That music in the Pokémon Heroes trailer

[Zhen Lin]

I recently heard a familiar piece of BGM in a Cartoon Network promo for Superman: The Animated Series - it's also used in the first 20 seconds or so of the Pokémon Heroes trailer.

Then nearer the end, from about 0:53 to 1:20 is another piece of music that I've heard in many ads.

Anyone know where those pieces were extracted from? For some reason or other I keep thinking the latter comes from Mozart's Requiem, but I've never even heard Requiem before.

 

[Sunain]

Cannot listen to it. I get a 404.

 

[Zhen Lin]

HTTP 500... great. I wonder if it happens with other attachments.

Odd. Removing the MIME type seems to fix the problem. How strange.

 

[Pie]

You're right, I've heard these pieces many times before. There's another one that I picked out as a piece I heard quite a few times before, but I don't have a recording of it, so...

Hmm. I've definitely never played either in any of my Band classes - not surprising, since the first distinctly has strings and therefore must be an Orchestra piece, and I wouldn't be surprised if the second one was as well. But I was also in the Orchestra, and no, we never played it there, either. And I'm pretty sure I've never heard either in any concert - and I've seen quite a few. Hrm. So I have no way of identifying either by memory - probably wouldn't even if I had heard them, I can remember songs well enough but usually have a lot of trouble with their names.

And... you think 'music2' comes from a requiem? Uh, maybe I'm not half the music buff that I'd like to think I am, but I believe requiems don't generally sound like that. They're usually a lot slower and more depressing because, you know, the whole death thing.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Hah, I knew Wikipedia had its uses. Damned be the people who say all those pop culture references are useless!

In the article [wp]European classical music[/wp], there is a section "commercial uses of classical music", and the first example of music used in this manner is O Fortuna from [wp=Carmina_Burana_%28Orff%29]Carmina Burana[/wp] by Carl Orff. It's the second piece I identified in the trailer. Curiously, though perhaps I should have expected it from the grand, loud sound, it's a 20th century (chronologically, not stylistically) composition. MIDI of O Fortuna.

Still no clue about the first.