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Expert: - 7/15/2007


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I was browsing around YouTube recently and found a clip with a beautiful piece of music that i haven't been able to identify and was hoping that you might be able to! Thanks in advance!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Egl6QdPcf4

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I don't recognize it.  Thinking it might be something written recently.  Perhaps some of the "new age" sounds of the (when was it?! '80s?) - - someone like Yanni or John Tesh.  

Doesn't sound like Chopin, Schumann, or any other romantic piano composer.  Certainly not Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven or anyone before them.  Too "thin" in texture to be Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, or Grieg.  Not "sardonic" enough for Prokofiev.  Wrong harmonic structure for Debussy or Ravel.

Suggest you google Tesh, Yanni, and New Age piano and see what turns up.  Probably some CDs available that will have clip excerpts, and, with luck, you will be able to find this piece!

I am sorry I cannot help you further.  I wish I could!  mb

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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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I have many requests to identify a piece of music. If I can't identify it, I will tell you (1) what composer I think it is; (2) what composer or composers I think it is not; (3) what style period, genre, etc. I think it is or is not. And give you any other help I can to help you find the answer.

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