Thursday, January 11, 2018

You can sing along with "The Cross of Coronado"

This will probably be my only contribution to film music studies! I searched around, and didn't find anyone else who'd pointed it out.

This is the "Cross of Coronado" theme from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and it plays every time the cross shows up onscreen:



In addition to being a killer motif, the rhythm sounds like the phrase "The Cross of Coronado"! Listen again and try singing along; you'll never be able to hear the theme again without hearing the words in your head.

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