Hamlet Theme Music
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And that completes the San Marco collection!
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As seen above, I finally bought all of the CDs that weren't online for the park and uploaded them. A little while after uploading them all, a number of them got taken down, but fortunately it was some of the less recognizable ones. Specifically all of the Catch the Brass Ring album was removed, a few of the tracks from Greatest Hits of 1721, and a few of the tracks from the Italian Madrigal album (only ones they didn't play at the park luckily). I replaced them on the youtube playlist I have for songs that are either the same with different performers or evoke the sound of the park in the case of the fairground music.
In the past few years since I made the YT playlist, some of the actual recordings used at the park were uploaded to YouTube, so it's currently as accurate as it can possibly be (taking into account the copyright issues).
Speaking of playlists, I did something similar recently on Spotify here:
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There weren't a lot of exact versions for some of my favorite areas at the park, but I found music from similar time periods, recording techniques/instrumentation, and if I was lucky, by the same artists so that it could still come across as authentic.
Here is the spreadsheet I use to keep track of things:
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Here is the YouTube playlist:
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In the past few years since I made the YT playlist, some of the actual recordings used at the park were uploaded to YouTube, so it's currently as accurate as it can possibly be (taking into account the copyright issues).
Speaking of playlists, I did something similar recently on Spotify here:
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There weren't a lot of exact versions for some of my favorite areas at the park, but I found music from similar time periods, recording techniques/instrumentation, and if I was lucky, by the same artists so that it could still come across as authentic.
Here is the spreadsheet I use to keep track of things:
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Here is the YouTube playlist:
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Missed being mentioned on this post back in the day but I just wanted to say that I didn't need Shazam or SoundHound to figure out the music playing around Pompeii.
I was first introduced to Respighi's Feste Romane from watching the 1991 Broadcast of the DCI World Championships on PBS. The Star of Indiana Drum & Bugle Corps performed this music as their competitive repertoire for that season and won the championship with it. I fell in love with the work then and ended up buying a cd of it. Even then I thought the music would fit nicely in San Marco or Festa Italia but when I first heard it on the pathway around Escape From Pompeii I was beyond excited.
Here's video of Star's World Championship performance...
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You’re a DCI guy! Me too! Star was legendary. Respighi is a wonderful composer. Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, etc. are great pieces! I marched tenors thru high school and tenors in Tarheel Sun in ‘97. Wasn’t one of the top tier corps, but a fantastic experience. And we were a tight drumline!
I never marched but I was a fan of the activity in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. I haven't really followed it over the last 20 years or so as I miss the G horns and the field seems to be littered with too many props and set pieces nowadays. However, if you marched Tarheel Sun in 1997 then I saw you perform at Drums Along the Bay in Hampton, VA in early August. I spent the earlier part of that afternoon at BGW grabbing a few rides on a brand new Alpengeist and on the way home to VA Beach, I stopped by Darling Stadium to catch the show. The only music I vividly really remember from that night were from the Blue Devils and Cadets (I believe they both tied for 1st place that night) but I do vaguely remember Tarheel Sun's show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't your corps have black and white uniforms and your repertoire consisted of jazz music?
Good memory. Yes, black and white with a half sun on the front. In ‘98 they switched to yellow and blacks. It was the 2nd year of the corps existence. So we were in the class under Open. We ended up with top drums that year in our class. The corps was becoming musically successful in a short period of time, but ended up folding a few years later due to mismanagement, unfortunate. Yes, we did Latin jazz with Stan Kenton’s jazz suite.
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Since this forum page seems to be active again, I wanted to bring up something that I have been thinking about recently. A majority of albums used in the 2001 list from the park came out circa 1987, does anyone have any idea if they played music at the park before that? If so, do we have any idea what it would have been/sounded like?
Yes as long as I can remember to my very early childhood they've always played music in all the hamlets, and in the early years they even had a live bagpipe player and small bands marching throughout the park.
Reviving this thread because I finally found a video on youtube that has a bit of the song they play in Oktoberfest that has eluded me for years. It sounds like it's by the same oberkrainer band listed in the OP but it doesn't seem to be any of the tracks that were listed. Starts at 16:27 and ends at 16:47. If anybody knows anything at all about the song please let me know, I feel like I'm losing my mind lol.
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That's my favorite in Oktoberfest. I don't know either, and I've been doing some research about it occasionally, but keep coming up short.
Yeah. The problem is that the song is so absurdly obscure that not even Shazam or SoundHound can find it. I'm currently going through Alpenoberkrainer's discography, hoping for a miracle.
Appreciate the help, but the song isn't in that video.
But don't forget about The Original Oberkrainer Quintett, and The Original Oberkrainer Sextett, and Original Oberkrainer Musikanten, and Slavko Avsenik Und Seine Original Oberkrainer, and the million other variations of what I think(?) are largely the same band...
I might actually have to ask a German friend about this. If someone is going to know it, it'll be himBut don't forget about The Original Oberkrainer Quintett, and The Original Oberkrainer Sextett, and Original Oberkrainer Musikanten, and Slavko Avsenik Und Seine Original Oberkrainer, and the million other variations of what I think(?) are largely the same band...
I will venmo $20 to the first person to find me the name of that song or a complete recording lol
I've been trying for an hour today alone to find it and still nothing. I've tried looking up different walk-throughs of the park to see if there's any clean audio of it, but the damn people recording keep talking over the song, so apps don't recognize it, and if there is a clean sample of it, the apps still don't get it.
I might need some help if anyone is willing to give it, haha. We can find it if we work together.
I believe at 16:34 a different song starts that we also don't have. They seem to be in different keys (first in F major, second in Bb major) but that could just mean that its a different section of the same song, so it doesn't completely rule out them being the same. Luckily for our search, I think the first song starts with that clarinet descending motif, so we should only have to listen to the first second or so of anything to determine if it's correct.
Been searching this morning. I went through the full discography of the Original Alpenoberkrainer on Spotify and have looked at the available albums for the group between 1980 and 1987 on this account. No luck so far.
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Been searching this morning. I went through the full discography of the Original Alpenoberkrainer on Spotify and have looked at the available albums for the group between 1980 and 1987 on this account. No luck so far.
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