[OT] Classical Music

DerianCypher

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #1

Alright.. I don't see too many OT threads up so I suppose this should be alright...

what I need is the names of some classical pieces with a somewhat sad tone to them. For example, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Thanks!

DC

 

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Azure Trance

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• Jul 25, 2003

• #2

Randomly looking in my Winamp Classical List:

Beethoven Funeral March
Chopin Nocturne in Eb Minor
Pachalbels Canon
John Williams Hymn For The Fallen < Though that may sound more like a soundtrack score for an emotional scene

 

SHARK

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #3

Greetings!

Hey there Derian! Check out Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem". It's one of my favourites!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

Angcuru

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #4

This may sound a bit odd, but can anyone identify the piece of music used as the BG Music for the Hotel Mordavia in Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness? This has been driving me insane, trying to identify it.

 

Ranes

Adventurer

• Jul 25, 2003

• #5

If you want drama, what about Wagner's Der Ring, especially to Siegfried's entrance into Valhalla?

Okay, I'm being dragged away from the pc now. Sorry. I'm sure others will have better suggestions.

 

Azure Trance

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #6

SHARK said:

Greetings!

Hey there Derian! Check out Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem". It's one of my favourites!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

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That cannot be sad music. I will forever always associate it with Nightcrawler going into gung-ho mode.

 

KidCthulhu

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #7

Barber's Adagio for Strings
Brahm's Requiem, movement 2
The masses of Byrd and Palistrina (More somber and holy than sad)
The second act of Handel's Jeptha (Don't bother with the third act)
The Funeral March from Saul (Also Handel)

Sorry, I'm a choral musician, so they're almost all sung stuff.

And the C Minor Mass is in every way a better piece than the Requiem. For one thing, Mozart finished it.

 

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LazarusLong42

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #8

Hrm. Many of the more common ones have already been mentioned. How about:

Aaron Copland: "Letter from Home" Perhaps more wistful than sad, but overall a good piece.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony, Third Movement. (The rest of the Symphony's pretty darn sad, too, but it expresses it more violently). According to Shostakovich, this movement was written, basically, as a funereal piece for a very good friend of his that protected him from, and was for that reason killed by, the Stalinist regime. Really happy stuff...

Beethoven: Seventh Symphony, Second Movement. Although that's pretty common as well.

Londonderry Air (AKA Danny Boy)

And some less "classic" classical pieces:

Nobuo Uematsu: Aeris' Theme from the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack.

Just about anything off of the "American Beauty" soundtrack.

 

Telgian

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• Jul 25, 2003

• #9

Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia a 4 "Al Santo Sepolcro" RV 169

Johann Hermann Schein: Padouana a 5

Johann Pachelbel: Ciacona in F minor; Ciacona in D minor
I'm told that the infamous 'Pachelbel Canon' is actually a ciacona as well, athough two of the parts are in canon.
Personally it sounds to me like as a descending 5-6 sequence...but that is another story.

Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas -- The entirety of act III scene ii.

Pierre de la Rue (Josquin des Pres): Absalon fili mi (The composer that this piece is attributed has changed from Josquin to Pierre de la Rue. You will likely find it listed under Josquin in most recordings though.)

That's what I recall off the top of my head.
Telgian.

 

Lady Mer

First Post

• Jul 25, 2003

• #10

Carolan's Farwell to Music, by Turlough O'Carolan.