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     Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I'm after something classical, or instrumental. No vox at all. Wild and loud and scary. No elephant circus parade music. Because some classical music just makes you think of circus parades in old films. None of that. I want scary stuff to write to, you see. Something like a wild storm. If you please. Or tell me what YOU like to write to. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Try Liszt. His 'Dante' symphony. Awesome. Or the 'Faust' symphony. Or his 'Totantanz' piano/orchestra fantasy. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Whoops: TotEntanz. It's based on the Dies Iae - can't get scarier than that. Unless you're a Cliff Richard fan. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
The fianl movement of Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony is pretty bloody scary, too. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
What's wrong with me? "FINAL" | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Dies IRAE!!! Arggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
If it's not too cliches: Carmina Burana - Orff | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Old Spice? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Oh no, that's Geri Halliwell. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
*groan* | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
Er, that was a groan of ennui not lust. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
To clarify, lust for Ginger Spice not Gary Fry. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I don't know which I'm be more concerned about... | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 172.142.59.129 |
It was a groan of ennui, Fry. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
Albie, try Krzystof Penderecki or Gyorgy Ligeti stuff. Ligeti compositions are prominent in the Kubrick's 2001, while Penderecki is used to good effect in THE SHINING--the All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy scene comes readily to mind. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.41.142 |
Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.125 |
Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain & bits of Pictures at an Exhibition Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - the last movement | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.41.142 |
Some of the old Tangerine Dream albums from the sixties and seventies had some great, evocative music: PHAEDRA, ZEIT, ATEM, STRATOSFEAR, and ALPHA CENTAURI for example. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
You've been looking through my lp collection again, Huw! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
Aaaah, Mysterious Semblances at the Strand of Nightmares . .. You forgot Rubicon, Huw! I would add practically all of Brian Eno's albums, Terje Rypdal's double album Odyssey, and David Sylvian's soundscape stuff, which admittedly is in the same vein as Eno's meanderings. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.48.125 |
I've recently been rediscovering my Nightmare On Elm Street CDs as quite good music to write by. Here's a quick guide: 1 Charles Bernstein - Classic. Heavy synths with that marvellous 10-note main theme subsequently incorporated into the children's nursery rhyme. 2 Christopher Young - Musique concrete with whale noises. I hated this when it came out because of its dissimilarity to part 1 but recent listens reveal it to be bloody brilliantly scary. Unlike the shitty movie it accompanies 3 Angelo Badalamenti - Probably his worst work. Tinny, electronic rubbish 4 Craig Safan - A few interesting moments but mainly dross 5 Jay Ferguson - A big improvement. Terrific main theme and some really scary cues. 6 Brian May. A comedown for the composer of the 'Mad Max' movies. Whoever employed him to score a movie called 'Freddy's Dead' probably didn't appreciate the irony 7 J Peter Robinson. OK but nothing special | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antarctica. Wonderfully eerie (and based on his score for the John Mills film Scott of the Antarctic). | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
Sinfonia Antarctica I'd definitely agree there; one of my favourite orchestral works. I was first aware of the symphony (rather than the film score) when I saw "A Kind of Alaska" at the theatre in the late 'eighties, and it was used as background music. I cornered the director in the bar afterwards to ask him what the piece was. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
After reading some of these posts I think a thread about Movie soundtracks would be interesting. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
After reading some of these posts I think a thread mulling over Movie soundtracks would be interesting. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Philippe Sarde's score for Ghost Story is wonderful. Flawed the film may be - and Peter Straub said as much to me in January, over a whisky at the Brandy Library in New York - but the score is haunting. (Peter likes it, and Alice Krige's performance in the film as well.) Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke's score for The Insider is also wonderful; worth buying for the third track, the haunting 'Sacrifice', alone. And I love Max Steiner's score for the original King Kong; if you can, get the CD which features two versions of the score, one with much of the dialogue intact and one with just the music. The former allows you to appreciate some of the sly humour that gets missed when you're watching the film: Denham's cocky 'They're gonna have to think up some new adjectives when I get back!', or one of the men muttering, after Denham warns them in the jungle to keep their guns handy, 'He's telling us!', or the reaction of the young woman in the theatre in New York, being told the show is about 'some kind of a gorilla' just as a man rudely pushes past her: 'Gee, ain't we got enough of those in New York already?' | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
"...and Peter Straub said as much to me in January, over a whisky at the Brandy Library in New York" BZZZZZZT! Name dropper! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
I wonder if anyone has ever had a brandy in the Whisky Library... | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.189.45 |
Sorry about the name-dropping; didn't mean to make it sound like that. . . . When we're in New York in January we get together with a few ghost story friends for a quiet dinner, before the Sherlockian festivities of the weekend begin; it started with dinner with Stefan Dziemianowicz years ago, and then Ellen Datlow was invited along, and then Michael Dirda about four years back, and Peter's come to the last couple. Christopher Frayling came in January this year as well, as he was the guest lecturer at the Holmes weekend; we've known him for a while and thought he'd enjoy the company. GSS members Gabriel Mesa and Jason Zerrillo were there was well, and after dinner Gabriel invited us to one of his favourite New York haunts, the Brandy Library; Jason, Christopher, Peter, Michael, and I took him up on the offer, and a wonderful place it was, too. Spirits of the finest sort. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 98.220.108.241 |
I enjoy the works of Polish composer Wojciech Kilar. He's probably best known for scoring Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Ninth Gate, but he's more than just a film composer. Check out his Requiem Father Kolbe or his ode to Bela Bartok. Along the same lines, you should try the works of Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part. Additionally, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, and John Cage are three composers whose work I've found alternately soothing and existentially tense. (Sometimes both at once -- now that's a trick.) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Well that's plenty to look at. Thanks. "Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain & bits of Pictures at an Exhibition " Borrowed that one last week. Enjoyed it for ages. Debussy worked last night. Never felt so weird after writing. Addictive. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Tomita's version of Clair de Lune will always be the best for me. Being the one I first heard smoking a doobie. http://www.last.fm/music/Isao+Tomita  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
The sort of music that makes you want to cause great sadness just so they can hear the music better. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Philippe Sarde's Ghost Story score has proved inspirational for wuite a few of my stories, as well as Kilar's Ninth Gate | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.164.76 |
Ennio Morricone's score for "The Thing" leaps to mind. Many of his scores have that effect you seek, esp. his scores for giallos, some of which are . . . well, something else. http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
That lone bass riff is so astonishingly simple, yet so very effective . . . The rest of the score has dated a bit imho. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.249.146 |
Morricone's score for ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA never fails to move me. We even had "Cockeye's Theme" played during our wedding. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Ravel's Bolero, as cheesy as it is, enabled me to pry some fiction from my keyboard. And that is classic elephant parade music! Yuk. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
I saw the Bolero performed live once - it was awesome. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I like the understated first few notes best. But brass wind always sounds like elephants. Bloody elephants! I also like The first few notes of Imperial March from Star Wars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_WERPN8KO8 But writing to that might just end up infringing copywright. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
I like the Emperor's theme. Delightfully mysterious and menancing. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I just like the Emperor. He's the most mysterious element. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
I think Ravel's Bolero has been made to seem cheesy by its use in films and on tv - it's a great piece played live, as the prof says. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
A lot of popular classical music has been ruined by its assoication with cars and yoghurt and other crap. Have marketing people no shame? They have no shame. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.250 |
Two years ago I had the good fortune to be temporarily recruited as a back-up singer in the local music school's classical orchestra, even though my singing (and reading!) are not up to scratch. I'm really a guitar player, and in the 'jazz' section at that. Before long I found myself in the middle of this gigantic stage, next to a very noisy horn section. For the first time in my life I heard--nay, FELT--the goosebump-inducing power of a live orchestra. I've heard Deutsche Gramophon Gesellschaft recordings on good equipment, but this was something else. An incredible feeling. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.164.76 |
Right now, I'm listening to one of the CDs for "Io, Ennio Morricone" a four-CD set of his work both for film and his "absolute" compositions. His score from "Rampage" is very good for writing; as is "Wolf." Zed: good for you on "Cockeye's Song" at your wedding! |