Notes game

[debra]

You could be right - perhaps were making this too difficult. After all, we havent all followed the same route so are unlikely to know all the same music. We should put more notes in, but Im not sure that would help.

Ill give you a couple of clues :
Gypsy Airs (your entry gave me the idea)
Brahms

Although not written for piano, it is played on the accordion and sounds superb.

Brahms Hungarian Dance nr. 5 matches the notes when transposed to G minor.
I have played this on the accordion, but not in D minor.
http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/u...SIBLEY1802.21594.84ec-39087009474653score.pdf
shows it for orchestra, in G minor.

 

[Corsaire]

You've got it !
My apologies - yes, it's G minor not D minor !

 

[debra]

Youve got it !
My apologies - yes, its G minor not D minor !

That was tricky... recognizing a song when the notes are in a different key is not making it easy...

Realizing that this whole game is difficult in general Im sticking to very well known pieces... but you never know.
d D Cis D Es D Cis D
The composer is German and this is a very well known composition in G minor for solo accordion.
There is a 4 bar (measure) intro preceding the given notes.

(I initially posted the wrong notes. Now (Monday morning) corrected. Sorry about that.)

 

[debra]

Please note the correction in the notes. (I had E where it should say D, twice.)

d D Cis D Es D Cis D

Should be easier now...

 

[Corsaire]

That was tricky... recognizing a song when the notes are in a different key is not making it easy...

Yes, sorry about that. For trying to guess, I play the notes on the piano and listen to the sound so for me it doesnt matter which key it should be in !

It sounds like Bach ....

 

[debra]

That was tricky... recognizing a song when the notes are in a different key is not making it easy...

Yes, sorry about that. For trying to guess, I play the notes on the piano and listen to the sound so for me it doesnt matter which key it should be in !

It sounds like Bach ....

Play it faster (with the corrected notes). That may help to recognize it. It is written for the accordion. It has 3.420 hits on YouTube, which is more an indication of how difficult it is than how popular.
There were no accordions in Bachs time. (I wish... we might have had wonderful accordion tunes by Bach instead of having to arrange music written for other instruments.)
If the Czardas by Monti is too difficult for you then you probably have not played this either, but probably heard it many times (at least, thats what I am hoping).

 

[debra]

Let me add one more note and then everyone should know???

d D Cis D Es D Cis D G

 

[Corsaire]

The tune is nice, but I'm afraid I can't work it out !

 

[debra]

The tune is nice, but Im afraid I cant work it out !

A few more notes before we give up...
d D Cis D Es D Cis D G D Cis D d D d D
YouTube contains a clip from the record made by the composer himself.
The G is actually a G-Bes chord but in most recordings the G sound dominates and in Russian recordings the Bes dominates,
so then it becomes
d D Cis D Es D Cis D Bes D Cis D d D d D
There is nothing more I can say. If this doesnt tell you what it is it must mean you just dont know this very very popular virtuoso accordion composition.

 

[Corsaire]

I'm sorry, Paul - I can make a nice melody from the notes, but I just don't know it.
My musical background is classical piano and folk (various instruments). My accordion repertoire seems to be somewhat limited .....

But surely someone here recognises the tune ???

 

[debra]

Im sorry, Paul - I can make a nice melody from the notes, but I just dont know it.
My musical background is classical piano and folk (various instruments). My accordion repertoire seems to be somewhat limited .....

But surely someone here recognises the tune ???

I sure hope so. If not, were really sunk. This composer wrote several immensely popular mostly virtuoso accordion solo pieces.
Despite the fact that this is really all light music every classically trained accordion player around here knows all these pieces, and some can still play them by heart after years of not playing them.

 

[JeffJetton]

This composer wrote several immensely popular mostly virtuoso accordion solo pieces.
Despite the fact that this is really all light music every classically trained accordion player around here knows all these pieces, and some can still play them by heart after years of not playing them.

Not really being classically-trained (or even light-musically-trained), Im at a bit of disadvantage. But... is the composer Frosini?

 

[debra]

This composer wrote several immensely popular mostly virtuoso accordion solo pieces.
Despite the fact that this is really all light music every classically trained accordion player around here knows all these pieces, and some can still play them by heart after years of not playing them.

Not really being classically-trained (or even light-musically-trained), Im at a bit of disadvantage. But... is the composer Frosini?[/quote]
I dont know Frosini, but that sounds Italian rather than German. The composer was (sadly already died quite some time ago) a German 20-th century accordion player and composer.

 

[merol]

Could it be Kurt Weill
? Youkali Tango??

 

[debra]

Could it be Kurt Weill
? Youkali Tango??

Alas no, its not Kurt Weill and it is not a tango. It is a fast piece in 2/4.
(I just checked the Youkali Tango on YouTube. I do not recognize the given notes in that at all.)
Look for a composer born 10 years later.

 

[debra]

One last tip; if this does not help then I give up.
All given notes are equally fast!

 

[sjr2]

So a composer born in 1910?

 

[debra]

So a composer born in 1910?

Yes!
How many German accordion composers can there be, born in 1910...
and having composed a piece with the given notes...

 

[geoff45789]

I've found a Gerhard Strecke that wrote accordion music and was borin in the right year but none of his compositions that I've found have the right notes. I've seen reference to a 'Sonatine' for which I can't find the music so I'm going for a blind guess with that one

 

[debra]

Ive found a Gerhard Strecke that wrote accordion music and was borin in the right year but none of his compositions that Ive found have the right notes. Ive seen reference to a Sonatine for which I cant find the music so Im going for a blind guess with that one

Time to give up on this one.
The composer is Albert Vossen.
He wrote many extremely popular pieces: Tanzende Finger, Springende Punkte, Fliegende Blätter, and many more that are all played by all sufficiently trained accordion players...
The notes are from Flick-Flack, one of his greatest hits, popular around the world.

So lets try something else. New notes, completely different genre, not originally for accordion: Fis B G E D
Its not possible you dont know this one, but of course its a matter of making the right connection in the brain...