The Medici (Birth of a Dynasty) Video.
  • sethor
    Posts: 1
    This is probably a stupid post, or a possibly little bit different or simpler than most of the posts I've seen here.
    But! The in these videos, I've noticed some music throughout that sounded like gregorian chant. I really like the sound and i would really like to know what exactly it is.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VtcjCsm5fY&feature=related
    At :50 is where the song/chant starts
    If anyone might be able to identify this i would greatly appreciate :D
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    Well, it's a cool piece but not chant. Sounds like it was composed to sound like the whole mysterious/exotic Renaissance thing.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,216
    We ought to have a "Name That Music" department here!

    But, sorry, I don't think that this is Gregorian chant. Chant is always written on a sacred text in Latin, and is almost always music without a steady beat. This song has a steady beat, and I think it's being sung in Italian; also, the words don't sound like they have any religious significance.

    This video is from a television program "The Medici" which aired on PBS, and the program credits are summarized at:
    http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/show/credits.html
  • francis
    Posts: 10,828
    Chant knockoff. Probably composed specifically for this flick (or more likely, lifted from some generic music library for a nominal license fee). In Mixolydian mode (don't get me started on the overused Mixolydian mode in contemporary culture), parallel thirds between Do - Sol in stepwise motion. The real giveaway is that it is loaded with syncopated (20th century) tied eighths. Typical contemporary attempt at mimicking an old style without accomplishing the feat. It is the way of 'sound designer' (they used to be called a film score composer and composed real music) The music on old WB Roadrunner cartoons is much more sophistocated than this.

    Now THIS is filmscore music!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJW7EF5aVk

    This one is phenomenal! Catch the orchestration on the fall of the coyote. (1:54 - 2:37)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asqpwr_StF8&NR=1

    No amateur music was ever allowed on these!
  • miacoyne
    Posts: 1,805
    francis. those music were great. I never paid attention to these before. New discovery for me.
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