Guess The Score XIII - Dies Irae [FINISHED]

Can you let it run till Monday? I'll give these a listen today.

Yeah, Alan, if you don't mind, leave it running for a couple of days more, some people want to play but won't come around those games usually before weekends. Let it roll a bit more

Thanks! I sent my answers.

Update:

franz_conrad - 27 points
Southall - 22 points
Demetris - 13 points
Bregt - 11 point
Tommy_Boy - 10 points
DemonStar - 2 points

Any response from James?

I don't have time to play anyway. I have an exam on thursday and I have about 12 hours of studying every day, so I only have time to stop for eating and toilet visits (oh, and this post).

I'm sure I would have won though.

Peter

Indeed, that's why I have to take this one, because I skipped the main exam 3 months ago and this is the re-exam. Sadly I don't have the option of skipping it this time. *sniff*

Peter

BP scrapes another 2 points and is very close to a clean sweep!!

BhelPuri - 38 points
franz_conrad - 27 points
Southall - 22 points
Demetris - 13 points
Bregt - 11 point
Tommy_Boy - 10 points
DemonStar - 2 points

I shall post the answers sometime later this evening - maybe in about 5-6 hours.

Game over!!

BhelPuri - 38 points
franz_conrad - 27 points
Southall - 22 points
Demetris - 13 points
Bregt - 11 point
Tommy_Boy - 10 points
DemonStar - 2 points

Congratulations to BhelPuri for an almost flawless set of suggestions!

01 - Metropolis (1927) - Gottfried Huppertz
The imagery that accompanies this particular use of the "Dies Irae" is a highlight of the movie: Death and The Seven Deadly Sins as cathedral statues coming to life, the flute/piccolo being Death "playing" what looks likfe a leg bone and the cymbal crashes being synchronised with Death's sweeps with his scythe.

02 - Young Bess (1953) - Miklós Rózsa
I love the agitated strings playing out the familiar tune and then it changes feel completely to become almost sympathetic! The orchestration with the low strings towards the end shouts out "Rózsa!".

03 - Garden of Evil (1954) - Bernard Herrmann
And it's the strings at the beginning of this clip that suggests - to me at least - Bernard Herrmann. This clip, from "The Church" is taken from the Marco Polo re-recording (twinned with Prince of Players).

04 - Between Heaven and Hell (1956) - Hugo Friedhofer
I know that I've included this clip before in clip contests, I think that this is one of the best uses of "Dies Irae" in film scoring. Here's the main titles for the movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDikf0irJtc

05 - Jason and The Argonauts (1963) - Bernard Herrmann
And here's another great use! Herrmann's orchestrations are spine-chilling and brings the whole scene to life (not the magic displayed on-screen!) Watching the clip from the movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U - I'd love to see the original score released (if it is available).

06 - Becket (1964) - Laurence Rosenthal
I'm not familiar with this movie at all. But the interplay between the chants and the low woodwinds is quite novel. Most people guessed this clip correctly.

07 - Escalation (1968) - Ennio Morricone
It could only be Morricone!!

08 - The Mephisto Waltz (1971) - Jerry Goldsmith
This is definitely the Devil's work with Goldsmith's disturbing instrumentation.

09 - Obsession (1976) - Bernard Herrmann
Herrmann again uses "Dies Irae" in the cue "Cemetry" from the, so far unreleased, Brian De Palma film. But this time playing out the music delicately on harp.

10 - The Medusa Touch (1978) - Michael J Lewis
Lewis' music can throw out lots of clues in the familiar orchestrations he tends to use. The "Dies Irae" isn't used much in this clip but it's quite dramatic. Movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJkXzFfB2o - with the contest clip appearing ~2:40 into the YouTube clip. A sequence renowned for the bouncing masonry!!

11 - The Shining (1980) - Wendy Carlos
There were so many examples of the use of "Dies Irae" to choose from I settled on the grand opening statement. I can't recall how much of Carlos' music remained in the final mix. I notice that there's a new DVD release of this movie and I may just pick it up and take a look.

12 - Heavy Metal (1981) - Elmer Bernstein
Hearing this reference in this score when it arrived the other day was one of the shoves that got me putting together these clips.

13 - Poltergeist - (1982) - Jerry Goldsmith
A great - and subtle - use of "Dies Irae" in a great vintage Goldsmith score.

14 - Conan The Barbarian (1982) - Basil Poledouris
This clip lasts for 1:38 only because I couldn't find an appropriate place to stop the clip - it just seemed wrong to cut Poledouris' tour-de-force in mid-flow.

15 - Marie Ward (1985) - Elmer Bernstein
My mentioning earlier that the beginning of this clip reminded me of Shore's Lord of The Rings prompted Michael to comment on this - but said he would defer these comments until after the game ended. Feel free to now comment as I am very intgerested to hear what you have to say...

16 - Demolition Man (1993) - Elliot Goldenthal
Googling with "Goldenthal" and "Dies Irae" was bound to have Demolition Man pop up as "Dies Irae" is the title of this track. I think everyone at least identified Goldenthal!!

17 - Needful Things (1993) - Patrick Doyle
The majority of people identified this clip - I'm not sure I would have. Is there some artifact noise on this track or is it quiet percussion?

18 - The Lion King (1994) - Hans Zimmer
It was pointed out to me by DemonStar that there's an "audio fault" in this bootleg version of the "Dies Irae" featured - it's playing too slow. I'd forgotten that this features on the commercial release - but one of the children has the copy and they can't remember where it's gone.

19 - Padre Pio (2000) - Ennio Morricone
Unsurprisingly most people could hear Morricone's "sound" in this track, but the score itself is not too well known as the CD is quite difficult to get a hold of. Is it the unusual rhythm that the composer introduces to the piece that makes it difficult (for me at least) to be sure that this actually is a "Dies Irae" reference?)

20 - Giant Robo (2001) - Masamichi Amano
It's sometimes difficult to keep track on when certain versions of movies are released never mind when the music for these movies appears (the various versions of movies such as Ringu and Ju-on are good examples). But apparently, the Giant Robo series was aired originally back in the early '90s, with the music being available on CD only much more recently. It's a beautiful version - in the main. There's some of the staccato male voice passages that sound a bit stilted and forced.

I hope that people enjoyed hearing these various versions of the "Dies Irae" as used in film. There is a Hallowe'en FSM podcast that talks about the use of this music in films and I was dismayed that so many of the clips I had identified were mentioned in this podcast. So if anyone had paid attention when Michael mentioned the same podcast when he had a clip from Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony then they would have had a head start here.

Now that these scores are in the open, I'd be interested to hear of other movies that use the "Dies Irae".

Good game. Thanks Alan! I might have been able to pick up a few more points if I'd had some more guesses, but I never would have caught Bhel.

I can't believe I didn't get Between Heaven and Hell though - a phenomenal Friedhofer score.

Hopefully though it was interesting to hear a familiar piece of music being used to such great effect in films.

Thanks for a good game, Alan. I thought the hints helped big time!
That was an interesting set of clips and I'm going to have to check out more Friedhofer. I think I have just 1 or 2 of his scores.