Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for November 12, 2016

I don’t have a clue either what that tune is; I can’t read sheet music.

“Ah…. Bach.” . ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Now name that show. That is if I remembered the right composer they were supposed to say.

Beethovens 5th

Wonderful Schroeder, he can whistle chords!

it’s the same cord four times.

The chord is a d# dim 7th which would resolve to E major, the key’s tonic. No idea what piece it’s taken from. Sparky couldn’t read sheet music either, ever. He just copied exactly what he saw.

I am in my church’s choir. I was friends with our pianist. We knew each other for 5 years, working together in the choir, before she discovered that I couldn’t read music! I pick it up that fast. My younger daughter has inherited that trait and was invited to join the adult choir this year (although she CAN read music; she & her sister play violin).

It’s actually a half-diminished 7th, rather than a fully diminished 7th, because of the C♯ instead of a C♮. You could also interpret it as an F♯ minor with an added sixth, in which case I could see it resolving to a C♯ minor triad instead of E major, so that could be the key as well. Unfortunately, I don’t know what piece this is from either.

Schroeder grew up mighty fast.

LOL I knew it was a chord at least. Would it be from Beethoven this early in the strip?

Playing chords work well on guitars, but whistling in the key of C#m? The kid must be talented. I was never able to whistle more than one note at a time. Whistling A, C#, D, and F# is quite a feat.

You can’t identify a piece from a single chord. And this “sheet music” doesn’t even make any sense. It’s a single chord repeated four times, but there’s a slur over it, meaning they’re supposed to run together. So it’s really just a single chord.

Ah yes, just like when a person greets you and says your name and you have no idea who that person is.

It’s “May Night” by Selim Palmgren.

Does it matter what Schroeder whistled?