Identify this closing theme(?) music

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#1

I have a brief song in my collection, provenance unknown. It’s about a minute & three-quarters, and sounds a lot like the closing credits to a TV show. The feel of the piece is a bit melancholy and has a slightly Western sound (as in Country, not occidental).

It’s in a somewhat slow 3-time with a heavy beat on one, kind of a lugubrious waltz. What few shorter notes there are in a quarter/eighth triplet pattern (or you could say it’s in 9/8).

The melody is a fairly basic four bar pattern played on an acoustic guitar, and gets repeated with some slight variation. After the first few times, a slide guitar comes in. About a minute in, strings swell and the guitar is played more forcefully; there’s some winds a bit after that (could be synth) as well. Then it all quiets down a bit and ends.

The basic rhythm, with the first measure lead-in is (- means no notes played):
1 2 3 [| 1 - - | 1 - -&| 1 - - | 1 2 3]
(repeat bracketed segment, with some varying rhythms in the third and fourth measure)

Forgot to mention, it must have come before 2007, as that’s the date I have on the file. No other information, other than it does sound familiar to me.

#2

Could you upload the file somewhere? I think that would be easier.

#3

I’ve put it up here, but it can only be downloaded 10 times.

http://rapidshare.com/files/270801381/unknowntheme.mp3.html

I’ll try to find a more usable place to put it, but for now only listen if the description jogs your memory.

#4

It kind of reminds me of *Firefly *maybe?

Damn, now I’m curious too. It does sound familiar.

#5

Yeah, it makes me think of Firefly too. But unless there was some episode that had an alternate ending, it’s not the closing credits. Might have been used at some point.

#6

Just wanted to point out it’s not anything that’s on the Firefly Soundtrack (though that doesn’t mean it’s not from the show).

#7

The Wings by Gustavo Santaolalla from Brokeback Mountain.

#8

That’s it, thanks. Now I know where it likely came from, too. I had a hard drive crash and later ran a salvage file program to get what I could. It grabbed all the music, which included a bunch of files from the browser cache. This, along with a few others (like “Horndog” and that Nightwish song) came from YTMND.

Here it is on Youtube