Andy in Sig said:I think if you just google something like Wagner Ring Cycle you should get all the answers. BTW the opera Siegfried was on the telly over here the other week. I had a look to see what all the fuss was about and managed to stick it out for about 10 minutes. Not a tune in sight. Crap really.
You mean the opening sequence? It's the "Sunrise" section from Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra". Jolly apposite, and it wasn't nearly so well known when Kubrick chose it to accompany his images. The other choices he made for the soundtrack were spot on, too - and who had heard of Khachaturian's "Gayaneh"?Abitrary said:Here's an interesting one... what is the main dramatic theme to 2001, A Space Odyssey?
"At the Castle Gate" from Sibelius' incidental music for Pelleas et Melisande.Pete said:Sky at Night theme tune? And (1) no googling (2) it isn't one of the above.