Every morning I seem to awake with a song in my head. If I don’t like it, I can easily get rid of it. But the one right now is immensely appealing, so I’m allowing it to rattle around up there.
My question is, who composed it and what’s the name of the piece. I think it’s a piano concerto.
If you imagine all quarter notes below (although I’m sure they are not), the excerpt will probably become immediately identifiable to music buffs.
GGGEFFFDECDBCEG and then,
GGGEFFFDECDBCEC
Okay, so the key is wrong, and the notes are, I think, played in octaves. I’m hoping it comes through despite my musical inabilities.
Warning: If you hum or one-finger it on the piano, the melody will stay with you until you sing our national anthem three times.
Thanks very much, Foxy. On that piano it seems to play more accurately when you start on C (instead of G). BTW, my wife says the melody’s from a Mozart piano concerto, and I think she’s right.
I, like everyone else, “knew I knowed it” and assumed it was a piano concerto. That originally lead me to this. Note the third movements of 15 and 25 - Mozart used this archetype many times.
I bought Volume 1 of Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos that you linked us to. I have that Rondo somewhere in the house, played by Ashenazy (spelling?), but I haven’t listened to it in years. So hearing the segments at amazon.com last night was a grand awakening. I’d forgotten how beautiful this work is.
I went to those other samples you mentioned (above), but to tell the truth I didn’t detect an archetypical relationship. That’s okay, the music was wonderful.
