Expert: Marbeth - 10/4/2006

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Yes I uploaded the clip on a blog:
http://kresson.hautetfort.com/
go there and play the clip, thank you very much for your help
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Ok, you can listen the extract on

http://kresson.hautetfort.com/

Thank you for your help...

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How do I upload the mp3 on this site? Thanks

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I have an extract of a classical song of which I would like to know the title
and/or the composer. Is it possible to mail it to you (600 Ko)? Thank you very
much.

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I'd rather not have email, so please upload mp3 here!
mb

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This I don't know!  Sorry.  Check the general FAQ. When it's there, give me a yell and I'll take a listen. mb

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Did you ever get the clip uploaded? mb

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Darn those clips that have noises and spoken word going on over them, thus blocking clear hearing of music we really want to know about!  

From the use (all that yelling and artillery), I'm betting on some sort of large-scale religious piece having to do with death, such as a requiem mass (if so, this isn't Mozart, Berlioz, Bruckner, or Faure; don't think it's Poulenc or Reubke, either).  

It also could be from the ordinary of the mass (the text of the mass that is celebrated in the Catholic church for "normal" uses - - as opposed to a requiem mass).

I think I make out the words "in nomine [= in the name], which leads me to think it's a Benedictus {Benediction].  Normally, however, a benedictus is soft and slow; a closing section of the mass [in nomini Domini = in the name of God].  

It also could be the Sanctus (Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis. = Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts! Heaven and earth are filled with Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest!  Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord.  Hosanna in the highest!), which happens to be followed by the Benedictus.

It's definitely not Haydn's "Mass in Time of War," nor is it any mass (or missa brevis - - this is just the Kyrie and Gloria of the mass) by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, etc.  Nothing from Baroque (and certainly not Renaissance) or Classical period.

Give a listen to Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (I love that its text is written in Old Church Slavonic!  I knew a guy who spoke 32 languages, and this was one of them!).  

On the other hand it might not be religious at all.  Could be something like Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" cantata...tho the rhythm of the clip doesn't sound like Prokofiev.

It's not Orff's "Carmina Burana."  I'm sure of that.  Nor is it Stravinsky, Schoenberg/etc., Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Reich/Glass/etc., Copland, Bartok.  Don't think it is Stockhausen or Pederecki, and certainly not John Cage, Debussy, Ravel, or Mahler!

Sorry I can't give you an exact identification.  If I could make out the text more clearly, perhaps I could be more specific.  That said, I hope that this will give you some paths to explore.  mb