Can someone name the title of this classical orchestre melody?

[Frank N. O.]

It's the one with a lot of big bangs in it, often used in conjunction with clips of explosions too, a lot of horns, drums and cymbals (instruments).

I really have no other idea on where or how to get this information then ask here.

Frank

[Justin Martin]

often used in conjunction with clips of explosions too
I'm assuming you mean in movies?

You may be thinking of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. It's often used in movies, particulary for parody effect. ROTV was the song played over the helicopter loudspeaker in Apocalypse Now, if you've seen that movie. I think it was played in the Blues Brothers as well...

[Frank N. O.]

Yes I mean movies and such. But it's not ride of the valkyries, that's mild in comparisom to this. I've tried searching with some keywords for midi's but after 50+ midi's I've had no luck in finding it.

If only I could write notes I could probably write down the main score and anyone who's heard it would surely recognise it from that, it's very distinctive.

Frank

[Justin Martin]

Yes I mean movies and such.
Can you name a specific movie?

[KyzrSoze]

This (http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/56487/looney03.wav) must be it.

[Justin Martin]

This (http://www.wavsite.com/sounds/56487/looney03.wav) must be it.
Only a parent would know to look for that song. ^_^ :D

Yeah, the ending does sound like something that was in a bunch of movies of the '40s-'60s...

[Myshkin]

Heh I haven't seen that episode of Bugs Bunny in many, many years, but I still remember it well. That is probably one of only a handful that I have real memories of.

The William Tell Overture? I direct this at Frank... I think this and ROTV have to be the two most-used classical songs in movies, especially for charges and explosions and such. But I think the WTO is actually most-used, and fits Frank's description, they've put a lot of explosions into it. Though I don't think it is a horn piece that much, I think it needs the whole orchestra, not that I really know anything about music.

William Tell Overture Midi (http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/allsongs_1/william.html)

P.S. That Midi link doesn't get to the "famous" part until midway through. The "Lone Ranger" section, as I think of it.

[-otkeys]

This piece of music firs your descriptopn very well Frank:

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

The 1812 Overture is an orchestral work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky commemorating the victory of Russia in the Napoleonic Wars in 1812. The work is best known for the sequence of cannon fire, which is sometimes performed, especially at outside festivals, using real cannons. Although the composition has no historical connection with the War of 1812 between the United States and England, it is often performed in the US alongside other patriotic music.

The overture debuted in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow on August 20, 1882.

Stig

[chris]

I also reckon 1812 Overture.

Die Walküre doesn't quite sound so riotous with the cannons going off. Who was the other Russian composer who did the highly left-of-field and unorthodox classical music?

[Frank N. O.]

Stig you continue to amaze me, that is it exactly! But the William Tell Overture also was a melody I've heard in movies, morning-day in classic loony toons :D I just never knew who made/arranged it, but I wrote it down now from the midi site in my special-music.txt file where I remember special/good songs/moeldies I've heard, thank you very much.

Funny it was Tchaikovsky, I heard some of his work on the midi site I mentioned above and some of it was really pleasent to listen too, even in midi-form, especially in the mood I was in (music taste for me depends on my mood). I've copied the whole info to my music document, thank you very much all, it was a pleasure :)

Greetings :wave:
Frank

[Myshkin]

Heh you know I had "Overture" sitting on the tip of my tongue, and the William Tell Overture was the one that popped out. In retrospect, the 1812 Overture is the obvious answer.

Oh my reference to Bugs Bunny was from Kyzr's joke, not the William Tell Overture. I'm sure Looney Tunes used the WTO as well, but Kyzr's clip was actually the "Kill the Wabbit" song in the opera-type episode of Bugs Bunny. I don't remember any specific episode that they used the WTO.

[Frank N. O.]

I know the Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd episode with the Valkyrie very well, it's a classic, I wonder if it was around the time Disney made Fantasia? Speaking of which I saw they made a more, for the time, modern version of that movie as well, pretty funny and entertaining really. The part from the WTO was perhaps used in a disney short now I think about it, when the cartoon starts you see a sunrise at a farm and the animals wake up and they made sounds and such that match the song, like small piglets oinking, and btw that's the star of the cartoon so to speak, he can't get to the mom to feed because his siblings are all there blocking so he tries to eat at the other animals but gets chased away, and finally he gets chased and rams into the wood-piece holding a vegetable container opening closed and he gets showered in corn on the cob etc and he eats and the cartoon fades out. I'm not totally sure if it was a MGM, Warner or Disney cartoon but I'm sure it was from one of them, and in the golden season of cartoons in the 7-8 minute length. So I didn't misread your post, I didn't explain my own post well enough.

Frank

[Smokey!]

I sometimes "hunt" on amazon for a particular classic piece to find out whats the name of it. Fx the famous circus song I think is titled "Entrance of the Gladiators" and another famous one I went looking for turned out to be from Prokofievs Romeo and Juliet.

[Frank N. O.]

Yeah it's nice that some sites have short clips since several times a small clip is enough to positively identify a song or version of a song. funny about the clown theme isn't? A stand-up comic also made a joke about that, that he couldn't picture the galdiators in the movie of the same name walk out to that song, and to be Frank neither can I ^_^

I still haven't found out who the heck Helium Heads with that song "Reality" is though. I have identified several song-origins from the 80s radio, like the main theme for some dance-tunes were in fact the intermission-part of a Tears for Fears song, Gold Dream or something I think, and Tainted Dream was in fact from before the 80s as was Love Rollercoaster that I knew first performaned by the Red Hot Chilly Peppers.
It's fun and informative to discover things like that imo, especially with cases like the Gladiator theme and the 1812 Overture :)

Frank

[Smokey!]

One of the funnier moments where when I was trying to track down a soundtrack from and old tape (the kind of tape you can play on a ghettoblaster). It is an old tape I´ve had since childhood where the story of Treasure Island is told acompanied by music from (I later found out) Tchaikovskys "The Nutcracker" and a few of Chopins works as well. The most creepy music from that tape I found out was "Dance of the Sugar-Plum fairy". Not a very creepy title lol. I still get the creeps from hearing it since this was the music used everytime it was mentioned that the pirates where bloodthirsthy he he.

[Baritone Black]

Sounds like the 1812 Overture.

EDIT: Ah, you figured it out already. Your description was good, though. I knew what it was as soon as I read it.