# Music to get your royal groove on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895 "2006-11-17T22:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/1 "2006-11-17T22:17:02Z")
I was thinking about where I could get some kingly music. As in, I do0n’t know, so please tell me. Kingly music here, is not so much a particular genre but a style. I want music that screams glory, dignity, and so on. If you’ve ever played some of the Total War series (especially Rome: Total War), much of that would do. I’m not really looking for marches or blatant “blare the trumpts” stuff: give me something that just oozes out of the speakers. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/2 "2006-11-17T22:29:24Z")
That part of Carmina Burana they always play is pretty majestic. Wagner like “Ride of the Valkyrie”. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/3 "2006-11-17T22:42:13Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Wagner like “Ride of the Valkyrie”. [/QUOTE] Good God. \*Ride of the Valkyrie \* is about as bombastic as it music gets. I’m looking for something much more sedate. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/4 "2006-11-17T23:46:13Z")
Almost anything by Handel, especially _Water Music_ which is traditionally played at weddings of the British royal family. Mouret’s First Suite in D sometimes also called “Fanfare for the King’s Supper.” Nowadays, it’s best known as the _Masterpiece Theater_ theme music. The opening movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Mozart’s Jupier Symphony has magisterial moments. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/5 "2006-11-18T00:06:08Z")
I always thought that if I time-travelled back to a time when my esoteric knowledge could win me a kingdom, I’d teach the Court Musicians how to play the Throne Room arrangement from the end of SW(IV):ANH, where they get the medals. That’s always impressive. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/6 "2006-11-20T15:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=smiling bandit] Good God. \*Ride of the Valkyrie \* is about as bombastic as it music gets. I’m looking for something much more sedate. [/QUOTE] :smack: Sorry, I thought you said “screams” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/7 "2006-11-20T17:23:46Z")
**Handel** has some great music that might be right up your alley. [This CD](http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=724355714022&z=y) has quite a few. One of (IMHO) the best pieces is the beginning of **Zadok The Priest**. It’s got this string arpeggio thing that goes on and on and builds into this _ **POW** _ of choir at the end. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![cranston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@cranston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cranston)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/8 "2006-11-20T17:42:11Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] **Handel** has some great music that might be right up your alley. [This CD](http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=724355714022&z=y) has quite a few. One of (IMHO) the best pieces is the beginning of **Zadok The Priest**. It’s got this string arpeggio thing that goes on and on and builds into this _ **POW** _ of choir at the end. Love it. [/QUOTE] He he. I was a chorister at Windsor Castle as a boy so I know ‘Now That’s What I Call Kingly Music XiV’ would certainly carry ‘Zadok The Priest’. They were always playing it - I would also recommend Edward Elgar’s ‘Pomp and Circumstance’. But the most kingly music - I’m talking majestically majestic now - is Nino Rota’s theme for that movie ‘Death On the Nile’. Check it out to see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/9 "2006-11-20T17:59:58Z")
Tchaikovsky’s _Marche Slav_ and _1812 Overture_ both have the Imperial Russian anthem, (“God Save the Tsar”) woven into them. Also the beginning and end marches from _The Sleeping Beauty_, the _Introduction & Marche_, and _Finale-Apotheosis_, are both full of pomp and grandeur. (And if you’ve seen Disney’s _Sleeping Beauty_, they’re both used to announce the King, and the Princess Aurora). ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-to-get-your-royal-groove-on/380895/10 "2006-11-20T22:39:08Z")
Thanks. I’ll take a look.