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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-07-17 15:36
I got 26 out of 26, but I have to admit that I kind of liked a few of the distorted tunes...sort of like listening to the Arnold Schoenberg arrangement.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2009-07-17 15:39
26 of 26, but I didn't know what some of the tunes were supposed to be. I just guessed by tonal relationships and phrase shape.
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Author: NathanM
Date: 2009-07-17 20:10
fun! It's like name that tune... or name that almost-tune.
given the preponderance of musicians (especially those silly clarinetists) on this bboard, I would think that most of us will do well above average. I'd be interested to see how "tone-deaf" people perform on this test.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-07-17 20:27
26/26.
Some were really really ugly.
OTOH I know people who sing that way, especially while wearing headphones...
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-07-17 21:02
26/26 for me too.
Kinda reminds me when I moved out to Canada, and the N.American variants on some nursery rhymes threw me - same words, but different tune.
Couple of examples are "She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain" and "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" - the UK and US versions are different, though both versions of "She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain" start off in the same way but change from the second phrase onwards.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2009-07-17 21:34
I found it more amusing try to to get as many 'tunes' as I could going at the same time....
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-07-17 21:47
26/26. I didn't think it was all that hard. The version of "Star Spangled Banner" was actually more spot on than the way some of those yodeling water buffaloes perform it at sporting events.
Jeff
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-07-18 00:13
David, I ran the whole thing on a 6+ year old Dell. It should run if you have Windoze Media Player or Quicktime. Both are supposed to work with the files.
Jeff
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2009-07-18 00:16
I could play it, fine and my pc has a sticker on the front that says "designed for Windows 2000"!!
Some of these sounded like they might be Prokofiev.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2009-07-18 00:31
Some of the wrongly-played ones were really hard to distinguish! I think the one I was most confused about was the Battle Hymn of the Republic....took me a while to figure out what it was supposed to be! 26/26 though here...
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2009-07-18 01:55
26/26. I actually recognized and could name all of the tunes.
(I love Prokofiev, by the way.)
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Author: marcia
Date: 2009-07-18 02:59
26/26. Not sure that I could name every single one, but most for sure. Could sing along with the correct versions, and sing the correct version of the incorrect ones.
Where did you find this, Bob?
Marcia
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2009-07-19 05:28
For some reason works with FireFox but not IE. I think since I installed IE8 I have some problems but I'm not sure.
I don't think I know most songs. I recognized some of them. I didn't actually check how much I got "right", but I liked tune 1 and tune 20. I assume they are "wrong" in this test, but their "wrongness" (is that a word?) is actually not really wrong (if you don't know the song). I assume the b6maj of tune 20 is "wrong", but it's very common and this melody sounds especially a lot like some animation shows music and some rock music (but also many other types). Tune 1 could be 2maj which is also common in some rock/pop music (also many other styles) or even more dramatic #4min (also common in a lot of types of music). So basically I thought these "mistakes" sounded very good
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-07-20 00:51
Clarnibass, the tunes are known to people who would be familiar with tunes they heard growing up in the US as kids; many are simple childhood songs or partiotic songs. That might explain why they aren't familiar to you.
Jeff
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