# Could someone identify this piece of music from Sherlock Holmes please?

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**Created:** [January 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-piece-of-music-from-sherlock-holmes-please/483309 "2009-01-27T23:56:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acorns.but_not_Bacon)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-piece-of-music-from-sherlock-holmes-please/483309/1 "2009-01-27T23:56:19Z")

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With cherries on top? It’s the Jeremy Brett television series and the episode is called **The Master Blackmailer.**

The song starts at 10.20

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgV-hdsxDQ)

and also the music is played on it’s own as a classical piece here at around 5.05 and lasts for over a minute

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SMBYb_Sl1A)

I would absolutely love to get sheetmusic for this so I can play it on piano, of course I would be embarrassed if the music was just created for Sherlock Holmes though…

Thank you for help! 🙂

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-piece-of-music-from-sherlock-holmes-please/483309/2 "2009-01-28T01:46:25Z")

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“Beau Soir” by Claude Debussy.

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**Author:** ![Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acorns.but_not_Bacon)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-identify-this-piece-of-music-from-sherlock-holmes-please/483309/3 "2009-01-28T17:29:19Z")

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Thank you a lot, jsgoddess.