I played harp a lot today, but I mostly used the time to work out a piece that I love by ear. I went to check it with the original, but I couldn't find it! I thought for sure it was on one CD, but it's not. Now I'm left with a mystery and I'm hoping you can help. The piece is not ready to be performed, but I'm posting it anyway in hopes that someone can tell me what it is!!
2007-03-29 mystery piece.mpg
UPDATE:
The tune is "Damoiselle, je fus" and it's on my Perceval CD by the group La Nef that Kathy Lewis gave me. I think she's the reason why I love early music so much. Christmas and birthday presents were (almost) always early music CDs. Here is a much better version than my first try, but I still don't do it the way they do on the CD and had to improvise an ending, but I just couldn't leave the old one up alone. Hope you enjoy it! (Otherwise don't click on the link)
Damoiselle, je fus.MPG
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It's a mystery to me, which means it's unlikely to be from one of our CD's. Have you checked Parsifal/Percival/I don't remember how to spell it, but not Wagner -- the gorgeous Medieval CD you have?
You don't recognize it? Oh dear, now I am in trouble. I thought for sure it was on my Perceval CD, like you guessed, but I went through it all and didn't find. I'm listening to both CDs all the way through now in case its embedded in the middle of a track. If I say the melody is sung would you recognize it?
I listened again, imagining it sung, imagining it faster or slower...still no success. The only other possibility I can think of is Shelley Phillips, but I'm sure I'd know if we had it. My memory for tunes isn't as spectacular as yours for faces, but it's pretty good nonetheless. I wish one could put a tune into Google!
I found it! It was on the Perceval CD after all. There's a short introduction that's different so I skipped the track before hearing it. Oh, they play it so well! I see there's a pick up but I played on the beat. I got all two chords right, though! I look forward to give you a better version!
Note that I've updated this post.
Came across an interesting article in "Communications of the ACM" that I found in our lounge outside my office.
In the August 2006 issue, it has a number of articles on Music Information Retrieval, and lists some different areas of research:
Automatic identification of recordings over a cell phone lets listeners buy the music (mp3) they want as soon as they hear it - ie. you tell your cell phone to listen to a clip of music when you are at a concert somewhere, and it downloads an mp3 of the same song.
"Query by humming"
Two interesting-sounding sites:
http://www.themefinder.org,
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu,
and
http://www.nzdl.org
though it seems that the music library on nzdl has been removed.
Amazing. Can Google Tunes be far behind?
I'm having too much fun with themefinder.org. At first I thought it was amazing since it recognized Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, but it found sakura only after some trouble and I can't seem to find Yankee Doodle. Irish tunes are tough because everyone plays them differently. I haven't found one it knows yet. It is certainly great to know about it, though. It might save some sleepless nights!
It does a bang up job on the classical stuff, though. With only the contour "duDuuUdd" it found the Sait-Sean organ concerto. With only "UuUDuu" it found Prokofieff's Lieutenant Kije. (u=up, d=down, U=leap up, D=leap down) That said, it doesn't seem to know solo or chamber lit. That can be fixed with a larger database, though. It's still cool.
By the way, I love your "improvised ending."
