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Hi!

We’re a team working on OpenClassics (https://www.openclassics.org), a project to help people discover and read classic tales from around the world.

We try to pair each tale with a piece of music, following these ideas:

• The piece should be a classic within its own musical tradition.
• It should suit the tale’s atmosphere and cultural background.
• The recording should be freely licensed for reuse. Full credits and licence information are displayed.
• It should be entirely instrumental (no/limited vocals).
• It should have good sound quality, with the recording itself typically dating from 1950 or later.

If you have a look at the project’s pages, you’ll see that readers can play the music while reading. It adds to the atmosphere when reading a tale aloud to children, for example.

We’re looking for ideas, in particular for the following tales (but web love to discuss the musics for the other tales as well):

• Hinemoa — New Zealand
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/th ... of-hinemoa
• The Bunyip — Australia
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/the-bunyip
• The Doomed Prince — Egypt
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/the-doomed-prince
• The Birth of the Monkey King — China
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/th ... onkey-king
• Momotaro— Japan
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/momotaro
• Releasing the Buffalo — Apache tradition
  https://www.openclassics.org/stories/re ... he-buffalo

Any opinion ?
Thanks a lot !