[OT] Excalibur and Wagner

jgbrowning

Hero

• Oct 19, 2002

• #1

Ok, i just got Der Ring Des Nibelungen 14CD set and im listening through them.

i then hear the excalibur theme in Gotterdammerung!

i never knew....


did they take the theme and build around that melody or did they use the actual Wagner? i dont have the soundtrack..

thanks!

joe b.

 

Last edited: Oct 19, 2002

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NiTessine

Explorer

• Oct 19, 2002

• #2

They used it straight from Götterdämmerung, to my knowledge. They also took music from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana".

Ah... I need to go see those operas again.

 

Mark

CreativeMountainGames.com

• Oct 19, 2002

• #3

I dug up some more details on that a short while back for this thread here-

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23168&highlight=Excalibur

 

jgbrowning

Hero

• Oct 19, 2002

• #4

Thanks for the replies!

joe b.