LITERARY
Anonymous: THE OLD TESTAMENT
THE NEW TESTAMENT
Nietzsche: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
Dante: THE DIVINE COMEDY
Shelley: FRANKENSTEIN
Stevenson: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Wagner: THE RING
Campbell: THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES (Kubrick reportedly gave a
copy of this to Clarke to
read [P.B., p. 77])
Myths: THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR
DAVID VS. GOLIATH
ANTAEUS
ACHILLES' HEEL
ULYSSES (AND THE SIRENS)
GARDEN OF EDEN
CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION
MUSICAL
Strauss, Richard: THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA (opening/end)
Ligeti, Gyorgy: ATMOSPHERES (monolith)
LUX AETERNA
REQUIEM
Strauss, Johann: THE BLUE DANUBE (space station)
Khatchaturian, Aram: GAYANE BALLET SUITE (inside space station)
[Detailed]
Title Music: "Daybreak" movement, "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Opus 30,
Richard Strauss [The MGM soundtrack album uses a different recording
than that used in the film, I think; the one on the soundtrack album is
by Karl Boehm and the Berlin Philharmonic, available on DG {BTW, the
late Maestro Boehm was a personal friend of R. Strauss, and this was his
and the Berlin Philharmonic's first stereo recording, in 1958}].
Monolith at ape-site: the "Kyrie" from "Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo-
soprano, 2 mixed choirs, and Orchestra", Gyorgi Ligeti. Deutsche
Grammaphon recording, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Francis Travis
conducting.
Moonwatcher discovers tool: reprise: "Daybreak" from "Zarathustra"
Matchcut to bone (after killing other ape) and spaceflight: "Die Blaue
Danube", Johann Strauss. DG recording, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von
Karajan, conductor.
Journey across the lunar surface to TMA-1: "Lux Aeterna", Ligeti. DG
recording, Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Clytus Gottwald, choirmaster.
(I think when the autronauts reach TMA-1 there is a reprise of the
Kyrie)
Jupiter Mission: Adagio (Solo) from the ballet "Gayane", Aram
Khachaturian. DG recording, Leningrad Philharmonic, Gennady
Rozhdestvensky, conductor.
'Jupiter space' & Monolith: reprise: Ligeti's "Kyrie"
Stargate: "Atmospheres", Gyorgi Ligeti. DG recording, Sudwestfunk (South
German Radio) Orchestra, Ernest Bour, conductor.
Hotel Sequence: sampled and modified version of "Atmospheres" (Ligeti
sued Kubrick for copyright and won).
Starchild: reprise, "Daybreak" from "Zarathustra"
End title music: reprise: final portion of "The Blue Danube".
Kubrick selected the music himself from his own record collection. As
with all his later films, most of the classical music used in his films
(including almost all the soundtrack for The Shining [Bartok's "Music
for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta", Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von
Karajan]) is licensed from Deutsche Grammaphon, And available on disc or
CD.
(G.A)
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