# Xylophone(?) music in the animated movie Madagascar, and elsewhere **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xylophone-music-in-the-animated-movie-madagascar-and-elsewhere/387275 "2007-01-09T10:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xylophone-music-in-the-animated-movie-madagascar-and-elsewhere/387275/1 "2007-01-09T10:51:51Z")
In the Animated movie _Madagascar_, there’s a scene where Alex the lion is dreaming of steaks falling down from the sky, set to a piece of music played (I think) on Xylophone or something that sounds like it. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the (plucked strings) opening theme of _Six Feet Under_, although obviously not the same piece What is the music? - I don’t think it was composed specially for the movie, as I’ve heard it elsewhere too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xylophone-music-in-the-animated-movie-madagascar-and-elsewhere/387275/2 "2007-01-09T10:56:42Z")
Ah… I think I found it - Dead Already by Thomas Newman from the movie American Beauty (I haven’t seen that movie, but I now recognise the Madagascar dream sequence as a reference to the rose petals thing) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xylophone-music-in-the-animated-movie-madagascar-and-elsewhere/387275/3 "2007-01-09T18:03:49Z")
Who, by the way, also wrote the aforementioned _Six Feet Under_ theme, in case you didn’t realize that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xylophone-music-in-the-animated-movie-madagascar-and-elsewhere/387275/4 "2007-01-09T18:08:11Z")
sounds more like marimba