Most foreboding music

[Zulu Romeo]

Fauré's Requiem is just melancholy. It's such a strange, sad piece. I think he wrote it when a beloved family member had died if I remember correctly. It doesn't follow the usual requiem formula since it ends with In Paradisum, which has more redemptive atmosphere.

I think it's a beautiful piece of work.

 

[Sephiroth]

Underneath the rotting pizza (midgar slums theme)
Trail Of Blood ( Shinra tower after Sephiroth kills Shinra)
The Nightmare Begins(Vincent's theme)
Off the Edge of Despair (second and 3rd disc word map theme)
Those Chosen by The Planet (Sephiroth's theme)
Fithos Lusec Weycos Vinosec (the slowed down version of Liberati Fatelli)
The Jesters of the Moons (Zorn & Thorn's Theme)~Nobuo Uematsu

 

[Scotty]

Okay...challenge accepted:

Ave Satani by Jerry Goldsmith.

This! OMG, THIS! I practically have to breathe into a paper bag whenever I hear it.

Reminds me a bit of John Williams' The Temple of Doom. Sing it with me. Mola Ram, Su da Ram.....

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2tM3DO53I[/yt]

 

[Aeon]

Here's a few choices...

Alias: Page 47 (Michael Giacchino)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKCgnte7Bc

Alias: Sloane's Revelation (Michael Giacchino)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUhiVxOllUQ

Battlestar Galactica: Something Dark Is Coming (Bear McCreary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQXEIoZrZE

Battlestar Galactica: Heeding The Call (Bear McCreary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dyN5A12js

Jurassic Park: Opening Titles (John Williams)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0M-OTunDio

Lost: Flash Forward Flashback (Michael Giacchino)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ltUqdwMJk

Thin Red Line: Journey To The Line (Hans Zimmer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4

 

[tharpdevenport]

Bela Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, specifically Andante tranquillo and Adagio, though parts of Allegro molto might also qualify.

Samual Barbar's Adagio for Strings, Krzystof Penderecki's Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima For 52 Stringed Instruments and De Natura Sonoris II For Orchestra (which sound very much like the music from Altered States by John Corigliano), Space Requiem by Stomu Yamash'ta, and Title music for the movie The Bounty by Vangelis Papathanassiou are honorable mentions.

I have a feeling I'd have a lot of fun going through your music library. The Barber Adagio and the Penderecki Threnody would definitely make my list for this thread.

It's a good flesh-creepy one but I'm sure it can be topped. The use of Ligeti (apparently without his permission) in Space 2001 is fairly hair-raising in parts.

What happened with 2001 was that the "scratch track"--an assemblage of already-recorded pieces of music used to work out timings and feel for the scenes to be filmed--ended up being deemed preferable to what hired composer Alex North produced; the permissions may have been worked out after the fact - I'm not sure about that. If you listen to the music North composed for the film, it's clearly imitative and derivative of what was actually used, but fails to have equal impact.

North was one of two composer. British composer Frank Cordell also did a score which was made of adaptations of classical music.

 

[Deckerd]

As far as I recall von Karajan and the Vienna Phil got no credit in the film, which is just incomprehensible on the part of the record company. Since then, Also Sprach Z has been the intro that launched a thousand astronauts onto the stage.

 

[C.E. Evans]

For me, it's John Carpenter's opening theme for the very first Halloween movie. I remember in particular the sparse piano notes and then the creepy synth coming in over it out of nowhere....

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I posted that on the previous page!

also
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxBc_-XxmI[/yt]
and
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5tUsB5UmjI&feature=related[/yt]

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^^
I can't see anything but blank spaceholders in all your posts.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I see them fine. maybe refresh it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

No, there's something there (a red-flagged cookie perhaps) that I won't allow on my browser.

It happens to people with different security settings.