May 22nd, 2014

Eventually, we may find out where notes eight through twelve came from

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

CBC Radio’s Tom Allen investigates the origin of the opening four notes of the classic Star Trek theme. He traces it to the opening of Mahler’s First Symphony, then further back to Brahms’s Second Symphony and Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. In college, one of my classmates (the same one that is now the conductor of an orchestra) identified the source of the trumpet fanfare in the Star Trek theme, also known as notes five through seven: Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. Skip to timecode 11:05.

Eventually, we may find out where notes eight through twelve came from. If the trend keeps up, we may discover that it came from yet another Mahler symphony.

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Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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