What's that piece...?

Vinnie69 · 29-03-2008 2:29am

DILLIGAF wrote: »

Anyone know the name of the song on the ad on BBC1 for "The Apprentice" ?

Kind of sounds like a the Darth Vader tune. Very Soviet, maybe tchaikovsky?

Really want to know what this is, if I make Tank Crewman I'd love to trundle around with this on! XD

The Apprentice has included various pieces of classical and popular music throughout. Numerous pieces from film soundtracks are also used. Examples of the music used include the opening theme (which is "Dance of the Knights" from Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev) and "The Boardroom", "You're Fired" and "Closing Credits" from The Apprentice (Original Theme) by Dru Masters. An official soundtrack was released on 4 June 2007.[127]

The following link will give you more information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(UK)

Vinnie

DILLIGAF · 29-03-2008 3:13am

Excellent! It's actually the advert for the apprentice, I'm not sure if it's actually a song played on the show(the british version) if you catch it on BBC then let me know if you know it! Thanks Vinnie! ^^

parsonsd · 01-04-2008 1:34pm

Oeneus wrote: »

OK. I'm looking for a classical piano piece that I heard years ago on an episode of, ehem*, Tom and Jerry. OK, yeah yeah, I know. But does anybody know what I'm on about? Tom (the cat) was basically playing this piece at a concert, and Jerry (the mouse) was just trying to piss him off while doing his performance.

Does anyone know the piece I'm looking for?

The piece used in that episode was Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 by Franz Liszt. Interesting side-note, the episode was nominated for an academy award for best short animation or whatever that year(1940s i think). Also nominated was a Bugs Bunny episode called Rhapsody Rabbit featuring the exact same piece of music and the same premise (pianist trying to perform this techincally demanding piece and mouse pissing him off). There was war over MGM and Warner Bros both claiming to have been robbed. I think Tom and Jerry won... Im not a cartoon nerd by the way...

JaneHudson · 17-04-2008 11:53pm

The slogan is "plays with the city". Would like to know what the music is. Operatic soprano thing, I think it is Italian. Any ideas? thanks.

tSubh Dearg · 18-04-2008 5:20pm

It's from La Traviata - "Follie! Sempre Libera" Don't know who's singing it but it's one of Violetta's arias in the opera.

Rineanna · 23-05-2008 7:25pm

Hello all,

I heard a piano piece on Lyric FM at around quarter past six today, and would really like to look it up on Youtube. I could have sworn it was called "the wave" by an Italian Pianist, but this isn't turning up any results anywhere, even if I Google it.

Would anyone have any clue of the piece I'm on about? Sorry I can't be more specific. Maybe it goes by another title?

Edit: I found it after a bit more rooting. It was 'Le Onde'.

Vinnie69 · 24-05-2008 12:21am

Rineanna wrote: »

Hello all,

I heard a piano piece on Lyric FM at around quarter past six today, and would really like to look it up on Youtube. I could have sworn it was called "the wave" by an Italian Pianist, but this isn't turning up any results anywhere, even if I Google it.

Would anyone have any clue of the piece I'm on about? Sorry I can't be more specific. Maybe it goes by another title?

Edit: I found it after a bit more rooting. It was 'Le Onde'.

Yea Its by Ludovico Einaudi A great composer google him His music is great, the cd also called "Le Onde" is one of his best one -- beautiful & relaxing ! check him out on Amazon.com

Jayson · 08-06-2008 10:47pm

The piece I'm trying to find has been used in a few commercials and trailers, including possibly a lord of the rings movie and zathura I think. It sounds a lot like O Fortuna by Mozart. There should be a partial rendition of it attached here (ignore the purple eighth note). Any ideas?

Sugar Drunk · 10-06-2008 2:36pm

Hi, when the euro vision was in Norway the break enterrainment was a group of rocker looking guys playing classical music on chellos etc. I was sure the name was 'apocolypto' and was hoping to find a CD by them but no luck on play.com or that. Does anyone know who I am on about?

Sinfonia · 10-06-2008 3:26pm

Sugar Drunk wrote: »

Hi, when the euro vision was in Norway the break enterrainment was a group of rocker looking guys playing classical music on chellos etc. I was sure the name was 'apocolypto' and was hoping to find a CD by them but no luck on play.com or that. Does anyone know who I am on about?

It was Finland.
The band is called Apocalyptica

Intothesea · 11-06-2008 1:55am

The piece I'm trying to find has been used in a few commercials and trailers, including possibly a lord of the rings movie and zathura I think. It sounds a lot like O Fortuna by Orff .

Hi there. I've heard this tune on occasions and wondered
what it was too. If it is the same piece we have in mind, I
think it's likely to be a modern piece for string orchestra or
quartet, most likely written for advertisement. I scratched
around on youtube looking for something of similar weight/
texture and found this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W73UErBmXEQ

Hope someone figures it out! HTH

Jayson · 11-06-2008 3:21am

Unfortunately that's not it... it's a lot more dark, dramatic, and intense.

Sanguine Fan · 18-06-2008 4:33pm

If anyone remembers The Riordans, RTE's rural soap opera from the 1960s/70s, I would love to know the title/composer of the signature tune.

It was an orchestral piece and seemed to be based on an Irish dance tune.

Many thanks in advance.

Vinnie69 · 18-06-2008 5:08pm

Sanguine Fan wrote: »

If anyone remembers The Riordans, RTE's rural soap opera from the 1960s/70s, I would love to know the title/composer of the signature tune.

It was an orchestral piece and seemed to be based on an Irish dance tune.

Many thanks in advance.

I think that it was an original piece written for the show. Try ringing RTE Sound Library, they are always helpful and let us know the result

sack lunch · 20-10-2008 11:53pm

Please please please help me identify this piece. Recorded it from the radio to tape about 6 or 7 years ago

http://www.iol.ie/~mountain/job/misc/tape.mp3

It's quite long so I made it a low quality mp3. The last 3 or 4 minutes are what really moved me. Any help much appreciated. Even if you don't know it you could name some composers/performers of the same style. I might be able to find it that way.

Thanks

sdep · 23-10-2008 1:20am

sack lunch wrote: »

Please please please help me identify this piece. Recorded it from the radio to tape about 6 or 7 years ago

http://www.iol.ie/~mountain/job/misc/tape.mp3

It's quite long so I made it a low quality mp3. The last 3 or 4 minutes are what really moved me. Any help much appreciated. Even if you don't know it you could name some composers/performers of the same style. I might be able to find it that way.

Thanks

Gorecki's 'Beatus Vir'. I didn't know it, but it sounded very like his 3rd symphony, and googling the latin psalm quotes & his name turned it up.

sack lunch · 27-10-2008 12:39pm

sdep wrote: »

Gorecki's 'Beatus Vir'. I didn't know it, but it sounded very like his 3rd symphony, and googling the latin psalm quotes & his name turned it up.

thanks a million!

nyarlothothep · 10-11-2008 1:34am

does anyone know this piece, its by chopin I think, and its basically for piano. It features in grade 8 set lists. It would best be described as haunting/beautiful, lots of chromatic runs with arpeggios on bass and a really awesome minor major transition somewhere.

Doshea3 · 10-11-2008 9:33am

Sounds like you're talking about the posthumous C-sharp minor nocturne.

nyarlothothep · 14-11-2008 10:02pm

I don't think its that one. Most likely the wrong key but the sequence of notes in the piece sounds like this hopefully (terrible at reading notes):

a sharp X3, g sharp, c sharp, b flat, c natural, c sharp, f sharp, f natural, d sharp, f natural, d natural, c sharp, a natural, a flat.

Doshea3 · 14-11-2008 10:45pm

Can't make any sense of that melody I'm afraid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4quKyrOVww&feature=related

Not that one for sure then? It was on the old RIAM Grade VIII and fits your description...

nyarlothothep · 14-11-2008 11:50pm

It should sound like this

Doshea3 · 15-11-2008 12:26am

That sounds familiar...I'll have a think.

sdep · 06-12-2008 5:05pm

Here's a brief piano tune form the radio.

This is the melody (as near as I can get it):

Below, there's a zipped mp3 sound clip (grabbed using the handy Freecorder).

Sounds late 18th to early 19th century - quite like Mozart, though not from any of his sonatas. Musipedia doesn't know it, and there's no info or means of contact on the Radio 4 program page.

Anyone recognise it? Thanks.

nyarlothothep · 09-01-2009 10:05pm

whats the name of this piece of music, its used in the episode where homer gets his hair back using a hair product, it was an old episode. When he gets "the key", theres some very interesting music being played in Mr. Burns hall. The episode is called simpson-and-delilah

nyarlothothep · 10-01-2009 4:20pm

link

http://wtso.net/movie/215-The%20Simpsons%20202%20Simpson%20and%20Delilah.html

music begins at 12.18

sdep · 10-01-2009 6:01pm

nyarlothothep wrote: »

link

http://wtso.net/movie/215-The%20Simpsons%20202%20Simpson%20and%20Delilah.html

music begins at 12.18

It's from the first movement of Debussy's string quartet in g min, op 10:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn3_hnoHx80

nyarlothothep · 10-01-2009 10:30pm

thanks, Debussy is great, nicely weird piece.

i-digress · 25-01-2009 5:32pm

Hey, does anyone know what piece TV3 used for their advert for Dirty Money? I adore it and can't find the name anywhere!

teednab-el · 30-01-2009 10:54pm

Hey guys can anyone figure out this tune for me. I would appreciate it greatly. follow the instructions below

click on Episode 2 (26th Jan) in the link posted below.....then go to exactly 41min:37sec (towards the end) on the media player.
http://www.rte.ie/tv/charliebird/av_index.html

The tune is played after the part where your man with a microphone is counting down 10 ..9..8..7. etc and when they land the ship precisely on the North Pole point. Thats the tune im looking for. I would really love to know that tune. Its not hoppipolla by Sigur Ros but the tune sounds like something that Sigur Ros would produce.

Thanks.

mac707 · 10-02-2009 8:45pm

Hello to all who are concerned, many years ago there was a Hennessy ad on irish television screens and i have been searching for the music that accompanied it ever since. The ad had people walking a beach and then ending up in a bar if my memory serves me correct. The music style had a classic piano sound, a kind of ambient piece. If anyone can help me find out the name of the artist or song it would be very much appreciated. To refresh your memory the music is in this video between the seconds 2:50 and 3:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gwMDeXaLs&feature=related Thank you for reading and i hope you can help.

tSubh Dearg · 11-02-2009 10:48pm

Moved post into the "What's that piece...?" thread.

ZorbaTehZ · 24-02-2009 11:14pm

mac707 wrote: »

Hello to all who are concerned, many years ago there was a Hennessy ad on irish television screens and i have been searching for the music that accompanied it ever since. The ad had people walking a beach and then ending up in a bar if my memory serves me correct. The music style had a classic piano sound, a kind of ambient piece. If anyone can help me find out the name of the artist or song it would be very much appreciated. To refresh your memory the music is in this video between the seconds 2:50 and 3:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78gwMDeXaLs&feature=related Thank you for reading and i hope you can help.

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGTbYuH3Mo

Queen-Mise · 22-03-2009 1:09am

Does anyone have any idea where the melody for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes from.

A heard a piece of classical music, and it was in the middle of it, but i wasn't able to find out at the time, where it came from.

The Raven. · 22-03-2009 3:56am

queen-mise wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea where the melody for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes from.

A heard a piece of classical music, and it was in the middle of it, but i wasn't able to find out at the time, where it came from.

Mozart: Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman. It was originally a French folk song for which Mozart wrote 12 variations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcGThde7X2I

banquo · 22-03-2009 10:39am

Aye. Same melody is used in Baa Baa Black Ship and The Alphabet song.

Damn melody pirates.

darjeeling · 22-03-2009 10:08pm

queen-mise wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea where the melody for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes from.

A heard a piece of classical music, and it was in the middle of it, but i wasn't able to find out at the time, where it came from.

If it was in the middle of a piece, then maybe it was Haydn's Symphony No. 94 (the 'Surprise'). In the second movement, Haydn used a very closely-related theme to the tune from the French nursery rhyme and the piano variations by his friend Mozart (pointed out above).

Haydn wrote the Surprise in 1791 for a visit to London, and though the English words of TTLS weren't written until 1806, I guess the tune would have been well known to his audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDWh9F3Vig

Queen-Mise · 24-03-2009 5:34am

I recognise the Haydn one. Thanks very much for your help. Really enjoyed listening to it again. Time to go searching through the hubby's classical music.

The Raven. · 25-03-2009 3:21am

darjeeling wrote: »

If it was in the middle of a piece, then maybe it was Haydn's Symphony No. 94 (the 'Surprise'). In the second movement, Haydn used a very closely-related theme to the tune from the French nursery rhyme and the piano variations by his friend Mozart (pointed out above).

Haydn wrote the Surprise in 1791 for a visit to London, and though the English words of TTLS weren't written until 1806, I guess the tune would have been well known to his audience.

Mozart wrote Twelve Variations of the French folk song Ah vous dirai-je, Maman in 1781/2, nine or ten years before Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. Haydn’s theme is quite different.

The poem, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, was written by the English poet, Jane Taylor in 1806, and is sung to the original folk song (first published 1761), that Mozart used.

artyeva · 26-03-2009 9:08pm

hey there - thought if anyone might know you guys might!!!!

I've searched here for ''sunday miscellany'' but can't find aything - can anyone tell me what the theme tune was?

The Mad Hatter · 26-03-2009 11:00pm

artyeva wrote: »

hey there - thought if anyone might know you guys might!!!!

I've searched here for ''sunday miscellany'' but can't find aything - can anyone tell me what the theme tune was?

It may have been one of the Brandenburg Concertos by Bach, but I'm going on distant and hazy memory now.

Doshea3 · 26-03-2009 11:18pm

The Sunday Miscellany theme tune is a piece by the composer Samuel Scheidt named "Galliard bataglia".

artyeva · 26-03-2009 11:31pm

thanks a million Doshea3 - you're a star!!!!!:pac:

The Mad Hatter · 27-03-2009 1:26am

Doshea3 wrote: »

The Sunday Miscellany theme tune is a piece by the composer Samuel Scheidt named "Galliard bataglia".

Ah. Er...was I thinking of Antiques Roadshow, then?

Doshea3 · 27-03-2009 11:28am

You're welcome artyeva. Mad Hatter—I'm not sure...

mambo · 30-03-2009 9:07am

banquo wrote: »

Aye. Same melody is used in Baa Baa Black Ship and The Alphabet song.

Damn melody pirates.

Don't they know that musical quotations are killing music?!?

cobijones · 31-03-2009 12:10am

Can anyone tell me what song the guy is playing on the piano please?

Danny-B · 10-04-2009 8:46pm

Sounds like he's just improvising in a vaguely Phillip Glass / triadic-minamalist style. Not all that interesting. :P

cornbb · 28-04-2009 12:38am

Ok, this one is driving me nuts... its a composition for marimba(s), probably from the last 20-30 years and I know it was in a movie soundtrack, maybe it was the main theme. I can't think of the movie

The style is pretty minimalist and the melody is very catchy and recognisable. I wish I could hum it for you but I can't

any suggestions? Its a bit vague I know.

Danny-B · 28-04-2009 12:41am

Sounds like the main theme to True Romance, one of the only Hans Zimmer scores I can bare. Not that the score itself is great, just I quite like that theme.

I'm sure you can find it on YouTube to check if it's what you meant.

What's that piece...?

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