# Identify this closing theme(?) music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457 "2009-08-24T03:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/1 "2009-08-24T03:32:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/2 "2009-08-24T04:03:53Z")
Could you upload the file somewhere? I think that would be easier. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/3 "2009-08-25T01:49:28Z")
I’ve put it up here, but it can only be downloaded 10 times. [http://rapidshare.com/files/270801381/unknowntheme.mp3.html](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. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/4 "2009-08-25T04:31:32Z")
It kind of reminds me of \*Firefly \*maybe? Damn, now I’m curious too. It does sound familiar. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/5 "2009-08-25T05:01:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/6 "2009-08-25T05:16:37Z")
Just wanted to point out it’s not anything that’s on the [Firefly Soundtrack](http://www.amazon.com/Original-Television-Soundtrack-Edmonson-Composer/dp/B000BLI4PQ) (though that doesn’t mean it’s not from the show). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/7 "2009-08-25T05:27:36Z")
_The Wings_ by Gustavo Santaolalla from Brokeback Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-closing-theme-music/507457/8 "2009-08-25T17:19:37Z")
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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIDt97zQgY)