Help!! name that tune
Hello,
ok guys I need serious HELP, I have this song stuck in my head for a week now, the name of the song is right at the tip of my tongue, I just cant get it out. I know its from a famous Opera, when ever I heard this song, it reminds me of horse racing and it's usually used for that as well. hm...the songs starts with the violins doing a bouncing noise...hm....taran taran taran tan tan taran taran taran tan tan...Hope this threat gets through, because if I dont think of the name of this song, its going to drive me nuts!!!
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horse racing... Rossini's William Tell?
lol yea it's william tell i played it its fun
Kenny, great! It was so funny to read this question, but 'William Tell' stuck in my mind too right after those "tarans":)
Thank you !! :-)
But it's not an opera. Pedro, was there vocal in this piece, or an opening with brass, and then strings on the galloping theme?
Emily, it is opera:)
Rita, no way! There's an opera after the overture? Whod've thought the overture was actually an intro to an opera! I thought it was the overture to the Lone Ranger. ;)
Can't be W'm. Tell! Everybody knows that W'm. Tell goes, "Ba-da bump, ba-da bump, ba-da bump bump dump."
Whatelse can it be, as a popular tune and reminds you of horse racing then?
Sorry Kenny, your humor switch must have been turned off.
ahh... sorry. Yeah, very likely... after a hard day of work...
My version goes 'Dagada-dum dagada-dum dagada-dum dum dum'. You must have a different edition. Editor??;)
badadum, badadum, badadum-bum-bum.
For whom who practices it using Suzuki method: ta-ca stop, ta-ca stop, ta-ca stop, stop, stop.
It sounds like one of the Rossini overtures to me. Barber of Seville perhaps?
I was hoping we'd clarified this is William Tell... no?
No, The Barber of Seville sounds like this:
It's-not-Willi-am-Tell
It's-not-Willi-am-Tell
It's-not-Willi-am-Tell, Willi-am-Tell, Willi-am-Tell...
Here's a link to an midi:
http://wilstar.com/midi/willtell.htm
That's why we have actually do have music and why we don't play violin on the internet.
Oh. We don't? Than I shall stop immediately!
Horse racing? Sounds more like Light Cavalry to me.
Over here in the UK, the horse racing TV theme is Haydn's Musical Joke.
Yes, it was William Tell Overture. Sorry if my effort to translate the music on to words fail.
Pedro, you posted nice thread because it was fun to relax reading it after long working during a day. I am sure, all who participated in this thread ended this day in a good mood. Thank you.
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February 7, 2005 at 10:44 PM · I'm assuming that it's 'La ran la le ra ... Largo al factotum' from Rossini's Barber of Seville (lots of 'Figaro!!').
Carl.