I don't know if we are looking for the same thing, but I remember a song on one of the Serta commercials and I have been looking for it ever since. I don't know if it had words or not. The commercial I remember had shots of the dark night sky and bright moon, among other things that I don't really remember, like maybe a shot of a cozy little house or a shot of the moon through the window of a bedroom, etc. The song was something of a lullaby and it went like this:
AB
C BAC
B E,
A GFA
G C ,
F ED
FE A,
Bb C
Bb repeat, etc
(Note one: the bolded notes are held for longer)
(Note two: the C in the first line is the one right above the first A, and the E is the one below the first A.
The C in the second line is the one below the first A.
The A in the third line is the octave below the opening A and the notes in the last line are right next to that lower A, if all of that that makes any sense.)
There is probably a better way to do the notation like this but I don't know how. I just want to find out what the song is.
I wrote this from memory so I don't know how accurate my notation is, and I'm not too sure that the last three notes are right.
Other things I know about my song:
When I saw the episode of the
X-Files called "Kaddish" (Season 4, ep. 15) I thought the song where they are at the grave site (with a little girl in a red coat in an homage to
Schindler's List ) reminded me of the Serta song I am looking for.
I've only seen the episode once so I may be mistaken in thinking that the music in it is similar to the Serta song, but I do know that
Schindler's List was an influence on both the episode and the music in the episode as well, so maybe that is what I was thinking of instead. At the very least I know that the episode aired February 16, 1997, so the commercial had to be older than that, because when I saw the X-Files episode, I thought, "Hey...".
Also, according to
http://x-files.host.sk/music.php, the music in the X-Files episode was not only influenced by John Williams'
Schindler's List music, but this site says, "Also elements of Fantasy On Greensleeves by Ross Vaughn Williams sound similar." I tried to look this up on Amazon and it led me to
(click for amazon page link) which lists
Ralph Vaughn Williams as composer and
Ross Pople as conductor. One of the songs on the album that came up on Amazon is called "Fantasia on Greensleeves" but hearing the sample of it didn't tell me anything other than that it is a takeoff of "Greensleeves" (obviously).
I may be drifting further away from the song in the Serta commercial by mentioning this X-Files song similarity, but I had to put this down in case it helped anyone. Like I said, I've only seen the X-Files episode once and I don't really remember if it truly is similar to the Serta song or if I got it mixed up with the Schindler's list music in my head.
To recap: I am also looking for some of the music in one of the Serta commercials. I don't know if it is the same music you are thinking of or not. The music I heard was very dreamy and somewhat slow (not "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland", but maybe the other one?) and I am not sure if my song had words or not.
Cheryl
Serta
