# Favorite original choral movie music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010 "2007-06-14T16:51:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/1 "2007-06-14T16:51:41Z")
What are your favorite choral pieces written for and performed in movies? I’ve always loved Ennio Morricone’s title music and voice parts for **Navajo Joe** as well as quite a lot of the choral work of Zbigniew Preisner, particularly in **The Double Life of Veronique**. So what are the standouts of original\* choral movie music for you? \*Note that by original, it means no Carmina Burana/Mozart’s Requiem/Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, etc. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/2 "2007-06-14T18:42:28Z")
**Duel of the Fates** , the music from the Darth Maul vs. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan duel from **The Phantom Menace** , by **John Williams** , is both an obvious answer and a good answer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/3 "2007-06-14T18:55:09Z")
The title made me think of the jazzy thing that’s vocalized by a small vocal group in _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ as they call on New York and head to Bolivia. Nice stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/4 "2007-06-14T19:08:40Z")
Theme of the Ringwraiths in LOTR soundtrack. Is there something special about their appearance in the FOTR that led their appearance to be correlated with the choral piece in that movie but not in others? I’m specifically thinking about the buildup, when the **rest** of the theme is playing when you are looking at the sickly-green gates of Minas Morgul, then the Ringwraiths bust out and then … nothing. :mad: (I could be conflating scenes here, but there are scenes in the 2nd and 3rd movies that are like that :mad:.) Perhaps they didn’t have the funds to hire the a chorus for the soundtrack? That can’t be it…gaaaah! But yeah, that’s the best original choral movie music. There’s craploads of stuff that _sounds_ like it, but nothing touches it except Conan, and even that is slightly _too_ much of a ripoff of Carmina Burana to make it better than FOTR IMO, even though its use in the context of _The Orgy_ is appropriate. (i.e. indulgence.) ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/5 "2007-06-14T22:23:49Z")
Patrick Doyle’s “Non nobis, Domine” from Kenneth Branagh’s _Henry V_. I wish I could find a score for it. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/6 "2007-06-14T22:38:48Z")
Richard Einhorn’s [Voices of Light](http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Einhorn-Henk-van-Heijnsbergen/dp/B0000029NX/ref=sr_1_4/103-1518416-0570237?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181860552&sr=1-4), composed in the 1980s as an accompaniment for Carl Dreyer’s brilliant 1928 film _The Passion of Joan of Arc_. Possibly the greatest movie ever made. And the Einhorn piece complements it beautifully. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/7 "2007-06-14T22:49:14Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Patrick Doyle’s “Non nobis, Domine” from Kenneth Branagh’s _Henry V_. I wish I could find a score for it. [/QUOTE] [This might help.](http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Non_nobis,_Domine_(Philip_Legge)) Or you can [buy the actual score here.](http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_fastresults.html?cart=339083569917220635) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/8 "2007-06-14T23:10:28Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] Richard Einhorn’s [Voices of Light](http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Einhorn-Henk-van-Heijnsbergen/dp/B0000029NX/ref=sr_1_4/103-1518416-0570237?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181860552&sr=1-4), composed in the 1980s as an accompaniment for Carl Dreyer’s brilliant 1928 film _The Passion of Joan of Arc_. Possibly the greatest movie ever made. And the Einhorn piece complements it beautifully. [/QUOTE] :smack: I love this piece but haven’t heard it in ages so it escaped my memory. I own the DVD but not the CD (which, thanks to your post, has been rectified by my Amazon purchase moments ago). ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-original-choral-movie-music/408010/9 "2007-06-14T23:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] The title made me think of the jazzy thing that’s vocalized by a small vocal group in _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ as they call on New York and head to Bolivia. Nice stuff. [/QUOTE] Ditto. Course, there aren’t any lyrics, but it _is_ vocal. _Carmina Burana_ also works well. [Never mind. That wasn’t _original_.]