Charles Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette

[MrDiegoalonso1994]

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[PopeOfPokemon]

You know you're hot stuff when a man's life work becomes less associated with him, and _more_ associated with you.

"Sir" Alfred Hitchcock, indeed.

[kingluke2]

a classic - but Charles Gounod needs to normalize his levels

[corgame3]

The JoJ brought me here. P.S. Hoh SiS

[ACruelPicture]

The official them of Alfred Hitchcook.

When you hear it you shit's gonna get real.

[SwordsmanMercenary]

The Alfred Hitchcock hour

[SilentlyVocal]

Now a couch is a human luxury..it's not for the likes of you.

[breegull64]

Ren and Stimpy brought me here.

[meowyconvf]

i thought this was called night on bald mountain!?

[havellhavelldt]

@meowyconvf no that's way more dark and epic, it was used in fantasia.

[mahler151]

@meowyconvf

No, that is by Modest Mussorgsky.

[OfShadowandSubstance]

Hitchcock <3

[truthslap]

@OfShadowandSubstance you have good taste, Alfred Hitchcock Presents might be the greatest tv show ever.

[truthslap]

goood eeeevening.

[OfShadowandSubstance]

@truthslap I would like your comment a thousand times if I could.

[Seekthetruth3000]

Great! Thanks for the post.

[supereggy5]

Ren: You are an idiot.

[MrCountdooku]

the 2 people who disliked this were Norman Bates and his mother...

[zzausel]

@MrCountdooku Is it possible to press the button two times?

[TearDropQween]

I looked up the theme song after watching a rerun on FoxCrime. I liked the melody so much, I hummed it at school. My friend then remarked that her little sister likes to hum that tune. I asked if she watched FoxCrime (obviously she doesn't, she's only in second grade!), and my friend said she learned it from 'Little Einsteins'. We laughed at how a tune for a mystery show is used in a stupid, idiotic kids' show like 'Little Einsteins'.

[theartfever]

cs188

[mastershake377]

@theartfever YOU WANT THE JOJ

[Tokokono]

Playing this as part of our show in marching band this season; definitely one of the most enjoyable pieces I've ever played.

[grandflasherb]

TOTENTANZ! Herr Lizst! Not only dark but full of chaotic energy. Additionally, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, as well as Paganini make for excellent Halloween music, full of the diabolical eerieness that Hitchcock fans should love.

[Ludovic98]

Quelle musique géniale, capable de créer une ambiance à la fois mystérieuse, funèbre et joyeuse !

[hanahgray]

i can FINALLY PLAY THIS ON PAINO! HUZZAH!

[blueberries4ever]

How mere mortals can be so astute just shows that the light of Christ is in each one of us. Let us unwrap our true potentials, as did Gounod.

[chaseduran]

@blueberries4ever I unwrapped the light of Christ inside me, and my mom told me to put my clothes back on.

[jakestud2007]

This is one of the last pieces of music Charles Gounod wrote before his death. He died mysteriously at his home in France, having been found under a massive bookcase. Autopsies weren't done back then and the cause of death was ruled "unknown". Very likely, he suffered a stroke, grabbed the bookcase to steady himself and succeeded in toppling it onto himself as he died. No one knows for sure.

[mooseydeucy]

BRAVO...never knew the name of this until I wanted to tell my fiancee about it -Alfred Hitchcock was a master of Mystery and suspense...my youth on TV misses him ...nothing like him today on 2011

[thawthepast]

I wish to walk faster....

[JoseMonkeys]

OMG! this is awesome! men! AWESOME! genius Charles !

[nrrork]

So, what I guess what this piece is telling us is that even in ages long past, people found marionettes FUCKING TERRIFYING! ^_^

[rrsmac]

@AresCassell The Soldier's Dance from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet; Mars from Holst's The Planets

[ahmadti]

thank you to posting this

[pepemordor]

One person is completely deft

[Alxmir23]

god i was looking for the name but i forgot it until i heard it watching the treehouse of horrors parody of the intro of alfred hitchcock intro

[Toadsanime]

Sadly, I know this only as 'that theme from the Game Boy game Shamus'.

[tsntana]

@Toadsanime lol I remember the game from C-64 with the same theme song. I always wondered what the heck the connection was between the game and Alfred Hitchcock. :)

[Toadsanime]

@tsntana Good to see someone else knowing this theme for Shamus, at least.

That game was surprisingly difficult actually. Sorta'.

[100irissa]

i love it, very funny funeral march

[ukwingchunstudent]

Ren And Stimpy :-)

[MaxRideWizardLord]

@ukwingchunstudent Where?

[breegull64]

@MaxRideWizardLord I suppose you already found it. But if not: It's at the beginning of the "Sven Hoek" episode.

[awesomeguy12100]

cool song-almost like a dark classical-great suspension in the song

[RiddlerMiddler]

were playing this at my concert but its only string and our teacher gets mad when a person plays wrong and they laugh

[docwho97]

Brilliant. Who is this one anti-voter.

[ffOSTnerd217]

this is such a cool piece

[tigertailzlc]

@bartje11 Thanks so much for uploading! :D It's an adorable piece.

[envysiblegirl]

That's RIGHT, 0 dislikes! Who doesn't have fond memories of this song?

[PielMorena97]

@envysiblegirl Well to much disdain there is one dislike, I'm hoping that person accidentally pressed it, I mean what is there to dislike about a classic such as this, and especially since it was made popular by Alfred Hitchcock, some people just have no class, or least that one person doesn't!!

[mangeldeth]

Awesome.

[undertakeredgar]

Kirk from metallica does it better

[Zarggg]

@undertakeredgar You were doing quite well on this comment until you got to "Metallica does it better".

[Madhatter1903]

Good evening

[SamSoto55]

gigity gigity goo



[brunoscarface]

Fantastic!

[nikysch]

Estupenda versión de esta pequeña maravilla. ¿Quiénes son los intérpretes?

[bartje11]

@nikysch It's the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier. Thanks for visiting.

[bobbeta30]

@bartje11 I love the BBC philharmonic!

[wierdo1232123]

Brilliant!

[Gnomentanz]

@Gnomentanz Actually, I just browsed a few episodes, they use it a lot.

[Silverlin212]

Classic piece, love it. Amongst so many other things I hear predominately Mendelssohn's herbrides overture most in this piece.

[DrStabkill]

I really would like this sheet music



[ARAZIO47]

trpp bello...la suonerò cn il mio quartetto di clarinetti il 5 giugno

[Phyllisjwolfe]

My very most favorite classical piece. ^_^

[MintorHoli]

i recommend that you guys listen to this arrangement called "creepy classic"

the arrangement includes 3 classics including this :)

[Blaquieres]

Tout le génie classique de Gounod concentré dans une musique si humouristique !

[xXTheWhiteSheepXx]

I've surely heard this in Ren and Stimpy somewhere...

[Gnomentanz]

@xXTheWhiteSheepXx The Nipple Salesman episode, when they're at the latex clad horses house.

[TheTubaKing]

I have listened to "Classical style" music since i was 5 years old (that's 5253 years now) and I also love the old horror movie actors. To "Oudler", of all the old time actors I have to agree Peter Lorre comes to mind.

[buhbuh]

when i first heard this i thought it was stravinsky

then again i turned it on half way

[AresCassell]

I love "dark" classical like this, night on bald mountain, and lux aetera. Can anyone suggest other dark sounding classical. Thanks.

[Bobzeaux]

Bach's Toccata & Fugue, of course. *lol*

I don't know how dark the Swan Lake Suite is generally regarded as, but I can't hear it without thinking of Dracula.

Terror Dance by DeFalla.

Is Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice "dark"?

Hall of the Mountain King.

Regnava nel Silenzio, maybe?

[Oudler]

@Bobzeaux Swan Lake makes me think of Bela Lugosi and Hall of the Montain King makes me think of Peter Lorre.

[eameece]

google bewitched music

[stringlife]

you really gotta try part IV of Mahler's 1st symphony ... now that's heavy

[AnryK2690]

Dance of the Knights - Prokofiev; Dies Irae - Mozart; Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner; I can't now remember others.

[MatteusNova]

Siegfried's Funeral March - From Götterdämmerung - Wagner.

[AnryK2690]

Oh yes. Verdi's Dies Irae. If we include opera, then Manon Lescaut's aria by Puccini is really dark.

[j27cn49s]

@AresCassell Danse Macabre by Camille St. Saens has always been one of my favorites.

[MatteusNova]

Rachmaninov's "Isle of the dead".

[DresdenStarwing]

Chopin's Funeral March...I'm amazed no-one's mentioned that yet.

Solvejg's Song-Grieg

Ride of the Valkieries-Wagner

If you like modern pseudo-classical, the Doctor Who Soundtracks (Murray Gold) have some fantastic 'heavier' pieces (Doomsday, All the Strange, Strange Creatures, Master Vanglorious, etc). Torchwood also has some nice darker pieces, but they're more bittersweet in tone.

[Hikikomori013]

Ironic that you should mention Chopin. NPR did a retrospective of Chopin's Funeral March on the anniversary of his birth. Funeral Mach of a Marionette was mentioned as one of the parodies written around the structure of the Chopin piece.

[bassoonist97]

@AresCassell there is always 'L' apprenti Sorcier' and Beethoven's '5th Symphony' for starters. Chopin's 'Funeral March' Stravinsty's 'Rite of Spring' and 'Firebird Suite' are others I have run across. Saint-Saens' 'Egyptian Dance' and Tchaikovsky's 'March Slav' are all dark classical. Also look into Mozart's 'Four Seasons' for more. Hope this helps

[Stravinsky91]

@AresCassell "Danse Macabre" by Saint-Saens, "In the hall of the mountain king" by Edvard Grieg, execution movement (4th) and final movement (5th "Sabbath of the witches") from Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, or Bartoks "Music for strings percussion and celesta" ^^ (the later was used in The Shining)

[TheOneSax]

@Stravinsky91 everything i was about suggest :D

[ihatethishackercrap]

@Stravinsky91 I love the entire Symphonie Fantastique; the only symphony written entirely as an act of revenge.

[jasminlaflamme]

@Stravinsky91 The band Nox Arcana, while having a more "synthesised" sound is very good. They make only "Gothic Horror" music. Different themes too, from like Dark Pirates (no joke lol), to Insane Asylums, to Dark Fairytales (my fav), to lots of other things! My absolute fav song is "Shadow Forest" def worth a listen! BTW thanks for listing what you know - I am also always in the search for music like this too!! :)

[InFortunesHand]

@jasminlaflamme Similar to Nox Arcana: Midnight Syndicate and Dark Sanctuary.

[ultrakool]

@AresCassell J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ

[SDValen]

@AresCassell For dark, check out Beethoven's 7th (second movement)

[TheRealCodeBlack]

@AresCassell Lots of stuff from the Romantic era, probably. You wouldn't find a lot of it in the Classical era.

[blueice002]

@AresCassell

Symphony No. 6 by Vaughan Williams

[ChristForte]

@AresCassell Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor, BWV 565

[wonder4why]

@AresCassell Fourteenth Movement in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Baba Yaga).

[ChibiProwl]

@AresCassell Mars, Bringer of War is another "dark" piece.

[davidq62]

@ChibiProwl Yes! "Mars, Bringer of War" is one of seven movements from the "The Planets", which is a suite for orchestra composed by Gustav Holst

[wierdo1232123]

@ChibiProwl Love that piece. So epic.

OP: This piece seems somewhat sarcastic in nature. Very cool attitude.

[knightLynderic]

@AresCassell The ride of the Valkyries is a strong piece too.

[freshhh1994]

@AresCassell

try mahler

[nonconformist12]

@AresCassell Try Verdi's Dies Irae.

[19Edurne]

@AresCassell

Maybe you should also listen to Saint-Saëns "Carnival of the Animals" : "Fossils" and in a more dreamy style 'Aquarium".

[hark2e]

@AresCassell I recommend Gnomus and Hut of the Baba Yaga from Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as Swan Lake and Marche Slave by Tchaikovsky, and a few of E. Grieg's piano concertos.

[Levill91]

@AresCassell "Hamlet overture" and "Fatum" by Tchaikovksy.

[chispamia]

@AresCassell Rachmaninoff's Piano concerto number 2

[nothing980454]

@AresCassell Try March Slav by Tchaikovsky and Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.

[RoSebastian]

@AresCassell

Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 2: 6. Waltz 2

Purcell: The Queen's Funeral March (or Walter Carlos' version)

Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C#m (really any nocturne by Chopin but this is my favorite)

Beethoven Symphony 7 No. 2 (allegretto)

Also if you like rock all of "Atom Heart Mother" by Pink Floyd. Genius, man.

[GamertownUSA]

@AresCassell

Toccata and fugue in D minor.

[LLPorduction]

@AresCassell watch?v=WVsLCzSK7Rs&feature=fl­_lolz&playnext=1&list=FLHRI-NM­Ls-9E its amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing! xD

[EatYourBeans]

@AresCassell Check out Rachmaninov's arrangements for virtuoso pianists such as his Prelude is C# minor

[Stormthorn67]

@AresCassell

Ysaye Sonata Number 2 for Solo Violin. Just a violin, but dark and classical

[Teetseremoonia]

@AresCassell Beethoven - 7th Symphony - 2nd movement, Albinoni - Adagio in G Minor, Mozart - Don Giovanni a cenar teco, Prokofiev - 'Montagues And Capulets', Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave, Verdi - Chi s'avanza (actually I recommend the whole Nabucco opera), Bizet - Les tringles des sistres tintaient, Bizet - Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre

[racheleleeba]

Seeing as how I hadn't thought about the piece or the Hitchcock show in forty years till I watched this video, I thank you for calling the existence of google to my attention. What a nice gentleman you are. Your mother must be very proud!

[CWhitebear]

アップロードありがとうございました！

[racheleleeba]

I remember this from the Alfred Hitchcock show, but I never knew who composed it. Enjoyed this very much, thanks.

[Katana991]

I've never seen the show, but I would like to sometime. I'm even interested in seeing a banned episode titled "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".

[Saxman255]

awesome song!!