Name that tune ... please

[Kypfer]

Can someone identify this scrap of a tune, please? I suspect it may be part of a movie theme or similar. It just "kinda fell out" of my whistle when I was tootling the other day, and I can't for the life of me place it.

D G4 A B4 d B d B A G4
D D D =F4 D =F E D4

TIA

[JackCampin]

A variant of Dougie Maclean's "Farewell to Craigie Dhu"?

[Kypfer]

Thanks for the thought, Jack, but I don't see the similarity ... I suspect my transcription skills are letting me down. Maybe I'll make a fool of myself and post a video of me playing it on my recently-aquired Hohner "chalumeau/clarineau" device

[Tunborough]

Have you tried John Chamber's "Tunefind"? http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind

There's also http://www.folktunefinder.com/, but that wouldn't index movie themes and the like.

[Nanohedron]

... I suspect my transcription skills are letting me down.

Yeah, I'm afraid I wasn't able to make heads or tails of it at all. What's the time sig supposed to be? How about the key? Is the first note the downbeat? Info like this could help loads, because those G4s an B4s are totally throwing me off. They don't make sense, at least so far.

[MTGuru]

Yeah, I'm afraid I wasn't able to make heads or tails of it at all. What's the time sig supposed to be?

I'd guess it's supposed to be something like this:

L:1/8
M:4/4
K:G
D2|G6 A2|B6 D2|B2 d2 B2 A2|G8|]
D2 D2 E2|=F6 D2|=F4 E4|D8|]

It sounds to me like a possible movie theme or cue, from Lard of the Onion Rings or some such thing.

[Kypfer]

I'd guess it's supposed to be something like this:

L:1/8
M:4/4
K:G

... ooops, sorry ... my mistake. Yes, that's what I've got, can't think why I didn't include the key or time signature in the original posting,
I'm beginning to think it may have been the signature tune for a UK television programme ... it'll come back one day

[MTGuru]

No worries, Kypfer. If it's a slow air sort of melody, then precise notation won't capture what's in your head anyway.