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Baby Einstein Hape Magic Touch Piano Wooden Musical Toy Instruments for Toddlers, 2 Play Modes, 6 Songs, Volume Control, Age 6 Months +

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But another surprise came when the final piece was identified by a theory professor whose expertise came not from their extensive schooling, but instead from their extensive family. Toby Rush, music theory professor at Dayton and super dad.

Megan, as a timbre scholar you’ll likely appreciate this: I am 100% positive that if you had played the original orchestral version for me, I would vaguely recognize it but not be able to place it. But upon hearing the synth arrangement programmed into the toy, I was instantly transported to my sofa in Greeley, holding a squirmy 2-year-old in one hand and a hissing nebulizer in the other!

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So it turns out “bad Handel” and “early 18th-c.” were both pretty good inferences. The Complete List of Songs in the Take Along Tunes toy

Here is the actual list of pieces featured in the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes toy and a Spotify playlist I’ve assembled for your (and my) listening pleasure. Composer For the uninitiated, the Take Along Tunes toy plays a series of excerpts from Classical- and Baroque-era (mostly) orchestral works while flashing colored lights; its purpose is to distract and occupy your baby while you’re forcing them to do something they don’t particularly enjoy (in our case, diaper changes). As musical toys go, it’s really not annoying, because the tunes are pleasant and the excerpts are long enough not to drive you up the wall with repetitiveness.Vivaldi wrote so much stuff that I’m not surprised I couldn’t identify this violin concerto. We are very far out of my wheelhouse with this one. Funnily enough, I inadvertently have a list of the six pieces for that toy, which the parent company of Baby Einstein sent me after I’d asked them for info on the 20-song version of the Star Bright. Here’s the list they sent: Apparently they were only discovered in 1975. Weird choice for a baby toy, right? Here’s an edition of the Goldberg canons on IMSLP—the toy plays #5 with some small alterations.

Thanks so much for sharing this, I have so much respect for the nerdy detective work! I came across this on a similar quest, looking for the pieces in the baby Einstein star bright symphony toy – I’m not as well versed with the classics so can’t name them but 4 of 6 are very familiar. If you end up repeating the adventure for this toy I’d be very interested! I then tried entering the unidentified melodies into things like Shazam and ThemeFinder.org, to no avail. Then I even asked my former professor Bill Rothstein, who I suspect has a photographic memory and seems to be able to sit down at the piano and immediately play any piece you mention from memory— still nothing! To be fair I don’t really know much about your parenting, but you seem pretty cool over the internet, and you have somehow managed six kids while I am up all night with anxiety over one baby, so I just assume you have superpowers.

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I’m so glad I found this post. My child got this toy and I only recognized 2 of the songs and was prompted to search online. I have no music knowledge (really, NONE) so I suppose I would never figure all 10 songs. The Telemann came from the Baby Neptune DVD, one that focused on water, and though it was more than 15 years ago I remember that one being my second oldest kids’ favorite, particularly when we had to hold him still to sit through asthma treatments.

mystery tune a. Described by one friend as having mode mixture that seems like “a Brahms or Dvořák thing, or like Berlioz”; by another as reminiscent of a trombone excerpt from Damnation of FAust. mystery tune b. Very short and repetitive so hard to pin down the era. Nice Romanesca though. Mystery Tune c. That bass line plus that nonstop melody is giving major baroque vibes. mystery tune d. Described by a friend as “bad Handel.” Another person said the cadences on beat 3 in 3/4 time “suggests an early date, early in the 18th century.”

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