s been fun learning how to use SoundCloud and Imgur!) Thank you, any and all! ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/2 "2016-11-04T01:59:58Z")
Unfortunately I can’t identify the piece, but I am impressed by the effort you put into this query. I’ll be watching this thread. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/3 "2016-11-04T04:18:29Z")
Well, you freaked me out–I recognized the piece that followed your exercise. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/4 "2016-11-04T08:57:45Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Well, you freaked me out–I recognized the piece that followed your exercise. What is it? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/5 "2016-11-04T14:46:43Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What is it? Apologies for the hijack: It’s called “Boilerplate Rag.” [This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=722523) from May 2014 pretty much explains it. Plus, here’s the [Wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_(robot)). **Trinopus** sequenced that piece–note for note–as a favor to fellow Doper **Ranchoth** ; a very involved and time-consuming bit of work. None of which helps to ID the OP song. :o ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-music/770578/6 "2016-11-05T01:10:15Z")
Actually, not that hard. I’ve got a nifty music-processing program – Mozart Virtuoso – and it makes it pretty easy to stab notes down onto the staff. Kinda like a video game! Up up zap, down down zap, down down z zap, down x zap… With a little practice, it goes swiftly. Now, as for skill… Ah, well, there you have me.