Music identification is hard
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andrewduckerJulie hummed something at me and asked me what it was called. I hummed it at a couple of music recognition sites and they failed to cope with my lack of musical talent.
Eventually I used MelodyCatcher and it told me it was the same as this midi file. Which would be more useful if that file had a meaningful name.
At which point I went on to IM and started pinging people I knew who might be able to help. Went through a John Wilson (recognised it, didn't know the name), Lizzie, Ari and Erin (couldn't quite place it) and Hannah (also didn't know) - and apparently it drove them crazy too, to the point where Ari called her brother to ask, Lizzie called her mother and sang it at her, and _she_ sang it to her sister to see if they could track it down, before resorting to SoundHound for suggestions, which came up with the correct answer as a "maybe", so they YouTubed it to see if it was right. And they would have won it too if Hannah hadn't had a brainwave (and a bit of googling) and beaten them to it by 47 seconds.
See if you know, and I'll stick the answer under a cut to make it more fun.
It's the Turkish March (Turkish Rondo/ Alla Turca) by Mozart. Or as Julie said, once I played it on Spotify, "The music from Lemmings".
Eventually I used MelodyCatcher and it told me it was the same as this midi file. Which would be more useful if that file had a meaningful name.
At which point I went on to IM and started pinging people I knew who might be able to help. Went through a John Wilson (recognised it, didn't know the name), Lizzie, Ari and Erin (couldn't quite place it) and Hannah (also didn't know) - and apparently it drove them crazy too, to the point where Ari called her brother to ask, Lizzie called her mother and sang it at her, and _she_ sang it to her sister to see if they could track it down, before resorting to SoundHound for suggestions, which came up with the correct answer as a "maybe", so they YouTubed it to see if it was right. And they would have won it too if Hannah hadn't had a brainwave (and a bit of googling) and beaten them to it by 47 seconds.
See if you know, and I'll stick the answer under a cut to make it more fun.
It's the Turkish March (Turkish Rondo/ Alla Turca) by Mozart. Or as Julie said, once I played it on Spotify, "The music from Lemmings".
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Date: 2012-02-04 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm shocked by that.
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:04 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xqyjurJ80
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:39 pm (UTC)I didn't even know an orchestral version existed. Another one to add to the heap along with the dreadful watering down of Pictures at an Exhibition, grumble grumble.
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:54 pm (UTC)Yes I'm being snobbish. Don't care.
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:56 pm (UTC):->
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Date: 2012-02-04 11:27 pm (UTC)I learnt to play that piece on the piano after hearing it as the background music for Lemmings.
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