Can't Find a Particular Fight Scene Music Queue

[TheAdmiralty]

I've looked at some old TOS music on Youtube before, and I've never found one particular queue they would use in fight scenes sometimes. The one that opens with the low piano riff before horns come in. Does anyone know what I'm talking about/what it's called?

 

[Metryq]

Can you name an example scene? For instance, everyone knows the "Amok Time" fight music—it's parodied all the time in Futurama and other shows.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Is this it (first Mugato attack from "A Private Little War")?

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[Kor]

I'm thinking of a rumbling piano cue that would be played sometimes in a dramatic scene before fading to black. I can't find it at the moment.

I'm listening to various TOS musical cues and suites on Youtube, and I must say that this music knocks the socks off of all the music from all the spinoff series. It's just one of the things that makes TOS great.

Kor

 

[Indysolo]

It's Fridays Child. That score is on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. It's also available in the La-La Land box set.

Neil

 

[TheAdmiralty]

Is this it (first Mugato attack from "A Private Little War")?

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Nope, but thanks.

I'm thinking of a rumbling piano cue that would be played sometimes in a dramatic scene before fading to black. I can't find it at the moment.

I'm listening to various TOS musical cues and suites on Youtube, and I must say that this music knocks the socks off of all the music from all the spinoff series. It's just one of the things that makes TOS great.

Kor

It was not a rumbling piano cue, it was more melodic. I remember it played once during a knife fight.

 

[Indysolo]

It was not a rumbling piano cue, it was more melodic. I remember it played once during a knife fight.

Then you're probably thinking of music from "Catspaw" which is also on the same album linked to above. There was a knife fight in "Mirror, Mirror" that starts off with a piano cue by Gerald Fried.

Neil

 

[Redfern]

A "piano riff, then horns"? While not strictly "fight" music, that almost seems like a piece from "The Corbomite Maneuver".

 

[CaptainMurdock]

I think I found it!

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Here's the track as well.

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[hbquikcomjamesl]

The one that opens with the low piano riff before horns come in.

A "low piano riff" built on a staccato 6-note motif that's something like "B-C-E-F (rest) D-G" that is then answered by a staccato chord repeated 4 times by trombones and/or horns? If so, I know which one you're talking about, but haven't a clue what it's called, or in which episode's score it originated (although "Errand of Mercy" keeps coming to mind, and so does "Friday's Child").

And not to be excessively pedantic, but a "queue" is an ordered set of persons or things being kept waiting (or a long braid of hair worn down the center of the back). A short segment of a film score written for a particular scene is a "cue."

 

[TheAdmiralty]

I think I found it!

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Also not it, but thanks for trying. I remember that fight cue though not that I hear it, it was one I had forgotten about.

 

[johnnybear]

That scene with Jerry Catron and William Windom always makes me laugh somewhat!
JB

 

[Ssosmcin]

Why?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

If the guy can't remember what scene he heard it in, how well could he remember the cue itself?

 

[TheAdmiralty]

A "low piano riff" built on a staccato 6-note motif that's something like "B-C-E-F (rest) D-G" that is then answered by a staccato chord repeated 4 times by trombones and/or horns?

Yeah that sounds right. Don't know about the piano stuff, but there are four chords on the horns played after the piano.

And not to be excessively pedantic, but a "queue" is an ordered set of persons or things being kept waiting (or a long braid of hair worn down the center of the back). A short segment of a film score written for a particular scene is a "cue."

I know, realized after posting.....

 

[johnnybear]

Why?

It's more the stance and look that Catron has! That look of I'm well accomplished in hand to hand fighting or any other kind of martial art and yet good ol' Matt still lays him out with a club to the back of the head! Experienced or what?
JB

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

And given that Catron was a stuntman, he probably WAS "well accomplished in hand to hand fighting or any other kind of martial art." But the storyline obviously had to have Decker deck him. (Why am I thinking of an almost-funny gag from Airplane II: McCroskey trying to remember who Striker is, "Striker, Striker, . . . STRIKER!" and a male extra promptly shrugs, and decks a female extra. Why do I keep getting reminded of a bad, unfunny, tasteless sequel to a superb, riotously funny, tasteless movie? I guess I picked the wrong week to quit . . . .)