Help! What is the name of this classic piano song?

OP, found it! It's in one of these tracks.

Or maybe Ravel? Hmmm.....

You made me laugh so much I'm crying...

We had a poster who was a genius at this, not so long ago.

I think it's the "Dun-Dun Concerto"by Amadeus Bachtoven

OMG, I think I know what song you're talking about, OP:

Is it Victor Borge?

Whilst I am glad to have amused you guys...I still want to know the name of the damn tune!

R1 is the closest. It's one of those types. I listened to all of them and was waiting because I was sure it would come next but it never did! But it's in that vein! Classical music. Piano.

It's one of those famous ones. I think it's mozart or bach or someone like that.

Seriously, it's not that hard! DunDUN...dunDUN...dunDUN...dundundundun..DUN...DUN..

I found it OP.

Or is it this one, please listen to the entire track before you decide, it is only 10 hours long.

There used to be a website called Songtapper that would identify songs and tunes from the rhythm tapped out on a spacebar. It's about the only thing that could do something with 'dunDUN'.

Is it Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor, OP?

Are all the DUNs the same note?

Is this the one, OP?

Thanks for trying. I know it's not a lot to go by.

The "dun" is lower and the DUN is higher, so it goes up dunDUN...dunDUN...

Youse a fool op.

Thanks for trying. I know it's not a lot to go by.

The "dun" is lower and the DUN is higher, so it goes up dunDUN...dunDUN...

Is it something by Rachmaninoff?

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

Maybe I shouldn't use "dun". It's a simple piano tune and more like clink-CLINK...clink-CLINK...

I use caps for the higher note.

OP, did you at least give a listen to R1? Come back in 6 hours.

What's the tempo? Fast or slow?

Happy or sad?

Is it the theme from Jaws?

The "Méditation" from Thaïs?

OP, use Vocaroo and make a recording for us.

Shazam that shit. It may be able to pick up the tune from your voice.

OP, can you find a vid of one of those costume dramas you mentioned with this piece playing in the background. I might be able to help you then, but right now it's pretty impossible.

From your description, it sounds like 20th-century modernist music, but that might just be because your description is awful. Could you try listening to some classical piano music of different periods and tell us which composer the style sounds closest to?

Where did you last hear it? In a movie?

Chopin - Funeral March.

Yes OP, Vocaroo this shit. This cannot go on.

Just taking a wild-ass guess:

I love that piece, R31.

R31 - excellent guess! Come on OP, say this is it.

R31 Wow, that kinda matches the Dun Duns!

That is a very cool guess R31.

I love Satie's "Gymnopédies No. 1" also, but I'd never describe it as dunDUN... dun is heavy, I thought it might be a funereal piece. I wish people would try for some synesthesia in asking for names of pieces, maybe describe what they visualize when they hear a piece. I can't tell how long the notes are, what key the piece is in, where the notes are in relation to each other with dunDUN or dah-DAH-dah-dah-DAH-dah. I know I'm in need of some music education.

I need to find a lovely version of that Satie piece on vinyl.

Wait, I think I know which one the OP is talking about.

OP, is it this?

Has OP checked out of the building?

Again, thank you guys for trying but none of them are correct.

I'm going to try to explain...it's a bit more upbeat and a bit more faster than r31 and it's a classic piece.

I'm sorry but idk too much about classical music to be able to pin point it to "mid 20 century" or anything like that. All i know is that it sounds like something a pianist like amadeus would play or any of those classical composers. And I know for a fact it is a popular piece which is why it's so annoying. It's just a piano. And clinky instead of dun dun.

I'm going to have a little think on this and I'll be back, might record my voice so you can hear, ugh...

Fur Elise?

No it's not fur elise

OP GET ON THAT VOCAROO YOU GOT YOURSELF AND US IN THIS MESS

If it's clinky, it might be Bach. Have you tried any of the Well-Tempered Klavier?

Blue Danube?

R31 here again . . .

I suspect that R14 is correct, but the tune in question is the second movement:

Yes, I meant the second movement when I posted. That's why I timed it at 17 min for the piano solo after the orchestra has begun the second movement.

And, interestingly enough, my piano teacher actually studied with “Ashtray Annie” Fischer in Budapest. She is truly one of the greats!

[quote]Seriously, it's not that hard! DunDUN...dunDUN...dunDUN...dun - dundundun..DUN...DUN..

It’s the Mexican Hat Dance

17'45" to be exact, except the embedded video on DL doesn't seem to be working that well.

R48 No! OMG! I did not post her by accident :)

Coming to this thread has been truly valuable, then :D

Many thanks, R14!

R49 - I’m laughing hysterically!! Good one!

OMG I HEAR IT!! YES...YES! IT IS R46!

YES!!! HALLELUJAH PRAISE JESUS ETC

THANK YOU!!

I woke up with this mf in my head and i dont know why! But it wouldnt leave me!!

OP you do realise it was posted 2 hours ago upthread

Credit goes to R14 who nailed it first!

BTW - I’m the guy from the other thread who IDed the piece there.

All this drama for a tacky Neil Diamond so Good? Jeesh!

R31, you are my hero and it is an honour to meet you again. Amazing work you did on the other thread. It inspired me to really try for this one, since you showed it could be done. It helped in this case that I knew the second movement of this piece really well (saw the Swedish movie Elvira Madigan where it is repeated on loop, alternating with a Vivaldi violin concerto).

So Good = song of course.^^^^

R54 Yes I realize that now and I'm sorry I dismissed it.

It was a combination of it being 30 minutes long and the orchestra playing in the beginning and the lady just sitting there for several minutes, even though i did fast forward....i just thought nah, can't be it. I thought the piano melody would be in the beginning.

Thanks r14! Lesson learned. Listen to the whole thing.

What other thread, r55?

R59 is me btw

This is the “Name that Tune” thread from a while ago:

(Only we used LAs for that one.)

That thread was legendary

R14 - Thanks for the kind words! Are you a Brit? Fischer made some wonderful recordings in London with Sir Adrian Boult and your spelling of “honour” suggests English upbringing.

I’m an American with strong European tastes.

Maybe it’s one of these.

Chopsticks?....

I was wondering if you were European R31 with your Budapest piano teacher! I spent one year in England and learnt / learned to write with an English spelling. I majored in English many years ago, at a French university. The norm was to write and speak "like" the English. Today I tend to speak and write mid-Atlantic, sadly.

R14 - Here is a little musical treat you might enjoy! It was originally a song for voice and piano called “The Spinning Girl” by Stanisław Moniuszko and transcribed for piano solo.

It’s a nice tune set brilliantly. I found a copy of the score a few years ago and have begun learning it - I’m about halfway through it!

Thank you R31! I really appreciate it. I'm in the middle of insomnia right now (it's 3:15) and my girlfriend is upstairs sleeping so I'll listen to it in the morning. Thank you for sending this!

I used to play the piano as a child but gave it up because I was never going to be a pianist. Now I play the flute (terribly) and sing at the top of my lungs. Maybe I should simply have gone into singing. Who knows? I'm a very lazy person.

Forgot to sign (insomnia)

Fur Elise = what I always called Schroder's Song

Is that the theme from Jaws?

No. The theme from Jaws is the final movement from Dvorak’s 9th Symphony:

Bet it's Rachmaninoff. Sergei wrote a couple with that melodic structure, OP.

You all beat me to it, but based on OP's description, Elvira Madigan would have been my immediate guess too.

Good work, DL.

OP, just a little hint: next time you want help identifying a piece of classical music, don't say it's a "classic piano song" if there's also an orchestra involved because you made it sound like you were looking for a piece that features only the piano.

You have to think on OP's level. He doesn't know the piece really well. He only recognises the early bars of the piano solo at the beginning of the second movement. You have to think of a small bit of piano playing, a small bit that's been played over and over and over and over. The whole piece doesn't really count, that's not what he remembers in any case. It is still a piano concerto, so the piano is given prominence anyway.

The first syllable should have been DUN.

Canadian Eldergays may remember the CBC radio programme called The Humline broadcast from 1992 to 2002. Callers went on air and usually did the dum dum de-dum thing for songs (they rarely hummed). A panel of three CBC "celebrities" tried to guess the song or asked the listening audience to help them. It was a surprisingly entertaining show. I was always amazed that they could hit the mark with so little to go on.

Its DUNplinplinplinplin[plum]*dunDUNplinplinplinplin[plum]*dunDUN **planplinplanplunplinplin plum etc

with a few sp- elling mistakes in there

[quote] DunDUN...dunDUN...dunDUN...dun - dundundun..DUN...DUN..

I know John Donne wrote a lot of poetry. Maybe he also wrote some music? It sure sounds like him.

Here's another one for you musical sleuths: it's a theme for a TV series.

plin plin plin plin PLIN, plin plin PLIN, plin PLIN- pirara ta-ta-ta-ta ta-ta-ta-ta ta-ta-ta-ta -PUM (x2, now strings)

TUM RUM-RUM-RUM PUM PUM PUM PUM - PUM PUM PUM PUM !

I'd be amazed if anybody finds out. The first bit is piano, then the same theme by an orchestra (strings, but other stuff too), and the last bit are the lower notes from the piano.

It's a very lazy "re-telling" of the actual score.

Here OP

R14 and R46 That's what popped into my head with OP's description, too.

As someone with two degrees in classical music, this thread has made my life. Thanks, DL.

R86, would you say the type of voice we have is indicative of our sexuality?

In other words: are mezzos all lesbians?

Wrong thread.

ta ra ra BOOM de ay ta ra ra BOOM de ay.

Any guesses?

Could you give us a little context R90? Although I've never been to Mexico, so may be out of the loop on this one.

It's Alondra de la Parra.

[quote]As someone with two degrees in classical music, this thread has made my life.

Educated thread.

It’s Shipping up to Boston, OP

R90 is actually the classic 1890s vaudeville smash hit Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA well played!

sol fa sol do sol mi

Wait no 4 higher than that

According to the sheet music but who cares

Trivia: The old once popular children's chant --

"Lizzie Borden took an axe,

Gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done,

Gave her father forty-one."

-- fits perfectly to the music of the verse of Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! and was often sung to it.

It's definitely Mozart. I just watched Amadeus and I recognized it right away. DumDUM, dumDum...yep, that's it.

I had an elementary school teacher named Mrs. Ray and we would sing that song to her.

Ta ra ra boom de aye

we hate you Mrs. Ray

we hope you go away

please die at school today

You’re seriously asking what the most famous song in the world is? Aside from “Happy Birthday”?

LMAO.

You’re silly. You really are.

looks like Mexican Hat Dance to me.

It's the theme from Sorority Girls from Hell.

A Little Night Music by Mozart. I WIN!!

OP, it's not a piano song; Mozart played it on that little harpsichord....but it's still A Little Night Music

Bravo, R14, R31 and OP. I don't know if this app was mentioned upthread but if you happen to hear the piece playing...