Light and Dark
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Post one piece of classical music that you consider to be 'light' and one that you consider to be 'dark'
A couple obvious choices to get the thread started:
>light
Holst - The Planets - Jupiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo
>dark
Mozart - Requiem - Lacrimosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs
2nd movement edition. From my two favorite symphonies:
>light
Dvorak - New World Symphony - Movement 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX15agZ3-0
>dark
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 - Movement 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J12zprD7V1k
>light
Pachelbel - Canon in D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc
>dark
Barber - Adagio for Strings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450
20th century y'all
>light
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28lsbc
>dark
Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA
The Nordic Noodling of Peer Gynt
>light
Grieg - Peer Gynt - Morning Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEzh3MwILY
>dark
Grieg - Peer Gynt - Death of Ase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKxf1h5r4g
I'm just going to keep posting so you guys might as well join in
Spooky dancing for some reason
>light
Sainte-Saens - Danse Macabre (fuck you it's upbeat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM
>dark
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - Dance of the Knights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ
Bachmanity Insanity
>light
Bach - Cello Suite No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHpDOWhkGk
>dark
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
Set the mood for the old in-out
>light
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - Ode to Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcOpyM9cBg
>dark
Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9GrmokeHPY
The night is dark and full of dank classical music
>light
Debussey - Claire de Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
>dark
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 (Quality music version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCuL-K39eQ (Kinda crappy audio but based Fantasia animations)
Axis powers unite
>light
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5k70xwGSk (Japs don't fuck around edition; goodness at 7:45)
>dark
Orff - O Fortuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIpoE2LEps
I couldn't decide if Sirenes was light or dark. It's very pretty and airy, and has plenty of uplifting moments, but I think overall it's more foreboding and melancholic, plus as a kid it reminded me of ghosts, and sirens end up killing you, so dark it is.
>light
Bizet - Carmen - Danse Boheme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCvp478aws
>dark
Debussy - Sirenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMAlGAoiuQ
Hungry Hungry Hungarians
>light
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tvjR0j5yEY
>dark
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es
Dueling Pianos
>light
Beethoven - Pathetique 2nd Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGq3-Fi_zQY
>dark
Liszt again - Totentanz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBXA1tBiLw
Vivaldi can't stop, won't stop
>light
VIvaldi - La Follia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8zxoEoA_Q
>dark
Handel - Sarabande
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAd3NpDi6Q
>light
Strauss II: Electric Boogaloo - Blue Danube Waltz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4
>dark
Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
Hello is there anybody out there?
>i opened every link on this thread and i am now playing them all at once
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