Name that tune

I can't tell what it is. But it sounds vaguely familiar.

Shit! Now Phylum loves me forever!

It sounds familiar, but I'm terrible with pop music.

I can't work it out because I know nothing about pop...I tried to translate the sheet music to my guitar as well but that didn't help at all.

I'm left wondering why you'd choose to change a piece of music into the Baroque style though. Of all the periods, why the one where music was made to be boring? XD

Baroque is more interesting than classical and usually more interesting than renaissance. It's also more consistent and less deliberately weird than romantic. Baroque done well is fantastic, but it just usually isn't.

It does take a bit of listening to baroque to get into baroque, though. You can't go wrong with Bach.





Also, the piece I arranged is traditional but has been covered to death.

Eh, I dunno, I did a lot of Baroque when I was younger and a lot of it is just dull and repetitive, I put that down to Catholic interference in the arts - as I'm sure you're aware the whole period exists because the Church wanted art to venerate God and religion. That being said, I think the invention of Sonata does enough to redeem the period to some extent.

Personally I prefer Romantic stuff but probably because Flamenco comes out of if it if I remember my music history (so don't hold me to it). Flamenco and Spanish guitar in general was always my favourite style to play.

I love baroque though I can't really explain why.

STM, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Learning baroque when you were younger would be boring. For a young kid it's boring to learn. It has lots of repetitive patterns. If you listened to either of those videos you would have heard how simple patterns develop through gestures, before changing into the next pattern. It's one of the most intricate styles of music, and baroque polyphony gets very dense very quickly. That fugue I posted has more going on than lots of orchestral pieces in just 3 parts.

Renaissance music was the music of God. It was seen as being pure and clean. Baroque music was anything but that. It featured lots of dissonance, and it drew out phrases making the audience hang on for any kind of resolution. This was not a style to simply hand out perfect cadences. Baroque writers were radicals, and they were pushing the edge of what was accepted into crazy new ideas. As my flute teacher says - at the time, you would not take a young lady to hear baroque music. Religious music naturally came out of that era, but with composers like Bach being strongly religious it's no wonder. Fun fact: Handel wrote the oratorio The Messiah, from which the Hallelujah Chorus is taken, in two weeks as a money grab because he knew it would be popular. He wasn't even religious.

Also, baroque sonatas are not usually sonatas by the classical definition. Lots of them use sonata form in the first movement, but it's not a rule like it is today. That fugue I posted is actually in pretty tight sonata form.

Also, grouping flamenco with romantic music is silly.

Now go and listen to the two videos I posted again and absorb some baroque goodness. Listen to the harmony. Absorb the rhythmic ideas. It's some of the best music you could ever hear.

I like dubstep.

I like Baroque Dubstep.

@Phylum - I'll take your word for it, I was just going by what I had been told. Wikipedia confirms what I said about it being a form of religious expression though.

On the subject of Flamenco, it's a very old form of music, I probably should have provided more clarity that it sees a re-emergence in the Romantic period, whether or not the two are linked at all is beyond my understanding of musical theory though so I'd leave that to you to decide.

I did listen to the music, by the way. I do love a lot of Bach's music, same for Handel. That's what I said I wasn't a fan of most Baroque music, to me I still find a lot of it boring, that's all I'm saying. It's a matter of taste.

If you like Bach and Handel but not the two or three other Baroque composers who get regular air time then it's probably not about baroque and more to do with personal taste on specific pieces.

That paragraph about the church shows that they were accepting and encouraging of a new popular style of music. I'm sure there is a baroque equivalent of Christian rock.

Oh, and the piece was Amazing Grace.

Now that you say it, I can sort of hear it. But I think the tempo might have made it somewhat difficult to make the connection, if you want to make it a little clearer.

It's already pushing the slow end of baroque allegro. It would have to change stylistically if it went too much farther. Also, it's due tomorrow.

I've finished, anyway. I might upload it here in a minute so you can all bask in how little it sounds like the piece I arranged.

Every time someone uses the expression "Name that #", I want to post a video of the "Name that Cabbage!" round from obscure UK childrens' gameshow Tiny and Mr. Duk's Huge Show. Sadly, none exist.

Other rounds included "Bricks or Budgies" - the choice being what was thrown at the guests while they tried to answer questions.