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Topic: Chopin Help

I have a midi file (and a wave converted in PT) of a Chopin piece (I believe it may be a nocturne), that I don't have a name for.  I found it on the internet and can't recall where.

It has four sharps, so must be in C#minor, but isn't Op27 No1 in C#minor.

If anyone on the forum has a list or knowledge of Chopin compositions that would help me identify this piece, I'd be very grateful.

I can e-mail the midi file, or a short snippet of a wave/MP3 file.

Thanks

Glenn

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Re: Chopin Help

Just post the midi file

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Re: Chopin Help

EvilDragon wrote:

Just post the midi file

Done.  Thanks for the reminder.

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Re: Chopin Help

Do you by any chance remember from where did you pull the midi file?

I'm quite stumped here, too

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The tricky thing here is that it is not a nocturne (although it sounds really like a nocturne) but the etude #19 (Op. 25 #7), lento.

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Re: Chopin Help

EvilDragon wrote:

Do you by any chance remember from where did you pull the midi file?

I'm quite stumped here, too

I seem to recall that it came from:

http://www.classicalarchives.com/

I'll have to go back and download all the Chopin files I can find and try to identify it.

What really annoys me is that the original midi file had the information in it, and I stripped it out!!  I did this stupid trick to a number of files.

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Re: Chopin Help

guillaume wrote:

The tricky thing here is that it is not a nocturne (although it sounds really like a nocturne) but the etude #19 (Op. 25 #7), lento.

Guillaume:

You are so right - it does sound like a nocturne, and it's approximate length of five minutes pointed to a nocturne, rather than an etude.

Thank you very much.

Glenn

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Guillaume to the rescue!

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yeah ... btw, here is an interesting site for identifying a tune:
http://www.musipedia.org/
Very simple to use: for example, you just need to use the UDR notation (note goes Up, Down or Repeat) to find out the author! Click on "Contour Search".

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Re: Chopin Help

Thanks for the link to the site.

I'm familiar with this method as it's used in at least one of my fakebooks.

However when I tried it out, with *UDDUUUDUD and selected Popular song, it couldn't identify the tune until I typed in:

"somewhere over the rainbow"

but I sure got a lot of other tunes.

It managed to get Summertime without the word hint.

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MIDI files

There are many MIDI file websites and they download the MIDI files in seconds. Try a Google search for MIDI (with the relevant words): http://www.kunstderfuge.com http://www.kunstderfuge.com/chopin.htm

Alternatively try something like:
Spotify
http://www.spotify.com/en
or YouTube.

These allow you to at least hear the tracks with no costs incurred.

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Re: Chopin Help

DonSmith wrote:

MIDI files

There are many MIDI file websites and they download the MIDI files in seconds. Try a Google search for MIDI (with the relevant words): http://www.kunstderfuge.com http://www.kunstderfuge.com/chopin.htm

Alternatively try something like:
Spotify
http://www.spotify.com/en
or YouTube.

These allow you to at least hear the tracks with no costs incurred.

Thanks for the links.

The first one has some very good renderings.

Glenn

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