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Hi Sir,
Please i need your help to identify name This piece of classical music ...
for me i think this piece from symphony to Sibelius or composition for ravel !!!
http://www.4shared.com/audio/acZZSf_n/Unknown_Classical_Piece.html
http://www.archive.org/download/UnknownClassicalPiece_322/UnknownClassicalPiece.
What You Think !!!
Thanks in advance ....

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It's not Ravel.  It doesn't sound like Sibelius.

My guess is that it is music written for a movie.  I am judging by the orchestration and how the strings sound at the end of the sample; and also the melody itself in the strings in the last measure or so.  It puts me in mind of an American cowboy movie and a sweeping panorama of a desert in the American West.  It also sounds like "Lawrence of Arabia" (movie, starring Peter O'Toole)....a desert panorama!

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I have a PhD in musicology, with expertise in medieval - Renaissance - Baroque - Classical periods, but I'll try to help you with any period.

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