Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings

Subject: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 02:36 PM

Can anyone tell me the name of the music used as a theme tune to introduce the UK TV coverage of the Apollo space missions/moon landings?

It used kettle drums and went sort of:

DA   DA    da-DA   boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom boom-boom   


G   /c    /g f# /    hi-lo       hi-lo       hi-lo       hi-lo



Everyone I ask, can sing it instantly but no-one knows the name.


Doug

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: GUEST,Allan
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 02:59 PM

Well that looks like Also Sprach Zarathustra written by Richard Strauss. It was also used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM

Now you mention '2001: A space Odyssey', I think you're right

Thanks, I'll check it out


DC

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 03:19 PM

That's the one.

Ta!

DC

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 18 Mar 07 - 05:56 PM

Sorry to nitpick, but that isn't quite how "Also Sprach Zarathusthra" goes, is it ?

Isn't it more like

C /G /C/ E-Eb ?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:11 AM

Maybe so, but it's still the tune that I meant.

DC

Subject: RE: Tune Req: UK TV theme - Apollo / moon landings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 02:15 AM

I did say " .......and went sort of:"


DC