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Expert: Pat G - 10/12/2010


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QUESTION: I have a ?symphony in 3 movements on my iPod but I have no idea how it got
there and I cannot identify it. How can I send you a sound file (.aiff) for you to
hear and hopefully identify please?

ANSWER: Hello, Michael,

You can't send a file to me directly. You would have to upload it to a site that allows audio uploads and then you can give me the URL. However, I am NOT familiar with .aiff, and I don't know if I have a player that will play it. If you can convert it to something like mp3, then I can listen to it. Let me know if you are able to do this. Thank you.

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QUESTION: Please look up http://web.aanet.com.au/~zest/musicref.html and the first
movement can be found as an mp3 file. Thanks

Answer
Hello, Michael,

It is VERY familiar, and I can't pin a name to it! It's probably by Prokofiev. I spent awhile trying to find samples on the internet to compare, and didn't have any luck. Unfortunately, I don't have a LOT of time to look. My husband thinks it's Romeo and Juliet, but I'm not so sure, because it's not in a symphonic form.

I'll sleep on it, but that's the best I can do at the moment. It will give you a direction to look, anyway.

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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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