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Try using musipedia.org searches, I had a wee go and couldn't find an exact match but there's plenty of close ones. Search by contour/parsons code - *UDDDU or by the notes themselves, or lots of other ways! Great resource that far too few people seem to know about.
Next time, you can always try musipedia melody search. Doesn't always work (wouldn't have worked in this case), but it does work surprising well.
Four years to find a song? Someone hasn't tried searching the song by rhythm.
http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html?&L=%5C%5C
Edit: ... Actually, everything I put in returns Pachelbel's canon, or Darude Sandstorm.
SAMT (Somebody Already Made This). You can use musipedia.org's Melodic Contour for example. Not sure how robust the non-classical stuff is, but it's something...
BTW, the algorithm of up, down, same is called a Parsons Code.
UPDATE: (3/31/15): "Parson's Code"
So after crawling the image for audio cues, and having a ton of different versions of those tones around, we had a deep discussion about how we could resolve the issue of everyone across the internet coming up with so many solutions. How could the dev resolve that?
So we were thinking...what information spans across ALL the recordings? Depending on the person, the speed, the frequency range, the filters they applied...they all sound different. Not repeatable.
Except for one thing: the tones in relation to eachother...the ups and downs. So we scoured the web for some kind of way to turn this into information, and user SpreadMutation found a great idea: Parson's Code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code
It's a way to search for a tune based on it's "ups and downs", AND the site we are using let's you enter a keyphrase..."OF MY MIND".
We're still trying to get something usable, but in the mean time, hop on with your favorite audio version and start looking for a relevant song.
Musipedia search (in fact, it looks like that's where the image came from)
Jaromir Weinberger: Fugue from <em>Schwanda, the Bagpiper</em>
None of Real Estate’s album art seems to have any bird/humans on it, but they’re the beachiest indie band I know of.
Do you remember the beat of the song? This website lets you tap the rhythm of a song to try and guess it. You can add any keywords you may remember as well.
Maybe you could try this website? I don't think the search is successful with your current descritpion though. Rhytm is important too.
First movement of Mozart's Violin Concerto no. 3
If you remember the tune more accurately you can use musipedia's contour search or go to r/tipofmytongue, they're experts in this stuff.
I've found the musipedia melodic contour search to be a fairly reliable alternative, but no search is perfect and unless you get the melody exactly right it can still be quite difficult.
I would say “give us the Parson’s code” — just the information of whether each note is up or down from the previous one (or a repeat). This sounds like it shouldn’t be enough to identify a tune, but it often is.
…but I won’t suggest that, because if the Parson’s code is enough, then you can find it yourself at Musipedia!
Ugh, only thing I can think of is Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and that's certainly not anime xD
Try Musipedia , might give something useful.
Here's a midi if you want to hear it (I had to slow it down about 3/4 in quicktime to make is sound, um, normal).
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384586/fragment1.mid
It's as close as I could get to the original. Sounds vaguely familiar, but not sure what it is. I tried searching a little here, but didn't come up with anything...
I ran a search for the melody as written by that TalkClassical forum user. Musipedia came up with some interesting results.
Particularly, some of Borodin's work for string quartet matches the tone. It's worth browsing around the other results. If my internet wasn't so shit, I would do it. Either way, I'm downloading all of his works for string quartets, and if we're lucky we'll find it in there.
No worries.
Here's a link to musipedia which OP also could have tried for some fun suggestions.
Apparently, it fits popular songs like Under the Boardwalk and Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. And melodically, but not rhythmically, it's the second theme from the first movement of Verdi's String Quartet in E minor.
I tried playing your notes into musipedia and got these results. Maybe something there?
http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html
this is a website that you can use to find music by tapping the beat. It's not perfect since it is very difficult to recognize a song by tapping but it might help you out
With only a beat, that's a long shot, maybe Josh Wink - You're the One...
Can you recall when you were listening it, approximatively?
OTOH, you could also try the tapping feature from Musipedia, just in case.
@28:30 "little fugue" BWV 535 (Prelude and) fugue #8 in Gminor Just the fugue obviously.
can't find the others. Try : http://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html or some of their other search methods, maybe you'll have more luck.
Try http://www.melodycatcher.com/ (remember to checkmark "search everywhere"), Hymnary and http://www.musipedia.org/ (Flash-based piano doesn't work correctly on my Firefox, so use Chrome).
> Graag gedaan
Hey, this site actually works. If you get a song stuck in your heard you can peck it out on a virtual keyboard and they will tell you the name of the song. Not perfect, it took me two tries, but i am a very poor virtual pianist. http://www.musipedia.org/
You're an amazing hummer! And I recognize this melody but I can't remember the name!
Someone is bound to know this, it's a very well-known tune.
Wracking brains.
EDIT: I can tell you it's from the classical era and is a string piece.
EDIT: http://www.musipedia.org/ is annoying and useless.
EDIT: Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, second movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzJZtVBqKEk
Dunno, Musipedia might have something useful though, also try their web search.
You could try a virtual piano, if you have headphones or some audio output.
The Flash version seems to respond better for me. Just hit the keys until you hit the right one, see which note was it (it'll be the last on the list), and write it down. Then try to find the next note, etc, and keep writing them down.
If you're up to, you can even use that to search for your tune.
Please go to http://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html and put this in right above the Delete Note button, then press Play: g'4 c''8 r8 e''4 g'8
Does the "da dum dum dum" part follow that general melody?
I have assembled a composite midi at this link (click the sound button for the midi, no drums, rhythm might be off). I didn't realize that it went down when making my previous post, but I think I have heard the song in question. Now it's going to bother me too... must save post.
"In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg
I found it using http://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html?&L=0 which lets you search melodies by putting in whether each note in a sequence goes up or down from the previous note.
Try this: http://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html
You can search for songs based on what direction the melody goes and it works really well actually (as long as you remember the tune right). U is up and d is down so for like claire de lune you type in uddud and so on
It sounds like a bit of a piece I find familiar, but I can't recall the title or composer... I want to say Romantic, solo piano...
Here's a link to Musipedia in case anyone finds it helpful. You can paste the search query into the Javascript piano tab to hear it.
Clementi: Sonatina in C, Movement 3, Theme 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vv_J5lsugk
I searched the first 5 notes in http://www.musipedia.org/ melody search, then it showed up in the results.
Is that Musipedia ~~link~~ jpeg?
Can you make a Noteflight of it (lol)?
try on http://www.musipedia.org/
if you have a music program and remember/can hear the pitch place the notes on the correct octave and set the search angine as "prefer correct pitch over correct time"
Since you sorta know the notes, you could go to this site called Musipedia and search for it by note. Just tap out the notes on the lil on screen keyboard and then scroll down and click”search musipedia”. It’ll then display music similar to what you wrote and link YouTube vids of the songs :)
I just spent like an hour looking for this and now I'm invested too. It sure sounds like a requiem to me, at first it kinda reminded me of Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, but only because of the melody. The words sound different. Maybe try putting it into musipedia if you haven't already! It honestly sounds like something that was in a silent film I've watched, like Metropolis or something but I looked up the score for that and it wasn't there.
It's in C major. It's a pretty simple melody and I can play it on a keyboard, but so far I haven't found any matches for it on this site.
Unfortunately, I don't think this site searches for transpositions, in which case, if the tune is from a piece that's in a different key, it won't be considered a close match. Also, I can't play the whole tune because the flash keyboard they give you only spans two octaves.
Don't know, thankfully I'm not a big fan of wordless music save some classical- for that there are song tapping apps like these- including not only a piano, mouse dragger whatever that one is and one where you whistle into a microphone of all things.
Might be worth a shot, probably not though.
I found the song I was looking for with the help of this website and my knowledge from being a pianist (Grade 3, not that good atm). Website I used: Musicpedia
The piece of music was made by Bach, it’s called Prelude from Partita No. 3 in E Major (BWV 1006). (Or something) I am posting for future people looking at this and to deem this post answered.
You can type it into a search engine like Musipedia and check the results. If it was previously used by the likes of e.g. Bach or Mozart, then it will by now be out of copyright, so not a problem.
It reminds me a little of Holst - In the Bleak Midwinter, but the end of the phrase doesn't match. It looks an awful lot like this: Bob McQuillen - The New Year's Resolution, but I'm not seeing any recordings of that song. Do you remember where you heard it?
A very short part of "From here to Eternity" by Engelbert Humperdinck reminds of a classical piece of music where an orchestra of strings plays the same tune up until the highest note before diverging, and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I even tried Musipedia by searching for the parsons code, but it is almost impossible to sift through the results.
In the track linked above it starts on a#, but I'm not sure if that's the case for the classical piece.
The parsons code is *DUUDDDURDU, with the timing of 1/2 for * and then 1/8 for DUUDDDU, followed by 1/16 for RD, and 1/2 or something for the last U. "From here to Eternity" diverges at after *DUU.
I think I remember it being played to accompany a ballet, but I could be totally off mark there.
I'm still digging for the site I swear I saw once, but check out interactive sites like Musiopedia or this dictionary of classical themes -- you play a series of notes on a virtual piano and it searches a database for matching melodies/themes. I can't swear by their accuracy -- but that's what they claim to do.
I swear I remember seeing one based on tunings or keys, but those are two that Google just spit out at me, I'm going to keep looking.
Actually, check out interactive sites like Musiopedia or this dictionary of classical themes -- you play a series of notes on a virtual piano and it searches a database for matching melodies/themes. I swear I remember seeing one based on tunings or keys, but those are two that Google just spit out at me...
I entered them in Musipedia, and the closes one is the slow part from Holst's Jupiter, also sung as "I vow to thee".
I have no idea, however, http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html this site might be able to help you. Click 'start tapping' and then tap out the melody, if you know it, with the spacebar. Best of luck.
It's from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty (I used the amazing Musipedia melody search to remind me). https://youtu.be/y69UG3K4zyA?t=36 You can find the music and the flutes probably just outline the chords.
When you say you cannot recall the familiar piece of music you played on the piano, what do you mean exactly? Can you not recall the name of it, or can you not recall the melody of it? If you remember the melody, try this site http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html - It might help you find the song.
Kind of sounds like this bit of Beethoven 5 to me, but it doesn't have the trills at the end of each phrase.
Have you tried using the melodic contour search?
I've tried it there, but nothing came up:
I'm at work so can't try it myself, but you could try using this site. It's helped me many times, and it came to mind because the first time I used it was to identify a Cole Porter song!
Here is an improved one.
It's supposed to be an electronic song, I think I've heard of it in ads before.
I searched your melody on musipedia.org. (results)
It sounds a lot like the Austrian national anthem, just with a different rhythm.
Try Melody Catcher (remember to checkmark "search everywhere"), Hymnary and Musipedia (Flash-based piano doesn't work correctly on my Firefox, so use Chrome).
It's the Sarabande from Handel's Harpsichord Suite no. 7 in G minor HWV 432.
A really good resource for finding out stuff like this is Musipedia, I find the contour search is both the easiest to use and the most accurate, I put in the top line and this was the first result!
Have you tried using the java/flash piano at http://www.musipedia.org/ ?
I tried, but without knowing whether the note progression is up or down from the preceding one, I've not managed to get very far.
I found a cool site that identifies songs... but it couldn't find it. Click the play button and see if it sounds familiar. Thanks!
> some sort of fancy dinner violin music or something. It's used in a lot of films I guess in posh situations.
Shot in the dark, but that description means it's usually one of about three things, the most likely being this.
To be perfectly honest, ba-ba-ba-baaa style transcription is not very useful for identification. You might have more luck using this search.
Close but no cigar. I should clarify, in the song it's not actually piano. I may have transposed it to a different key too. This might be a bit closer, but a few octives lower.
It sounds Baroque, and possibly French, so I'd wager that it's a piece by Rameau or Lully. Sorry I can't be any more specific than that, but you could try searching by melodic contour.
John Field's Nocturne No. 5 in B-flat
Wow, thanks very much! I've actually used melodic contour search a number of times to look for the title of songs. It's good to know the rough mechanism behind it. Appreciate the explanation!
Musipedia is a great site for looking up classical (or other) music. You don't need to be able to read sheet music or know composer/song names. If you can remember a little bit of the melody, a contour search is the way to go. There's a code you can use (that is explained on the site) to input the shape of the melody. You don't even need to know how much the pitches move up and down, just which direction they're moving.
I just found out about it (I think in r/classicalmusic) a few weeks ago and it helped me figure out what song had been stuck in my head for 6+ months. The search results are in the form or youtube videos and streaming mp3s so you can listen to them right on the site and see if you find a match!
Hope that helps! :)
Would you perhaps be talking about the Emperor's Waltz by Strauss? Also, if this isnt it, I'd recommend this site for ID'ing classical music.
You could try entering the tune on musipedia.org. I tried to guess what you meant, but didn't come up with a good match: http://www.musipedia.org/result.html?sourceid=melody-url&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bsubmit_button%5d=Search&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bpc%5d=lilyd''4+a'4+a''4+a'4+d''4+e''4+f''4+g''4+d''4+a'4+a''4+a'4+d''4+c''4+&filtertext=&coll=m&onlymatchfrom=-1
See if it is any of these
The automatic search wouldn't help me, but I posted on their forums hoping they would know the answer to what this tune from my old teddy bear is: http://www.musipedia.org/forum.html?&cat_uid=1&conf_uid=1&thread_uid=1565&view=single_thread
I've got it playing in my head again, here's a better version of the melody (http://www.musipedia.org/js_piano.html#x paste into the text box above the "delete note" button): d''8 d''8 d''8 a''4. fis''4 e''4. r4 d''8 d''8 d''8 a''8. a''8. fis''4 fis''4 e''4. r4 d''8 d''8 d''8 a''4. fis''4. e''4. g''4. fis''4 e''4.
UPDATE (FOUND): jimtwo got in the neighborhood with the right group, then I found the song itself - "Little Lion Man", Mumford & Sons
I've had better luck with melody searches: http://www.musipedia.org/melody_search.html
I believe it hunts through a database of midi files scraped from the internet. Works pretty well too, partially thanks to all the midi ringtones it picks up.
Musipedia lets you tap the rhythm as well as play the tune on a virtual piano, whistle it into a microphone, amongst other search methods. Not sure how good it is, though. SongTapper may be better.