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hi, i'm really in need of help at the moment! i,m looking for this classical piece, all i can do is describe it and hope you have some ideas! i think it was used in the film oceans 11, but i cant confirm.

its a piano piece, it has a flurried motion to it,as far as my classical terms work allot of it sounds like there playing triads very fast? and the only way i can describe it is that it has a mystical feel to it, very emotive and beautiful.

i expect this hasn't been a great help, but i really need to find this piece, its so very important, but as i said, thanks for you time, i really appreciate it.

john  

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This is tough, as you say.  Since it's perhaps in a movie, maybe you can find a soundtrack.  On Amazon, say, they usually will give a small smippet of each track.  I'll need this or some kind of aural info, otherwise I won't be able to help you.  You might also just search on the movie title and/or "soundtrack" to the title or "music in" the movie and stuff like that.

I don't suppose it could be Beethoven's "Fur Elise"....that would be too easy, huh?  Find a snip of this and listen; maybe this is it.  Also try "Prelude in C Major" from "Well-Tempered Keyboard" by JS Bach.

With what you've given me, I'm sorry I can't help you!
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