Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Pianist Corner Does the MSNBC theme music make any1 else think of...BRAHMS?

Not meaning this to be at all political (please!) -- only about the music.

During times that I watch the station a lot, I find myself going around a lot singing a Brahms passage to myself....

I imagine most of you know how a thing like this can be -- you get some music thing going through your mind and you don't even necessarily know why, but sometimes you can figure it out if you try.

So, here it is:
Does this theme:



......remind anyone else of Var. 22 of the Brahms Handel Variations?
(at 18:44 on here)



I know that they're not that similar, and in a way I'm surprised that one triggers the other so strongly for me, but it does.
And I hope I'm not completely alone.

At least they are in the same key, I think.

I hear it! I never thought of that, but they sound sorta similar.

[ And that's pretty much where the similarities end.

Not quite sure that I see it but I'll take any excuse to listen to that variation.

As for MSNBC, that was just a bit over the top in my opinion.

It's possible the notes are Brahms-like but the arrangement is very un-Brahms like. He would be cringing at music like that.

I agree with each and every above post.

.....although, come to think of it.....

I would also say that the MSNBC thing could sort of make it as an additional variation in the Brahms!

(more emphasis on the "sort of" than on the !)

But I hope some of y'all noticed that the first few notes of that theme and of the Brahms variation show the same shape and range, and even really the same notes -- including, as clothearednincompo noticed (I hadn't!), the key is even the same, so the notes are exactly the same.