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Ryan Macri

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Jun 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/9/99
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Can anyone in here help me? I desperately want to know the name of a
certain song. The only thing i know about it is it's used in the marine
recruitment commercials. I love this song and i need to know the name.
Thanks!


Tony Duggan

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Jun 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/9/99
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"The" marine recruitment commercial ? Which country's marines are
you talking about ?

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Tony Duggan
Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.


Edwin Ross Quantrall

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Jun 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/9/99
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Ryan Macri wrote:

> Can anyone in here help me? I desperately want to know the name of a
> certain song. The only thing i know about it is it's used in the marine
> recruitment commercials. I love this song and i need to know the name.

> Thanks!

I venture to guess that you're referring to the "amped-up" Gothic-style
piece that was used by the U.S. Marines for most of the 80's and into the
90's. It is my understanding that this piece was written specifically for
that particular recruitment campaign by setting the Latin versions of the
words "Honor..., Duty...", etc. to a Heavy Metal/Gothic-like beat. As far
as I know, this music is unavailable to the public.

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Nat228

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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>Can anyone in here help me? I desperately want to know the name of a
>certain song. The only thing i know about it is it's used in the marine
>recruitment commercials. I love this song and i need to know the name.

I don't think it's limited to the marines, but Copland's Fanfare to the Common
Man is used for recruitment commercials. It's not quite a song...but would
that be what you were referring to? It's dramatic, with only brass and
percussion.

Ryan Macri

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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i need to explain this more. A lot of precussion, a lot of chorus, sounds gothic,
almost doomsday-like. It's seen on a lot of sports documentaries, etc.


Neal

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana?

Ryan Macri wrote in message <37600B23...@mail.snet.net>...

Adrian Hunter

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Jun 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/11/99
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Neal wrote:
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> O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana?

Prime suspect in 99% of these cases!!

Adrian

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Abram Plum

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Jun 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/14/99
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Philip Paeps wrote:
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> I wonder why O Fortuna is used so often in commercials and horror movies... I
> can understand that it would scare off kids the first time they hear it, but
> after that it tends to get boring... I could think of a million other pieces of
> music advertising agencies could use in commercials or directors could use in
> movies!
>
> I love Carmina Burana, but the frequency with which it is used strikes me as
> overzealous and worrying - music such as Carmina Burana is to be enjoyed in the
> Musikverein in Vienna not in any old movie theatre during any old movie!
>
On that subject, you might be interested in this article from today's
New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/carmina-burana-music.html

Abram Plum


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