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Title: Name this tune
Post by: gofaster on January 23, 2003, 09:24:47 AM

If you go to http://www.buccaneers.com and watch the flash intro, there's an operatic overture playing that I've heard used over and over for various commercials.  I'd like to add this tune as a sound in my Aces High sound file but I don't know the name of the piece and therefore can't do a word search on it.

Anyone know what piece it is?

It sounds vaguely Wagnerian.

Title: Name this tune
Post by: Sandman on January 23, 2003, 09:31:00 AM

Think you're right... Wagner...

Title: Name this tune
Post by: Nifty on January 23, 2003, 09:49:45 AM

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

I think the specific passage is O Fortuna.

You might recognize it from the movie Excalibur.  It was also used in The Doors.  I think in Young Sherlock Holmes as well.

Many other commercials and movies as well, but the above movies are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

Title: Name this tune
Post by: gofaster on January 23, 2003, 10:17:53 AM

Thanks!  Found a couple of sites with it: http://www.fehq.org/public/fortuna.htm (good intro but cuts off before the big climax)

http://www.bobandray.net/skippy/carmbur.html (shorter, gets the build-up, good volume, but still not quite to the climax)

But leave it to the Italians, who know a good piece of music when they hear it.  This is the most complete version I've found:

http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/amore_cinema/excalibur/ (the sample is below the list of cast, crew, and interview boxes.)

Title: Name this tune
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on January 23, 2003, 11:11:50 AM

Many techno remixes in Europe :D

In Excalibur, it's the scene where they ride horses to get Megan's armies, and you can see the countryside changing from "blooming cherry trees" to "dark earth" ... muahahah priceless ... LOTR 20 years ago :cool: