Can someone ID it for me please. It sounds to me like it is from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, which incidently is is used on the current Gatorade ad (with Manning, Jeter etc.).
Can anyone confirm? Please don’t rely on Yahoo Answers since they concur with me but I’m not convinced.
I think O Fortuna (aka O Fortuna velut Luna) was only the name of the four bar intro to Carmina Burana (where they chant O Fortuna twice then something else once) then theres an attaca marking and then move into the second movement Fortune plango vulnera (this happens right where they get noticably softer). Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi also has the same general feel for at least the first part of it (I thinkt eh second half is different btu i can’t recall off hand).
Anyway I’m fairly certian it’s not from Carmina Burana, but it is a fairly sizable 13 movement piece so I’ll look on youtube at allt eh movements and check for sure.
Just an aside but I think that you will actually find that Carl Orffs work of genius was actually composed for the British T.V. advert for Old Spice aftershave(He was always ahead of his time as it hadn’t actually been invented at that time)
It was then used for the film Excalibur,but then sadly Philharmonic orchestras started playing it in concert halls.
A sad prostitution of a great advertising jingle,I’m just thankful that Carl isn’t alive today to see what has become of his great work of art.
No, O Fortuna refers to the whole movement, up to and including the brass going nuts at the end. The text of the poem it uses is much longer than the introductory four bars (“O Fortuna / velut luna / statu variabilis”, which is just the first stanza of the poem). If you’re so inclined you can follow the bouncing ball on this Youtube video.
Getting back to the OP, I would agree with mack that it’s a pastiche of O Fortuna. Neither ThemeFinder nor my copy of Barlow & Morgenstern’s Dictionary of Musical Themes turn up anything for the introductory theme from the ad. Also, given that Carmina Burana was published in 1937 it’s likely still under copyright in the U.S. & Canada, which lends credence to the idea that they got someone to write something that sounded like O Fortuna rather than ponying up the dough for the real thing.
Well then, can anyone understand what they’re singing? Is it Latin? If it’s a snippet taken from some classic work it should be findable in a web search.