Dies Irae ( The Shining Theme )

[efcborica]

is God's wrath

[mattpunkcf]

do you know what dies irae means? God almighty is the translation.

[venusviola]

@mattpunkcf "dies irae" literally means "day of wrath"

[ToniSkit]

@mattpunkcf it means day of wrath...

[RoseyGrad2012]

This is scarier than Tubular Bells



[Fontego]

The original theme was supposed to be written by an Italian friar, Tommso da Celano, around XIII century. From this Hymn, Dies irae, took their inspiration authors like Listz for his beautiful Totentanz and Berlioz for his Symphony Fantastique, in the fifth movement

[vtplaylist]

@Fontego not Listz, Liszt... hungarian composer

[Fontego]

@vtplaylist Don't worry I knew who Listz was, I am sorry for the mistake in writing :)

[SummoningACryptid]

3:03-3:14

This moan, it carves itself into my soul. Terrifying.

[nachobarrionuevo]

Im the only one who shudder when heard it?

[SummoningACryptid]

@nachobarrionuevo No, you aren't. This song is a masterpiece of horror.

[666baptised]

What artist did this plz let me kno

[drumerperson]

@666baptised Mozart wrote Des Irae. It's from Requiem :)

[SleepUnder1]

@drumerperson Actually thats not entirely true. Though Mozart is responsible for the most famous version of Dies Irae, it is believed to have been written approximately 1000 years ago. This piece originally symbolised hatred, to which everyone would join in with.

If you do not believe me, i was told this whilst composing my own variations with the London Symphony Orchestra.

[drumerperson]

@SleepUnder1 I belive you don't worry. Thanks for the info!

[wandererlain]

Sam Raimi was heavily influenced by THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick.

Note "right up in the mountains" and the music when Ash buries his girlfriend in particular.

[agathodeimon]

who composed this song????

[spetty3736]

@agathodeimon Berlioz adapted the old Catholic hymn "Dies Irae" for his Symphonie Fantastique. The theme for this movie is very similar to that version. "Dies Irae" was a song which was usually performed for funerals.

[agathodeimon]

@spetty3736 wowowow Thanks!!!!!!

[elmariachidelmal4]

how2 sick is it that i use this for work out music??

[Jackson221787]

this theme used to scare the crap out of me when i was younger but i haven't listened to it in a longwhile what creeps me more is the evil dead2 poster

[89murph]

I always thought it was Berlioz.

[Armando1735]

Humano, demasiado humano.

[327372]

the second coming

[sslfsociety]

Wendy Carlos strikes again...sweet.

[enlightener26]

This is actually the Gregorian Mode that Liszt developed his Totentanz from

[NeverAloneForever]

@enlightener26 Liszt was influenced by Berlioz, right?

[TheOfficialEucleia]

@NeverAloneForever yes, and berlioz was influenced by Shakespeare, Thomas Scott, and Lord Byron among others. Berlioz also influenced ramonatic composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler

[NeverAloneForever]

@TheOfficialEucleia Definitely that whole lot. Wagner seemed quite attached to his music. Not the other way around I've heard. Opium really does change people.

Wait, who were Berlioz's musical influences? Besides Beethoven.

[ZACKnirvana]

well Evil Dead picture with The Shing music...nothing wrong with that :)

[TheMuellerlein]

Best photo you could ever have taken for this hymn!!!

[TheMuellerlein]

that song makes me me want to kill a personal enemy and cut out his heart and give it to Odin.......

[cerulee]

This song is also in Sleeping with the Enemy.

[Exccentrous1]

Wrong poster, and yet...somehow it kind of works.

I guess Evil Dead 2 is awesome with anything.

[Armando1735]

Genial e humano, demasiado humano.

[WarOfSalvation]

Isn't this track also on a episode of Goosebumps, "A Night In Terror Tower"? I always thought it was.

[KentuckyChicken2]

ohhhh, goosebumps... this song is so creepy and evil! I'm totally in the mood for the movie now!

[snoopatomicdog]

I always get a bit concerned when I happen to be listening to this theme at 2.37am/pm

[hezabimu]

I clicked on this video, start listening to this song and then look at the videos on the right and freaked the fuck out when I saw Pennywise the dancing clown looking at me.

[ficocchia]

I hate this image D:



[TheSonomaDude]

@ficocchia What? Its the cover for Evil Dead 2 and its an AWESOME picture,

[samlab0920]

@yourladydisdain Actually there's a whole debate as to who originally wrote the Missa Pro Defunctis, since the manuscript isn't signed. It may have been composed by Thomas of Celano, as it may have not. Nothing is certain, has never been, and probably won't ever be.

[TheStockwell]

@yourladydisdain There's probably a website devoted to how many composers have used the piece. Liszt built a 15-minute piece with it; "Totentanz" (Dance of Death). Someone mentioned Rachmaninoff using it in a work. Actually, Rachmaninoff used the theme repeatedly. In his "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," it turns up in the last minute, from out of nowhere; Rachmaninoff just liked the tune.

[THECARS7879]

wow are you sure about that?! As a more then a few centuries old song, it fits in perfect for the Shining. I wouldn't have chose anything else for it.

[MrWajax]

It's been years since I watched this movie until last night...it's still gets under my skin! Added this to my favorites.

[dariusdynamite]

....alright! it's bad enough the dang music is CREEPY! but you just HAD to put this SCARY-ASS picture on the screen!!! I keep waiting for this to be one of those screaming videos but the scream never comes! ....that in and of itself makes it even scarier!

[ocelot646]

@dariusdynamite Haha not being racist here, but judging by the way you talk, I'm going to guess that you're black?

[snoopatomicdog]

@ocelot646 I want to sacrifice you to this song.

[ocelot646]

@snoopatomicdog Only if I get to drink a dozen vases of sacrificial wine first!

[araigneejonjon]

The same music is in the film "Day of Wrath", a beautiful and earlier film made by C.T. Dreyer...

[AngryDeepground]

Wolfgang Amadeuse Mozart also used a faster operatic version for his Requiem.

[toothless6reach]

I worked on this theme at school. The teacher showed us a clip of the beginning of the shinning with that theme. It was f*ckin' creepy and I liked it.

[johnny10301968]

Would,nt it make more sense to put the movie poster ?

[CorvusKorax17]

@johnny10301968 I was worried youtube might not allow it. i tried to upload the entire clockwork orange soundtrack but youtube blocked it. i was worried that they might block this one too so i used another picture.

[jinpayne]

@CorvusKorax17 Evil Dead 2? But?

[ocelot646]

@johnny10301968 Yeah but the combination of this picture and the music scares the bollocks out of me.

[buffaloknife]

@johnny10301968 heres a "workaround": bring up an extra tab in your browser. navigate to a popular internet search site w/"image search" capablities. type in the exact phraze "THE SHINNING MOVIE POSTER ADVERT" in the curser. when your results appear i nthat tab [and they WILL!! ! ] go forselection of your favorite one. then goto this originaltab and tick 'PLAY " so the music starts. THEN THIS IS THE KICker> REAL QUICK click back over to the other tab w/ the poster. &stare at itHOPE THIS HELPS

[TheGriffdog1]

This melody was also was used in the movie The Car! A custom made body out of a 1971 Lincoln.

[MrSamWhitemoon]

Overlook Hotel, rearranged = "Hole Took Lover"

[0180917]

2:47 THE INTERVIEW

[Armando1735]

Humano, simplesmente humano.

[Murnawful]

@CorvusKorax17 Originally, it was a gregorian song from the XIII/XIVth century. The first adaptation of this song was made 1830 by Berlioz. It appears in the 5th movement of the Symphonie Fantastique. The second work was made by Rachmaninov in 1908 for symphonic poem "Isle of the Dead". He wrote this version of Dies Irae from an idea he had while looking at a painting of Bröcklin called "Isle of the Dead". The island we see in the opening scene of Shining might be a refering to it.

[spudsydog]

@Murnawful What an astute observation! I never thought twice about that little island in the first shot, before...

[JessesYuToob]

I believe this song ... is it a song?, was used in Metropolis as well.

[JessesYuToob]

@JessesYuToob

I just found it was in Wikipedia

[Sword1479]

@JessesYuToob It isn't a song, songs have words. But it was used in Metropolis.

[Ninnapintga]

@cesetevi2000

Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn. The poem describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God.

In Shining the theme of the gregorian chant Dies Irae is used in the composition of Wendy Carlos. So is has to be note that the Dies Irae theme hasn't been "composed" by anybody. Look up a translation of the Dies irae theme and you know why it's used in Shining ;)

[sgillcrist]

this isnt the chant Dies Irae though, this is taken from a variation of the chant in Hector Berlioz's 5th movement of "Symphonie Fantastique"

[IronSand5]

Dies iræ is sucha beautiful song. Can someone tell me what instrument is featured here? Baritone?

[nabooru3000]

@CorvusKorax17 Wendy Carlos did a version of this called Country Lane, the actual chant Dies Irae has been around for centuries. :)

[irinayugiohfan]

I love this music soooo much

[jasonrules41]

@CorvusKorax17 Well, Actually Dies Irae was originnally composed in the medieval period (450 - 1450) by an Unknown composer and the title is translated "Days Of Wrath". Just some fun tidbits of info.

[jslackiv]

This is Bela Bartok

[BarbecuedBananas]

@cesetevi2000 It's an old Gregorian chant. This version is based on Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Dies Irae literally means day of wrath and the song is often used in movies because it's so dark. The music and the words.

[NeverAloneForever]

@BarbecuedBananas Where in his Symphonie Fantastique is Dies Irae? The melodie or the hyms? Y'know?

[NeverAloneForever]

@BarbecuedBananas Never mind. I found it. Thanks anyway.

[PupuTheClown]

Thats such a friendly looking chap, I think he wants a cigarette, anyone care to give him a light ?

[656Devin]

The title of this post is fine. That is the original name of the song (The Wrath, written in Greek) and it is the movie, The Sining, theme song.

[HuginnG]

compadre! this is great

[656Devin]

@cesetevi2000 I think dies lrae means The wrath and the original composer was making Hyms?

[ChuckyDoll10]

This is the Poster for EVIL DEAD 2 isn't it? But with the words removed of course.

[CorvusKorax17]

@ChuckyDoll10 Correct :)

[ChuckyDoll10]

@CorvusKorax17 - Cool, I thought it was mate. :-)

[traveler1938]

The shining: Best movie intro EVER!

Music and images are perfect! Beautiful and scary...

[clay10h]

holy crap! we were learning about Dies Irae and Thomas of Celano in my music history course. never expected to be the theme of the shining!!

[656Devin]

Test

[656Devin]

Test

[656Devin]

Amazing, wondefull, love it!!!!

[eve23ie]

This is creepy but it still makes me smile, as it reminds me of Jack Nicholson, "The Shining " was so creepy but still something about Jack makes you laugh,great actor!

[IllusiveMetal117]

creepy as shit

[lenore62]

Yes! i remember of this song from the film "shinning"!! thank you for your invitation!! friendly your, Léno

[lenore62]

Ha!! yes!! i remember this song from the film Shinning!!!

[ledzepp8rammstein]

The film is great! and the music too

[menslady125]

@CorvusKorax17:

WHAT?! I though you were my friend!

[Gabriela1]

great..........spooky.........­.......

[CaletheGray]

Well, at least I'm not alone :]

[TheWolfenSiren]

@CorvusKorax17 (and @Ebonshire) Don't worry! The new Nox Arcana album comes out this summer. We'll just have to wait until then...

[RedheadMetalC]

badass song

[kholsinger]

Ooh, the Shining version of this song. Always loved it. Very creepy.

[DarkSkysify]

this is realy nice,