Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: What is this piece? Message-ID: <1617@cvl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:41:16 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.1617 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:41:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:22:49 EST References: <238@pyuxt.UUCP> Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 17 > I heard this on the radio this morning - I think I've got it more > or less correct. Its a piano piece played at 60-80 crochets per minute, > with a subdued string accompanyment. What is it? I think it may be Sartie > but I'm not at all sure. Here is how it opens... > > 3 > E G F | E B C | A B C | G > 4 > > all evenly played crochets except the last which is a dotted minim. As you suspect, it is from Erik Satie's Three Gymnopydies (sp?) Well, mostly, since it actually starts on the second beat. -Dave hsu @ cvl