Hi

Posted this question in the classical forum - but saw this tool and thought I might as well use it

This melody is repeated twice before the tune moves on, but returns to this melody several times. Its quite a sad song if I remember rightly.

Do you remember where you heard it? (commercial, movie, etc.) And perhaps the instrumentation?

Here's what I'm thinking it might be...
Agnus Dei/Intermezzo from "L'Arlesienne" by Georges Bizet.
http://tunespotting.com/melodies/1104858220962.asp

you are right, it does start in a similar way to my tune

I definately heard it on the radio - began with a solo flute, then later the same theme with strings.

It may be a modern tune that someone composed for an orchestra for a tv program or advert

Yeah, sometimes a modern composer will take something a classical composer wrote, tear it into pieces, make their arrangement, and use it for whatever they need.

I'm wondering if it may be "Beautiful Dreamer"...




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Don't know why I would think it would be this, but the melody is repeated twice, than it moves on.

It is indeed....

Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster

Thank you for your replies, no it isn't Beautiful Dreamer although that is a nice song 8)

I heard it a classical, orchestral tune on the radio and once and a loop or backing to a St Etienne song. Sadly I wasn't able to find out which song it was as that would have probably helped alot 8/

The first four notes sound like the first four notes of the 2nd movement (Intermezzo) of the 2nd L'Arlesienne suit. The youth orchestra I'm in is playing this peice. I didn't recognize the rest of the tune though.

Oops! I didn't see your post Grieg-Bizet! Sorry!

Are you sure that's not "Beautiful Dreamer"??

Absolutely positive

What's the radio station called??

(I have no idea if looking up the station on the internet will help, but it's worth a shot).

Ok, forget my last idea!!! Go here: http://tunespotting.com/search_play.asp, read the directions, and type in the melody on the keyboard.

This might be easier: http://tunespotting.com/notes.asp