Okay. Norville and Amy, out on the balcony at the Fancy Dress Party. At a tender moment, music swells and the volume gets cranked WAAAay up as they kiss. I’ve heard this song a hundred times before and I don’t know the name of it. HELP.
Is it from Georges Bizet’s Carmen? If so, which part?
Never seen Hudsucker Proxy, but it sure sounds like the right time for the Love Theme from “Romeo and Juliet” by Tchaikovsky.
Track 2 here.
FYI, this is the music where ‘Jaws’ (nee Richard Kiel) of James Bond fame (after jumping out of a plane and dropping to the ground) looks at a pretty Rhine maiden and falls in love with her.
Ahhhh. Sweet release. That’s it. Good god, scratch that intellectual itch. Ooo, ooo, ooo.
I think I tried Googling this before but kept screwing up the spelling of “Tchaikovsky.”
Thank you.
Incidentally, this is the single funniest scene ever to be put in a movie.
Don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing it probably is. Mostly because Bizet’s Carmen is listed in the music credits at the end of the film. I don’t have a recording of the whole thing to verify which part (if indeed that’s where it’s from).
Not so fast. It’s definitely not Romeo and Juliet. I wouldn’t have been able to answer so definitively a few days ago, but I just happened to see Moonraker (the film with the Jaws scene in question) yesterday, and that’s not the Hudsucker music.
Unfortunately, I can’t recall what that theme is. I knew a while ago, because last time I saw Hudsucker, I remember being struck by it, and a short time later the piece was played on my classical music channel on the cable. I turned on the TV to see what it was, but now I can’t remember. Sorry.
I’m pretty sure it’s not from Carmen. That’s the opera with the Toreador song. Not the same style.
If I remember or can find out, I’ll come back and let you know.
According to IMDB.com, these are the non-original pieces used in the making of the film:
“Flying Home” is jazz and “In a Sentimental Mood” begins with the same opening notes as “You Saw Me Crying in the Chapel.” (I hate to even say the titles in the same breath since “In a Sentimental Mood” is so fine.
If it’s fiery, it might be “Sabre Dance.” I would probably recognize most things from Carmen. How about the “Adadio”?
It is Aram Khachaturian’s “Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia.”
You can hear a sample here (track 6).
The orchestration doesn’t match that used in the movie exactly, but it’s the same song. One of my favorite movies.
Actually, that song is used extensively throughout the movie (I just restarted the movie from the beginning, and there it is, under Bill Cobbs’ opening monologue).
Here is another snippet with more of the first theme: this page. (first track)
Zoe: Where on IMDB did you find those details? The soundtrack listing only shows three songs, plus Carmen. Do you have IMDB Pro?
So is absolutely any piece of music considered a “song” now?
IT IS NOT A SONG.
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God forbid! But people who have no education in music whatsoever do have a tendency to call anything that is music a “song.” This is reinforced by the abomination that is iTunes and similar pieces of software written by musical incompetents.
Straightdope, where correct terminology is more important than the correct answer!
I’m pretty sure the piece you mean is “Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia”.
I listen to a classical music station most of the time and they played this piece earlier today, and I pretty much automatically associate it with that movie.
Michelle Kwan skated to this music for her short program at the Nationals.
And it is the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia. (I just rewatched Hudsucker last weekend.)
What is abominating, please, about iTunes etc? I am totally serious, as music is very important to me and I’m looking for the best way to have it in my life. Right now there are a lot of my favorites on my computer, having come from CDs, but I would like to be able to do things other than sit in front of the computer to hear them. I’ve retired recently so now I have time for this stuff. I don’t even know where the sites are that I could buy music from. Or how I could get what’s on my computer to some other devise, and what that devise should be. Have you any recommendations?
Anyone?
What term should we be using instead of song, oh great and all-knowing one?