Tune Req: Falling in Love Again

Subject: Falling in Love Again
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 02:26 PM

This old Marlene Dietrich song, from the movie, The Blue Angel, isn't a folksong, at least by my definition, but I have been working up an instrumental version, and I am a little bit befuddled--I don't have any sheet music, so I am working from memory, and have some questions about the time signature--

It seems to be in 3/4, but the chord changes tend to come on the second beat--it reminds me of some of those old German Dances that have a measure of 2/4 stuck in among the 3/4 measures--

For melodic reasons, I am in G (tho it tends to me in A)--

I have A)||:G-G-G/G-C-C/C-G-G/G-G-G/G-D7-D7/D7-D7-D7/D7-G-G/G-G-G:||

(Bridge) B)|Bm-Bm-Bm/Bm-F#7-F#7/F#7-F#7-F#7/F#7-F#7-F#7/ F#7-F#7-F#7/F#7-Bm-Bm/Am-Am-Am/D7-D7-D7/

Repeat A

Is this right? and if it is, what is the deal? Is it some weird thing that happens in German Cabaret songs. or is it some dance beat or something?

Subject: RE: Falling in Love Again
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 06:36 PM

You'll find the MIDI at http://members.aol.com/dollardsgn/music/fallinginluvagain.mid where you can examine it to your heart's content. Let me know if you want the names to any of the bizarre chords. Regards, John

Subject: RE: Falling in Love Again
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 06:40 PM

Hi M.Ted,

Oh what a lovely song. I found a very nice piano midi here. I went to this page, and then had to go to my temporary internet files to get the midi. I looked at the staff view in Cakewalk...and it looks extremely complex. I think when someone sequences a midi by playing on an instrument instead of drawing the notes like I do, it often comes out extremely complex in the notation. Curiously enough, the key signature was C, but it looked like key of Eb to me. If you can't get the midi I'll send it to you.

Mary (falling in love again...)

Subject: RE: Falling in Love Again
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 06:43 PM

John, looks like our posts passed in cyberspace. Your midi sounds just like mine.

Subject: RE: Falling in Love Again
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 12:24 AM

Thanks for these things!!! The only thing is that I can play them, but don't seem to be able to download them--any suggestions?

John, if you have a chord chart, and its not too much trouble to pass it along, that would be great, but if not, I can follow the arrangement with the chords I've got(some of the nuances aren't there though), transposed of course--

Mary--The staff view of midi information tends to be really complex, because the transcription program tends to calculate what is literally and exactly there, as far as the midi info goes, rather than even what it sounds like when it plays back--My Finale program tends to transcribe simple quarter note passaages as dotted eighth-notes with a sixteenth rests, and god forbid if you have a glissando!!!

Subject: RE: Falling in Love Again
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 16 Mar 00 - 12:47 AM

MTED, send me your email address to [e-mail] and I'll send you a .doc file. The chord locations are essentially grouped 6 beats to the bar. It's too complex to post here. Regards, John