Since the preliminaries are done and it has moved on to the main bracket, a spinoff on MuckRaker's THE GREAT MOVIE INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDTRACK TOURNAMENT. After some misunderstanding whether unoriginal instrumental music was allowed or not, I thought maybe a tournament of the best uses of classical music in film might be fun.. For example the use of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" in Apocalypse Now and Mozart's "Duettino- Sull'aria" from The Marriage of Figaro in The Shawshank Redemption. I'm not limiting to where classical music was incorporated into the story as with those two examples but even just part of the score such as 2001's use of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube."

I might also consider other forms of music, particularly jazz but do not want to have the tournament overrun by modern popular music. Keep in mind the piece of music must not have been composed for the movie. It will be helpful you could provide a youtube link to the scene like I did above. Hopefully I'll get a good number of nominations to have a strong and diverse tournament. Depending on the the number of suggestions posted I'll probably do something like MuckRaker with a random groupings to eliminate and seed those that survive. G. Martin, no need to repost your suggestion from Groundhog Day.

Suite No. 3 - Sebastian Bach from Se7en.

Please, it will also be helpful to include the name of the classical piece and the composer so I don't have do a lot of googling.

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Requiem in D Minor from Amadeus

Paul Dukas' The Sorceror's Apprentice - Fantasia

Specific scene please. I can think of two off the top of my head in which parts of the Requiem are used. The more helpful you all are the more likely I'll use your suggestions.

The funeral

Thanks!

Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca - Truman Show

Again specific scenes and possibly links to youtube clips will be most helpful. No need for these three Apocalypse Now - Die Walkure, Richard Wagner, 2001: A Space Odyssey - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Johann Strauss, Die Hard - Symphony No. 9/Ode to Joy, Beethoven since they are already done above.

jkag89 said:

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Again specific scenes and possibly links to youtube clips will be most helpful. No need for these three Apocalypse Now - Die Walkure, Richard Wagner, 2001: A Space Odyssey - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Johann Strauss, Die Hard - Symphony No. 9/Ode to Joy, Beethoven since they are already done above.

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Calm down, there guy. I haven't finished editing the post.

Alien has a couple of classical pieces in its score:

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart, which I believe plays during a quiet scene when Captain Dallas is alone prior to the facehugger dislodging from Kane's face



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Howard Hanson, Symphony No 2, Op 30 "Romantic", which plays during the end credits

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/cochs6/halo_3_believe_upscaled_to_1080p_via_ai_machine/

Halo: Believe Super Bowl commercial.

Chopin Prelude 15 in D-Flat Major

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Nice. Forgot the thumbs up icon.

jkag89 said:

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Thank You!

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No problem, love the topic. I'm a huge classical and opera fan.

And sorry I did not mean to come across as impatient.

I just think the best way to do this is to tie the musical piece with the actual scene. For example, I love Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and think such an airy piece in such a juxtaposition to the claustrophobic atmosphere of Alien makes it a superb choice but I can't find a clip of the scene so far. I might include Cinco Ranch's suggestion anyway but I think much of the brilliance of its use will be lost with just a clip of the music. Anyways, any help y'all can give me in will be appreciated.

Would Amadeus count?

The whole movie or do you have a specific scene in mind? Ulrich has already made a suggestion above. I have several more scenes that came to mind when the idea for this spinoff entered my noggin.

Master & Commander
"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Used in the following sequences:

Man Overboard (at 2:30 approx)


Burial at Sea

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Die Hard

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The rib and I joined the Baton Rouge Symphony Chorus for the 2019-2020 season. We were scheduled to sing the 4th movement, in German, this past spring. Then COVID destroyed that. Hopefully we'll get to perform it next year.

tk for tu juan said:

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Gustav Holst "Mars" and "Jupiter" in The Right Stuff scene for John Glenn launch

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The Planets are all such bad-ass pieces, and used in so many places that you don't realize.

Sergey Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 3 in D-minor, from Shine



Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "Flight of the Bumblebee", also from Shine

Law-5L said:

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Master & Commander
"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Used in the following sequences:

Man Overboard (at 2:30 approx)


Burial at Sea

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Great nomination, which serves as a reminder, I do not wish to limit this to orchestral pieces composed long ago. I'm going to include "On the Nature of Daylight" by Max Richter which is used as bookends for the beginning and end of Arrival.



As far as Master and Commander I am partial to the Aubrey/Maturin duet scenes
Concerto No. 3 'Strassburg' K.215, 3rd Movement - Mozart


La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid - Boccherini


I'm also going to include the use of Bach's Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major for when the HMS Surprise arrived at the Galapagos.


So far a number of really good nominations. Keep them coming.

G Martin 87 said:

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Sergey Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 3 in D-minor, from Shine



Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "Flight of the Bumblebee", also from Shine

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Does this count?

Hai!

jkag89 said:

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And sorry I did not mean to come across as impatient.

I just think the best way to do this is to tie the musical piece with the actual scene. For example, I love Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and think such an airy piece in such a juxtaposition to the claustrophobic atmosphere of Alien makes it a superb choice but I can't find a clip of the scene so far. I might include Cinco Ranch's suggestion anyway but I think much of the brilliance of its use will be lost with just a clip of the music. Anyways, any help y'all can give me in will be appreciated.

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All I have been able to find is typically the music playing over a freeze frame image of the movie's poster art, or perhaps of the escape shuttle that Dallas was in for the scene in question.