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Expert: Pat G - 2/27/2009


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Hello.  Could you please listen to the following piece from a Ralph Lauren
advertisement and tell me who the composer is and what the name of the
name
of the piece is:

http://www.ralphlaurenhome.com/rlhome/collection/fa07_stgermain.asp
Thanks!

Answer
Hi, Christy,

What a beautiful piece of music!

I had never heard it before, but by looking at the source (the HTML of the page), I was able to identify the file and the file had the name of the piece in it. Further research led to the following:

http://www.imeem.com/people/1h8udn/music/ymojWM2r/pierreandre-athane-seine-et-oi...

The piece is Seine et Oise and the composer is Pierre-Andre Athane.

So here I relied, not on my knowledge of music, but on my knowledge of web design! LOL

Thank you very much for introducing me to such a lovely piece!

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

Experience

I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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