Oh, and the full piece of music in case anyone wants to hear it is Carmina Burana by Orff. Good stuff!

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This is great. I've never really delved into classical music. I have Dvorak's New World Symphony, because I saw a live performance once and enjoyed it. I also have Carl Orff's Carmina Burana because I wanted to know where the music that is so often used in media came from.
I would like to enjoy more classical music, but don't know where to start.

>> ^legacy0100:
timpani isn't a very well constructed instrument now that I think about it. 3rd world drums play a much clearer, louder, deeper sounds than these behemoths. These bulbous cauldrons sound way too flat to say the least.
Perhaps because western orchestra's always been about the strings and the winds, and not so much on the percussions.


This isn't an example of a good timpani sound, or a particularly wise orchestration. It looks like a college recital, performed by a student who is still learning, so I wouldn't base your judgment of this instrument on one video.

There are many cool sounding low pitched ethnic drums, but none of them allow you to tune to a particular pitch on the fly. If you look closely, you'll see the performer adjusting a pedal - which tightens or loosens the head - at the base of these drums. A nice set of drums, played by a skilled player will give you a huge, clear awesome sound.

I'd recommend you check out a good recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Orff's Carmina Burana or Holst's Planets for a good idea of how Timpani are supposed to sound. You hear it quite a bit in film music too.

Percussion was underused in Western art music up until the 20th Century, so while most of the classical chestnuts only have a bit of perc here and there, you see quite a bit in music written over the last 100 years.

I arranged Bach's Passacaglia in Cm for Vibes, Marimba and Bass (with low C extention) for my junior recital, and it worked really well. I should dig that out and do it again somewhere.

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I like Paul's honesty, his stance on individual liberties and his non intervention up to a point. However I'm afraid of rampant capitalism and worse conditions for the poor and weak under his policies. I'd rather have Kucinich.

Also we need more dramatic music soundtracks, it's always this, requiem for a dream, carmina burana or a few others tracks that get used.

Léon is a great movie.

What is the name of the choral piece at the end of the trailer? I've heard it's from Carmina Burana (which I'm not sure I believe), but it's clearly not "O Fortuna."

word to that spider, this song and "Oh fortuna" from Carmina Burana should be banned from EVER being used again..
it seems that anytime someone wants to make something "epic" they flip a coin and pick one of those two songs...

Carmina Burana: Fortune-Empress of the World

Actually it's not. O Fortuna was written by Carmina Burana in Latin back in 1230 BC. That's the music you hear in the video. Now the video itself is showing off a new trend called "Drifting" that started in Tokyo. Obviously the video is somewhere in the middle east. It's cool to see something different come out of the middle east (other than wars and bombings) :-)