Day #10 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #10 of the 30 Days of Halloween


The prompt is:

A favorite musical orchestration (must be orchestration not song) that is spooky or scary or Halloween oriented - it can be associated with a television show, film, or separate entity

See? This is why you should have picked songs for the previous category. Aren't I evil?

Mine?

Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky from the movie Fantasia.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

You win!

This is the only thing I know of that comes close
Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, March to the Scaffold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCuFaq2L3U

[cactuswatcher]

Phoo, now I've thought of a better one than mine I hope someone gets it.

[shadowkat]

I liked your selection - very soothing. (I find classical music soothing.)

[cactuswatcher]

Now that Wendelahl has reported:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLp_Hh6DKWc

I wouldn't call this one soothing. Catchy maybe.

[cjlasky7]

Fritz Lang and Peter Lorre ruined this tune for decades.

From "M":

https://youtu.be/VCjc_OllHdE

[shadowkat]

It's kind of hard to ruin it - I still find it great Halloween music.

[shadowkat]

Definitely not soothing...and very disturbing. I love that one! It's catchy and used a lot. But lots of fun.

[cjlasky7]

J.S. Bach, Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor

Do I have to say anything? Everybody knows this piece! My favorite version? From Rollerball:

https://youtu.be/_wFTkYm0i6g

[wendelah1]

It can be associated or it must be associated with a movie or TV series?

[shadowkat]

"Can" be.

"it can be associated with a movie or television series or other entity."

I'm not really that evil. ;-)

[wendelah1]

Okay. How about Camille Saint-Saëns's Dance Macabre? It's the first piece I thought of. Although I don't associate it with anything in particular, this article goes into its spooky history: Danse macabre: a brief history of Halloween's haunting anthem.

I have seen the Silly Symphony it's featured in.

Night on Bald Mountain is a great choice.

[shadowkat]

That works. As long as it is Halloween music. Also, I like Dance Macabre.