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December 23

Pls. identify song snippets in medley

Could you please give a song listing of the track "Hooked On Instrumentals, Pt. 1" with the length of 5:08 minutes using this format (Beatles Medley: Stars on 45/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/...)? Google doesn't seem to turn up the listing for the extended version. --Bruin_rrss23 (talk) 08:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure but hope this will help. Oda Mari (talk) 19:07, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Terminator soundtrack

I'm watching terminator 1 as I'm writing this and I'm curious where I can find the soundtrack played at the scene where Reese breakes the window on the door to the office in which Sara's hiding under the desk in the police station.

Hmmm... The Terminator only shows the track listing for the standard soundtrack release. The Terminator: The Definitive Edition includes a track titled "Police Station/Escape From Police Station." [1] --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 21:26, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Name that Bioshock tune

I'm having trouble remembering the name of a tune I heard in Bioshock. It's the part in Ft. Frolic when Cohen gets in his "Screw all you...doubters!" rage and sics a whole mob of splicers on you. The whole thing was done to the tune of an opera or ballet; what's the name?Spade9 (talk) 20:59, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Part of the game's score was released for free (see August 24th's post) along with the game's release. As for the rest of songs, Wired compiled a track list. Hope that helps! — Kieff | Talk 21:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:02, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that would be the Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky. I enjoyed that part, as it was meant to be horrifying/scary but was enjoyable to jump around setting splicers on fire at the beat. In fact, I think that was my favorite part of the game. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 00:09, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Georges Bizet.

How did Bizet influence music (especially opera) in francophone cultures?

Specifically: how were other (later) composers influenced by him, and is there anything within his music that changed opera as we know it? lolz

Moved from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:02, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

IMHO, Bizet was responsible for a major paradigm shift in operas. In his major surviving opus, "Carmen", the protagonists are not members of the nobility who are involved in some heroic conflict; they are proletarian workers in a factory, policemen, bullfighters and a bunch of gypsies. In contrast to many operas before, it was a work of stark realism, culminating in a brutal murder. A sort of "social realism" without Marxist sugar coating.

Not surprisingly, the Parisian high society was a bit stunned by this verism.

He was a prime influence on many composers, such as Puccini, Brahms, Strauss or Wagner. In France itself Gounod, Debussy and Saint-Saens come to mind. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 13:39, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Brahms and Tchaikovsky detested each other's music but were in agreement about "Carmen". They both loved it. Brahms was so impressed that he saw it 20 times and said it was the greatest opera written since the Franco-Prussian War. That war ended only 4 years before Carmen was premiered, so that may not sound like huge praise, but this was in the day when new operas were produced every day of the week (well, virtually). Brahms wrote no operas himself (a great oversight, imo) but 20 viewings of this one couldn't have failed to have influenced him in some way for the remaining 20 years of his composing life. -- JackofOz (talk) 23:14, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Any public domain recordings of laughter or comedy music?

I want to make an independant no-budget short comedy film. Are there any copyright-free recordings of laughter or background music suitable for comedy that I could use please? 80.0.124.1 (talk) 23:27, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Try freesound for Creative Commons-licensed sounds. Plenty of laughter there. Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme (talk) 17:24, 24 December 2007 (UTC)