New here, wondering if anyone recognizes either of a couple of pieces of music that I suspect are versions of excerpts from classical works? Flash piano, melodic contour, and rhythm searches here each gave me about 2000 returns, none of which much at all resembled what I was trying to match (oaky, true, I gave up after listening to the first few dozen returns)...
The first I've been wondering about for thirty years -- the horn-emulating synth-keyboard bit from Alphaville's "Forever Young," first heard clearly from 1:38 to 1:52 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Yx2TnN9mc and again from 3:29 to the end. Maybe it's a completely original riff by the band, but I always thought it was derived from something by Bach or maybe Corelli...
The second I just discovered last week, a two-minute bit played in a loop as the background music for the on-line game here: http://www.oddsoul.com/Desolation-The-Beginning.php (sorry, you have to click "Start" and then "Continue" to start the music). Maybe a very recent and original composition, but to my tone-deaf ear it sounds like an excerpt from fin-de-siecle opera. Either way, an ID would be greatly appreciated.
The first I've been wondering about for thirty years -- the horn-emulating synth-keyboard bit from Alphaville's "Forever Young," first heard clearly from 1:38 to 1:52 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Yx2TnN9mc and again from 3:29 to the end. Maybe it's a completely original riff by the band, but I always thought it was derived from something by Bach or maybe Corelli...
The second I just discovered last week, a two-minute bit played in a loop as the background music for the on-line game here: http://www.oddsoul.com/Desolation-The-Beginning.php (sorry, you have to click "Start" and then "Continue" to start the music). Maybe a very recent and original composition, but to my tone-deaf ear it sounds like an excerpt from fin-de-siecle opera. Either way, an ID would be greatly appreciated.