# Name this musical piece (if there is a title  for it)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-musical-piece-if-there-is-a-title-for-it/564087 "2010-12-14T04:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-musical-piece-if-there-is-a-title-for-it/564087/1 "2010-12-14T04:29:04Z")

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found at 2:45 of video below

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhtgZiV5Ws)

the piano and violin, sad music.

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-musical-piece-if-there-is-a-title-for-it/564087/2 "2010-12-14T04:48:40Z")

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I don’t know what that beautiful music is, but thanks for the link, that was hilarious and I’ll be watching more of those “Know Your Meme” videos.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-musical-piece-if-there-is-a-title-for-it/564087/3 "2010-12-14T05:14:04Z")

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Sounds very much like one of Satie’s _Trois Gymnopedies_ with a violin part added on top. I can’t match what the violin plays there with the melody line of the _Gymnopedies_, though.

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**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-musical-piece-if-there-is-a-title-for-it/564087/4 "2010-12-14T08:14:53Z")

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[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TDT1TuB3Opo/hqdefault.jpg "Sad Romance - 지평권 - Thao Nguyen Xanh (Final Fantasy IX)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDT1TuB3Opo)

Sad Romance by Thao Nguyen Xanh  
from Final Fantasy IX

for those that wanted to know.