How Twitter has turned outgoing PM’s humming into techno, a waltz and The Great Escape
Classical experts have also analysed his hum and found it to be full of mixed messages
THOSE listening in to yesterday's broadcast of outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron's address on his replacement had to swiftly rewind and turn up the volume, as he unexpectedly hummed a short but snappy tune while walking back into Number 10.
Mere hours after the now infamous "do-doo do-do" was heard in Downing Street, Twitter enthusiastically helped the ditty become the vocals on a remixed dance track, accompany The Great Escape theme tune and inspire a beautiful Fantasy classical piece.
A techno dance track, the classical Fantasy on David Cameron, Cameron's Waltz and Cameron's Lament in C Minor sampled above
Unsurprisingly the brief musical outburst caught while Cameron was still wearing his mic has captured people's imaginations.
Twitter user Graeme Coleman dropped a beat in after the famous door of Number 10 closes behind Cameron and he is heard to say ";right".
In Graeme's remix he also speeds up the pace and uses Cameron's final words to the media of "thankyou very much" to break it up.
Nial Smith chose to illustrate The Great Escape's theme tune with a "doo" or two complimenting the British classic.
Composer Thomas Hewitt Jones created a longer piece called Fantasy on David Cameron which incorporates cello and piano and omits Cameron's hum entirely.
Instead it takes inspiration from the melody and becomes a longer and more lilting piece of music which touches on feelings of sadness, regret or possibly freedom.
Another classical re imagining of the hum is from a YouTube user which is titled Cameron's Last Waltz, and another called Cameron's Lament in C Minor.
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Before the variations began to emerge online people tried to work out what he was singing and if it was anything other than an absent minded hum of a man with a lot on his mind.
The overwhelming favourite for what David Cameron could have been sampling was Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 which when directly compared does seem to fit.
According to Classic FM, the soon-to-be former Prime Minister could not have chosen a more politically charged piece to hum.
This is because Shostakovich was told to change his compositional style just before composing this symphony and musicians have long debated if the symphony is therefore an attempt to follow orders or a protest piece.
Musical experts at , which they titled Cameron's Lament, and found it to be "bright but confusing"
They found it to be "disconcerting", "ambivalent" and "confusing" with a tune that starts almost like a fanfare but "quickly loses confidence".
They concluded: "So, Wagnerian fanfare, Beethoven-esque harmonic doubt and then a strange contemporary flourish at the end.
"Does this composition demonstrate the unresolved nature of Cameron’s swift departure from office? Is it perhaps a comment on what might be next for 10 Downing Street?
"Other interpretations on this new and invigorating work are welcome. We’re thinking a new fugue arrangement, a cappella choral version, maybe a theme and variations…"
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