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Author: mdeutschmann
Posted: Nov 26 2005 - 05:01 AM
Subject: 'Circus' tune similar to Turkish Rondo

I'm trying to identify a tune that I would free-associate with circus daredevilry. (This impression would have to be from cartoons and such, as I don't go to circuses.)

It's definitely not Entry of the Gladiators. It's not Sabre Dance either.

The main theme is:

 
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which bears some resemblance to the opening notes of Turkish Rondo. But that isn't it either. The above theme occurs in pairs, with long streams of 16th notes inbetween, rising and falling like in Flight of the Bumblebee.

I have a MIDI of the beginning of this tune, which was ripped from the 1988 computer game "Rocket Ranger". I've placed it on my FTP space as ftp://ftp.ocis.net/pub/users/ldeutsch/transient/SxDF.mid. The track starts with 30 seconds of fanfare that may well be original to the game, but then gives 30 seconds of this mystery theme before cutting out.

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