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Expert: Pat G - 5/24/2010


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Hello,
I need some help in identifying this tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65YpzZrwKI4

The one I'm interested in starts at 2:30, it's the string piece. I couldn't find it using Google or in the credits at the end of the documentary.
Any bit of information would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Thanks!

Hello, Bianca,

All of the music in the video is beautiful. And I enjoyed the video so much I am going to watch the rest of the series. Thank you!

I don't recognize the piece, and there isn't much to go on. It could have been composed any time within the last couple of centuries, and may have been composed specifically for the series.

I recommend you ask the person who put up the video. Also, Google the name of the philosopher and see if he has a web site. Google the names in the credits. I wish I had time to pursue it, but at the moment, I don't. I hope you are successful. I will give it some more thought when I have a little more time, but it won't be for awhile. Let me know if you find out what it is.

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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.

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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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