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 British prime minister can be heard humming a couple of notes to himself as he walks back to Number 10 after confirming he will resign on Wednesday 
 
 David Cameron hums a merry tune as he hands over to Theresa May 
 
 
 
 British prime minister David Cameron was heard humming a tune as he walked back into No 10 on Monday, minutes after announcing that he would resign as prime minister on Wednesday afternoon. 
 
 After singing to himself on the way to the door, he was heard saying “right” and removing the microphone that had recorded his private moment. 
 
 Some speculated that it sounded like the start of the West Wing theme, while ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston, suggested that it was a Winnie the Pooh-style ditty. 
 
 Robert Peston (@Peston) .@David_Cameron humming a Winnie-the-Pooh style hum as he says goodbye to the cares of office. pic.twitter.com/kcydnLZBg4 
 
 Alastair Stewart (@alstewitn) Was @David_Cameron humming opening notes to the 'Dam Busters' theme? Their motto,'Apres moi le deluge'. Its raining heavily in Hampshire. 
 
 Classic FM, a British radio station, analysed the notes and declared they were “Beethoven-esque”. 
 
 Richard W Collins (@richardwcollins) Cameron's humming: ClassicFM pronounces it to be "Wagnerian fanfare, Beethoven-esque harmonic doubt and then a... https://t.co/vcLExgr66o 
 
 Some on Twitter saw Cameron’s relaxed demeanour as a sign he was pleased to be leaving Downing Street amid the chaos of the Brexit vote aftermath. 
 
 Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Somebody's happy to be done with this country. David Cameron humming to himself after press conference https://t.co/PQZ2hjISWz ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Back in July, after Britain voted to leave the European Union, then-Prime Minister David Cameron was delivering a brief address about the incoming Conservative Party Leader and his replacement, Theresa May, to the media outside his home. But then he hummed. Let’s have a listen to the Prime Minister’s self-composed opus: 
 
 .@David_Cameron humming a Winnie-the-Pooh style hum as he says goodbye to the cares of office. pic.twitter.com/kcydnLZBg4 — Robert Peston (@Peston) July 11, 2016 
 
 And this is roughly what we think he was humming: 
 
 Understandably, the media have jumped on this surprising musical act, but we’ve investigated further. 
 
 
 
 Let’s start with the time signature. A brisk 3/4, with a crotchet roughly equalling 108 a minute, suggests activity. Positivity, even. But 3/4 is not the most immediately stable of signatures. It’s easy to feel secure in 3/4, but for just a couple of bars it’s disconcerting - especially when starting with an anacrusis. 
 
 What does Theresa May's taste in music say about her? > 
 
 Harmonically, too, it’s ambivalent, confusing. It’s almost fanfare-like in that confident leap of a fourth from G to C, but it quickly loses confidence when it mirrors the ascent later in the bar, plummeting down to D sharp, forming an awkward implied triad. 
 
 
 
 And then the percussive spoken ‘Right’, which lands almost perfectly on the first beat of the next bar, is a strange dip into acted-out recitative - demonstrative of a reasonable knowledge of contemporary composition techniques. 
 
 There is a theory that the soon-to-be-former PM is actually humming the opening of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony – of which more here. 
 
 Conclusion 
 
 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…
– They're calling it "Cameron's Lament"—though some say it was actually a happy tune from a relieved man. British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Monday that he will resign on Wednesday afternoon, and a hot mic caught him singing a few notes to himself as he walked the few steps back to his No. 10 Downing Street residence after speaking to the press, CNN reports. He can be heard saying "Right" as he steps inside and removes the microphone. Some have said the tune sounded like the start of the West Wing theme, while others believe it sounded more like a Winnie the Pooh-style song, the Guardian reports. After a detailed musical analysis, Classic FM concluded that Cameron's musical notes suggested "Wagnerian fanfare, Beethoven-esque harmonic doubt, and then a strange contemporary flourish at the end," a composition that might demonstrate the "unresolved nature of Cameron's swift departure from office." The prime minister is expected to offer his resignation to the queen on Wednesday. He will be replaced by Theresa May, who prevailed in the Conservative Party's post-Brexit leadership race after all of her opponents dropped out. (Some ill-judged comments about motherhood may have hastened the departure of May's last remaining rival.)