# Name that tune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768 "2006-03-17T16:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/1 "2006-03-17T16:19:19Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/2 "2006-03-17T17:14:12Z")
Nice little ditty. I just tried it on an Online Piano. … But I don’t what what it is. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/3 "2006-03-17T17:34:10Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Nice little ditty. I just tried it on an Online Piano. … But I don’t what what it is. 🙂 Can give me the URL of that online piano, **Ellen Cherry**? ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/4 "2006-03-17T18:43:20Z")
[Here’s](http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/javapiano/javapiano.htm) a Java piano at [PianoWorld.com](http://PianoWorld.com). I also played your song but couldn’t figure out what it was. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/5 "2006-03-17T19:14:22Z")
> [@foxymoron](#): > > [Here’s](http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/javapiano/javapiano.htm) a Java piano at [PianoWorld.com](http://PianoWorld.com). > I also played your song but couldn’t figure out what it was. 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. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/6 "2006-03-18T00:16:39Z")
It’s Mozart’s Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K382 A sample can be heard [here](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000004194/102-4972574-1752148?v=glance&n=5174) (Rondo In D, KV 382: Allegretto Grazioso) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/7 "2006-03-18T01:00:47Z")
Damn, I knew from the OP that it was Mozart, but thought it was a Piano Concerto. (And btw, k364 is great too.) ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/8 "2006-03-18T01:22:49Z")
> [@K364](#): > > It’s Mozart’s Rondo for Piano and Orchestra, K382 > > A sample can be heard [here](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000004194/102-4972574-1752148?v=glance&n=5174) (Rondo In D, KV 382: Allegretto Grazioso) Thanks very much! And does your User Name refer to his Sinfonia Concertante? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/9 "2006-03-18T02:51:49Z")
I don’t sight read very well. All I could think of was Captain Kangeroo’s theme. :o ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/10 "2006-03-18T02:53:54Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I don’t sight read very well. All I could think of was Captain Kangeroo’s theme. :o That’s lovely, Zoe. Thank you so much. 😃😃😃😃 I’m still laughing. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/11 "2006-03-18T16:59:16Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > Thanks very much! > > And does your User Name refer to his Sinfonia Concertante? You are welcome! And yes it does. I, like everyone else, “knew I knowed it” and assumed it was a piano concerto. That originally lead me to [this](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00000410O/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/002-2907534-2657643?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1). Note the third movements of 15 and 25 - Mozart used this archetype many times. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/348768/12 "2006-03-18T20:14:59Z")
> [@K364](#): > > You are welcome! And yes it does. > > I, like everyone else, “knew I knowed it” and assumed it was a piano concerto. That originally lead me to [this](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00000410O/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/002-2907534-2657643?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1). 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](http://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. Anyway, thanks once again.