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The Music Room => Name That Tune? => Topic started by: vandermolen on September 30, 2018, 02:20:56 PM

Title: Theme music.
Post by: vandermolen on September 30, 2018, 02:20:56 PM
Bit of a long shot but anyone recognise the music from about two minutes in to the end of the Pathe News feature about the death of Donald Campbell (an event I remember).

It may well be music written for the feature but it also sounds to me like the music of an American composer like Willliam Schuman:

http://streaming.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/flash/00000000/00055000/00055776.mp4.m3u8
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: pjme on October 03, 2018, 11:35:03 PM
Good morning,

I wasn't able to open the link. Could it be this YT film?

https://youtu.be/4xemKc2In5Y

I do not recognise the music..

Peter
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: vandermolen on October 05, 2018, 02:31:25 AM
Quote from: pjme on October 03, 2018, 11:35:03 PM
Good morning,

I wasn't able to open the link. Could it be this YT film?

https://youtu.be/4xemKc2In5Y

I do not recognise the music..

Peter

Well, thank you very much Peter for listening to it anyway. Yes, You Tube clip.
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: The new erato on October 05, 2018, 09:41:06 AM
Copland? The mention of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men reminds me that Agee's novel inspired Copland to write his opera The Tender Land.
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: vandermolen on October 07, 2018, 11:18:09 PM
Quote from: The new erato on October 05, 2018, 09:41:06 AM
Copland? The mention of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men reminds me that Agee's novel inspired Copland to write his opera The Tender Land.
Thanks so much for listening to it. It does indeed sound like Copland but I'm pretty familiar with Copland's work and don't recognise it. I'm sure it's American though.
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: some guy on November 11, 2018, 12:59:47 AM
I would say that it does not sound the tiniest bit like either Schuman or Copland, who don't sound anything alike, either.

It does sound like generic documentary music, churned out by the yard by people hired by the studios to do just that.
Title: Re: Theme music.
Post by: vandermolen on November 14, 2018, 06:25:30 AM
Quote from: some guy on November 11, 2018, 12:59:47 AM
I would say that it does not sound the tiniest bit like either Schuman or Copland, who don't sound anything alike, either.

It does sound like generic documentary music, churned out by the yard by people hired by the studios to do just that.

Ok thanks, although I thought that it sounded a cut above that.