# Seeking ID for classical tune often used in nature scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565 "2010-09-04T02:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/1 "2010-09-04T02:16:16Z")
There is a classical piece often used in nature scenes in movies, in fact, so often that it has become a cliche and used to humorous effect. I seem to remember it in an animated short called something like “Godzilla and Bambi.” I created a midi file and posted it to [www.seiglefamily.com/data/nature.mid](http://www.seiglefamily.com/data/nature.mid) Anyone know what it’s called, composer, etc.? I want to use part of it as a soundtrack for a home video. ETA: Bambi Meets Godzilla uses a different tune. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/2 "2010-09-04T02:19:53Z")
The music in “Bambi Meets Godzilla” was “The William Tell” overture, not the Lone Ranger part, but the part before that. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/3 "2010-09-04T02:26:53Z")
Edvard Grieg - _Peer Gynt_ ETA You Tube link: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY) ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/4 "2010-09-04T02:35:55Z")
> [@Twoflower](#): > > Edvard Grieg - _Peer Gynt_ > > ETA You Tube link: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAbwMGZtIsY) Bingo! Thank you. Can’t believe how fast this got answered. I should know by now that Dopers know everything!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/5 "2010-09-04T02:36:20Z")
Right, you’re talking about two different pieces. Bambi was from William Tell, but your midi tune was from Peer Gynt. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/6 "2010-09-04T05:04:43Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > The music in “Bambi Meets Godzilla” was “The William Tell” overture, not the Lone Ranger part, but the part before that. …which I have associated all my life with Popeye crawling out of the sewer in the 1943 cartoon [Happy Birthdaze](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150823/plotsummary). ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/7 "2010-09-04T10:31:59Z")
One of my favourite versions - [Spike Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavRrRNvz8g). ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-id-for-classical-tune-often-used-in-nature-scenes/552565/8 "2010-09-04T20:04:32Z")
Here is what I used it for, at about 5:15, but it needs some context so if you must jump into the middle, try 4:45. Nod to Twoflower in the closing credits. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLbnh7k-iQ)