SOLVED: WHAT IS THIS PIECE???
AN: MYSTERY SOLVED! Thanks to the detective work of @babinicz the piece is Grieg’s Sigurd Jorsalfar movement III!
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Okay so this excerpt has been stuck in my head for about 3 months now and EVERYONE I have consulted is at a loss, but I know (I know) this exists somewhere and isn’t some bs I came up with myself. Please help me solve this mystery..
Okay so I’ve sketched out the main melody so you’ll see the opening and then I jump to the little tag at the end (it’s what I could remember). Here is what I know:
+ I’m fairly confident it is in D Major (I have a very good tonal memory, but regardless, the intervals will be the same in whatever key the piece is actually in).
+ The tempo is roughly QN = 80
+ The melody is in strings (both high and low), and after that ending a trumpet (or some brass voice) picks up the melody from the start again and imitates it.
So far my search results have been unsuccessful my gut saying it was probably a late-Romantic composer end of the 1800s or very early 1900s. I looked into Elgar, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Holst, Wagner. And then I thought is this some kind of military march-esque work so I looked into Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Rossini.
I HAVE NO CLUE. If you figure this out let me know ASAP 😭