Happy Birthday In The Style Of....

This is hilarious:

Happy Birthday

Each of the variations is in the style of a different composer, using one of their famous pieces as a template. Here is the list (as far as I can tell):

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1. Theme

2. Haydn

3. Mozart?

4. Beethoven

5. Dvorak

6. Strauss?

7. Bernard Hermann (Hitchcock's composer)

8. Gershwin?

9. No clue

10. Brahms!!!!! (Hungarian Dances, my favorite :D)

I wrote an additional eleventh variation :D

11th variation

The composer shouldn't be too hard to guess :whistling:

Anyone else want to add on?

That video was amazing! I feel the Gershwin was a little bit off, but I guess there not going totally into each person's style.

Yours was nice too! However, as I am pretty ignorant with composers, I don't know who it is. But, I will take a stab.

Schubert?

Yay, Indie!

Hmmm...the Gershwin one sounds more like Joplin to me.

I love how, while they usually ended up obscuring the piece they based it on a little bit, the Dvorak piece (String Quartet No. 12) was so obvious to anyone who's heard the piece before.

I guess he was going for string quartets. Because if you listen to the Egmont Overture, it's already 90% of the way there... that would be a better choice for Beethoven :)

JW... nice try.

I haven't heard that Dvorak, so the Brahms variation was most obvious to me. The first three or four including the theme itself sounded like Mozart to me, I couldn't distinguish them much...

This is ingenious. I believe that I want a score.

I think number nine is more like a tango; is there anything that sounds like that in what Piazzola wrote (I'm not familiar with his works).

Anyways, you should also look at this:

YouTube - Victor Borge - Happy Birthday (2)

I wrote an additional eleventh variation :D

11th variation

The composer shouldn't be too hard to guess :whistling:

Anyone else want to add on?

Was your Mussorgsky, like a pictures at an exhibition? I'm having serious trouble figuring it out.

Was your Mussorgsky, like a pictures at an exhibition? I'm having serious trouble figuring it out.

If you need hints, have a look at James' and my posts.

I'm... a little surprised that it's that hard to figure out. :|

Well, if you've never seen/heard certain things, it's quite understandable. I haven't been aware of his music for very long myself.

I thought we were supposed to write another variation?

Anyways, I wrote one (funny version. You know how it's always in 3 different keys when people sing it? I did that): Happy bday Variation.mid - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Goddamnit. I am frackin' retarded! It's so obvious now.

That opening fanfare threw me off. But yeah, the melody from that rhythm is pretty classic. Plus, that chord on "Happy Birthday Dear so and so," is totally from that piece as is the last three notes in the trumpet that get repeated.

JW, indie. I thought you were talking about a stupid member name like JW1337sauc3 or something stupid like that.

My bad.

I am frackin' retarded! It's so obvious now.

Yes, it's quite obvious now. It's obvious that you watch frackin' Battlestar Galactica.

Damn straight I do!

Plus, that chord on "Happy Birthday Dear so and so," is totally from that piece .

Yup, Neapolitan chord (Db major).