Sonic - Pi

[Techno]

Has anyone here downloaded or tried this out ?

It's aimed at children, to make computer coding fun...(By creating music)...And it looks like it could be enormously enjoyable....And teach me a little bit (well......a lot, really.)
Have any of you lot's children or grandchildren used this ?

I'm definitely going to have a go.

I might finally be able to find out what a snippet of classical music that I heard YEARS ago really is, by getting an audio file linked onto the forum...(If that'll work)....So any classical buffs might have a chance of recognising it.

(The best I've  done so far is whistle the 'main riff'.....(Yuk  .....Wrong expression, I know)....Down the phone to Nobby, but he didn't recognise it....Though he gave me a lot of classical pieces on Youtube to try out....But sadly none of them were 'the one'.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Send me a recording of your whistle. I may be able to help.

[fsn]

(The best I've  done so far is whistle the 'main riff'.....(Yuk  .....Wrong expression, I know)....Down the phone to Nobby, but he didn't recognise it....

Yes. That was an odd weekend  

[Techno]

Send me a recording of your whistle. I may be able to help.

Sadly, I haven't got any sort of microphone, so I could get some type of audio file on the PC, Kitty.....Otherwise I'd give that a whirl.

I suppose I could try.....

It Goes ('Full Orchestra')

Dum,dum,de-dum,Dum,Dum,Daaaaah.
Dum,de-dum,Dum,dedum,dum, Daaaaaah,
Diddly,dum,dum de-dum, dum,dum, dah.......etc.

If anyone can get what it is from that, they'll be a GENIUS. 

You never know though !!  .....We've got a lot of very clever folk here !!

Cheers - Phil

[Matt J]

Holst, planets Jupiter....

Or the Italian national anthem....

[mollinary]

Sadly, I haven't got any sort of microphone, so I could get some type of audio file on the PC, Kitty.....Otherwise I'd give that a whirl.

I suppose I could try.....

It Goes ('Full Orchestra')

Dum,dum,de-dum,Dum,Dum,Daaaaah.
Dum,de-dum,Dum,dedum,dum, Daaaaaah,
Diddly,dum,dum de-dum, dum,dum, dah.......etc.

If anyone can get what it is from that, they'll be a GENIUS. 

You never know though !!  .....We've got a lot of very clever folk here !!

Cheers - Phil

That looks like 'Sosban Fach' to me!

[toxicpixie]

I'm getting shades of "Hitchhikers". I Phil about to be thrown out the airlock?!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Only if he cant critise his own poetry !

IanS

[d_Guy]

This is probably too obvious, but was Figaro's part in the opening scene (measuring for the bed) of the "Marriage of Figaro" considered?
That or a waulking tune from the Outer Hebrides as played by the London Symphony?

[Techno]

Really.....Many thanks for the suggestions gang ! (I have been checking them out.)...I DO appreciate it.

I've done a fair amount of 'Googling' today.....
And I've found it !

I'll pop a link in later/tomorrow.....and you can all see how BRILLIANT my dum-de-dumming was.

It's by one of the 'classical' composers that I like anyway.

Cheers - Phil (His name begins with a T and ends with a Y......That narrows it down just a tad. )

[fsn]

Terry.

Yeah, he's one of my favourites.

[d_Guy]

James Tenney! An American composer no less. I'm impressed.

[Techno]

You complete pair of OIKS ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Westmarcher]

Well I don't think it will be 1812 - if it is I'll be "dum" struck! 

[d_Guy]

 

I’ll go with the Nutcracker since I can envision a young Phil being enraptured by Fantasia.
Although the diddle, dum, dum,de-dum doesn’t quite work.

[Ithoriel]

Yeah, I'd plump for Nutcracker too d_Guy.

Edit: To be fair I'm more likely to be listening to Dua Lipa or Rag'n'Bone Man than classical, so what do I know?

[Westmarcher]

Nutcracker? After all Phil has had to go through lately, I don't think that's very helpful ....

[Techno]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVXcH73AWv0

Hope that works !!

If you go to around 6minutes, 30 seconds you'll find the refrain that has stuck in my poor old brain for YEARS.

Cheers - Phil

[d_Guy]

Your mind is much complex and sophisticated than mine if THAT has been stuck in it for years! 
It was reminiscent of a score of an Errol Flynn movie of the late 1930s.
I'm disappointed it wasn't more tangible like  "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies".
I am glad for your sake, however,  that the itch has now been scratched! 

[FierceKitty]

I used to like that piece when I was a teenager. Thank goodness one grows out of some things!