# Easy 'what's that song thread' Masterpiece Theater music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714 "2008-02-07T19:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/1 "2008-02-07T19:35:38Z")
The one with all the coronets. TV uses it to convey ‘stuffy, uppercrust British people’. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/2 "2008-02-07T19:37:57Z")
I can’t remember offhand. But a similar piece of coronet-full Baroque music was used for William Buckley’s TV show, and that one was a movement from one of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos”. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/3 "2008-02-07T19:45:18Z")
From Wiki: > [@](#): > > The theme music played during the opening credits is the Rondeau from “Symphonies and Fanfares for the King’s Supper” by French composer Jean-Joseph Mouret performed by Collegium Musicum de Paris, Roland Douatt, conducting (recorded in 1954). One of the most highly recognized themes in television history, the music has served as the bridal processional for countless fans. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/4 "2008-02-07T19:48:33Z")
[QUOTE=JKellyMap] I can’t remember offhand. But a similar piece of coronet-full Baroque music was used for William Buckley’s TV show, and that one was a movement from one of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos”. [/QUOTE] Also from Wiki: > [@](#): > > The theme music of Firing Line was the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Third Movement (Allegro assai), by Johann Sebastian Bach ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/5 "2008-02-07T19:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] From Wiki: [/QUOTE] Well, why didn’t I think of wiki? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/6 "2008-02-07T19:51:48Z")
And while we’re at it, my favorite classical music/TV intro is “March of the Nobles” by Rimsky-Korsakov, which was used by the public television political roundtable show _Inside Washington_. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/7 "2008-02-07T20:16:29Z")
Remember back in the '60s the Nightly News used to close with the second movement of Beethoven’s Ninth? Even as a kid I thought that music kicked some upper-crust ass. (Of course my dad listened to a lot of classical music; I may have been predisposed to like it.) ---
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It’s funny how I always associated it with the British titled class and royalty but it’s actually a French composition. I wonder if the French have a problem with that. Because the French really care about what I think. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-whats-that-song-thread-masterpiece-theater-music/436714/9 "2008-02-07T23:34:20Z")
It’s one of my favorite “fanfares”, right up there with the Fanfare for the Common Man, the Olympic Fanfare by John Williams, and the opening fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra. Damn, if I could think of about 15 more, I could burn a whole CD of great fanfares. ---
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[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Remember back in the '60s the Nightly News used to close with the second movement of Beethoven’s Ninth? Even as a kid I thought that music kicked some upper-crust ass. (Of course my dad listened to a lot of classical music; I may have been predisposed to like it.) [/QUOTE] That was the opening theme, too. Watch “Countdown with Keith Obermann” any night to see how he pays tribute to it. 🙂