# What was that music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 10, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992 "2005-09-10T15:55:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dflower/32/3270_2.png) [@dflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dflower)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/1 "2005-09-10T15:55:51Z")

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Thursday night before the NFL game, the owner of the New England team reveled the championship banner at the stadium. The music was very familar yet I can’t recall the name of the piece or composser. I am sure I have heard it in movies before. Chorus of voices and orchestra, really strident and intense.  
Please tell me what it is. From an opera maybe?

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**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 10, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/2 "2005-09-10T16:19:47Z")

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From your description, I’ll bet a nickel it was something from **Carmina Burana** by Karl Orff.

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/3 "2005-09-10T21:15:11Z")

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**Biffy** ’s got it. It was the ubiquitous “O Fortuna,” from Carl Orff’s **Carmina Burana**.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/4 "2005-09-10T21:18:01Z")

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a Cafe Society sticky - “Want to know what that piece of music was? Try Carmina Burana.”

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/5 "2005-09-11T05:51:15Z")

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> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> Wouldn’t it be great to have a Cafe Society sticky - “Want to know what that piece of music was? Try Carmina Burana.”

Yeah, it’s usually either that or “Rio”…

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**Author:** ![dflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dflower/32/3270_2.png) [@dflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dflower)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-that-music/320992/6 "2005-09-12T02:17:18Z")

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Thank you so much.