Does anybody have the music to “Mozart’s Favorite” played by Chris Norman on “The Man With The Wooden Flute”. I found a reference to it in a Library of Congress catalogue but no music.
Thanks, Nelson
If you mean the sheet music, etc, I use this site all the time.
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html
You’ll find it, but you have to type in mozart’s favourite
This looks like a tough tune! It probably helps to have heard it!
Mary
Thanks Mary, I found many tunes I had been looking for. Greet site. The Mozart’s Favourite was not the Mozart’s Favorite tha Chirs Norman plays in “The Man With the Wooden Flute”. Any more suggestions.
Nelson
Thanks Mary, I found many tunes I had been looking for. Greet site. The Mozart’s Favourite was not the Mozart’s Favorite tha Chirs Norman plays in “The Man With the Wooden Flute”. Any more suggestions.
Nelson
You can always email Chris and ask him where he got it. 
If that fails, it’s probably time to buy the Amazing Slowdowner… don’t forget to publish it in JC’s when you’r done!
Glauber – this would be a good time to ask I guess since it’s definitely on-topic.
What’s the rules with publishing stuff in note form when the music itself is copyright (I know the tune is “Mozart’s Favorite”, but let’s say for argument’s sake that this tune is NOT by Mozart and not itself public domain).
Aren’t there copyright issues here?
And I’m asking since I’m genuinely interested. I have transcribed stuff from the Wooden Flute CDs and have not made it public since the tracks are probabyl copyright, i.e. they are not traditional tunes.
Maybe I should start a thread on this?
Cheers,
Az
I didn’t think of that.
Mary
I don’t know… i’d assume any melody in that album is old enough to be in the public domain (although Chris and his people could claim copyright for the arrangements). I’m “pretty sure” (IANAL) that transcribing the notes for your own use and sharing with your friends is OK, but putting them online may not be. I don’t know why, it just feels this way.
Better ask a lawyer! 
From JC’s tune finder:
X: 220
T:Mozart’s Favourite Waltz. CJF.220
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:120
S: C.J.Fox MS, 1829/33, Beverley,E.Yorks.
R:Waltz
O:England
A:East Yorkshire
B:Kidson Coll.Mitchell Lib.M1805
N:At the “1” mark, the MS does this:- there is a d crotchet and from the
N:same note-head rises the first of a beamed pair of grace-notes d/^d/. -
N:PJH.
Z:P J Headford 2000
F:http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/downloads/vmp/Cjfox.abc 2004-08-16 15:05:50 UT
K:C
“f”(c’bc’)|(e’c’gefd)|(ag)(ecec)|(ag).f(dfd)|g3.c’(bc’)|!
e’(c’gefd)|(ag).ec(ec)|(ag).f(dBd)|c2z:||:!
.G(ce)|(efd).G.B.d|(dec).G.c.e|BgGgBg|(ce)G.G.c.e|!
(efd).G(Bd)|dec.G.c.e|BgGgBg|"Fine"c2z:||:!
z2z|.e2(e3f)|(ag)g3e|(gf)f3d|(de)c3"1"d|e2e3f|!
(ag)g3e|(gf)f3d|dcc2z2:||!
“Dolce.”(d’b)b2c’b|(ag)g4|(c’b)(bd’)c’a|(ag)g3f|e2e3f|!
(ag)g3e|(gf)f3d|(dc).c .G(AG)|!
“Cres:”.c.G.e.G(AG)|.B.G.d.G(AG)|.d.G.f.G(AG)|.c.G.e.G(AG)|!
“Dolce.”.c.G.e.G(AG)|.B.G.d.G(AG)|.d.G.f.G(AG)|c3.g(ag)|!
“Cres:”(^fg)(=fg)(eg)|(dg)(cg)(ag)|(^fg)(=fg)(eg)|(dgc).G(AG)|!
.c.G.e.G(AG)|.B.G.d.G(AG)|.d.G.f.G(AG)|c2"DC.."z2||
I don’t know enough about music to say that the above is Norman’s version or not.
I also found this version of the waltz at the Library of Congress;
A large image of the music, four pages in all.
I searched; Rily and Mozart’s favorite" in Google.
Hope this helps!
MarkB
Nelson already said, above, that it isn’t.
This is the right one!
g
1 out of 2 ain’t bad me’thinks! Maybe someone can put the real one into ABC for us, since I struggle to read the dots!
MarkB
Um, those are the same tune.
Like, exACTly the same tune. The Library of Congress one and the one in JC’s tunefinder. At least, the first parts are the same. The ABC one doesn’t have the lower hand, but they’re the same thing.
Is there another one that’s actually it, or is this tune the one Norman plays?
Stuart
I believed what the earlier poster said , and since the one in JC seemed a little messy, i didn’t check it. I listened to the CD and followed the notes in the L of C version, and i’m pretty sure that’s the right one. If they’re the same, then the other one is the right one too!
Well hey, what can you do, Glauber, when Nelson’s not being frank with us.
Just kidding, Nelson.
Stuart
Nelson’s not Frank, he’s … Nelson.
I can’t believe you didn’t know that! 
Mary
Nelson has egg on his face, big time. Sorry guys, I played the first phrase and said to myself, “That’s not what Chris Norman is playing” It is. It certainly is. It was just so slow and with weird–no excuses. Don’t say, “it doesn’t take a rocked scientist to tell that”. I hate when people say that because I am a rocket scientist and don’t know how to answer.
So I downloaded it as a midi file, made it into an .MUS file (Finale 2002 software); threw away the base staff accompanyment; changed from G major to D major, speeded it up and vwalla, the same song. I’ll send anyone MUS file, or a (crappie) jpag picture of the notes, if they e-mail me. It is a wonderful song. when you get the notes notice that in the key of D major, all the C’s are made natural. That means this tune is in the Mixolodyn mode,i.e. the 7th step is flatted. I love the sound. It will take me two months to learn it. By then, Johnie Gallagher will have made me a flute exactly like Chris Norman’s. It does not take a rocket scientist to know I still wont play it like him. I’m not a mutant.
Sorry guys for the mess up.
Nelson
Well, there’s only one Chris Norman, but you may certainly wind up learning to play it quite well anyway.
Great thread, great tune.
My compliments.
–James
In the spirit of keeping posts going off to the right for a few miles, next time you have a really long website address, try this site out:
http://www.makeashorterlink.com
It very nifty, I find.
Here’s the Library Of Congress link in short form:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C1DD23119
Obviously, if this site is discontinued, then your link is gone. But then again, the LofC can change their links anytime too :=) The Shorter Link site has been going at least a few years now, and I’ve had no problems with it.
Cheers,
Ed