Please help.

[gino piano]

I would really like to know the name of this peice i heard long ago, and now that I remembered it, I can play it on piano, but i never found out the name
(slow, and in choir)

A, A-flat, A, B, A-flat, A, B, A, B, C, A, B, C, B, C, D, B...............

I would appreciate it if you help me 

[thalbergmad]

Not really my era, but i think that might be the Barber - Adagio For Strings.

Thal

[quantum]

I seem to concur

[indutrial]

Not really my era, but i think that might be the Barber - Adagio For Strings.

Thal

I never heard a choir version of that but it is definitely the melody from Barber's Adagio for Strings (famous from the movie Platoon). The Barber piece is a whole step higher than this, but the same intervals.

[dan101]

Barber it is. The Adagio for Strings is beautiful... it's probably also his best work.

[bacchuspaul]

I never heard a choir version of that but it is definitely the melody from Barber's Adagio for Strings (famous from the movie Platoon). The Barber piece is a whole step higher than this, but the same intervals.

He rewrote the adagio for strings as a mass.

I say he rewrote it, it was more like just sticking the words in, can't have taken him more than maybe twenty minutes to do.

Works though.

[indutrial]

He rewrote the adagio for strings as a mass.

I say he rewrote it, it was more like just sticking the words in, can't have taken him more than maybe twenty minutes to do.

Works though.

Originally, the Adagio was part of Barber's first string quartet, which is the version you can hear at

. Great piece no matter what he scored it for. Tansman (one of my favorites and only a few years older than Barber) wrote a lot of string quartet movements and chamber pieces with similar characteristics and the same level of emotional density and pathos that led so many to use Barber's work in cinema.