Nagging memory of a melody

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Torgocoldyron

September 07, 2024, 04:06:17 PM
I have a memory of a piano piece my mother used to practice all the time when I was a kid. At the time it annoyed me to no end, but it's stayed with me for years and I would love to find it and hear it again. I have no idea what it's called or who composed it, all I have to go on is the crude melody in my head. Attached is an even more crude mumbling recreation. Any help in identifying it would mean a great deal to me.

DavidW

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September 07, 2024, 06:31:37 PM
Not a piano piece, but it reminds me of Rite of Spring, try 14 minutes in here:

professliterate

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November 14, 2024, 12:21:30 AM
Quote from: DavidW on September 07, 2024, 06:31:37 PMNot a piano piece, but it reminds me of Rite of Spring, try 14 minutes in here:


Hi, I'm new to the forum, this melody reminds me of my childhood. But I can't remember the name and what symphony is this?

DavidW

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November 14, 2024, 05:43:57 AM
Quote from: professliterate on November 14, 2024, 12:21:30 AMHi, I'm new to the forum, this melody reminds me of my childhood. But I can't remember the name and what symphony is this?

It is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. It is featured in Disney's Fantasia, where you might have been introduced to it as a child.

Roasted Swan

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November 14, 2024, 06:35:14 AM
Quote from: Torgocoldyron on September 07, 2024, 04:06:17 PMI have a memory of a piano piece my mother used to practice all the time when I was a kid. At the time it annoyed me to no end, but it's stayed with me for years and I would love to find it and hear it again. I have no idea what it's called or who composed it, all I have to go on is the crude melody in my head. Attached is an even more crude mumbling recreation. Any help in identifying it would mean a great deal to me.

From your recording and given that this was a piano piece;  I'd deduce definitely 20th century - too many syncopations/off-beat rhythms to be pre-1900.  Of course it could be an arrangement of a non-keyboard work.  Did your mother have a classical music background or did she enjoy playing/listening to more popular things on the radio?  The angularity of the tune you sing suggests something like Prokofiev perhaps or one of the French modernist(ish) composers.  Not Debussy - too angular, doesn't sound American or British.  Let us know if you track it down and good luck!
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