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Epic Music needed.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So I have to do scene for one of my acting classes to music, and I want to set it to some thing epic.

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Duel of the Fates.

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  • Zombies Tossed My Salad!Zombies Tossed My Salad! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Triple B wrote:
    Duel of the Fates.
    By whom?

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    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote:
    Triple B wrote:
    Duel of the Fates.
    By whom?

    Star Wars Episode I soundtrack.

    Obligatory Carmina Burana mention.

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    • Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
    • Carmina Burana (really the opening song 'O Fortuna', by Orff, mentioned above)
    • Fanfare for the Common Man (Copeland)
    • Believe it or not, the soundtrack from the movie Dragonheart (Randy Edelman). The movie sucks, but the soundtrack is reused in every third movie trailer you see. Don't believe me? Listen to this track at about 2:28.
    • Several tracks from the OST of The Last of the Mohicans by Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones
    • Several tracks from the soundtrack from the movie The Rock (Hans Zimmer et. al.)

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  • Mad JazzMad Jazz gotta go fast AustinRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ZeroZero wrote:
    Triple B wrote:
    Duel of the Fates.
    By whom?

    John Williams. Actually, all his music is pretty epic.

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  • Brodo FagginsBrodo Faggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Just like you imagined - Nine Inch Nails.

    This is the song on the 300 trailers, and it makes you want to jump up and beat someone's face in.

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  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Also if you want something a little less recognizable, some of the instrumental tracks from Jimmy Webb's soundtrack to The Last Unicorn.

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  • SpaceMonkeySpaceMonkey Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    mcdermott wrote:
    Also, there are several tracks on the BSG soundtrack(s) that are pretty good...but I forget the titles.

    Prelude to War! Prelude to War!

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  • DaveTheWaveDaveTheWave Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The Planets by Gustav Holst pretty much has everything.

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  • wmelonwmelon Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    DaveTheWave wrote:
    The Planets by Gustav Holst pretty much has everything.

    Schubert's Der Erlkönig. I'd honestly love to see a metal band play this dethklok style.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky is the correct answer.

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  • D.T.D.T. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The Dies Irae sequence of Mozart's Requiem Mass.

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  • gaming_librariangaming_librarian Turn your face to the sun... Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Gladiator soundtrack has a great theme.

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  • blincolnblincoln Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I'm sure "Bishop's Countdown" from the Aliens score has been in more epic/action trailers than anything else.

    Hans Zimmer's stuff is good, and so is the stuff by his protege - Klaus Badelt (although he basically borrowed Zimmer's Gladiator theme for Pirates of the Caribbean, which I thought was a bit lame). If you can find the Equilibrium soundtrack (it was never *officially* released), there's some really good tracks on it.

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  • cyphrcyphr Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    E.S. Posthumus

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I'm extremely surprised nobody's mentioned the Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack



    I mean, christ, Riders of Doom has been used in every Zelda trailer since OOT. You can't go wrong here.

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  • JaninJanin Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Lux Æterna, from Requiem for a Dream, which is awsome in original or remixed forms.

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Godfather wrote:
    I'm extremely surprised nobody's mentioned the Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack.

    Hey, you're right. (BTW, the composer was directly ripping/riffing off of Carmina Burana.)

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Ghost Love Score by Nightwish

    its the song in all the "epic manuever" ytmnds

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  • saggiosaggio Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Movement I from Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7.

    Anything by Mahler.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    To hell with Ride of the Valkyries, do what Coppola did and just use the entire overture to the third act of Die Walküre. It's way cooler with the vocals. The full recording is only available in the 14-disc Solti ring set, but you should be able to find that at any decent library.

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  • hbm292hbm292 Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Europe's "The Final Countdown"

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  • MothercruncherMothercruncher __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    The theme to Requiem for a Dream.

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  • DrakmathusDrakmathus Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    What about some of those NFL songs they use in highlight reels? You know what I'm talking about. It was on NPR a few days ago.

    edit: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7048880

    edit 2: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1020022/a/NFL+Power+And+Glory.htm

    listen to up she rises

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Dvorak's 9th Symphony, 4th Movement
    One of the themes from Gettysburg was used to hell and back in the '96 Olympics coverage
    Theme from the soundtrack to Glory
    Soundtrack to Braveheart
    Chinese: Long de Chuan Ren
    Chinese: The Butterfly Lovers / Scholar Liang & Lady Chou (this probably isn't epic in the sense you mean, though)

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