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February 6

Unknown piece

Hi,

There's this piece stuck in my head for a while, and I can't work out what it is. It's a waltz, and the first bit starts like (in F major)

C D E F G|A D (high) C (high) A C(high)| G-sharp

If no one knows, I could try to put more of it in some notation software (I can hum at least a minute of it).

Thanks in advance, 27.32.104.185 (talk) 00:12, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

You tried to befuddle us by putting the bar lines after every 5th note, which is not exactly 3/4 waltz time. However, we can see through your cunning plan.  :) It's the opening piece, "Lyrical Waltz" from Dances of the Dolls, Op. 91a, a set of piano pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich. It also appears in his ballet The Limpid Stream and yet again in his Ballet Suite No. 3. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:32, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the really quick response- I thought it might have been him! The barlines were in the correct places though. 27.32.104.185 (talk) 08:41, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Of course they were. Please accept my apologies. It starts with a quaver rest, and all the notes are quavers except the first C, which is a crotchet. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 10:49, 6 February 2014 (UTC)