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wulfgarw -> Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 7:49:09 PM)

Ok, I'm looking for reccomendations.

I think everyone recognizes Bach's Toccada & Fugue in D minor when they hear it, even if they don't know the name.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw&feature=related

Another would be Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

I want to find other deep, dark classical pieces that would be useful in either a dark scene or halloween setting.  Ones that aren't as recognizable as the aforementioned or Midnight Syndicate.    Stuff that invokes mental images of dank dungeons, vampires, dark candlelit bedrooms with heavy velvet and cold winter nights.

I'm needing *headspace* music to listen to while working on various halloween projects and getting bored with Midnight Syndicate and Nox Arcana...



Roselaure -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 7:57:00 PM)

How about Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"

Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique"



Owner59 -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 7:57:38 PM)

Thanks,friend.

A few of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNX8QH6hstQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpj3_Eoszk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exuoGezFJuY




NuevaVida -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 7:58:19 PM)

Both of the above mentioned are awesome.  Also try Mahler's 8th.



kittinSol -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 8:08:38 PM)

La Danse Macabre ~ Camille Saint-Saëns

It has a comic twist, but I can imagine that there must be some humour in some dungeons [8D] .



Owner59 -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 8:09:24 PM)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18767338 

I heard an interview with this string quartet on NPR,with some music from them .

The Jupiter String Quartet.

Made for a nice afternoon at work.

I hear there`s a whole new crop of young performers coming around.

Nice.



bipolarber -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 8:57:44 PM)

Wulfgarw,

Depending on your definition of "Classical" music, which I assume might, or might not include movie soudtracks, (I think you're going for more of a "mood" rather than just blaring rock tunes...) I'd mention:

"Funeral March of the Marionettes" (mostly remembered as the Alfred Hitchock theme)
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"
"Symphony Fantastique" by Berlioz.
There's also the "Landscapes" portion of "The Antarctica Symphony"
"Rite of Spring"
The infernal dance... a track from "The Firebird"

If you want to stretch things a bit, and include some contemporary symphonic tracks, you might think about:

"Dracula" by John Williams

"Back There" by Jerry Goldsmith From the Twilight Zone series soundtrack.
"The Invaders" from the same.

The latter half of the Allen Parson's Project concept album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" is all insturmental, and builds to a wonderful climax.

If you go to the "Electric Lemon" record website, you'll find a series of albums by a man named Verne Langford. "Phantom at the Organ," "Vampyre at the Harpsicord" are definitely worth the money.

Then there's "Dead Can Dance" which, if you stay away from some of the more "goth pop" tracks, you'll find some amazing work by Lisa Gerard.

And of course, there's the soundtrack to "Interview with a Vampire" by Howard Shore.

There was also an album, put out as a sort of "after market" soundtrack, for the Blair Witch Project... called "Welcome to Burkittsville" which still makes people uncomfortable.

The "Satanic Litanies" by Deamanda Galas, might be a good album to try... although it's extremely weird, and not really musical, but kept low in the background, it will definitely give the right "torture chamber" feel to the setting.

As would the "Winter" track from Wendy Carlos' "Four Seasons" concept album.

If you can find a copy of "(Closed On Account of Rabies- the poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe)" There are several tracks on that set of disks that will freeze a room cold.. Most notably "The Conqueror Worm" read by Ken Nordine, "Masque of the Red Death" read by Gabriel Burne, "Ulalume" by Jeff Buckley, and "The Raven" read by Christopher Walken. (I shit you not!)

If you have trouble finding some of these, feel free to message me, and I can either rip you a few tracks, or point you to the catalog numbers so you can order up what you want.



bipolarber -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 9:05:14 PM)

Oh, and I almost forgot: "Diabolical Streak" by Jill Tracy. (Imagine Morticia Addams as a torch/piano bar singer, you won't be far off... I know her "Fine Art of Poisoning" is available on Youtube as a video. And yes, ALL the tracks on the album are THAT good.)




lronitulstahp -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/30/2008 9:30:12 PM)

Bartok's - String quartet number 4 (even the Um's enjoy that one)
Liszt's - Mazeppa Bach's - Fugue D#( an oldie, but always a goody....for those of us that developed a love for classical a la Looney Tunes)Chopin's - Nocturne (just makes me horny.....) you already got a few of my faves recommended earlier......happy haunting!



Alumbrado -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 12:34:28 AM)

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ORIGINAL: lronitulstahp

Bach's - Fugue D#( an oldie, but always a goody....for those of us that developed a love for classical a la Looney Tunes



Which one would that be again?    



lronitulstahp -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 3:50:55 AM)

sleepy...........D minor, not D sharp[image]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/F_Major_key_signature.png[/image] is that better?  Transposition after 10 pm....apparently, not my forte(get it??? forte???)  You just can't please SOME people.[image]http://www.collarchat.com/micons/m23.gif[/image]



windchymes -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 6:31:09 AM)

Ravel's "Bolero"
Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
Mozart's "Requiem"



Jeffff -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 6:44:58 AM)

Bach's Cello Suites,  specifically 3 and 4.

And  Try Liszt, some of his later work uses dissonance beautifully

Jeff




bipolarber -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 6:53:48 AM)

There's also Shastakovitch's Symphony #10, which starts off as this austere, slow, almost dreamy string peice, and begins to be punctuated by "battle music" until the shit hits the fan, and then suddenly it becomes a full on war.

There's a lovely "Hansel and Gretel" symphony which creates some really great themes for being lost, and the presence of evil, in the witch.

G. Holst, with the "Planets" symphony. Mars, the God of War... for full on blood and thunder, but Saturn and Neptune are also good for Halloween type backgrounds. (Neptune especially, because of it's ghostly choral arrangements)

There's also an organ peice that might fill the bill, called "Symphony Gothique." I can't remember the composer's name right off the top of my head, but a quick search should come up with it. It's very "silent movie villian" type music... fast and dark.

Swan Lake by Tchykofsky (sp?) Was also used as the soundtrack to the original "Dracula" with Lugosi. Deeply romantic, the ballet plays more like a movie soundtrack than it does what most people would think of as "classical" music.




Wildfleurs -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 8:06:07 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: wulfgarw

Ok, I'm looking for reccomendations.

I think everyone recognizes Bach's Toccada & Fugue in D minor when they hear it, even if they don't know the name.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw&feature=related

Another would be Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

I want to find other deep, dark classical pieces that would be useful in either a dark scene or halloween setting.  Ones that aren't as recognizable as the aforementioned or Midnight Syndicate.    Stuff that invokes mental images of dank dungeons, vampires, dark candlelit bedrooms with heavy velvet and cold winter nights.

I'm needing *headspace* music to listen to while working on various halloween projects and getting bored with Midnight Syndicate and Nox Arcana...


I'd definitely agree with the Stravinsky suggestion of "Rite of Spring" its a pretty primal (and just lovely) sounding piece that's specifically about doing a human sacrifice for... the upcoming spring. I love Brahms because his music is very lush, in particular his third symphony. Prokofiev and Bartok are pretty dissonant and could work. Also maybe Shubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet.

C~



bipolarber -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 8:30:28 AM)

Wild,

Ooooh... I forgot about "Death and the Maiden" good call!

Perhaps some opera... "Carmen" or "Marriage of Figaro" or "Don Juan?"

Ooops... we're talking for a Halloween feel... not for fucking... (blush)



windchymes -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 8:47:24 AM)

I just want to say that there are some really great pieces of music listed in this entire thread!  I think I just may have to reacquaint myself with them this weekend. [:)]



bipolarber -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 10:22:48 AM)

Going back to the OP: I've been out of the club scene now for about six years... I take it Midnight Syndicate has become the replacement for Enigma at play parties? Which is to say, it's been played into the dirt?



wulfgarw -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 11:17:33 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Going back to the OP: I've been out of the club scene now for about six years... I take it Midnight Syndicate has become the replacement for Enigma at play parties? Which is to say, it's been played into the dirt?


Well, there isn't a BDSM club in our area (Fargo, ND) and don't think there's even one in the Minneapolis/St Paul, so I wouldn't know about that, but I have all of the M. S. albums save their latest, "The Dead Matter". 



hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: Attention classical music lovers! (8/31/2008 12:24:28 PM)

Anything by Wagner, Listz, Tschicovski, or Bach.
 
Most of the earlier Mozart string pieces - at least the movements which are in minor keys.
 
Several Chopin pieces that are done in minor keys.
 
Basically - look for anything written in a minor or with significant use of 7ths.  These tends to sound "darker" or more "brooding" to Western trained ears.



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