Posted on 11/17/2018 9:52:02 AM PST by OKSooner
Can someone name this tune? It's the modernistic sounding classical piece that used to be... (not sure if it still is...) played as Hannity's intro theme.
NOT the Martina Mcbride C&W song, or whatever it is that in turn took the place of it.
I'm referring to the orchestral piece, with chorus. The chorus is sung in some language other than English. It's a familiar piece but I have no idea what it is or whom the composer is. I describe it as modernistic but I'm an amateur...
It starts pianissimo, builds to fortissimo and resolution, at least that seems the intent of it just from what one hears on the radio.
Orchestra, chorus... tympani in the background stuck on the same interval... rhythmic, and I'm kinda sure that it's modal.
If it would help get an answer, I could count rhythm the way Mister Gabbard tried to teach us back at Daniel Webster Junior Prison in Oklahoma City, back in the day... except with numbers and characters...
Can someone help me out?
Oh yeah, bonus question: Lyrics, with translation to English? (Which is a big part of why I ask the question to begin with.)
From what you describe, it may be Carmina Burana.
Please post a link to the audio so we can listen to it.
Yes. That’s what I remember it being.
I'll make my next donation to FR in your name. :)
Cool, glad to help.
Yep. By Orf?
I loved the McBride/O’furtuna/Hornsby bumper music Hannity used. Wish he still did.
Yes. The movement is specifically known as “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi”, commonly known as “O Fortuna”, from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.
Carl Orff.
Part of a much longer piece of music!
O Fortuna
Velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem
egestatem
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem
Sors immanis
et inanis
rota tu volubilis
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbratam
et velatam
mihi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
mihi nunc contraria
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
English translation -
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous
and empty
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health
and virtue
driven on
and weighted down
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!
Cool, thank you as well.
Also opens the Jackass movie.
My favorite skater of all time, Paul Wylie, skating to Carmina Burana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LVrvQXrcLs
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