# Can someone identify music in DirecTV commercial...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-music-in-directv-commercial/559869>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 8, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-music-in-directv-commercial/559869 "2010-11-08T04:08:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-music-in-directv-commercial/559869/1 "2010-11-08T04:08:14Z")

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…where the guy breaks into the room where a kid is watching movies and shoots him with a tranquilizer dart? It’s a classical choral piece of some sort. Reminds me of the Mozart Requiem.

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**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-music-in-directv-commercial/559869/2 "2010-11-08T07:37:09Z")

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Mozart [Lacrimosa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs&feature=related).

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-music-in-directv-commercial/559869/3 "2010-11-08T16:53:02Z")

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Thanks ever so! 🙂