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Quintessential Halloween music - Tris - 10-25-2007

It's that time again for eerie and otherworldly sounding music. Here are some thoughts for some mood music:

For those familiar with Fantasia... Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"
Also, the classic ... J.S. Bach Toccata in d

Some more essoteric works
Boellman's "Gothic Suite"
Max Reger's "Isle of the Dead" from his four tone poems
Liszt's "Totentanz"
Saint-Saen's "Danse Macabre"
Charles Marie Widor - Toccata from the 5th organ symph.
H. Berlioz - Final movement from the Symphonie Fantastique
Piston - The Vikings



Quintessential Halloween music - Rhydderch Hael - 10-25-2007

"Pray!" from Apocalyptica's Cult album for when you're being chased by (or chasing) those things that go bump in the night.

"Cokkha", from their Reflections album, for a moody, almost dirge-like ambiance.