How do you look up the name of a song if you only know its melody?

[:) Smiley]

normally I go by lyrics, but in this case the song lacks lyrics.

Song #1

(this scale goes from F low through E high)

D-- D- D- C B A G

DDDDD(lowD)---

D-- D- D- E D C B B CC DD--

C-- C- C- B A G A A BB DD--

BBBB-- B E B A G- G-- F#GF#

Song #2
(this scale goes from F low through E high)

B- C- B A G A-

B- C- B A G A-

B D E DCDG CBAC(highG) EEEFF#

[JohnT]

Hum a few bars and I'll try to identify it.

[mrmitchell]

I've got a similar problem:

How do you look up the name of a pr0n star if you've only got a picture?

[Boris Godunov]

Re: How do you look up the name of a song if you only know its melody?

Originally posted by Smiley
normally I go by lyrics, but in this case the song lacks lyrics. Any suggestions?

If it's classical, you can try to replicate the melody like loinburger did in this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92057

That's all the help I can offer.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
I've got a similar problem:

How do you look up the name of a pr0n star if you've only got a picture?

Post a picture and ask.

[:) Smiley]

melody posted, see above

[Boris Godunov]

Is it classical?

[:) Smiley]

I think it might be. The original context of the music, at least where I heard it, was on CTS Television's stock market reports (first song) and weather reports (second song). The second song I also heard being used as a theme song for a radio station in Arizona, or maybe New Mexico.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
I've got a similar problem:

How do you look up the name of a pr0n star if you've only got a picture?

post it, i'm fairly good with those.

a conisouer of sorts.

[Jaguar]

Hmm, those are tricky. Normally when it's a song with lyrics, you can google it easily, like this:

lyrics "(insert phrase you remember here)"

It will link to lyrics pages that have that phrase. It works every time.

I hummed your two songs and I don't know either of them, but I felt like giving my tip on songs with words.

[:) Smiley]

Osweld, get your own thread!

[Dr Strangelove]

Do you know the composer? Maybe you could access a website devoted to his music and find a sample?

[Firelad]

You might find it at: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html

Little chance tho, it's got mostly folk music. You can search for note sequences and regular expressions there, but you'll have to figure out ABC notation. It's quite simple though.

[Urban Ranger]

Record the song, then post bits of it here.

[Ecthy]

mrmitchell, send by email to andz83 at gmx.net