A music for Titans

India's leading watch manufacturer is famous for its ads' theme music. As kids, most of us didn't know that it borrows from Mozart's famous Symphony No. 25 in G minor.

Their early advertisements were splendid, touching, and we waited for the 'Titan music' to play. My friends and I would hum the tune occasionally.

This post features the various Titan ads, and how well they have employed the music.

But before that I'd like to start with Beethoven's music featuring in the ad for a game:

Gears of War 2

Many moods in a melody

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In the first three minutes of today's piece, you will get introduced to variety, massive variety.

Le festin d'Esope by Charles Valentin-Alkan is a singular theme surrounded by various styles. Moods of love and hate and anger around the same tune. You will identify this tune very early, and you will recognise it again as the music plays along. This process will sharpen your ear to sound.

You will see how the same child can be adorned in different clothes.
What this will do for you is help you identify in music, a main tune, and understand how 'things' play around it. You will even wait for the main tune to come back after the playing is done.
In time, you will understand the moods.

The musical theme

This under-two-minute piece by Michel Corrette will acquaint us with the musical theme.
Wikipedia has a good definition for the musical theme:

In music, a theme is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.

We will listen to the 'recognisable melody' in this composition by French composer Michel Corrette.

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