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February 24

Some piano songs on a beginner piano book

So I have this piano book called John W. Schaum C (Purple Book) which has some piano pieces. To give a little background, it has a piece called "Lilac Time Serenade" which is an adaptation of Schubert's Serenade. There are three songs whose actual titles I want to find out, "Estrella" by Manuel Ponce, "Dangerous Journey" by Carl(?) Kolling and "Hawaiian Love Song" by a composer named Truax, whom I can't seem to find any information on. Does anyone have this book and know what are the actual names of these songs? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:16, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

What makes you think the names you've given aren't the actual titles of the songs? --TammyMoet (talk) 10:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

See "Lilac Time Serenade" example above. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Why would they be given incorrect titles? I suspect these are simple tunes composed just for the purpose of piano exercises, which would explain why they are not well known. I had a number of piano tutor books with tunes like that.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:34, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

No they weren't composed by Schaum, the exercises themselves said that someone else composed them. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:37, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

If it helps anyone, much of the book can be viewed at Google Books, although the piece I'm least sure about is not available.

• I'm not sure about Estrella, but I would guess it is based on Estrellita, which is described as Ponce's most famous work. He did however also write an arrangement of a folk tune called Estrella del norte which is another possibility.
• Dangerous Journey is a simplified form of Carl Kölling's Flying Leaves.
• Hawaiian Love Song, seems to be based on J.L. Truax's Falling Waters.

AJSham 12:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

It was actually Estrellia, sorry. I misspelled it. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:21, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

And what about the "Wild Goose Chase" song? It should be a Russian Folk Tune, but not similar to Tetris music. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 12:23, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

So what you're really asking for is the name of the piece that each simplified piece is based on. I think you've answered your own questions here. --TammyMoet (talk) 15:01, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

I think I answered them actually Tammy... I've no idea about Wild Goose Chase though.AJSham 15:22, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I obviously missed your signature earlier. My apologies. --TammyMoet (talk) 20:42, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

There are various Russian and Ukrainian folk songs about wild geese flying etc, and I'm guessing they've simplified one of them and given it a catchy title. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 19:45, 24 February 2012 (UTC)