What is the name of the first song played on the BBC Proms 2012 Advert

[Guest]

I would really like to know the name of the first song which is played on the BBC Proms 2012 advert, i have looked all over the internet for this song but alas i have had no luck in finding the advert nor have i found the song, surely there must be someone here who knows the song name or the advert that i am reffering to.

[french frank]

Hello, Turtlegom

I'm sure there is an answer coming up soon (not from me, though!).

Hang on ....

[EdgeleyRob]

I would really like to know the name of the first song which is played on the BBC Proms 2012 advert, i have looked all over the internet for this song but alas i have had no luck in finding the advert nor have i found the song, surely there must be someone here who knows the song name or the advert that i am reffering to.

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Song.Barber, Adagio for strings?

[Turtlegom]

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Song.Barber, Adagio for strings?

Thank you very much for an extremely fast answer, and yes this is the song i have been searching long and hard for this song, much appreciated :3

[french frank]

Ha! What did I say? And I'd just found the answer myself here.

Here it is ... (Ignore the comments, really ... ignore them )

(Thanks, ER!)

[Mary Chambers]

It isn't a song. It's a piece of orchestral music. This strange usage is creeping in, along with 'track'. Where did it come from?

[french frank]

It isn't a song. It's a piece of orchestral music. This strange usage is creeping in, along with 'track'. Where did it come from?

From software designed for commercial 'pop' where most tracks are songs. Even composers are referred to as 'performers'.

[tantris]

Welcome to Turtlegom, and I hope you have a long, happy association with this Board. It's worth saying though, that most users here would only use the word "song" to describe a piece with singing in it, usually solo singing, An instrumental or orchestral piece would be referred to as a "piece", possibly a "tune".
Unfortunately iTunes and other sources which refer to everything as a "song" have caused this mistaken usage to creep in.
All the best.

[amateur51]

Welcome to Turtlegom, and I hope you have a long, happy association with this Board. It's worth saying though, that most users here would only use the word "song" to describe a piece with singing in it, usually solo singing, An instrumental or orchestral piece would be referred to as a "piece", possibly a "tune".
Unfortunately iTunes and other sources which refer to everything as a "song" have caused this mistaken usage to creep in.
All the best.

Thanks tantris

Welcome Turtlegom! - is this the first time you've heard Barber's Adagio?

[mercia]

tracks is what trains run on

[amateur51]

tracks is what trains run on

And where your tears run?

[french frank]

tracks is what trains run on

In recording terms, 'track' originally referred to the groove:

'a. = groove n. 2c (now rare or Obs.)':

1904 S. R. Bottone Talking Machines & Records 60 We must have some means of controlling or varying the pressure of the stylus of the reproducer on the record, so as to enable it to follow correctly every indentation in the ‘track’.

But the earliest example, according to the OED, of the word meaning an individual item, or section ('hence, a single recorded item (esp. of popular music), which on a long-playing record is a band bounded on both sides by an area of widely-spaced grooves), comes from The Gramophone (no further details as to the recording being referred to),':

1956 Gramophone Dec. 265/1 None of the tracks lives up to the promise of the star-studded personnel.