[lini]

Maybe some of the classic fans can help me out: I've got this fragment of music in my mind, but can't name it - it's probably a part of a baroque concerto and somehow rings my Vivaldi bell, but I'm not sure. It sounds rather unique, with the strings going like "diddl-diddl-diddl-diddl-did-dad-did-dad-did-dad" (repeatedly, with descending pitch and quite fast). Anyone?

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[SysteX]

Hmm... that's a hard one for me. Without anything more descriptive, I'm not sure anybody is going to be able to identify it. Perhaps you could record yourself humming some of it?

 

[PSmith08]

That sounds, just from what I could vocalize myself, like the first bars of the overture to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.

You might want to see about that, and the whole opera (if it is the piece of which you think). It's splendid.

 

[shoenberg3]

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Originally Posted by lini /img/forum/go_quote.gif Maybe some of the classic fans can help me out: I've got this fragment of music in my mind, but can't name it - it's probably a part of a baroque concerto and somehow rings my Vivaldi bell, but I'm not sure. It sounds rather unique, with the strings going like "diddl-diddl-diddl-diddl-did-dad-did-dad-did-dad" (repeatedly, with descending pitch and quite fast). Anyone? Greetings from Munich! Manfred / lini

In major or minor key?

 

[lini]

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Originally Posted by PSmith08 /img/forum/go_quote.gif That sounds, just from what I could vocalize myself, like the first bars of the overture to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. (...)

I've checked the first minute of the Overture on Amazon - but that wasn't it...

shoenberg03: Good question. I'd think it's minor key, but I'm not sure...

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

P.S.: Maybe I can make more clear: The diddl and did in that phrase are the same tone, the dad is a bit lower. And the whole phrase is repeated several times, descending in tone. Strings only.

 

[Fungi]

That sounds a lot like the beginning of Winter, from The Four Seasons.

 

[Chrysoberyl]

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Originally Posted by Fungi /img/forum/go_quote.gif That sounds a lot like the beginning of Winter, from The Four Seasons.

I thought exactly the same.

 

[lini]

Fungi, Chrysoberyl: Thanks guys - but unfortunately that wasn't what I'm looking for, either.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[shoenberg3]

If you are still pursuing this and it's driving you crazy, you can make a recording of you humming it.

It would make the search easier.