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Please can anyone help me find a song :)

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#1 · (Edited)
Hi everyone, I am new to the site and also pretty new to classical music so please excuse my lack of knowledge. Also I am asking a lot I think as it was a long time ago that I heard this piece of music.

I would really like to know the name of a song so I can buy it... the song was very powerful and had singing in it (a bit like o fortuna)... I actually heard it because a person running a karaoke competition was playing it for an intro for something or someone... like xfactor judges have O Fortuna... I would describe it as classical although I think it did have something extra to it making it seem really big... almost like angels, the choral part... yes the angel part is ringing a bell.... it definitely had beat and umph... I guess its the most similar song to o foturna I have heard.. possibly electric sound to it as well, lots of violins I think too...

Sorry I cannot describe it very well... I also seem to think it had the words omen or ode or something like that in although might be wrong. I did ask at the time what the music was so if I hear the name I will recognise it.

Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give me!! :tiphat:
 
#3 · (Edited)
Hiya, thank you for your post and link. I am not sure I understand your comment about re-reading my post.

I think it's from the music in X Factor when the judges walk on, not o fortuna... here is a link... its near the end... the bit with the choir?



57 seconds in is the bit I remember from the music I heard before.

Thanks.
 
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#5 ·
Alison,
Most fans of classical music wouldn't consider it classical music because pieces of music like the one that you posted are basically copies of "O Fortuna" and there are so many of them out there. Whenever a show or video game wants drama they hire someone with tech skills to compose something that sounds like "O Fortuna" on a computer. The voices are synthetic and the Latin-sounding text probably doesn't mean anything. Check this out, it's the music to the video game "God of War."

So, because it's not that original, many people would not consider it classical.
It sounds pretty cool to me, though.
 
#6 · (Edited)
The applause is drowning out the music a little, but from what I can hear, it's a little too repetitive in the wrong way to be a classical work. This sort of 'dramatic music with a choir' has been very popular (and overdone) lately in film scores etc. And as JM said it could also have been made for the show.

However, the little phrase they're singing repetitively sounds suspiciously like the well-known Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) motive, from a medieval gregorian setting of text from the Requiem mass. This theme have been used in a whole bunch of classical works, like Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, the last of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, Mahler's 2nd symphony etc. Could it be that you're just recognizing this particular motive from somewhere else?

You can even hear it briefly in the Lion King soundtrack, from 2:22 to 2:35

 
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It is not a piece of classical music. It is an example of an epidemic of 'mock-classical', 'dramatic-epic' music which is commisisoned and used by unimaginative TV producers like a nasty rash. Such music derives from real choral classical pieces such O, Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and the Dies irae from Verdi's Requiem.
 
#8 ·
Wow thank you so much everyone for your posts. I am really grateful for all your help and suggestions.

I love the start of that God of War one! So that is not really classical music then :-(

I just played Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem and I really like that...

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana - I'm only on the third part so far... liking that so far too!

I wrote to ITV to see if they would tell me lol, no reply yet.

There is a bit before the 57 seconds... like a build up but does sound like two different songs, so maybe is a tv show created one like you said... I might also try ringing that pub to see if they know what it was.

Maybe I should never find out so I keep listening and finding other songs I like!
 
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