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Music is a language and while it's often used to convey hope, love, excitement, courage, sometimes it's also used for Doom and Gloom. This is the soundtrack show.

This is the soundtrack show. The Welcome to the soundtrack show. I'm your host, David W Collins. And on this episode,

we're going to have some fun listening to a wide variety of musical clips that all have one thing in common. They all feature the same

melody, more or less. And they are all trying to convey a sense of dread, a sense of doom and gloom, or even death itself.

As I mentioned in the opening, these can be used in a serious way or in a campy way,

or sometimes just as a poetic reference to music's history

honoring a language that's been in development for almost a thousand years.

That melody that these all have in common goes like this.

Or in many cases,

or in many cases just the first four notes.

Keep that in your ear during this episode.

Okay.

That is just four notes that have been quoted many, many times in film scores.

Why? What does it mean? Well, I'll tell you. It's called D.S. Ere, which is Latin for Day of Wrath. Judgment day. The end of the world. Death.

Its text comes from part of a requiem mass in Latin. Requiem means literally a prayer for the dead.

And it was written by, or at least least attributed to a Franciscan monk named

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