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I make new playlists for every new writing project and at the moment I'm confounded. What I need is good gothic music preferably instrumental but some choral is okay. --NOT ROCK. Kind of like the music from Spyro --Eternal Night (no I don't play it; my hubby was.)--I love the music--without all the bangs and screams as the character falls off the cliff.

I've used just about all the Requiems I can think of and still haven't found anything that is hitting my mood. Anyone have any suggestions?

Please?

...help a poor pitiful musically ignorant writer...it's good for your soul...
 
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I'm not sure if this is the mood you're looking for, but how about Carmina Burana by Carl Orff?
 
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Got it. Love it. Not quite right. A few years ago, some friends of mine who worked in the kitchen of the restaurant I was managing at the time changed the words of the chorus to "salsa monkeys." The whole darn thing's been ruined for ever since.

I have a large collection of Mozart, Bach, Wagner etc etc etc. I love Holst's Mars The Bringer of War from his Planets. But I've already used those and now they're associated with different projects--if that makes sense.
 
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Anything by Apocalyptica. They play cellos. Cult is my fave album.
 
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Makes perfect sense. Hmmm :ponders:.

I agree, Mars is faboo. That whole work is fantastic. I heard it live several months ago and it blew my socks off.
 
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Apocalyptica. Thanks, Jenn.

I'm glad I made sense. *whew* I start to get uneasy when I don't have a playlist. Heck, there's one song I tear up to every time now because when I was writing Asphodel I wrote the death of...

*grin*

Never mind.
 
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OK. I assume you have Mozart's requiem since you mentioned Mozart. How about Gregorian chants. I used to have a CD of that that I loved. Lidszt? Oh, how about 'Night on Bald Mountain' by Mussorgsky?
 
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Yes. Yes. and Yes.

My classical collection is huge. *sigh* That's why I brought up the video game music because it was just the thing I was looking for and it is NEW. The composer is Rebecca Kneubuhl, who's done several video game scores. BUT I. CAN'T. FIND. IT.
 
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My favorite classical music:
Sound of Snow Falling by Taku Iwasaki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHOnAYsmz5g
Butterfly by 12 Girls Band (REALLY beautiful traditional Chinese music, all of their songs are wonderful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTPDaculCQ

Music I consider classical from movies and games:
Taking Tea in Dreamland from American McGee's Alice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6CbsM_scQA
Davey Jones' Song from Pirates of the Caribbean 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wwcAb23Euw&feature=related

Some songs that aren't really classical but are soft and I loove them:
Memories by Within Temptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzJO34SCoc&feature=user
Somewhere by Within Temptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbJHSZSTOYc
Pale by Within Temptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNdS8-PEILE

Or anything by Enya. :)

EDIT: I think I just misunderstood your post. *Laughs* Try Nightwish, Evanescence, or Within Temptation. :)

Nightwish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1yJSTToFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UztEfwHt14&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5SUSmedMm8&feature=related

Already have some Within Temptation up there. :) And Evanescence . . . I don't even know which one to show you first, haha!

And the American McGee's Alice music does have a bit of a Gothic flair to it.

Songs from a favorite game of mine (haha):
(It's Zelda Twilight Princess)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d357LkWN5U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zspZMOAj2VE&feature=related

I'd also check out the songs that go with some Hayao Miyazaki films, he has some brilliant songs in his movies . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyEK3i3CyLk

And you should defiently check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtALzl8TtSM
 
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Celina,

I know you got your answers a while ago, but my daughter's been listening to a band called Sigur Ros (from Iceland) that's dark and mysterious, almost dirge-like. It would work well in slower pacing areas of your novel. There's a video that's kind of creepy, too.
 
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