Monsterpiece and Masterpiece theme music NOT the same!!!! Edit

I have to edit out the assertion that the Monsterpiece Theater segments borrowed the Masterpiece themes. That is simply false. It may be easy to think this based on the sonorities, but the Monsterpiece Theater theme was actually newly composed specifically for the purpose.

The Masterpiece Theater theme is an authentic Baroque piece written in the seventeenth century by a French composer named Jean-Joseph Mouret. Like nearly all Baroque pieces that feature the trumpet, it is written in the concert key of D major. The Monsterpiece Theater theme is in G major and is an original piece by Sam Pottle.

Anybody with a good musical ear and musical training would know that the trumpets in the Monsterpiece theme play horn fifths that sound in the key of G. This means that the valveless trumpets used in the Baroque period would have to be sopranino G trumpets. The only trumpets that could play the parts for the Monsterpiece Theater theme with reasonable precision, if any at all, would have been English, and Mouret would not have composed for them. 2s1a3s5 19:24, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a source for saying it's by Marais? Everything I've read says that it's the Rondeau from "Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper" by Jean-Joseph Mouret. Also, I think the person meant to say that the Monsterpiece theme was more like a parody/soundalike piece, in that it's a similar sounding high trumpet/classical sound like the original, not that they borrowed any of the actual melody. -- Ken (talk) 20:13, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

You're right, Ken, it is by Mouret. I was just confused by similar-sounding names from composers who just happened to be contemporaries of each other. 2s1a3s5 21:27, April 15, 2010 (UTC)

Title cardEdit

I'm confused why the "Monsterpiece" title card is on the "Masterpiece" page. Am I missing something? -- Ken (talk) 06:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Nothing confusing. It's there because it illustrates the reference, and the title card directly parodies the then-current Masterpiece title. Occasions where only the actual show title card or image is used are those where we just can't find an appropriate image from the Muppet version. It's like that all over the Wiki. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 06:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I never spend that much time in the parody and reference sections, so I just thought that whoever was putting up the title cards might have had them accidentally switched. Thanks! -- Ken (talk) 23:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)