How the HELL do you figure this outt??!?

when you hear a violin song and there is no words just the violin and they didnt say who the composer is or what the name of its called. is there ANY way to figure out what it was??

How the HELL do you figure this outt??!?events

The only way is to - somehow - listen to it again. If it was playing on the radio, try calling the radio station. But if it was only chance, I suggest you to just keep looking. Have a little patience. That was the way with my first discovery of classical music. I heard it in a TV milk ad, and it just nagged at my mind for years. I was eleven when I finally found the music - it was Beethoven's 5th. And addicted since.

How the HELL do you figure this outt??!?home theatre opera theater

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If you had perfect pitch, you could identify the key that the piece was written in.

Then, you need to identify what type of piece it is by listening for the form, and or characteristics.

Then, try and judge what musical period it is from - this can be done by listening for certain characteristics that would identify at as baroque, romantic, classical, etc. For example, baroque has a driving force behind it and terraced dynamics.

Once all this is done, try and collaborate it all. Then search it on google.

That is the only way, I think this kind of task is possible. Not sure how plausible it is, but, it kind of sounds like it would work. LOL ~~ give it a try. I spose it really just depends on how much musical knowledge the person knows.
If you remember the melody, you could record you singing/playing it in say movie maker and post somewhere and give us the link. That is what I would do.
Most classical music stations have a website that lists the shows and the playlist by time. So, if it wasn't too long ago, I'd try that, or try calling the station during the same show and try to talk with the "DJ." Sounds like you heard it on the radio; if someplace else, no way to tell.
How the hell we can figure that out .......... no ways but a Violin player can certinly find that out.
There are publications known as "thematic indexes."

I have a copy of "Dictionary of Musical Themes" by Barlowe %26amp; Morgenstern.

The first thing you do is write the first few notes of the melody in the key of C--or c minor if it's in a minor key.

(Schubert's Unfinished Symphony would be CGCBCD.

Haydn's Surprise Symphony would be CCEEGGE.)

Then you look those notes up in an alphabetical listing in the back of the book.

Finally, you look up the page number given in the back of the book and see if it matches.

If that is too technical, there is a more recently published index, except that I've forgotten the name of it.

It works the same, except that you write an asterisk (*) for the first note, then a U for every note that goes up, a D for every note that goes down, and a dash (-) for every note that is repeated.

(Schubert's Unfinished Symphony would be *DUDUU.

Haydn's Surprise Symphony would be *-U-U-D.)

I have won points on this board with help from this handy device.

You can, too.
No, unless you tell us where and when you heard the piece. If it was was on television , a movie or the radio then perhaps somebody can help you to identify it.
I think most people have misjudged your question - I think your just asking in general terms whether it's possible to work out the composer from the music. Fair question because when you sit a listening exam or something you're expected to do this.

It is possible. Here are a few tips:

Firstly, think about the genre. Was it romantic? Baroque? 20th century?

Then think about different composers - I know this is easier said than done. If we take the Classical era, think of Mozart - incorporate some of the contrapuntal complexities of the late Baroque, complexities against which the gallant style had been a reaction. Clarity, balance, transparisy, simple-sounding, almost humorours, light and pleasant.

Then think of Beethoven - heroic, bordering on being romantic, polyphony is less obvious than with Mozart, forceful, stark rhythmic patterns, architectonic structures...

You get the point. Different composers have different characteristics. If you listen to enough different composers works, you'll begin to notice the difference yourself.

It's like looking at art. When you see Monet's pictures, you know their his because of his distinctive style. Same principle applies with music.

Hope this helps you!
It will be very difficult to find out what you listened to. Anyway, if you remember some of your piece's characteristics, you may have some useful clues. For example, remember if it had a very regular tempo and if it was full of scales being "modulated" all the time, in that case it was probably a baroque piece (perhaps Vivaldi, Haendel, Bach...) If it showed a lot of versatility and freedom in musical themes and tempos, perhaps it was a romantic piece (Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin...). If it sounded not as limited as baroque but not as free as romanticism, and its harmonies were "friendly" to your ear, perhaps it was classical (Bocherini, Mozart, Haydn...). I know this is VERY approximate and that genres are not so well delimited. I know too that this won鈥瞭 be enough to recognize what did you listen to. But finding out its musical period may help to find out later, perhaps the author. Because authors usually have a special style that helps recognizing them. If you try to remember the melody and you recognize its elements, maybe if you talk with someone who knows very well violin music, you鈥瞝l find out.
If there are no words - it is not a song. The only way to find out what it is - either:

ask the source, or...

take a recording to an authority who might recognize it.