Expert: Pat G - 10/31/2009

Question
To Pat;

Hopefully this will only take about 30 seconds of your time.  I have been trying over the course of a few years asking acquaintances and such to try and find out the title of this piece or if it is a piece at all, but haven't really had any concrete leads.

 song is available here ; (filesize approx. 0.5MB)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wnjhwo
It's the one titled 'kannadzuki no miko'.

If you do not open archive files or download files, please tell me what manner is acceptable for me to provide sample music.

Thank you for your time,
~Joey

P.S. The 'andalusia' track is a Spanish / Flamenco guitar track I have also been trying to get the title for, if you could identify that track as well I would be most grateful.

Answer
Hello, Joey,

I don't recognize the one called "kannadzuki no miko". The title is in Japanese. The other one, Andalusia, no problem. It's Asturias (Leyenda) by Albeniz. Originally composed for piano, it is more frequently played on guitar. That isn't the complete piece. There is a slow, chord section, followed by a similar section to the one it starts with. I actually play the first part, but never learned the rest of it. Good luck on the other piece.

The manner you presented is fine. I recently had to reinstall Windows, so I had to reinstall WinZip. But that's OK, because I needed to do it anyway. When I can look at a file in WinZip first, I can determine from the extension if it might contain a virus.


Joey,

Thank you for the kind rating. The Albeniz piece is classical, so you'd be less likely to find it on an acoustic guitar site. Try looking on Amazon.com and look for Albeniz, who was actually a pianist. It's one of eight piano pieces in a suite called Suite española, op. 47. You might enjoy the other pieces as well, some of which are also performed on guitar. Here is an article about Albeniz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Albéniz . To hear the suite on guitar, select the search terms "albeniz suite espanola guitar" on Amazon, and choose Echoes of Spain by John Williams, guitarist (not the same person as the composer of works such as the Star Wars music). If you go to that album, you should be able to listen to tracks.

I have winrar, but no need for a more "robust" piece of software at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion.

And you're welcome.