# What's Your Favorite Piece of Music Associated With Sci-Fi/Fantasy?

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**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-music-associated-with-sci-fi-fantasy/656547 "2013-04-23T22:45:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-music-associated-with-sci-fi-fantasy/656547/61 "2013-04-24T23:52:09Z")

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[One More Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8) - Daft Punk (hey, they’re robots)

[We Are the Robots](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lu4FSBRWzE) - Kraftwerk

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-music-associated-with-sci-fi-fantasy/656547/62 "2013-04-25T00:59:01Z")

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> [@MovieMogul](#):
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> Thanks for reminding me the classical music canon has great fantasy pieces, too. Love the Grieg but if I had to select my favorite work with a supernatural theme, I’d go with Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

You’re right — almost all of Wagner’s operas involve some degree of mythology, so they should qualify. And John Williams is no Wagner.

I love the _Ring_, and IMO there’s a good case for it being the single most monumental achievement by a composer, ever, since Wagner wrote not just the music, but the libretto, and even the stage directions.

But if you just take the best short selections of pure music from it, I wouldn’t put it over Grieg, nor even give it the top spot on the list of Wagner’s own music. For example, I like the overture from _Tannhauser_ better than anything in the _Ring_ from a purely audio perspective, although nothing beats the _Ring_ for the total experience.

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-music-associated-with-sci-fi-fantasy/656547/63 "2013-04-25T02:36:58Z")

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Well, there’s the aria from Lucia di Lammermoor that was played 'round a bit in _ **The Fifth Element** _. Actually, pretty much everything in that movie, musically, was good.

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-music-associated-with-sci-fi-fantasy/656547/64 "2013-04-25T04:34:17Z")

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[This performance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4) of the _Doctor Who_ theme achieve a certain, well, let’s call it charm. (I think the pantomime horse really sells it.) Similarly, there’s [Fireball XL5](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAChAtdTBc)

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