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- From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
- Subject: Help: name this piece
- Message-ID: <fXuml9z@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:29:01 UTC
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- It's been used in several IBM commercials and in a recent
- episode of "Nature" (the one on bees). Its theme has a
- mechanical quality to it, but its rhythmical construction
- (for me at least) defies description. It sounds to me like
- a piano + string quartet. The main theme is in even eighth
- notes: E C G C A C' C E C G C D C B C, which then repeats.
-
- My thanks in advance if anyone can identify this piece.
- I want to get a recording of it. If anyone can help me
- understand the rhythmical construction, I'd appreciate that
- as well. The theme is 15 beats long, but it sounds like it's
- in four, almost...
-
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