Help me identify this piece of music and save my sanity?

Cafe Society
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After about a year and a half of lurking, I’ve finally taken the plunge and signed up… depending on how much more of my life SDMB takes up with the added ability to (gasp) post, I may decide to become one of you.

Since watching Prince of Egypt on-demand last week, I’ve had a piece of classical music stuck in my head, which bears a passing similarity to Zimmer’s main theme. I recall that I first heard this piece on a tape entitled “Cossacks!”, but after visiting my parents’ house yesterday and coming up empty-handed after 2 hours of searching, I thought I’d resort to picking your collective brains on this one.

It sounds something like this:

http://www.designmonkeyltd.com/mystery_song.mp3

I’m presuming it was written by a composer from Russia or somewhere thereabouts, but that’s about all I’ve got.

I woke up this morning humming the song, and I begin to fear that my sanity may be at stake. Help me, SDMB, you’re my only hope!

-HM

p.s. I wasn’t sure if this belonged in Cafe or GQ, hopefully I made the right choice. If not, chastise me as you see fit.

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“Procession of the Sardar” from “Caucasian Sketches” by Nikolai Ippolitov-Ivanov.

Welcome to the SDMB.

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Welcome! I like the name.

But this raises an interesting question: Is the sanity that has just been saved (assuming h.sapiens got it right) an asset or a liability around here?

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h. sapiens, thank you thank you a thousand times thank you! Aside from the key and the triplet rhythm at the end of the phrase, it seems my memory served me rather well. I wonder if I could find an arrangement of this for piano…

And Thudlow, if something as simple as this could leave my sanity dangling on such a thin thread, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before something pushes me over the edge. :wink:

Thank you for the warm welcome! It’s quite odd to no longer be on the outside looking in, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.

-HM

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Ask and ye shall receive

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Now I just need that baby grand I’ve been planning to rent-to-own for my study… Got one of those stashed away too? :wink:

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Can’t help you there. You can always play this thing for free. Of course, there’s a reason it’s free. A really good reason at that.

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And for a MIDI file.