Can anyone tell me who originally composed that default Nokia mobile ringtone? (You know: de-de-dee-de, de-de-dee-de, de-de-dee-de-DEE.)
It used to be called “Grande Valse” on the phones, but Nokia seem to have rebranded it “Nokia Tune”. Googling doesn’t seem to help. I’m just curious to know what the original tune sounded like before it was mangled and broadcast through a billion train carriages.
Glad someone else mentioned this! I heard it in the middle of a classical piano concerto on the radio the other day. Unfortunately I never got the name of the tune. It was on Lyric FM though, if that’s any help.
Quite freaked me at the time.
I just remembered: call this music recognition service up and sing it down the phone at them.
Hmm, I don’t think I can carry a tune well enough to sing it in recognisable form. Maybe I’ll try blasting it down the line at them from my mobile - but I’ll wait until I’m not in the office. No need to get any more strange looks than I need to…
I googled “Grande Valse” and I’m getting mainly Chopin piano concertos though one hit on Liszt. So I reckon you should listen to all piano pieces called Grande Valse written by Chopin, and eventually you’ll find it.
Then you can go out and get Brahms & Liszt.
[one of the Daily Show correspondents]
You’re annoying, stupid douchebag, turn your phone off now!
[OOTDSC]
A search of Google groups turned up this info:
‘The Grand Waltz’ by Francisco Tarrega
guitar tabs: http://maxixa.narod.ru/granvals.txt
midi:
http://www.midisource.net/tarrega2.html
http://tabs.doropesch-usa.com/classical/classic2/tarrega.htm
The excerpt turns up starting at bar 12, not counting the piece’s starting upbeat note. At the midisource site, that’s at about 16 seconds.
Ah ha - thank you! I didn’t think to search the groups. Should’ve known someone at alt.cellular.nokia would know the answer.