Music notes #3
Sep. 28th, 2014 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grand_finaleEntry of the Gladiators 
This is another song that's instantly recognizable. You will recognize this after the first 15 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
That's right. Everyone universally recognizes it as "the Clown Song," or maybe "the Circus Song." The song that plays as clowns rush in to perform.
Julius Fučík was a Czech composer with an interest in Roman history, which is where the title "Entry of the Gladiators," comes from. Given that it is now associated with something very un-gladiator like, I thought it was appropriate for an icon where Nonon is shocked/unnerved by whatever she's seeing. The expression you might make when you see the gladiators you were expecting turn out to be a bunch of clowns.
(Still, the full version is very nice.)
This is another song that's instantly recognizable. You will recognize this after the first 15 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
That's right. Everyone universally recognizes it as "the Clown Song," or maybe "the Circus Song." The song that plays as clowns rush in to perform.
Julius Fučík was a Czech composer with an interest in Roman history, which is where the title "Entry of the Gladiators," comes from. Given that it is now associated with something very un-gladiator like, I thought it was appropriate for an icon where Nonon is shocked/unnerved by whatever she's seeing. The expression you might make when you see the gladiators you were expecting turn out to be a bunch of clowns.
(Still, the full version is very nice.)
