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« on: 14:26:51, 01-04-2008 »
What is the piece of music that involves several voices going "ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba" over and over for several minutes? I think I heard it once on R3 (ages ago) but I've completely forgotten the details. It might be by Terry Riley (or it might not).

 Huh
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« Reply #1 on: 14:42:29, 01-04-2008 »
Where there instruments as well, IRF? In which case it might be by Philip Glass, too.
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« Reply #2 on: 14:44:20, 01-04-2008 »
Fast - slow?
Men's - women's - mixed voices?
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« Reply #3 on: 14:49:11, 01-04-2008 »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs

Oh, not that.
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« Reply #4 on: 14:56:57, 01-04-2008 »
Oh dear, I was hoping there was going to be one blindingly obvious answer, because I'm going to struggle to be more specific. I can quite clearly 'hear' the sound in my head but I'm not sure how to describe it...

There were no instruments, as far as I can recall.

Mixed voices (mixed pitches, though I couldn't swear it was mixed male and female).

Speed... sort of a fast-ish speech tempo, as if you were saying "ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba" in normal speech. Not long, drawn-out notes like a Gregorian chant or something, just short sharp syllables: "ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba"...

Sorry, I know that's not very useful  Sad
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« Reply #5 on: 14:57:32, 01-04-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 14:49:11, 01-04-2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs

Oh, not that.

I can't play that while I'm at work but I'll try it tonight.
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« Reply #6 on: 15:02:51, 01-04-2008 »
Oh, just in case I have raised your expectations unfairly, IRF, I should explain that was actually 'Mha-na-mha-na' from the Muppets. Cheesy  A thematically related work and always worth a spin but not, I imagine, what you were after.
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« Reply #7 on: 15:03:55, 01-04-2008 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 15:02:51, 01-04-2008
Oh, just in case I have raised your expectations unfairly, IRF, I should explain that was actually 'Mha-na-mha-na' from the Muppets. Cheesy  A thematically related work and always worth a spin but not, I imagine,  what you were after.


Cheesy

You're right, that's always worth a listen Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: 15:04:24, 01-04-2008 »
IRF, that clip may not answer your question but it should raise at least a smile, if not a lol Grin Certainly raised enthusiastic tittering over here, George!

Edit. Oops, sorry. GG and IRF. I got ahead of myself with the Send button.
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« Reply #9 on: 15:15:37, 01-04-2008 »
And it's not Music for voices by Philip Glass (or Glarse, as the esteemed Mr. Grew once referred to him).
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« Reply #10 on: 15:26:54, 01-04-2008 »
Meredith Monk, one of the movements late on in Atlas? (I  know this was on R3 ages ago)
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« Reply #11 on: 15:59:49, 01-04-2008 »
If it was a clip from a longer work, it might even be Stockhausen's STIMMUNG?

Or Berio's THE CRIES OF LONDON?
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« Reply #12 on: 22:54:11, 01-04-2008 »
...and thus several things , Bach and onwards, by the`Swingle Singers, or  the vocalise side of Singers Unlimited
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« Reply #13 on: 08:57:00, 02-04-2008 »
*Sigh*. Thanks for the suggestions but I'll have to give this one up -- there's no way I can track all those down to see if one is the piece I remember.

I never guessed there would be so much music written around the same basic idea  Huh
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« Reply #14 on: 11:01:02, 02-04-2008 »
Out of all the suggestions made, I'd go for trj's Meredith Monk first - he says, having never heard it . . .
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