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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.
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. [2] It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father's guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard.
English: Nokia tune - melody used as a ringtone (jingle) in Nokia mobile phones. Derived from bars 13-16 of Gran Vals by Francisco Tárrega (from 1902). The last note is different from the original.
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