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Expert: Pat G - 9/8/2009


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Hi there!

I have a sample here of a modern (I think) classical piece, but I have absolutely no idea what it is and who its by.

http://www.speedyshare.com/623395263.html

Hope you can help!

Thanks!

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Jason, the site claims your URL is no longer valid. It also says that I have to enable cookies. I'd really rather not. If I have to, I will. Is there another place you can upload it? Let me know. Try listening yourself and see if you can still hear it. Thanks!

By the way, "modern classical" might be an oxymoron. It depends on the style.

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Pat G

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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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