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notgordian
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[Gray District] Audiophile[SOLVED] YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Sadly, I am unable to access this section at the moment, but here's what I have from Audiophile. Someone who's currently green is going to have to get the rest.
You're supposed to identify seven tunes whistled on the attached mp3. Similar to Library, we're doing this for posterity's sake.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:25 pm
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GuyIncognito
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Here's what I have so far...as for the remaining tunes or even their "common" names, I really don't know.
1. The Blue Danube, Johann Strauss Jr.
2. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, W.A. Mozart
3. This MIGHT be 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' by Richard Strauss...?
4. ??? (No idea...)
5. Prélude from Carmen, Georges Bizet (common name: Les Toreadors, The Toreador Song?)
6. String Quintet in E-Major from op. 13, Luigi Boccherini (common name: Celebrated Minuet?)
7. Sabre Dance from Gayane, Aram Khachaturian
If somebody can fill in the blanks or even submit a correctly phrased answer, please do let us know.
ETA: UPDATED
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:31 pm
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NeoManicXZ
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maybe im nuts but i think #3 is the star wars or superman theme song
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:37 pm
Wang Guantao
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superman might be right. I'll have to look for a Midi file when i get home from work
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:00 am
Wang Guantao
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Quote:
3. This MIGHT be 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' by Richard Strauss...?
I thought of that one too Guy, but I don't believe it to be the case.
the first thre notes fit, but then it goes down instead of the big TADAAAAAA thing that that song has.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:05 pm
GuyIncognito
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Wang Guantao wrote:
Quote:
3. This MIGHT be 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' by Richard Strauss...?
I thought of that one too Guy, but I don't believe it to be the case.
the first thre notes fit, but then it goes down instead of the big TADAAAAAA thing that that song has.
Exactly! It's so unmelodious, it could be anything...damn, I wish those "unexplained vagrants" could whistle better!
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:00 pm
notgordian
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I asked a friend and she thinks #3 might be the Scherzo part from Beethoven's 9th, and #4 might be Chopin's Minute Waltz.
Entering it in as a solve with the "common names" I tried didn't work, though, and I'm running low on credits to continue guessing.
(for Beethoven's 9th, i just wrote "Scherzo", if that's any help)
The high cost of guessing is going to make creating dummy accounts way too tempting. Unless Prestige starts adding credits a lot faster, that is.
EDIT - for anybody who isn't tone-deaf like me, some of the VanishingPoint players used this site http://www.musipedia.org/# to help solve similar puzzles. It might help, at any rate.
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:05 am
echidna
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notgordian wrote:
EDIT - for anybody who isn't tone-deaf like me, some of the VanishingPoint players used this site http://www.musipedia.org/# to help solve similar puzzles. It might help, at any rate.
There's actually a page on there that allows you to identify whistled tunes - http://www.musipedia.org/query_by_humming.0.html - haven't managed to get it to work yet myself but hopefully someone with a better computer might be able to give it a go.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:38 pm
morelaak
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echidna wrote:
There's actually a page on there that allows you to identify whistled tunes
There's a reason you can't get it to work. It's a mess. There's so many song files on the database, and the clips are so poorly whistled that it turns up with thousands of matches. I've been using an external mic and really good speakers, and i am running everything through a mac. it didn't return the blue danube for the first clip, even though that is obviously the correct answer. (went through and searched for the blue danube on the site, it's uncanny)
so i'm not going to waste any more of my time with the whistle search. however, their database is MASSIVE. i have managed to personally confirm two of the files, the blue danube and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (even though they were already confirmed )
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:35 pm
morelaak
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notgordian wrote:
#4 might be Chopin's Minute Waltz.
I've found a pretty good midi of the original, and this sounds like a good bet.
http://www.mfiles.co.uk/downloads/minute-waltz.mid
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:13 pm
James Stone
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Forgive me for being stupid, but I cannot find any resemblance between track 1 and The Blue Danube. Are we sure it is correct?
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:33 am
morelaak
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don't worry about it, but yes we can.
Check http://www.musipedia.org/ and search for the blue danube... it'll give you a sound clip. it sounds pretty on the money to me.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:07 pm
echidna
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Sorry but I share James' reservations on this one. They do sound similar and I suspect the piece of music we're looking for is probably still a waltz. If you listen to the first few notes though, the notes of The Blue Danube clearly go down where those of our piece go up.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:44 pm
morelaak
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Oh damn...
You're right...
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:26 pm
morelaak
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I may have found the correct answer for number one...
Decided to finally get some correct answers and posted a request on a classical music archives forum...
Track one is "Vienna Blood," one of Johann Strauss' most famous Waltzes.
We were right with "Eine Klein Nachtmusik
Also, the last one is definitely Saber Dance.
still waiting to see if anyone else says anything about the others, although i doubt i'm going to get much. The person who has posted so far could only identify 5 separate tracks, not 7, and said the quality was so poor he could barely tell where one ended and the next started.
hope that helps.
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 am
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