Fourscore was the signature tune used by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for 14 years, from 1982 to 1996. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It was composed by Lord David Dundas. Lord David Dundas (born David Paul Nicholas Dundas 2 June 1945, Oxford, England) is a Musician known for his Film and Excluding test transmissions prior to launch, the complete 4 minute long piece was played in full only three times on the channel, once at its launch at 16:45 on November 2, 1982, and then again twice when the channel expanded its schedule to include afternoon programming. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Various short excerpts from the piece, which were the various orchestrations of the same four note melody, in the key of F Major, were used to accompany the channel ident used between programmes. F major (or the key of F) is a Musical Major scale based on F consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B{{music|flat}} Station identification (sometimes called a sounder or stinger) is the practice of any type of Radio or Television station or network For each time the music was used for the ident, Dundas received a royalty of £3. 50, which totalled approximately £1000 per week. At the time, the sequence of four notes was the shortest musical piece to be copyrighted.
A related piece with the same four-note theme, Fourscore II, was used by the channel to accompany stills in the event of technical faults, and was played during commercial breaks (and thus was only heard by viewers if their regional ITV franchise had not sold enough advertising to fill the timeslot. A television advertisement or television commercial (often just commercial or advert (US or ad (UK is a span of television programming produced Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent This was fairly common occurrence during the first few months of Channel 4's existence due to an industrial dispute which meant that no advertisements featuring Equity members could be broadcast). Equity (formerly British Actors' Equity Association) is the Actors Trade union in the United Kingdom
The two pieces were issued on a single by Polydor Records, credited to The Airwave Orchestra. Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
References
- Pt 5: The Channel 4 Jingle. TINY MUSIC MAKERS. Retrieved on 2005-12-05. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
- David Hastings. Back to 1982. EMC Seefour. Retrieved on 2005-12-05. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
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