Why this creepy melody is in so many movies
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4 жыл бұрынThis deathly 13th-century song shows up everywhere.
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Correction: Mozart’s Requiem isn’t a symphony, it’s a requiem: a type of Catholic mass for the dead. It was initially written for mass but later popularized and performed outside the church, as was Verdi's.
Think back to some of the most dramatic scenes in film history - from The Lion King, The Shining, It’s a Wonderful Life. Besides being sad or scary, they have something else in common: the dies irae. “Dies irae” translates from Latin to “Day of Wrath” - it’s a 13th-century Gregorian chant describing the day Catholics believe God will judge the living and the dead and send them to heaven or hell. And it was sung during one specific mass: funerals.
As Catholicism permeated world culture, the melody of the chant was repurposed into classical music, where it was used to convey a deathly, eerie tone. From there it worked its way into films - and if you don’t already know it, you’ve almost certainly heard it before: It’s played over and over in our scariest and most dramatic cinematic moments.
Here’s Alex Ludwig’s original supercut of movies featuring the dies irae: • Video
There are so many references to the dies irae in classical music that we couldn’t include. One is Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 1908 “symphonic poem” Isle of the Dead ( • Rachmaninov: The Isle ... . He was inspired by this painting from Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin that shows a coffin and white figure on their way to a small island (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of....
Alex briefly touched on the differences between the ancient dorian mode and the modern minor mode. There’s a ton written online about them, but here’s a good place to start if you’re curious: www.musical-u.com/learn/get-f...
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@Vox 4 жыл бұрын
Correction: Mozart’s Requiem isn’t a symphony, it’s a requiem: a type of Catholic mass for the dead. It was initially written for mass but later popularized and performed outside the church, as was Verdi's.
@Montcalf091 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the correction
@proletaire6442 4 жыл бұрын
Cool
@brendan95delany 4 жыл бұрын
@Vox What about Verdi's Messa da Requiem?
@Vox 4 жыл бұрын
@@brendan95delany same thing! edited the correction to reflect that.
@thesenescentsunfish6185 4 жыл бұрын
My band and I make music , we would appreciate if anyone listened
@Kriegter 3 жыл бұрын
so this is what 'Play this song at my funeral' sounded like in middle ages
@sankaranarayanan7847 3 жыл бұрын
now its astronomia
@cherylvijay6230 3 жыл бұрын
Sankaranarayanan S. Ayyar yup😆
@JeromeProductions 3 жыл бұрын
Yepp
@AlonsoQuijanoP 3 жыл бұрын
no, this is more like "this is the song your are allowed to play at funerals"
@Kriegter 3 жыл бұрын
bruh 1.4k likes how
@VOLAIRE 4 жыл бұрын
Pretty much the longest ongoing meme in music
@snugglespheree 4 жыл бұрын
I feel like ive seen you everywhere i go
@shanettequao9043 4 жыл бұрын
𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 yeah basically innit
@sebastianszyperski1886 4 жыл бұрын
This and the licc. But the licc is much much younger.
@Inflake 4 жыл бұрын
So true
@augusto7681 4 жыл бұрын
This isnt a meme. Maybe an easter egg
@SpencerReam 2 жыл бұрын
This is actually used a lot in Squid Game as well. The "death" song that plays includes this sequence of notes.
@dediamkaming 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the "Pink Soldiers" track.
@gettothepoint2707 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah!
@andy-gamer 2 жыл бұрын
@Adolf Hitler i found out before the short
@tomchch 2 жыл бұрын
Is it actually?
@lambrown608 2 жыл бұрын
Who wants to be a Millionaire as well
@leewolf6434 2 жыл бұрын
Can we just appreciate that monks in the 13 century so perfectly captivated a mood that it’s still used to this day!!! Pure genius.
@Bhatt_Hole Жыл бұрын
Not everything is "genius", though that word sure does get thrown around a lot. Maybe it was genius. Or, not. Perhaps it's only because it was used so much, and in these specific ways, that we simply learned those associations. And had it been something very different they wrote, we'd have become conditioned to say/feel these same things about it which we are now saying about the Dies Irae. Why else would music in different cultures (especially those with a very different scale systems) arouse feelings and moods in the listeners from those countries which are not felt by us? Learned neurological hard-wiring beats the snot out of instinctual ones.
@nickjackagliata8323 Жыл бұрын
We have learned to associate the melody through years of repeated use. So the monks had the least effect on its popularization. Every single person who decided to use the melody after had the collective goal of making it a strong association.
@flaguser4196 Жыл бұрын
No.
@nenabunena 7 ай бұрын
Lol anti Catholics can't even give Catholic monks their due.
@racheldsouza8895 5 ай бұрын
@@nenabunenaliterally was about to comment this. And dies irae is like a speck from the vast treasure Catholicism contributed over centuries.
@peachy3153 4 жыл бұрын
“Remember when Mufasa died?” *immediately shuts laptop and cries*
@pauline1024 4 жыл бұрын
peachy that was a tyrannicide.
@andrewc1036 4 жыл бұрын
Underrated
@tinta2531 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@user-fo4ue9mo4z 4 жыл бұрын
Why?
@thomasraahauge5231 4 жыл бұрын
Well, Simba got what he wanted, didn't he? Careful what you wish for, young lion.
@johnchessant3012 3 жыл бұрын
In Home Alone, the Dies Irae theme plays every time Kevin sees Old Man Marley. But when they meet at the church and Kevin finds out he's not a serial killer, the music switches to Carol of the Bells, which uses the same four notes!
@madeniquevanwyk 3 жыл бұрын
okay you've convinced me, time to watch it again
@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 3 жыл бұрын
that is interesting
@Islaras 3 жыл бұрын
That's interesting indeed
@kiana_bon_vivant 3 жыл бұрын
i knew ittt omg i thought i remembered those notes playing in the first home alone movie
@gaoelnlaojehc8913 3 жыл бұрын
How in all possibilities someone out there knew something about this? Im totally confused.
@Albeit_Jordan Жыл бұрын
0:29 If you move those notes down one to the key of C, you get the Disney channel four-note-mnemonic melody theme yes I did just come here from the defunctland video on alex lasarenko
@serenitywingss 3 жыл бұрын
the dies irae is also the Dead by Daylight main theme, as well as Frozen 2's Into The Unknown back vocal
@Kudos_OG 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! And also the menu music for simulacra!
@bravenkirok3142 2 жыл бұрын
looks like i'm five months late noticing. I just posted about the DbD reference
@DungeonTracks 2 жыл бұрын
Well, not quite the dbd theme (due to the rhythms), but I'd still say it's close enough in overall form to count.
@onsidedolphin5283 2 жыл бұрын
yep just about to comment that
@jovialjuliaq8541 2 жыл бұрын
making Christmas, making Christmas
@mollyrocksinmygreentea9829 4 жыл бұрын
bruh time for my daily unnecessary knowledge
@thomdotexe 4 жыл бұрын
true, haven't learned anything useful or interesting in a vox earworm video since the giant steps one.
@zoacynic1365 4 жыл бұрын
Spot on.
@saxyrep1 4 жыл бұрын
It is useful here if you write music for TV or film. 😇
@nickzardiashvili624 4 жыл бұрын
Unnecessary knowledge is the best.
@JLchevz 4 жыл бұрын
haha
@jayclawwit6489 4 жыл бұрын
Vox answers questions I don't ask myself but I'm kinda interested so, I'm here...
@imjustabearwithinternetacc3656 4 жыл бұрын
Bro no replied eek
@caganeri 4 жыл бұрын
Vox answers to questions I didn't know and only at 2 am.
@michaeltaylor6765 4 жыл бұрын
Aren't we all
@dizzyfizzy4203 4 жыл бұрын
And they take things out of context so I'm out!
@seonhwa2262 4 жыл бұрын
S a m e
@j-me79 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the minor key...years ago I was in a psychiatric ward for a time. There was a piano in the common area, and I played it often because we only had music during art therapy. Almost every song I know & love to play is in the minor key, and one of the other patients asked me why I didn't play many "happy" songs. I told him that if I tended towards happy songs I probably wouldn't be where I was right then.
@orangutan.manusiawan Жыл бұрын
3:51 I like how "The Shining" is probably one of the scariest horro movies but then the intro looks like it was made from power point but still somehow managed to look menacing
@Nakilon 4 ай бұрын
Saying that Shining is a horror film is just a meme that people keep repeating after each other in hope to get upvotes.
@Mattstak 4 ай бұрын
@@Nakilonredditor spotted
@javierhernandez1555 4 жыл бұрын
Frozen’s 2 gets added as basically the plot progression.
@imnty97 4 жыл бұрын
Sure thing
@calebjackson3895 4 жыл бұрын
Why tf didn't they make the mother the villain?!? Even the leitmotif set it up perfectly!
@aqua5459 4 жыл бұрын
I see it as foreshadowing, that the "ah ah ah ah" calling Elsa is this tune, signifying that someone dead is probably calling her (i.e. Her mother)
@GellertTV 4 жыл бұрын
@@maya_yaser OH MY GOD AHHHHH
@Bryangenn30 4 жыл бұрын
im about to say this,, but yeah the Frozen 2 has this melody...
@Blueeyesinthesky 4 жыл бұрын
It’s used in Mulan too when the Huns are getting ready to strike
@freakishlyfeline 4 жыл бұрын
LET'S GO KICK SOME HUNNY BUNS! :p
@MizzWGGrrrl 4 жыл бұрын
Oooh, now I gotta re-watch "Mulan" for that reason! (But I'll take just about any reason to re-watch a favorite movie.)
@christiang3576 4 жыл бұрын
LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS, TO DEFEAT THE HUNS!
@artsyebonyrose 4 жыл бұрын
@@MizzWGGrrrl same dude haha
@jessicazeller8060 4 жыл бұрын
YAAAAAAAAS.
@thesterndragoon9159 Жыл бұрын
It's the core melody repeated over and over as a sort of musical score march in "Making Christmas" from The Nightmare Before Christmas. They actually manage to create a kind of inverse or bizarro "happy song" out of it because the monsters of Halloween Town are trying to 'benevolently' take over Christmas, but their actions foreshadow disaster because they don't understand it. It's an absolutely brilliant way of communicating that the monsters are inadvertently "killing Christmas".
@jonathanmaybaum4167 5 ай бұрын
Yeah the second I heard the melody, that was the song that came right to mind!
@judaronen 5 ай бұрын
@@jonathanmaybaum4167 Same here 💀
@magicaltour1 Жыл бұрын
The opening notes of “Music of the Night” from “Phantom of the Opera” has those notes too. It works, since the Phantom has essentially brought Christine into the Underworld!
@eligil4629 4 жыл бұрын
This is literally the ‘Siren call’ in frozen 2
@jennamcguire6281 4 жыл бұрын
i was wondering why it made me feel so sentimental. I had like a weird connection to it. wow
@imnty97 4 жыл бұрын
And that's why I'm here bruh
@werewolf1806 4 жыл бұрын
I told my wife about that. We went to see it yesterday and immediately, once the played for the first time, I remembered this video.
@seangoh4337 4 жыл бұрын
That is what I thought
@gamingchamp6728 4 жыл бұрын
Oh i juat realized
@myanimations120 Жыл бұрын
it's referenced in the song "Making Christmas" from Nightmare before Christmas, mostly the chorus.
@oracle627 Жыл бұрын
Also a little park of jack’s lament
@madrigal1956 5 ай бұрын
You can hear this melody in quite a lot of classical music works : Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead and Paganini Rhapsody, Liszt's Totentanz, Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, among manyh others. It apperas also in Bergman's film "the seventh seal".
@wcsxwcsx 5 ай бұрын
Those notes are the motif that permeates the entirety of Rachmaninoff's First Symphony.
@OnEwHoRiDesLinEs 4 жыл бұрын
Vox knows how to construct an opener: “here’s four music notes that humans know mean death, and here’s why they mean death”
@c0smoKram3r 4 жыл бұрын
Stopped watching at 1:16 because that's all I needed!
@JeromeProductions 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. (1000th like)
@sofiacapella 3 жыл бұрын
And now those four notes are also in Elsa's song Into the Unknown from Frozen 2. I bet those monks from the Middle Ages never imagined it.
@randomgirlthatisadino3890 3 жыл бұрын
@@c0smoKram3r I'm watching the whole thing because why not I want knowledge
@SonofPerson 3 жыл бұрын
Except this was stolen from another uploader.
@victoriajenkins1424 3 жыл бұрын
*Death has it’s own theme music* That makes more sense than it should.
@RobFeldkamp 2 жыл бұрын
if anything, i guess death would. Study requiems...they are literally awesome. (edit: 1:53...nvm)
@scratchpad7954 10 ай бұрын
Does this theme play when a certain S3XY wolf enters the room in The Last Wish?
@an-animal-lover 8 ай бұрын
@@scratchpad7954thar would be so freaking fitting if the case
@Military.FutureUrbanCamo 6 ай бұрын
@@an-animal-lover dark
@Alestrix76 5 ай бұрын
its != it's
@summerbayexile 5 ай бұрын
This is absolutely fascinating. I am definitely going to listen for it from now on!
@ronaldl9085 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this.
@jfncho 3 жыл бұрын
Dies irae: 2020's theme song.
@BB-hx4mj 3 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more😂😂
@desireedickson2057 3 жыл бұрын
That's almost how my name is pronounced 🤔😬
@meadowdream9144 3 жыл бұрын
@@desireedickson2057 lol yes it does! Sorry I'm laughing with you...not at you.
@shark7186 3 жыл бұрын
lol
@iealdb9415 3 жыл бұрын
@@desireedickson2057 it does 😂😂😂
@jacobren9616 4 жыл бұрын
Okay this is creepy In my choir class we are singing “making christmas” from nightmare before Christmas and it has these notes. My choir teacher JUST talked about this today what it says in this video and now I got home open KZfaq and this is on my recommended
@jonesboy332 4 жыл бұрын
RUN!!! Jacob RUN!!!
@crishealingvtuber8626 4 жыл бұрын
it happens. i hate it
@pxnkcowgirl1802 4 жыл бұрын
ayeee we sang making christmas roo
@clarity-re3mn 4 жыл бұрын
So this is your fault
@adelathesimpslyricvideocha217 4 жыл бұрын
It's also in that other song where Jack has a mental breakdown
@Shane-music 2 жыл бұрын
This actually helped me with a song I am creating. Thanks!
@donutdude6918 Жыл бұрын
i sang the song "dies irae" in choir and its one of my favorite songs ive done
@ltp_nonexistent9944 Жыл бұрын
Cool
@duchi882 4 жыл бұрын
*I actually never noticed the melody* Until I watched this video
@AFFI909 4 жыл бұрын
You would be surprised at what else we dont notice. Subliminals all over the place, and some truth mixed with lies
@Super-qr7wm 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly . Keyword -creepy . So now its suddenly creepy :)
@matrixfull 4 жыл бұрын
I actually never noticed that I am suppose to be creeped out by that melody lol.
@tonywasikhongo7510 4 жыл бұрын
I think I noticed it on a subconscious level
@Super-qr7wm 4 жыл бұрын
@@matrixfull word science my friend . Heres another one . Justice . Just-ice . Courts rooms take years while collecting your money with no results . So your case is JUST on ICE . Have a wonder-full day :)
@deckarddwizardd1909 3 жыл бұрын
I just realized this sounds like Frozen 2, the sound that makes Elsa anxious
@fangirl_43 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the composers actually used the Dies Irae intentionally.
@nengnakumakanta 3 жыл бұрын
OMG
@scratcher-chan3905 3 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I know-
@niiyubariiruhamusach.9102 3 жыл бұрын
You're not alone, dude
@xedsdead1420 3 жыл бұрын
the fact that's what she heard, it makes me believe that if anna hadnt found her she would've died.
@EDMS 2 жыл бұрын
The Krampus Theme (Krampus Karol of the Bells) also has a variation of this notes! makes sense why it made me uncomfortable now lol.
@maxibaer 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice piece, cool research and examples! This was interesting, thanks!
@kekus_blickus 4 жыл бұрын
When you realize, that the Shining theme is in Star Wars: "Here's Johnny!" "Hello there"
@YoniAndreiDDiego 4 жыл бұрын
OMG THIS IS TOO ACCURATE
@Stigmatix666 4 жыл бұрын
"The Shining Theme" .. lol
@Space_Potat 4 жыл бұрын
Bartl Bricks “Put a smile on your face~”
@lawlini1979 4 жыл бұрын
Obi and r2 or obi and general grevous?
@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@tian9716 3 жыл бұрын
Nobody: Vox: *spoils three of the most important movies ever in just 10 seconds*
@gabrieljreed 3 жыл бұрын
Lol I love this and I hate to be that guy, but Luke's aunt/uncle dying isn't a super big spoiler
@icantthinkofanything798 3 жыл бұрын
@@gabrieljreed technically it is, but it's one of those movies that's so insanely big that there's no way you haven't heard spoilers. I've not seen it's a wonderful life but I know the plot for that same reason.
@j.a.weishaupt1748 3 жыл бұрын
Tian Right Here That “nobody” part is completely unnecessary.
@Alphae21 3 жыл бұрын
Spoiler alert: grass is green 🙀🙀🙀
@wilmerbz 3 жыл бұрын
So, if you have not seen some of the most important movies ever, you might not even be interested, or you already saw them. They are very old, so... someone needs to catch up (not you, but whoever has not seen them)
@Salve_Regina8 2 жыл бұрын
I love hearing the Dies Iræ chanted during a Requiem Latin Mass.
@_Cato_ Жыл бұрын
Latin Mass gang Dominus vobiscum!
@anonymoush9418 6 ай бұрын
Yes! It’s such a beautiful chant. Personally i have never heard it in real life, so i have listened to it on yt. Yes, very beautiful indeed.
@Salve_Regina8 6 ай бұрын
@@_Cato_ yuppp! 💯
@Salve_Regina8 6 ай бұрын
@@anonymoush9418 it’s amazing!!!
@ferdabernstudios1187 Жыл бұрын
It’s also the theme in nightmare before Christmas
@BAMMiE21 4 жыл бұрын
Wait.. isn’t that the “silent siren” from Frozen II?
@welp4576 4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@welp4576 4 жыл бұрын
randomgirlG it is!
@meaganentriken7491 4 жыл бұрын
Omg ur right
@bee-po1mr 4 жыл бұрын
*AHHH AHHH AHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
@TommyElijahCabelloReal 4 жыл бұрын
NO DON'T GIVE ME SPOILERS I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED ALL OF INFINITY WAR YET
@lewiscullen8236 4 жыл бұрын
Mozart's Requiem is not a symphony called Requiem. The Requiem is a genre in itself with a set text taken from the Requiem Mass - the same text set by Verdi (and many others). Neither is it "outside the church" as it was first performed at the funeral service of his commissioner.
@lewiscullen8236 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the correction and thanks for the content!
@derpina8330 4 жыл бұрын
You forgot to fly away bruh
@ConcietedMuchXD 4 жыл бұрын
Vox stole this comment
@drpeppers2569 Жыл бұрын
Dies Irae sounds exactly like the Carol of the Bells melody in D minor, which is a really happy carol.
@lilelly16 Жыл бұрын
It doesn't sound like a happy Carol to me, though - I always found it haunting and mesmerizing.
@SteveSensenig 5 ай бұрын
@@lilelly16 I think that part of the reason is the change in rhythm. Instead of 4 equal-length ominous sounding notes, the two middle notes are twice as fast, putting the melody in 3/4 instead of 4/4, and it's usually played at a faster tempo anyway -- all of which counters the built-in historical sadness and grief of the original dies irae
@JhadeSagrav 5 ай бұрын
I just figured this out yesterday when I was wondering why that Christmas carol is so friggin THREATENING and hummed it slowly and BROSKIE THAT IS THE DIES IRAE WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THAT A CAROL!?!
@GoofballLtG 2 жыл бұрын
That was fascinating thank you!
@alexgurke3462 3 жыл бұрын
Let's be real: Everyone just clicked the video just to hear the music...
@akbas58 3 жыл бұрын
Ok im real now what ?
@Yun_Abraxas 3 жыл бұрын
Nope. Love the music but that wasn't the reason I clicked it.
@arandomperson5130 3 жыл бұрын
so؟
@barbmcelderry9164 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Saginaw72 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but I stayed for the lecture.
@niyaboyd3805 4 жыл бұрын
I just realized something: In the Nightmare before Christmas, Jack sings a song called Jacks Lament. In the song, the start of the chorus, “Oh somewhere deep...” is the same four notes in this video. The whole movie is associated with death, so it was pretty genius on the composers side.
@kjcorder 2 жыл бұрын
That would be Danny Elfman who yes. Is a musical genius and I'm sure it was intentional
@ghostboogie 2 жыл бұрын
It is also in the fight with Jack and Oogie Boogie
@jojogarcia8766 2 жыл бұрын
Danny Elfman my dude is the best
@Fact_core 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it’s In making Christmas also
@gameygeemer4142 Жыл бұрын
Making Christmas is almost nothing but the Dies Irae
@Eremon1 2 жыл бұрын
I thought I was going a bit wonky in the head. I keep hearing this familiar tune in movies but could never find much info on what it was. Glad to see I'm not going completely bonkers.
@flamingmcshizzle6709 2 жыл бұрын
As soon as you mentioned 'Dies Irae' my mind went to the part in 'The Whole Being Dead Thing' (from Beetlejuice: The Musical) where the ensemble started to chant that. It goes something like this: I have mastered the art (Dies Irae) Of tearing convention apart (Dies Irae) It's basically near the end of the song. It definitely makes sense-
@Donar23 4 жыл бұрын
So the Dies Irae is basically a very old meme ...
@Vibeguest 4 жыл бұрын
😂
@juliuskilonzi4421 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@Donar23 4 жыл бұрын
@HarleyHilderson Well, by Dawkin's definition of meme it clearly is one, but it was/is even used like an internet meme nowadays.
@mev0759 4 жыл бұрын
Memes often have elements of humor or satire... so I looked up and found this: Today, the word is sometimes used to describe ideas deemed to be of passing value. Dawkins himself described such short-lived ideas as memes that would have a short life in the meme pool. I'd say this is not a meme since it is not short-lived or containing humor (2nd definition under one posted by HarleyHilderson. Not arguing, just adding info I found so save those @'s
@mev0759 4 жыл бұрын
@@Donar23 All due respect, but I think you may have misread his definition. ✌
@rixx46 4 жыл бұрын
So interesting, thanks. It’s the “Wilhelm Scream” of music 😵
@Belioyt 4 жыл бұрын
What's the 'Wilhelm Scream'?
@EricJern77 4 жыл бұрын
If you like immersion in movies, don't look it up.
@mariaysuflor 4 жыл бұрын
I literally heard it in my head as I read this comment 😂
@macuare 4 жыл бұрын
Kipruto Bett remember when that storm trooper fell? That was is the Wilber scream.
@hw29472 4 жыл бұрын
Nah that's ""the lick"
@invertedpizza7662 2 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for this forever lol, I needed it lol
@artdonovandesign 2 жыл бұрын
That's absolutely incredible! I never knew.
@TheGreatandAlmightyPoob 4 жыл бұрын
absolutely NOBODY'S talking about how the melody is also in stairway to heaven?
@bmoklsc 4 жыл бұрын
Sung over the iconic guitar solo no less. Good catch.
@lentzdadjentlaman1348 4 жыл бұрын
Limelight really
@tingtingshiny2877 4 жыл бұрын
The manager of the beatles said all notes have been played, its all just rewritten and copied. He compiled a cd in the late 98/99? , with robin williams, sean connery etc singing beatle songs...hope that helps in finding his name.
@Jonas-jr7oq 4 жыл бұрын
@@tingtingshiny2877 It was their producer, George Martin. Their Manager died in 1967.
@tingtingshiny2877 4 жыл бұрын
@@Jonas-jr7oq thanks jonny, appreciate that, I was not a beatle fan, someone bought tht cd into our space...they bled beatle juice every where.... the best George of the group, their producer. His music discoveries had him recording the sound of water to the hidden sonics. The sound of water is a Gorgeous experience and off the charts of the deeps.
@erynnoconnor3462 4 жыл бұрын
So, it's the musical version of a 'Wilhelm scream', even if it's far older than the trope itself. Fascinating.
@sofasniperman 4 жыл бұрын
Haha
@frightenedsoul 4 жыл бұрын
Howie scream is better!
@LegoDude3258 2 жыл бұрын
As soon as I heard the Dies Irea in the clip of the Symphonie Fantasique I instantly recognized it from the Shining.
@madjoe8622 2 жыл бұрын
5:10 that sounds like something I have heard in Death Note. So they used that too? Seems cool.
@michaeld4676 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not being a troll here, but was the Dies Ire also the basis of the strange tune in Frozen 2?
@vortexriver1071 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@angstyintellectual4960 3 жыл бұрын
O. M. G. Yes. Brilliant.
@JandroSingz 3 жыл бұрын
I was LITERALLY just about to say this!! Went straight to the comments to see if anyone else noticed it first 😭😂❄️
@jilliansdustychair6499 3 жыл бұрын
Yes! Of course it was also heavily inspired by an ancient Nordic herding call known as “kulning” which is equally just as ethereal and a bit creepy
@michaeld4676 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all the responses guys. :-)
@han-gyoulim6786 4 жыл бұрын
The ballad of Sweeny Todd also has the Dies Irae motif.
@IlaughedIcried 4 жыл бұрын
OOH, the first four notes of "Swing your razor high, Sweeney" are that motif!!! You're right!
@assydrefluxx9941 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and Epiphany is based off the Dies Irae too. Sondheim is such a genius
@ThomasGunnariRtting 4 жыл бұрын
The first line in "not while I'm around" is actually the dies irae upside down (inverted), the whole score is based on the dies irae motif :D
@stanconnorstan4266 4 жыл бұрын
@@ThomasGunnariRtting which is why Sondheim is a genius composer
@sxturnx_8767 4 жыл бұрын
Stephen is a genius, I swear
@oxitape1563 2 жыл бұрын
Dies Irae is also used in the main theme for the game Dead by Daylight
@teethonfire13 Жыл бұрын
I just started watching White Lotus and I thought I recognized the melody. It ended up taking my back to this video, it also uses the Dies Irae
@mrbear1302 4 жыл бұрын
too bad those monks didn't copyright their notes in the music!....lol
@oRealAlieNo 4 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't matter. Record companies these days are roofless....
@moondust2365 4 жыл бұрын
@@oRealAlieNo Plus the copyright would've expired by now. Plus copyright didn't exist back then...
@bvbs5572 4 жыл бұрын
@@moondust2365 r/wooosh
@snausages43 4 жыл бұрын
It would have expired by now.
@mrbear1302 4 жыл бұрын
@@snausages43 seriously....it was a joke....duh.
@mat2468xk 4 жыл бұрын
"Alex Ludwig, a musicologist." Ludwig and musicologist are two words meant to be together in the same sentence, tbh.
@agoogleuser8945 3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah! Like that one guy, what was it again? Ludwig van Amadeus Mozart? Sounds about right.
@mat2468xk 3 жыл бұрын
@@aliduamni4570 Unfortunately, yes.
@TheStillChillMimikyuOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
@@agoogleuser8945 Ludwig van Beethoven.
@GomaaFilms 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheStillChillMimikyuOfficial Ludwig Göransson
@A-B101 3 жыл бұрын
Ludvig Forsell great video game composer
@brooklyngal6334 2 жыл бұрын
This was very interesting! Now i will look out for the notes too.
@magorovthegreat6801 2 жыл бұрын
Ever since Ive heard about this melody it it reminded me of something and I finally figured out what. Its used in Heroes of Might and Magic 5 main theme, now I finally now why the theme is so epic
@satriaamiluhur622 4 жыл бұрын
This is why we have cliché, because it just works
@Shiny7054 4 жыл бұрын
It's not cliche so much as formula.
@yenee94 4 жыл бұрын
@@Shiny7054 cliches are just formulas that work well
@megavolt67 4 жыл бұрын
Since "cliche" carries a negative connotation, I've always thought of the word "convention" as an alternative description of an often reused formula (a lot of people these days say "trope", but like cliche, it's also often used in a negative or dismissive way). An idea or approach that is conventional is something that just works rather than something which is felt to be overused.
@andknuckles9366 4 жыл бұрын
The thing about having a engine where you can do anything is that it just works
@judah4436 4 жыл бұрын
satria amiluhur IT JUST WORKS.
@christonchua5188 4 жыл бұрын
Mozart's Requiem wasn't a symphony but a mass, even though it's impact still lives on to today.
@razzmatazz1974 4 жыл бұрын
a funeral mass
@obviouslytwo4u 4 жыл бұрын
What drugs are you on I will have double of what you're having
@tonyclifton265 6 ай бұрын
hadnt noticed this before. good work. liked and sub'd
@XadiXGaming 8 ай бұрын
The song What is love has these 4 notes repeating a lot
@mayle2010 4 жыл бұрын
People complain about sampling now, but it's been happening for literal centuries
@victorhaaning 4 жыл бұрын
Who complains about sampling?
@cynthiavasquez4010 4 жыл бұрын
Havnt seen anyone complain about sampling
@monikyut 4 жыл бұрын
@@victorhaaning there's a lot on twitter (overly devoted fans of some artists)
@stevethepocket 4 жыл бұрын
There have been literal lawsuits over songs sounding slightly similar to other ones lately. And I don't mean from the RIAA or record companies; this is artists suing each other. And _winning._ Katy Perry recently lost a suit to some rando on Soundcloud that she couldn't possibly have heard of. It's nuts.
@cam-gv2gf 4 жыл бұрын
@@stevethepocketlitigation by multimillionaire companies does not equal social and common-folk complaints about sampling.
@xXGrandclosingXx 3 жыл бұрын
I just realized this "dies irae" theme is also used in Dead by Daylight's main theme! Wow.
@Frank-mz3tt 3 жыл бұрын
@@locrian1681 me too
@aka_bowers2046 3 жыл бұрын
Ahhh a person of culture, well played
@xXGrandclosingXx 3 жыл бұрын
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@justajobro1266 2 жыл бұрын
It’s not death note too!
@loganhowlett8723 2 жыл бұрын
Thank god I’m not alone
@WhatABlankName Жыл бұрын
thanks, this will now never leave my mind and i will notice it **everywhere.**
@behavedave 2 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised Tubular bells is still known as the music from the Exorcist in the US. I thought it would have been culturally significant enough to be known by its own name.
@mermanhellville 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder though, are we just "trained" to feel that way about minor keys or is there something more, say, biological/innate that makes us react this way to certain frequencies, and why have we evolved thus. Beside shady pseudoscientific reasoning, that is
@fartkerson 4 жыл бұрын
The question to every deep question is almost always "nature or nurture", isn't it?
@arikalamari19 4 жыл бұрын
not a remarkable question at all
@Leonardo-G 4 жыл бұрын
It might have to do with the simpler frequency ratios between the notes of a major chord. It has the frequency ratios of 4:5:6, while a minor chord has the ratios of 10:12:15, making it more unstable.
@breakfree1967 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks finally someone that thinks like me
@pinkmagicali 3 жыл бұрын
I always liked minor keys. They seem melancholy not depressing.
@Ella-ym2yq 4 жыл бұрын
Basically the whole of the music written from the musical 'Sweeney Todd' uses the dies irae, the plot is so heavily based around death, it can be found in literally every song (with the exception of like 2). I find it so amazing how Sondheim finds a way to change the format of the dies irae (for example Ms Lovett's liet motif, it is basically the dies irae flipped upside down). I find the way that the dies irae sets the scene for the musical really amazing. I always find that when I listen to the music in Sweeney Todd it really does make me think of death. The dies irae is such an amazing piece in that sense that it link our thoughts to a event with just a few notes. There is a yt video by sideways which rlly explaines it better and has a whole video on it and explains it way better.
@Malik-Ibi 3 жыл бұрын
There is a video about it.
@comradevladimir6664 2 жыл бұрын
the 4 notes just fits so well with those scenes
@Megs24theJokerQueen Жыл бұрын
This melody also showed up in a piece of music I haven't heard in like 16 or 15 years! Only after the four Dies irae notes at the beginning there were some screeching strings
@Ur2ez4me81 4 жыл бұрын
That melody is definitely in a nightmare before Christmas...
@AustinSteingrube 4 жыл бұрын
Ur2ez4me81 "This is Christmas"
@Ur2ez4me81 4 жыл бұрын
Austin Steingrube “Making Christmas...”
@ShadowMantraSteve 4 жыл бұрын
That's what came to mind as well
@rachaelmerwin8188 4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome, i was thinking that right before i came across this comment. It's neat because it's not just background music, it's like, the tune of the music.
@adelathesimpslyricvideocha217 4 жыл бұрын
That song where Jack has a mental breakdown.. I forgot what its called
@erin79 4 жыл бұрын
I love Moe Zart, and Franz Linst, and Giuseppay Verday.
@linablanco6853 4 жыл бұрын
BaronVonComment underrated comment
@thomasraahauge5231 4 жыл бұрын
I love Buhh Liuhhz and Jo-huuun Sebastian I'll-be-Bachrr
@andrepapillon 4 жыл бұрын
Louis-Hector Berlioz ? To my knowledge he never used Louis.
@yalltrippin1112 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for using the proper pronunciation
@nivad75 4 жыл бұрын
what, did they hire some kid from the local high school to narrate this?
@iam7bit 3 жыл бұрын
Wow thats something I never knew! Thnx Vox!
@bridgetgee1659 Жыл бұрын
The tower song in the newest season of Westworld is definitely giving dies irae
@R.A.L.Dreams 4 жыл бұрын
The song “Making Christmas” from the Nightmare Before Christmas literally uses this throughout the entire somg
@blddyvel1506 4 жыл бұрын
Elsa sis they in ur sequel like, the entire time
@R.A.L.Dreams 4 жыл бұрын
BloodyVelvet kiisix yeah Ik sis but my songs where a bop tho right?
@alexandrajames9352 4 жыл бұрын
That was my first thought too!!
@dinkledankle 4 жыл бұрын
Well it _was_ mentioned in the video, so.
@liaaa6396 4 жыл бұрын
Tim Burton uses it a lot in his movies to signify death lol
@lulutheblue52 3 жыл бұрын
All I could hear this entire time was “Making Christmas, making Christmas-“ Send help pls all I can hear now is that tune
@techissus7449 3 жыл бұрын
Same here, first thing I thought when I heard it
@jenniferhiemstra5228 3 жыл бұрын
Ok, but when I watching this just now, I was like....I know it's everywhere but what's the ONE instance that I know of that I can't recall? Then "Nightmare" comes up and I about lose it and nearly threw my phone...
@benbehrenfeld9379 3 жыл бұрын
Immediately what I thought of
@ADMusic1999 3 жыл бұрын
Yes same here. But something interesting is that if you speed up the tune, it sounds a lot like Carol of the Bells.
@katiekelley502 3 жыл бұрын
Me too!!!!!!!
@kylefrew9645 2 жыл бұрын
I remember learning about this in band class a couple years ago. I was wondering what it’s called
@nathanbessman261 Жыл бұрын
whats interesting to me is those 4 notes, ar every prominent in dead by daylights theme, meaning there is a meaning behind these notes in that game
@osayilois4841 3 жыл бұрын
I just realized that these same exact notes were played in Home Alone 1, when Kevin encounters the "creepy neighbor" for the first time.
@jacobcox4565 3 жыл бұрын
When Kevin meets the old man in the church, Carol of the Bros plays, Carol of the Bells has the same notes as Dies Irae
@antoineveillerette8129 4 жыл бұрын
Mozart requiem isn't a symphony.... Its a requiem (funeral mass)
@lucatiu1608 4 жыл бұрын
True story man
@Writer_Productions_Map Жыл бұрын
I think Papers Please also uses the Dies Irae music. On its theme song, especially in the start.
@mox9076 7 ай бұрын
Rachmoninoff's Paganini Variations has a Dies Irie. Then ge brings it back just before the end of the ending. Its beeb said that Paganini sold his soul to the Devil to be such a great violinist.
@jarfo9663 4 жыл бұрын
The first notes on the frozen II trailer be like
@seangoh4337 4 жыл бұрын
Yup
@jadetheslime3140 4 жыл бұрын
Dies irae, dies irae.
@itsROMPERS... 3 жыл бұрын
I've noticed this for years without knowing what it is called or where it came from. But this video failed to explain what is to me the most obvious explanation for why it has the effect that it does. As they said, DESCENDING melodies are perceived as dark or sad. So what Dies Irae does is drop a half-step, then return to the first "reference" note and then drop even further, giving the sense of a progressive descent, or the feeling that things are going down at an increasing rate, that the bottom is dropping out. It drops, then it drops MORE... And so on. This has always seemed so obvious to me it never occurred to me that it was based on a specific historical entity.
@personxyz8309 2 жыл бұрын
And semitones sound universally tensional.
@deloreswilson1798 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating.🤔
@AutPen38 4 ай бұрын
Probably the best example of "semitones sounding tensional" is the theme music to Jaws. If you just keep repeating two notes a semitone apart while getting faster and faster, a shark wil eventually appear.
@shirleyrombough8173 3 ай бұрын
So don't sing these four noted at the beach.
@shirleyrombough8173 3 ай бұрын
"...notes..."
@potshead 3 жыл бұрын
When ever I hear that melody it always reminds me of the shining melody
@birchsight 6 ай бұрын
I remember hearing about the Dies Irea and researching it a year ago when I was taking music class and kept hearing the melody in the some movies we watched :v but didn't find alot of videos Intill I came across this video today in my recommendation 0-0
@JusticeAnimeGeek 4 жыл бұрын
All I can think of is "Making Christmas" from The Nightmare Before Christmas... Hmm lol
@gorillaguerillaDK 4 жыл бұрын
Jane Justice Doe I love that movie!
@AwesomePurpleStar 4 жыл бұрын
I thought the same!!
@ericweatherby9628 4 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing: the "Maaa - kiing - Christ - maas" phrase is sung to those four notes.
@nathandrake5544 4 жыл бұрын
Nice catch! I never noticed that
@shmert 4 жыл бұрын
Not just that, but Jack's Lament is also a variation of this theme, with different timing.
@vb2388 4 жыл бұрын
‘Rocky Mountains’ from The Shining is probably my all time favourite score..
@teaver-5140 4 жыл бұрын
Vachan radiohead fans always have great taste
@SeeMick1 4 жыл бұрын
That’s almost directly taken from Berlioz. They even make the synths sound like the horns.
@jackpaice 4 жыл бұрын
@@SeeMick1 I thought it basically was an adaptation of it
@Astronomater 4 жыл бұрын
it is up there for me as well but my favorite will always be 2001's Star gate sequence. Kubrick always had fantastic music!
@harrylane4 4 жыл бұрын
Not even the best Kubrick score my dude, clockwork orange takes that prize
@DevinSeeleyDevilO Жыл бұрын
This melody is used a lot in The Nightmare Before Christmas, I love it
@fredejakobsen218 2 жыл бұрын
Came back after hearing the theme In Squid Game..
@ryotaarai3816 4 жыл бұрын
So I guess this makes "Carol of the Bells" super creepy then. It has a whole stanzas with nothing but this melody. 😂
@thespectralchannel 4 жыл бұрын
in all fairness, I did always find it to be a fairly spooky, 'wintery cold' sounding song
@kitchensinkchronicles3272 4 жыл бұрын
and that’s why the nightmare before christmas used a combination of dies irae and carol of the bells for the song making christmas! it’s almost too perfect of a combination!
@cruz.c 4 жыл бұрын
its a different rhythm, that might make a difference
@totalperfection9194 4 жыл бұрын
Carol of the Bells is in 3/4 time signature which completely changes the “spooky” element formed from common time
@wayfaringspacepoet 4 жыл бұрын
Take off your western music goggles dude, the Щедрик is a pre-Christian Slavic pagan new year's chant that had nothing to do with Dies Irae until contemporary western composers created the association with it in film scores
@mallee-ann4061 3 жыл бұрын
if you’ve seen Frozen 2, you’ll also notice that this piece of music is heavy in the storyline. When I really listened to the siren’s song, I was blown away 😳😳 a really nice choice for that one
@bilingualkaraoke8665 2 жыл бұрын
I hadn't realized it until the composer explicitly pointed it out in an interview, becausey rhythmically it is so much defamiliarized.
@lilelly16 Жыл бұрын
Wow good one! It's rrue, it's the siren's song 😮
@shurjoaunibar Жыл бұрын
After the release of "Into the Unknown", it's become much more popular and recognisable now
@gracie15928 9 ай бұрын
Is it in the Disney hunchback of notre dame? I know they use the text dies irae frequently throughout that film, for example when Frollo murders Quasimodo’s mother in the opening musical number.
@myla9140 4 жыл бұрын
Nothing is as scary as the minecraft cave ambiance
@aureavita8653 4 жыл бұрын
_MINECRAFT CAVE WAR FLASHBACK_
@BaldMancTwat 4 жыл бұрын
They actually make those sounds with a gong, look it up.
@Stand_Tall 4 жыл бұрын
disk 13
@eliascrooker7773 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@Duncan_Idaho_Potato 4 жыл бұрын
Yes there is. Minecraft cave ambiance + an unexpected "TSSSSSSZZZZ" behind you. I've cartoonishly screamed "NOOO!" when this happens more times than I care to admit.
@Fogmeister 4 жыл бұрын
2:46 piano music... I fully expected... “First I was afraid, I was petrified, ...” 🤣
@ladygiddy 4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha🤣🤣
@centiments11 4 жыл бұрын
Kept thinking i could never leave without you by my side
@olezka_dostoevsky 4 жыл бұрын
Eilish But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong And I grew strong And I learned how to get along
@nokaittothepoet4218 3 жыл бұрын
I can't stahp laughing
@mazeppa1231 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a Liszt fan, and I found this funny. xD
@chinchilla641 2 жыл бұрын
Making Christmas is the first one that comes to mind when I think of the dies irae after Mozart and Verdi ofc.
@lineriderrulz 3 жыл бұрын
This can also be very explicitly heard in the vocals at the beginning of the "Mansion of Madness" track in the Timesplitters: Future Perfect soundtrack.
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