NameThatSongFilter - Solo Oboe Edition

September 10, 2015 12:41 PM

I've got a snippet of an oboe solo in my head. My wife, the oboe player, recognizes but cannot ID it. Minor key, starts with a held iii, slow trill between iii and II, to I and then...

...I can't seem to capture the tune beyond that, because I believe the rest of the orchestra comes in. However, I'm pretty sure when the figure semi-repeats, the trill is between iii and ii (flat second) instead of II.

posted by notsnot to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

I don't know specifically about the oboe part, but the one thing I'm thinking of based on your description is a snippet of Sibelius' second symphony, first movement.
posted by in278s at 12:49 PM on September 10, 2015

Not quite the way I'd have described it, but close enough to Rhapsody in Blue that maybe that's what you're hearing?
posted by jeffjon at 12:52 PM on September 10, 2015

Best answer: Are you sure it's an oboe? Rite of Spring opens with a bassoon solo in the upper registers that starts on iii, trills, and resolves to I.
posted by uncleozzy at 1:03 PM on September 10, 2015 [4 favorites]

Response by poster: Uncleozzy has it! Yeah, I uh, had misrecalled some details. I may also be partially recalling a simplified version from gradeschool band...
posted by notsnot at 1:09 PM on September 10, 2015

jeffjon, isn't that a clarinet solo?
posted by Cardinal Fang! at 1:36 PM on September 11, 2015