The Shining Soundtrack - Music For Strings, Percussion, & Celesta

[speeta]

2:21 this segment is also heard in "Alien", when Dallas (Tom Skerritt) hunts for the creature alone.

[HeiHolaHello]

(spoilers) What's the song with the strange chanting called? The one that plays when Wendy encounters Halloran's dead body, and during the strange scene where she sees the butler and the man in the bear costume doing their thing? (lol)

[JCSjelde]

@HeiHolaHello utrenja (ewangelia)

[iamtheicekid]

@JCSjelde What does that mean?

[Pilplix2]

@iamtheicekid It's the name of the song... Well, soundtrack actually, but you know what I mean :)

[138chuvok]

1 person peed his / her pants

[Michaelweiz1990]

oh my god, this was my favourite movie when I was 14. I must see it again...

[jakeg934]

Dad?

Yes?

Do you like this hotel?

Yes. I do. I love it. Don't you?

I guess so.

Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.

[swisstripz]

i hope this is the fritz reiner version, because thats the one the movie uses!

[13Orcun]

bartok is great

[IIty2iII]

1985- "You see it's okay, he saw it on the television." 2011- "It's true, I saw it on the internet."

[SilvrRazorFeather]

the only thing creepier than the music is the string of Johnny faces in the related column.

[awhitman211]

3:28... best part.

[JoakimJockeHansson]

If I get 600 thumbs up I will play this on my wedding day.

You got 3 weeks

[Niek67]

I would hate to play this music, but it really finishes the movie

[CelestrialToymaker]

This song is used in the doctor who serial the web of fear to great effect when the first yeti is reactivated.

[schattig1elfje]

REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!

[LastGeicoCaveman]

1 person got axed by johnny

[0180917]

I can just picture Danny and Wendy walking through the maze when I listen to this.

[auerstadt06]

The great film composer Jerry Goldsmith complained about Kubrick using pre-existing music for his films and then ripped off this same piece for a scene in "Alien."

[0180917]

@auerstadt06 Interesting--the music from 2001, right when "The Jupiter Mission" begins, was also used in the opening scene of Aliens.

[MrOtakuman22]

Sends chills down my spine every time I hear it...

[monsterdrawer]

Johnny: I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever & ever & ever.

[IRobertMarah]

@monsterdrawer Good quote, but his name's Jack, not Johnny. Don't mean to be an asshole, just one of my pet peeves is people calling him Johnny lol.

[BMNicolas]

Can anyone tell me any composers that make music that sounds like the part around 4:04?

[MyThirdEye46x2]

I love the movie and the book. Have both. Very different. Just IMO, probably not everyone's opinion, but to me, the movie can't even touch the book. I highly recommend the book :DD and the movie of course :D

[Q8iDude]

Freaking love this film & its OST. Pure, unadulterated genius.

[xXYurakaXx]

Creeps me out, because this is the scene where Wendy says Jack's been sleeping for several hours, just be quiet and get your fire engine. Nope, he's been staring out the window.... for six hours....

[cuttsyboyjack80]

this movie has some of the most scariest music ever made its on par with evil dead and the exorcist

[MrOtakuman22]

This is one of the creepiest themes I have ever heard in a film!

[peterjlearn]

Bela was all like, "let's give some suspense." Then, he was like, "It is clear that there is something wrong here (harmonics+dissonance)". Whole-tone harp? Clearly supernatural! Then ... (gasp) piano entrance! Tritones and minor thirds?!? But, a seemingly stable melody emerges ... and then? Punctuation! Further hemming and hawing, then a retrograde. Then? A FIREFIGHT!!!!!!

[beethoven941]

Fa troppa paura!!!!!

[Takeshi357]

I heard this same piece used in a recon of the lost Doctor Who story "The Enemy of the World". Considering I associate this music with this film so strongly, it was really surreal!

[BlackMoonLilith]

@Takeshi357 I was just watching an Enemy of the World recon and it surprised me! (Though I was aware of it through About Time). The funny thing is *I* associated it much more clearly with the following DW story, The Web of Fear, to the extent that when I rewatched The Shining, I kept thinking of Yeti popping out of Room 237!

[BlackMoonLilith]

@Takeshi357 And of course, Kubrick had called the Doctor Who production team a few years earlier inquiring about how the team for The Daleks' Master Plan did a particular special effect (I believe for 2001), which was directed by Douglas Camfield. So would it have been impossible for Kubrick to have been watching The Web of Fear on original transmission, and how well the song could be used in non-dialogue scenes stayed with him subconsciously? Or am I thinking too much? ;)

[BrettKeepin]

So creepy. So cool.

[waldner97]

this music is fucking creppy

[CutandPrintFilms]

You would never do anything to mommy or me...would ya?

[FxSnRoK]

Bartok was a genius!

[thesilentkiller555]

@FxSnRoK Genius? that is not the word men.

[wowbaggerfan]

Just to add a bit of useless information for your delectation...the xylophone rhythm at the start uses a short mirrored Fibonacci sequence: 1:1:2:3:5:8:5:3:2:1:1. Yup, Bartók was a nerd.

:)

[hempgru4]

@wowbaggerfan Thank you for that delectable punctilio :).

[ziocarino850]

L'era un po matto il Bartok però ha fatto un concerto straordinario ;D

[hallonikbeneenballon]

kweetet

[DylanColeSprouse2008]

is this the song that plays when he is using the axe on the door

[Kubrickfan27]

@DylanColeSprouse2008 See my response to AuKNiFe's question.

[meeces13]

@DylanColeSprouse2008 when danny is talking to jack

[guitarblowfish]

This music gives me chills in excitement! Many of the scenes wouldn't be near as scary without... my understanding Kubrick picked each song himself! Truly awesome!

[Riszpekta]

I hope everyone knows who it was Bartók Béla! :D

[TravisBickleNY1]

what nice teeth.

[wendyblue7]

THIS MUSIC IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!

[AuKNiFe]

which scene in the movie is this music played?

[Kubrickfan27]

@AuKNiFe As far as I know, there are three scenes in which this music is played. These are in no particular order. First, the scene when Wendy and Danny walk into the hedge maze for the first time. This proceeds to Jack throwing the tennis ball around and encountering the miniature model of the hedge maze. Second, the scene when Danny first rides past and notices room 237 on his tricycle. Third, the scene when Danny goes up to his room to retrieve his fire engine.

[wendyblue7]

@AuKNiFe the first part (i watched the shining) is when danny tiptoes into his room to get his firetruck, but then goes and sits down by jack and they talk. i know that.

[ALB3FI]

2:30 FAVOLOSO....

[jafigueroa41]

¡ BARTOK !

[Caulfield789]

Does anyone know if this is available on iTunes? I searched for it (cursorily) last night and came up empty.

[AndreLucLevesque]

@Caulfield789 copy and paste this in iTunes Store

Music For Strings, Percussion, & Celesta

and the album

Bartok: Music For Strings, Percussion, & Celesta Divertimento.

is a good version of this composition it is the track 27 on the CD i think

[Caulfield789]

@AndreLucLevesque Worked like a charm! Thanks so much!

[drumuitar]

@AndreLucLevesque If you want this precise recording, it is on Deutsche Grammaphone records, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan.

[liltony116]

Scary? Elegant?....Scary? YESS!

[lovesGenet]

this is not sexy.Languorous dead bodies moving in muck. they won't hurt anyone they are dead they are just doing wht da dead do.Rotting .worms slithering. I need the score for movements 2 and 3.This is the most amazing srring imagination ever.Noone was writing like this in the 30s and forties.So great IS BARTOK!!!!

[johnnydarkly]

@lovesGenet Who cares whether is it sexy! Is that some imperative that must be met for you to enjoy music?

[InsertGoodNameHeree]

I heard this in my exploratory music class, and I have like fallen in love with this. After listening to the whole thing I've decided I want to have sex to this song one day...Xp :D 2:25 past are the best IMO. :DD

[50caliberfilms]

@InsertGoodNameHeree How on Earth could you have sex to this creepy-ass song?

... unless you were having sex with some sacrificial bull or goat as part of some fucked up ritual like something out of a Silence of The Lambs sequel...

[BlackMoonLilith]

Travers? Is that you? I am not frightened by your stupid tricks! Travers! I'm not a fool!

[pivotmanAZ09]

here´s pyro!

[WiiGeee]

@pivotmanAZ09 i call spy!

[GawjusJoker]

OMG!! at last! someone has this music to the shining !! :D

[micheljch]

@GawjusJoker It was written 44 years before the movie was scored. This is the 3rd movement of the full piece.