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Senseless Apprentice
01-17-2006, 10:39 PM
Hi. I spent a bit of time looking for this, but could not find it. But if there is a comprehensive list of this somewhere, please point me to it. I am also posting this in the main area instead of the Theory thread because I thought it was too long a post and takes a lot of responses to reach its ideal goal, where as in the Theory thread it would get lost and forgotten rather quickly.

So I need to find songs (famous/well known/popular songs work best) that have a clear example of all the respective intervals. I will just make a list here, and fill out what I already have, and if you would be so kind as to attempt to help me out with the blanks, I would greatly appreciate it.

.5 step / minor 2nd up: Fur Elise
.5 step / minor 2nd down: Fur Elise, the meow mix song, "Hey You" by Pink Floyd
1 whole step / major 2nd up: Frere Jacques
1 whole step / major 2nd down: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Bach's Tocatta in D minor
1.5 steps / minor 3rd up: Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka, Be our Guest from Beauty and the Beast (See my Vest from The Simpsons), Greensleeves
1.5 steps / minor 3rd down: "If I only had a brain/heart/whatever" from Wizard of Oz,
2 steps / major 3rd up: When the Saints Go Marching in, The Simpsons Theme (the main motif)
2 steps / major 3rd down: Beethoven's 5th, the melody clocks play each hour
2.5 steps / Perfect 4th up: that trumpet funeral piece, Peter's theme from Peter and the Wolf, that song about America from west side story
2.5 steps / Perfect 4th down: Mozart's Eine Kleine Natchmuzik
3 steps / Tritone up: Maria (west side story), opening vocal bit to The Simpson's theme (theee simpppsonnnsss..),
3 steps / Tritone down:
3.5 steps / Perfect 5th up: Twinkle Twinkle,
3.5 steps / Perfect 5th down:
4 steps / minor 6th up: that sad walking away theme from the hulk, that orchestral piece of music in the old diamond commercials..
4 steps / minor 6th down: the diamond commercial one works here too..
Major 6th up: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Major sixth down: just a teaspoon of sugar helps the "medicine go" down
minor 7th up:
minor 7th down:
Major 7th up:
Major 7th down:
Octave up: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Octave down:

Note: I will edit the list as I find more, or as you guys add more. Feel free to name more than one per example. Thank you again. This will help me a ton.

EDIT: Thank you to miku for a more organised list of labels. I hope you don't mind that I stole it from you and edited it into the #1 post.

Alive
01-18-2006, 11:51 AM
There is a complete list in The Idiot's Guide To Music Theory, although most of the examples you quoted are in that book, so maybe you have it already.

miku
01-19-2006, 04:51 AM
I'm gonna go by first two notes for the most part here, except in the case of pieces that start with trill-like or mordent-like melodic patterns (like Fur Elise), and except in the case where the first few notes are the same note (like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or Beethoven's 5th).

.5 step / minor 2nd up: Fur Elise
.5 step / minor 2nd down: Fur Elise, that song they play at weddings, the meow mix song, "Hey You" by Pink Floyd
1 whole step / major 2nd up: Frere Jacques
1 whole step / major 2nd down: Bach's Tocatta in D minor (dududuh... dudududu duh duh!), Mary Had a Little Lamb
1.5 steps / minor 3rd up: Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka, Be our Guest from Beauty and the Beast (See my Vest from The Simpsons), Greensleeves
1.5 steps / minor 3rd down: "If I only had a brain/heart/whatever" from Wizard of Oz if you ignore the first two pickup notes/words. i.e. 'i could while away the hours.." 'while a' is the minor 3rd down. also, "just a" teaspoon of sugar..
2 steps / major 3rd up: When the Saints Go Marching in, The Simpsons Theme (the main motif)
2 steps / major 3rd down: Beethoven's 5th (du du du DUH!), the melody clocks play each hour
2.5 steps / Perfect 4th up: that trumpet funeral piece, Peter's theme from Peter and the Wolf, that song about America from west side story
2.5 steps / Perfect 4th down: Mozart's Eine Kleine Natchmuzik (DUH, du DUH, du DUH du duh du duh!)
3 steps / Tritone up: Maria (west side story), opening vocal bit to The Simpson's theme (theee simpppsonnnsss..), and just a teaspoon of "sugar"
3 steps / Tritone down:
3.5 steps / Perfect 5th up: Twinkle Twinkle,
3.5 steps / Perfect 5th down:
4 steps / minor 6th up: that sad walking away theme from the hulk, that orchestral piece of music in the old diamond commercials..
4 steps / minor 6th down: the diamond commercial one works here too..
Major 6th up: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Major sixth down: just a teaspoon of sugar helps the "medicine go" down
minor 7th up:
minor 7th down:
Major 7th up:
Major 7th down:
Octave up: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Octave down:


I added a bit and corrected some stuff.. but I still couldn't think of examples for some of them.

Senseless Apprentice
01-20-2006, 09:16 AM
Awesome! Thank you, that was excellent. And actually I do not have the idiots guide to theory, because otherwise I would just probably use most of those examples. Well I will probably have another week to complete this assignment, so anyone else want to try filling this out? I will go back and edit in the new answers for convenience later because I have class in a few minutes. Thanks again to everyone!