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Jul 3, 2002 - 11:28 AM
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fmfan1
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(Second attempt to post this message): I've found it interesting to discover the use of the Dies Irae in various scores/works. Although some composers choose to use the Dies Irae (its most "popular" version, that is) in a straight-forward way, others make sly or witty references that are surprising and rewarding. Try the following, some obvious, some not: Bird on a Wire, The Road to El Dorado, Crimson Tide (Zimmer), Conan the Barbarian (Poledouris), Where the River Runs Black (Horner), Gremlins 2, Poltergeist, Mephisto Waltz (Goldsmith), The Shining (Carlos), Mission (Morricone), The Field (E. Bernstein), Salem's Lot (Sukman), Needful Things (Doyle), Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Isle of the Dead, The Bells, Symphonies 1, 2, 3 (Rachmaninoff), Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz), Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens), Sweeney Todd (Soundheim), Murder in the First (C. Young), Jason and the Argonauts (Herrmann), Totentanz (Liszt), Brazilian Sketches (Respighi), From the Middle Ages (Glazanov), It's a Wonderful Life (Tiomkin, etc.), Beckett (Rosenthal), Prince Valiant (Waxman, 2nd phrase only).
Plus, people in this forum in the past have also mentioned its use in Heavy Metal, Trial of Billy Jack, Demolition Man, Between Heaven and Hell, El Cid, Diane, Young Bess, Friday 13th Jason Lives, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Marie Ward (unfortunately, I have not yet heard these scores).
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