familiar tune

But as I ran up the stairs, I heard the tinkle of the spinet, and the notes of an old, familiar tune fell upon my ears.

Or an old familiar tune reminds one of some one, something, or some place in the past.

He still played on, and many a lad felt his courage mount high as the old familiar tune rang in his ears.

It was only an old familiar tune, but she stopped as if in a trance.

At that moment he heard his name called in a certain familiar tune of two notes, with the last note shrill and prolonged.