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Apologies also for the wrong NTT: Use this link to hear the correct excerpt.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l0eJl--kow_88DG_bRkKZ4AGm7CZfAX7/view?usp=drivesdk

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Thank you for continuing to cater to me.

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Tone Prose is a shambolic mess this week! But the good news is that I (Will) do recognize this NTT

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Sorry for the late posting today — I (Will) mixed up AM and PM on the Substack app!

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NTT: Sounds Impressionistic, so I'll throw in Ravel and Debussy, as well as Delius for good measure.

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NTT: Thanks for the new link, although the clue itself isn't much help to me with either link because I thought Pelleas und Melisande was composed by Debussy, not Schoenberg.

The snippet is scored translucently - I hear harp, strings, clarinets, flutes so far. I'll guess that the piece is French Impressionism, and either a chamber or small orchestral work with prominent harp moments or maybe even a harp concerto. Maybe early 1900's? I'll throw Ravel, Debussy, and Poulenc into the hat. The last few seconds of soft texturally rhythmic woodwinds sounds like a duplet followed by triplets. Very reminiscent of moments in Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe as well as in Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun (but not either of those pieces).

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