Q: Origin of quoted tune

From: Siglind Bruhn (siglind@umich.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 11:35:45 PST

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    Dear list members,

    I am writing about an opera (contemporary German, by Rainer Kunad). He
    includes, in very prominent position, a tune that I am almost certain is a
    distorted quotation from something we all know -- but I am completely
    blocking on where to start looking. (I did look into Schubert songs, which
    was my first hunch, but found nothing.)

    If this tune, refashioned from the diminished-chord base to a major or,
    more probably, minor mode, rings a bell, would you kindly help me out?
    (The final "B-B-F-F-B" is a descent to the lower octave.)

    B | B B | B D E | F E | D B | B B | F F | B

    Thanks in advance!
    Siglind (siglind@umich.edu)

    Dr. Siglind Bruhn
    Life Research Associate, Music and Modern Literatures
    Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
    Distinguished Senior Research Fellow
    Center for Christianity and the Arts, University of Copenhagen
    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~siglind

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