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Bach's Fugue in D Minor VS young child!

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  • 01-11-2014 12:51am
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    Going Forward
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    I thought it was a manufactured thing, that we somehow had been "sold" the idea that the first few seconds of this was "scary ".

    I was more than surprised when I played the start of the piece on CD for my 3 year old niece.

    Just before the organ swell she said "This is scary music!!"

    I asked her if she'd ever heard it before and she said no. And not a big Tv viewer either.

    Weird or what??


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    An Riabhach
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    I think tis scary alright-and that's why I have it as my message notification tone,tis deadly!
    Tis an all time classic,and indeed has been used in horror movies like "Tales From The Crypt".
    But,for a long time it has been wrongly linked with Dracula-all thanks to Hollywood and that music being played every time a picture of Dracula or a reference to the film was made-when the truth is,Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was never used in any Dracula film.

    The same can be said for that O Fortuna stuff and The Omen.
    I got pretty fed up of hearing that music in the backdrop of references to The Omen e.g. documentaries etc.With O Fortuna being a lively celebration song about a Pagan goddess,I really don't know how that became associated with The Omen-when I hear that I can only think of an old tv ad for Old Spice.I mean,tis not even one bit scary!!
    Listen to O Fortuna,and then listen to the real soundtrack Ave Satani,and then you'll know!


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    Seasan wrote: »
    I think tis scary alright-and that's why I have it as my message notification tone,tis deadly!
    Tis an all time classic,and indeed has been used in horror movies like "Tales From The Crypt".
    But,for a long time it has been wrongly linked with Dracula-all thanks to Hollywood and that music being played every time a picture of Dracula or a reference to the film was made-when the truth is,Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was never used in any Dracula film.

    The same can be said for that O Fortuna stuff and The Omen.
    I got pretty fed up of hearing that music in the backdrop of references to The Omen e.g. documentaries etc.With O Fortuna being a lively celebration song about a Pagan goddess,I really don't know how that became associated with The Omen-when I hear that I can only think of an old tv ad for Old Spice.I mean,tis not even one bit scary!!
    Listen to O Fortuna,and then listen to the real soundtrack Ave Satani,and then you'll know!


    But why is it so scary????

    Yeah, O Fortuna, I'll try that for her next experiment!! She won't have seen the Omen or old spice ads!

    I experienced it being butchered some years ago during the opera festival in Wexford, a choir suffering from flu accompanied by a single piano in a church recital.


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