"Étude"
Single by Mike Oldfield
from the album The Killing Fields
B-side	"Evacuation"
Released	26 November 1984 (1984-11-26)
Genre	Folktronica
Length	3:07
Label	Virgin Records
Songwriter(s)	Francisco Tárrega
Producer(s)	Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield singles chronology
" Tricks of the Light" (1984) "Étude" (1984) " Pictures in the Dark" (1985)

"Étude"
Single by Mike Oldfield
B-side	"Gakkaen" (The Ono Gagaku Kai Society)
Released	1990
Genre	Folktronica
Label	Virgin Records
Songwriter(s)	Francisco Tárrega
Producer(s)	Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield singles chronology
" (One Glance is) Holy" (1989) "Étude" (1990) " Heaven's Open" (1991)

"Étude" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It is from the album The Killing Fields, the soundtrack album for the film of the same name . It was reissued in 1990, when it was used in a commercial for Nurofen. The 1990 release also featured a track called "Gakkaen" by The Ono Gagaku Kai Society.

"Étude" is taken from the Francisco Tárrega piece " Recuerdos de la Alhambra".

Music video

The music video for "Étude" which appears on the Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield video shows a boy watching parts of The Killing Fields on a television from a reel-to-reel tape machine and looking through photographs. The boy also plays with a Fairlight CMI, which the soundtrack album was composed on.

Track listing

7-inch vinyl

1. "Étude" (edit) – 3:07
2. "Evacuation" (edit) – 4:11

12-inch vinyl

1. "Étude" – 4:38
2. "Evacuation" – 5:13

1990 release

1. "Étude" – Mike Oldfield
2. "Gakkaen" – The Ono Gagaku Kai Society

References

• "Singles". Amadian. Retrieved 2009-03-01.

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