OT: help with tune ID please

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#1

Sorry to use this forum for something so mundane, but I feel someone out there can solve a mystery for me: namely to identify a tune that keeps running in my head. This tune may be in the wrong key or I may have the rhythm notated incorrectly, but I suspect the tune is still recognizable. I believe it is from a religious choral work, though I have only ever heard it as a piano/organ duet, about 70 years ago. Why it is coming back to haunt me, I have no idea. Please help!

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–L3B

#2

I’d love to help, but I can’t find any meaningful data in your zip file. Try posting just a .jpg or other image file, if that’s what you have. Or perhaps it’s a Dorico file? Post that.
John.

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#3

It’s actually a Dorico file. Just replace .zip with .dorico. Anyway, I believe zipping isn’t necessary anymore on the new forum.
And sorry, I don’t recognise the melody either…

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#4

I tried to upload it as a Dorico file, without conversion to zip. For some reason it converted itself to zip! So as PjotrB said, just change the .zip to .dorico and it will open fine.
–L3B

#5

It’s from Bizet L’Arleissienne (forget which Suite).

Alto Saxophone solo.

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#6

OK, thanks. It’s the 2nd Suite, the Intermezzo therefrom, a secondary theme.

Thanks so much, rkrentzman.

The saxophone plays a melody originally sung by the chorus in the incidental music that the Suites are drawn from. Not religious at all, though my grandmother and Aunt played it as a piano and organ duet in church as a musical interlude!

–L3B

#7

The piece was also used as an Agnus Dei, examples: https://petruccimusiclibrary.ca/files/imglnks/caimg/a/ad/IMSLP432554-PMLP79803-Bizet-Alphenaar_Agnus_Dei.pdf

or:

#8

I’ve tried stuff like musipedia.org to find this tune. I heard it as a kid, used in our 8th grade graduation ceremony as an organ processional. Does anyone recognize it?

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#9

Looks like ‘I cieli immensi narrano’ from Benedetto Marcello.

#10

Wow, thanks! That’s it, and I’ve wondered for decades.

#11

OK, that explains the use in a church setting. Thanks for the clarification.

–L3B

#12

If you use Facebook, there’s a group called guess the score who can identify almost anything you throw at them.