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[Dezzimal]

Anyone know the titles to these tracks? Trying to cut a video with some marginally cheesy film music, if anyone else has suggestions for "epic" music like these that'd be wonderful as well.

http://sealowned.ytmnd.com/ - Requiem for a Dream
http://ninmorm.ytmnd.com/ - Crimson Tide - Hans Zimmer

edit: Actually I'm a idiot and even thought the ytmnds in question don't cite the music correctly, when you click on the sound origin link it takes you to every ytmnd that uses that sound and some cite correctly. My second question still stands though.

[Saphirea]

Depending on what you're looking for

Holst's Mars from the Planets
The Great Gate of Kiev Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

Those are two that come to mind automatically, I can check more when I got my iPod in front of me.

[Ivaden]

Skorponok's (the fuck if I spelled it right) music from the Transformer's music is pretty nice. If you have iTunes you should search the store for Original Movie Scores (which is the epic, no lyric type music you're looking for I think), then pirate accordingly.

You could also search who the songs are by. Some people that pop to my mind are Hans Zimmer, Steve Jablonsky, Charlie Clouser (did a lot of the Saw scores I believe, I know he did a few atleast), Howard Shore (did some songs from The Departed), etc.. All can be found on iTunes I believe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_g5CGP-iWwg for Skorponok's score.

Also, if you're a film or editing student or something I could give you a website for royalty free music similar to these, but you have to call to activate an account. Or if you have some sound recording program you can just rip it from them, in which you wouldn't need to be a student.

[Dezzimal]

Holst's Mars from the Planets

Agreed on this one, this is definitely going in there somewhere but I just need to find a good cut of it with a nice full sound to it.

Currently pirating the gladiator soundtrack and 300.

[Foof]

Immediate Music - Fahrenheit (Choir)
Immediate Music - Avenger (Choir)
Immediate Music - Blasphemy (Choir)
Immediate Music - Imperativa (Choir)
Immediate Music - Prelude (Choir)
Immediate Music - Redrum (Choir)
Immediate Music - All Hell Breaks Loose (Choir)
Immediate Music - Voyager (Choir)
(All streamable here - http://reich.morpheus.net/listen/Immedi ... d%20Choir/ )

Seriously some of the most epic music I've listened to. Immediate Music is a company that does music for movies and commercials I think (from wiki - Immediate Music is a music composition company based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, specialising in producing high-end trailer music for commercial motion pictures). Most of their songs come with a choir and non-choir version.

Since you mentioned it, 300 soundtrack is pretty good. Fever Dream is my favorite

[Saphirea]

For something dramatic, slow and emotional.

Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral. By Richard Wagner

[Blitzrahl]

Batman Begins OST also had some good stuff. 8)

[XxSlusherxx]

Holst's Mars from the Planets

Agreed on this one, this is definitely going in there somewhere but I just need to find a good cut of it with a nice full sound to it.

Currently pirating the gladiator soundtrack and 300.

I have a c.d. of the planets symphony around here somewhere, but it's recorded live (i.e. mic in front of the orcestra) not in a studio so it might not be what your looking for.

I mean to say it's a professional recording and whatnot, it's just you get a completely diffrent and richer sound when it's studio recorded imo, but a lot of purests prefer the "live" recording.

[Alleya]

People prefer live recordings because they aren't cut up and mixed re-takes. It's an actual performance. The quality depends a good deal on the producer and engineers involved, as well as the location. A lot of live recordings sound better than studio because of the rich fullness of the sound created by a good concert hall.

[Blabj]

http://sealowned.ytmnd.com/ - Requiem for a Dream

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5PulUIJ9T-w

[Saphirea]

People prefer live recordings because they aren't cut up and mixed re-takes. It's an actual performance. The quality depends a good deal on the producer and engineers involved, as well as the location. A lot of live recordings sound better than studio because of the rich fullness of the sound created by a good concert hall.

Theres just some sounds that are produced via echo's and reverberations that don't occur in studio's. The richness of Euphonium's and Bassoon's particularly (Well in my untrained ear) just sound so much fuller in concert halls than you get in studio's.