I Need to Know

[Shalot]

I need to know the name of a piece of music. I received a powerpoint presentation in email a few years ago and it was a slide show of all this frozen ice in Switzerland - the ice was sort of frozen in motion in - it was really cool. The best part of the slide show is the music playing in the background, and I want it. I would purchase it if I only I knew who it was. But I don't. So I thought I would ask the people at Lit Net if they knew (because I know it has to be a famous piece - it seems like I've heard it before somewhere, but I just don't know the title of the piece etc).

I would post the powerpoint here, but I don't know if you can even post a power point. I am not all that skilled with PowerPoint anyway, and when I tried to open the thing up in my powerpoint I couldn't figure out if I could find how the piece of music was was attached to the slide show etc.

So if anyone has any ideas about how to help me out, I am all ears:

1) If you want me to send you the powerpoint I can (Scanned for viruses of course)

2) If you have any tips about how I can break apart the slide show and figure out the piece of music from there, let me know

3) If it is possible to post a slide show on lit net, I will. I've just never seen anyone else do it.

~ Thanks!!

[Taliesin]

Shalot, there is such a thing as Parsons code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code). The basic idea is that the music pattern - whether the next note is the same, if it goes down or up is quite easy to perform searches with even if one doesn't know anything about music theory.
Look at this site (http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html) and take the contour search option.

[Shalot]

Shalot, there is such a thing as Parsons code (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code). The basic idea is that the music pattern - whether the next note is the same, if it goes down or up is quite easy to perform searches with even if one doesn't know anything about music theory.
Look at this site (http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html) and take the contour search option.

That's a cool idea, but I am so musically inept that I don't think it would help me. But, when I figure this out, I might try to figure out what the Parson's code is for it.

It sounds like Gregorian chants sort of, and they're singing in Latin. This PowerPoint has been all over the web, and I kept finding links about the PowerPoint but no mention of the song. Here is a link to a Web site that has the slides I have but there is no music on this version:

http://www.bestofpps.com/pps/loader.swf?my_link=diverse/Ice_Swit.swf

It's driving me crazy. The town is Versoix. Maybe someone on Lit Net has received the PowerPoint and they know what I'm talking about.

[AimusSage]

After a little search on the interwebs I found the pps. I opened it and apparently the files in the powerpoint are called derosyERAAmeno.wav and derosyEERAAvemano.wav.

So, searching for the lyrics I found that it is an eRa song, called Ameno, which now also explains the name of the file, which at first didn't seem to make sense to me at all. :)

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SvxaNQ6d7M

Oh, and it's not actually latin as far as I can tell.

[barbara0207]

Oh, and it's not actually latin as far as I can tell.

No, it isn't. It's an invented language similar to Latin. Lots of people have tried to translate it - to no avail. It seems that it does not make any sense, it's just supposed to sound like Latin, ie 'antique'.

[Shalot]

After a little search on the interwebs I found the pps. I opened it and apparently the files in the powerpoint are called derosyERAAmeno.wav and derosyEERAAvemano.wav.

So, searching for the lyrics I found that it is an eRa song, called Ameno, which now also explains the name of the file, which at first didn't seem to make sense to me at all. :)

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SvxaNQ6d7M

Oh, and it's not actually latin as far as I can tell.

Thank You! I meant to put sounds Latin-ish (he he)