I would say it is, yes.
“Guards! Knights! Squires…prepare for battle!”
“It’s a big ad…very big ad!”
So then is it fair to say the first chord before the chorus comes in (the DUM) is the three lowest Ds? And looking at the sheet (hard to read) are they full notes except for the tympani?
Then later, the line from “misheard O Fortuna lyrics” that cracks me up:
“This octopus…
Let’s give him boots…
Send him to North Korea!!”
(With the poor animated octopus forcibly marching with the North Korean army)
But what made it funnier was when a classical music group from the Netherlands had the chorus sing with the misheard lyrics on purpose:
That was fantastic, digs! Thnx.
I used that to kick off the TV section of an advertising class, mostly to wake everyone up.
At the end I’d ask “Now, could you spot the parts that were CGI?”
… None, of course.
There’s a great 90’s techno version of Carmina Burana……and Carl Orffs estate dropped on them like a safe falling off a building
I wonder if the ad creators made the same mistake as the techno guys in assuming it was public domain
(Was trying to inline it, but I’m finally getting the error some other users have gotten about embedding Youtube links.)
Yeah, the opening note isn’t a chord so much as just D – a very low D – played by as many instruments as possible.
I downloaded a midi file of it, imported it into online sequencer and changed all
notes to piano.
You can see/hear it here :-
Here it is with the original instrumentation (from the midi file that is, not Orff’s !)