Listening to a certain obscure composition (which, if anyone is interested, can be named in a later post, but right now I don't want to prejudice any takers here), I heard something that struck me as very familiar. I'm guessing/hoping it is from some relatively well-known or oft-used bit of music, my hunch being something classical. I have no idea of the actual key, but it's a minor one, so assume A minor, all eighth notes, in the ballpark of 60 (quarter) notes per second: A B C D E A E A E A ..., where the last three A's are an octave above the first (I've marked these as A'), all other notes within a single octave. So it is ascending for the first six notes, then rocking forth and back on the E A'. What seem like childhood memories want to fill it in further, but now I fear I am guessing even more wildly, having it now descend back to the initial A: A B C D E A' E A' E A' E D C B A. A simple melody. I know it from somewhere. I tried themefinders.org with no luck. What is this from? On another note or theme (which I'll add because you seem to have too much time on your hands at the moment, as do I), the other day I was having a nice afternoon nap when I was suddenly awakened - not as usual, by the fanatic down the street with his infernal, obnoxiously loud yard machines - but by some gentle piano music. It was playing in my head only, as I dreamt, but its clarity jolted me awake. And the tune was extremely familiar. Perhaps I had recently heard it, but ransacking my memories of recent listens, I didn't think so. This was something I seemed to recognize from long ago. I toyed with it as I lay there, playing it over in my head so as not to lose it. Finally I got up and found my wife, who was working in her office. Knowing she'd want to drop everything to indulge me, I sang it aloud (and badly) to her to see if she knew it. She did not (want to indulge me) but at that point I realized that the tune actually existed in my distant memory in a more symphonic form, without piano. Too bad, because I liked the piano version I seemed to have conjured, a softer, sweeter version. Anyway, as it crystallized during a second (and much improved) singing of it, I had it. A silhouette appeared before me --- it was Alfred Hitchock! And this had to be the theme from his TV show. At that point the sound and demeanor of it changed entirely as I recalled the slowly galumphing passage most clearly. I went to the internet and found it, and only then learned that this theme was taken from Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette". I may once have heard of this theme, but I confess to having had only faint familiarity with the composer's name. Incidentally, there seemed to be no other Hitchcockian aspects to my little dream, which I guess is good. So now another question: does anyone here know of an arrangement for piano of this theme? Perhaps I heard one recently and didn't notice at the time. That could well be the case because a few months ago I had another theme-dream, one so clear and compelling that it woke me up in the middle of the night. It was nice enough that I forced myself out of bed, stumbled to my computer, fired up some old Cakewalk software, and pecked out the tune. I thought it was so lovely that I lingered over it for some time before going back to sleep. It was even still with me when I awoke the next morning, too. Surely, I fantasized, I could develop this into something worthwhile. But I forgot about it completely during the day. Then a few weeks later I heard it again -- - actually, a slight variation of it, but this time it was not playing in my head, but on the radio! And it was not nearly as good as mine (of course) --- it was that gonif, Mozart! Scooped again! And speaking of thieves, the mockingbirds in our neighborhood are belting out plenty of familiar musical themes, leading me to wonder who is stealing from whom. Rick Mabry Shreveport