# what is the name of this song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819 "2000-08-26T10:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/1 "2000-08-26T10:00:14Z")
ok, it’s a classical peice, and is often played durring the climactic sequence of movies. it features a huge chorous of people yelling somthing in a scary forgin language (probably German). the following is the sequence of high and low notes, sung in short, harsh bursts: High-High, Low-Low, , High-High, Low-Low, High-High Low-High… Higher, High-Low if you can figure out what song i’m talking about, please tell me the title, or if you don’t know the title, maybe you can think of a movie that it was played in? I hesitated to post this, for the sake of my dignity, but Not knowing the name of this song is driving me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/2 "2000-08-26T10:15:00Z")
Carmina Burana by Karl Orff. Yes, its in German. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/3 "2000-08-26T10:17:03Z")
Ohhh, Comm. Fortune just beat me to it. I was humming along with your, “High-lows”. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/4 "2000-08-26T10:20:37Z")
The segment is called O, Fortuna (!) from Carmina Burana by \*\*C[/b[arl Orf. If you go here: > **[FreeUK - Customer information](https://www.claranetsoho.co.uk/freeuk)** > > Claranet, one of Europe’s leading managed IT services providers – acquired FreeUK, an ADSL broadband provider. As part of the acquisition we have now decommissioned the FreeUK website and all FreeUK customers will now be supported by the Claranet... and go about halfway down the page you can listen and (hopefully) confirm that this is the piece you are thinking of. Give it a minute - there is a 23-24 second intro that doesn’t usually make it into those climactic scenes you mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/5 "2000-08-26T10:21:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by eggo \* > it’s a classical peice, and is often played durring the climactic sequence of movies. it features a huge chorous of people yelling somthing in a scary forgin language (probably German). the following is the sequence of high and low notes, sung in short, harsh bursts: > High-High, Low-Low, , High-High, Low-Low, High-High Low-High… Higher, High-Low To me, it sounds _vaguely_ like _Ode to Joy_, part of one of Beethoven Symphonies-the 9th(?) or 5th(?) perhaps. [http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/lethin/beethoven.html](http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/lethin/beethoven.html) has an audio clip, though it’s about 25 minutes long. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/6 "2000-08-26T10:22:55Z")
That’ll teach me not to use the preview. ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/7 "2000-08-28T03:47:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Commander Fortune \* > \*\*The segment is called O, Fortuna (!) from Carmina Burana by \*\*C[/b[arl Orf. > > If you go here: > > [http://www.anthea2.freeuk.com/freeuk.com/a/n/t/anthea2/webspace/carminaburana/](http://www.anthea2.freeuk.com/freeuk.com/a/n/t/anthea2/webspace/carminaburana/) > \*\* that’s the one! thanks a heap! ::runs off to napster:: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/8 "2000-08-28T04:08:31Z")
If **eggo** is thinking of the same one I am, that’s it. First heard it in “Excalibur.” Heard it EVERYWHERE since. Like it’s the Pachebel’s Canon of violence. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-song/30819/9 "2000-08-28T04:09:39Z")
I marched with the UCF knights and that was part of our opener. it is absolutly awsome in brass format, not synthesizer like onthe web site. Bow I want to go play my tuba.