Soaring Through the Skies

[swashbuckler332]

I started playing around with a few tracks last night and ended up making a new mix. Its title also serves as its description: Space Opera! It turned out to be an exciting album with some very pretty sequences on it as well. More details to come

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[swashbuckler332]

I debated including anything from The Fifth Element, and ended up deciding that, with the exception of the Donizetti piece - which, not being original, was not originally in the running for inclusion - it was too stylistically different from the rest of the music on the album.

[swashbuckler332]

Of course. It was one of the first things I thought of once I settled on the topic, as The Fifth Element would certainly qualify as a space opera film. But, if you look at the track listing, you'll see that the general gist was towards a more Romantic (read: post Star Wars) idiom.

However, as I said, other space opera things didn't make this mix for similar reasons; I mentioned Greg Edmonson's work on Firefly and David Newman's on Serenity. I could also include some of the "Electronic Tonalities" by Louis and Bebe Barron from Forbidden Planet. If I could come up with another couple of space operas scored in a similarly modernistic manner, I could easily make a follow-up CD, which I've been considering. The problem is finding enough space opera scores that aren't written in that Romantic style.

Barbarella...? ;)