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The Nokia tune is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, composed in 1902 by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega. [1] It has been associated with Finnish corporation Nokia since the 1990s, becoming the first identifiable musical ringtone on a mobile phone; Nokia selected an excerpt to be used as its default ringtone.
Ian Paul Livingstone (born 4 July 1969, in London) is a British composer for television, films and video games. He jointly won an Ivor Novello Award in 2011 for a video game score for Napoleon: Total War. [1] He is best known as the composer of the F1 video game series.
The first phone to ship with the engine was the Nokia 3510, released in 2002. [29] Beatnik built a team of composers to write polyphonic ringtones for Nokia, while Nokia's own Jarkko Ylikoski also built a sound team based in Finland.
He is also the composer of Gran Vals, an excerpt of which was used in the Nokia tune, the default ringtone of Nokia phones. It appears on these phones in a variety of different styles and instrumentations; for example, phones from 2002 to 2007 include piano-based renditions, while phones released during 2008 to 2010 feature a folk -inspired ...
Ring Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL) is a text-based format that was developed by Nokia [citation needed] to be used to transfer ringtones to Nokia cellphones. The RTTTL format is a string divided into three sections: name, default value, and data. The name section consists of a string describing the name of the ringtone. It can be no ...
Not content merely to conquer the film-music world, composer Hans Zimmer has now turned his attention to cell-phone ringtones. Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has unveiled its latest, the Find X3 ...
The account has also published interviews with composers who worked on ringtones. [25] Thomas Dolby, who founded Beatnik and later Retro Ringtones, stated he is "pleased to see an upsurge of interest in classic ringtones", [26] while several composers who worked at Nokia have expressed surprise over the interest in ringtones. [27]
In his 1933 novel, Hizzoner the Mayor, Joel Sayre wrote of boats "tooting the official Malta welcome blast to the tempo of 'Shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits, shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits, shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits '", which was soon taken up by every craft in the harbor that had a boiler.