Topical Music Index
Compiled by Narelle Worboys
non-copyrighted
Movie soundtracks are very thematic, so it's easy to find a mood piece to enhance your drama without the forte and pianissimo interruptions that classical music tends to include. Classical music is a fantastic support to dramatic interpretation, however, but it is a vast genre and if you don't have your own music library, it can be difficult to know where to start looking. I have created this index as a means to simplify this process for you. I am continually adding to the list as I find time to catalogue what I hear. Where possible, I have suggested a specific album."Perfume" is produced by ABC Classics: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Ladies in Lavendar" is produced by Sony Classical: Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
"Brassed Off" is produced by BMG Classics, a unit of BMG Entertainment.
ICM = In Classical Mood series, produced by International Masters Publishers Pty Ltd. The 1st digit is the album number, the 2nd digit is the track number.
SUBDUED or MELANCHOLIC
Ludvig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor: Moonlight Sonata
Peter Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste
SAUCY or CHEERFUL
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, intro to track 16: Camille Saint-Saëns: Six études, Opus 11, Toccata
JAUNTY or COOL
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 10: Zabawa Weselna (Polish Dance)
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 12: Joseph Guy Ropartz: Jeunes filles: L’Insouciante
ICM 24.1 Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Opus 11, ‘Alla marcia’
ICM 24.4 Bernhard Henrik Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Third Movement
DOOM or DESOLATION
ICM 6.13 Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Second Movement
ICM 22.9 Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, ‘Liebestod’
ICM 6.11 Johannes Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F major, Opus 90, Third Movement
ICM 9.8 Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une Infante Défunte
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 9: The Letter
Perfume by Stephanie McCallum, Track 15: Francis Poulenc: Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla
Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Overture
Frank Bridge: the opening of “The Sea (First Movement) Seascape”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony, No. 6 in F major, Storm (Fourth Movement)
WILD or DISCORDANT or CRUEL
ICM 16.9 Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Dance of the Adolescents
LOVE or TENDERNESS or COMFORT
ICM 6.1 Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 in A flat
PIZZAZZ
ICM 24.5 Johan Helmich Roman: Sinfonia in G minor
ICM 24.11 Dag Wirén: Serenade for Strings, Opus 11, ‘Marcia’
QUIET or MELANCHOLIC or SAD or SUPPRESSED
ICM 22.6 Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, ‘Pathetique’, Fourth Movement
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 2: Olga
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 3: Teaching Andrea
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack: Track 5: Thaïs
Ladies in Lavender soundtrack Track 7: On the Beach
SAD or HAUNTING or TRAGIC
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13: We’ll Find a Way
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 18: Honest Decent Human Beings
ALARM or WARNING or PREMONITION OF DANGER
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 13 finale: We’ll Find a Way
IN A RUSH or MOMENT OF DECISION or TRAGEDY
ICM 6.3 Gustav Holst: The Planets: the introduction to ‘Venus’
EXCITEMENT or HURRY or ANTICIPATION
Brassed Off soundtrack: Track 14: Clog Dance
William Tell Overture
EXCITEMENT
ICM 22.2 Frédéric Chopin: Étude in C minor, Opus 10 No. 12, ‘Revolutionary’
SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION
ICM 22.11 Ludvig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Opus 67, Fourth Movement
ICM 22.7 Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, Third Movement
