I was just listening to the overture of “The Force of Destiny” by G. Verdi on my way to the store, and I hear in my headphones a melody identical to one I can play, but for the life of me, I can’t recall what it is, and I definitely don’t remember it saying Verdi on the sheet music. I dug through all my sheets — found nothing. Asked Siri to recognize the tune I played. Couldn’t. Shazam couldn’t either. Googled it, found nothing. Hummed it to Nade. She doesn’t know either. Eventually, googled some more and found that Google can indeed recognize it. Launched Google on my phone, played it to it – and it gives two options – that very opera La Forza del Destino and Jean de Florette – that’s the movie from which the soundtrack was. There! It is. Started digging into it – this melody is known specifically as a soundtrack of the movie, but essentially it’s a derivative of Verdi’s work. Finally, found the sheet music — the composer is Jean-Claude Petit. Found the movie, checked the credits — all good, they mentioned Verdi.
That was quite the research. Interestingly, it turns out you can whistle to Google, and it will guess the melody.
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