Arrrgh. I’ve been haunted all day by a snippet of music that I heard on the TV spot for The Other Boleyn Girl…
I know this music, I recognize this music, and yet I cannot, for the life of me, place it. I know it came from a movie soundtrack, and that from a movie that I’ve watched more than once. I’ve been keeping a list of the things it reminds me of, but the best I’m doing is “sweeping – epic – historical – tragic – montage” and that could easily be from the TOBG preview anyway.
Actually, the first thing I thought of was the “Little Women” soundtrack, since for a few years after that movie came out, it played on half the TV spots for “historical fiction” movies, and I kept hearing the familiar music and not being able to place it. Likewise “The Mission” before that. Though these days, The Mission soundtrack is used for sloppily sentimental “personal interest” spots on Olympic athletes, not so much for movie trailers. However, after looking up samples online, I’m convinced this is from another movie entirely. (Where is that phone that will ID music for you when you need it?)
The most annoying part of all of it is I know that I’ll be randomly doing something else when suddenly the answer will just come to me… but as long as this one musical phrase keeps actively circling through my brain (which it has been doing all day), I’m just going to continue to be annoyed by it and unable to identify it.
Google has been unusually unhelpful on this particular topic–I’m probably not searching for it correctly. I have determined what the songs in the official trailer for the movie are, though! (Which would be more helpful if they were the same as the TV spot.) Oh well. I will eventually figure this out (or I’ll just forget about it).
I wrote this earlier today… but then I answered my own question when I was able to access YouTube and find the TV spot in question. (The one I embedded above.)
The one c0mment on the video names the song — “Nara” by E.S. Posthumous. And a Google search on it turned up not only the entire song, but also the fact that the reason I recognize it is (duh!) because it’s the intro music for the show Cold Case.
Ahhhh…. so good to have that resolved!
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