Talk:In the Hall of the Mountain King
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[edit] Shamus?
It's been twenty years :), but I could swear that the theme music to Shamus was the Alfred Hitchcock theme, not Mountain King. I had the Atari 8-bit version; the C64 version may have been different. --EngineerScotty 05:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- I have played the Commodore 64 version, and the music is definitely the Hitchcock theme, not Mountain King. Mountain King does appear in Frontier, though. JIP | Talk 11:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Actual recording
This piece is in public domain everywhere. Can anyone secure a version that can be put on this page? Ace of Sevens 05:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of uses in media
Is the list of uses in different media (movies, TV and video games) really necessary? If completed, it'd probably be much much longer than the rest of the article. ~ Oni Lukos ct 19:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Although I don't think the list should necessarily be purged of any of the material we have there now, I do agree that it has become rather unwieldy. I think we need a better way of organizing it so that it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the article. --Todeswalzer|Talk 06:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Alright, I've just reorganized the list of popular culture references so that it's more friendly looking. Eventually, however, someone will probably have to go through each of them and rework the phrasing. --Todeswalzer|Talk 19:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite of section on the music itself
I've just rewritten the section describing the music and the sequences which it is meant to illustrate. I've also included some musical notation and a brief excerpt from a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. (I also touched up the intro a little bit as well.) --Todeswalzer|Talk 06:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
We might also consider compiling a list of solo arrangements for this piece; that is, if such arrangements exist for any instrument besides the piano (which, I believe, Grieg arranged himself). --Todeswalzer|Talk 20:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- A link to the piano score?--200.60.255.161 13:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have a choral version done by the Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi and the Göta Ohlin Vocal Ensemble; According to the blurb with the CD, this was as Grieg originally scored it, for the theatre orchestra; the non vocal version was a later revision when he collected 8 of the original 23 pieces into the two suites we know today. Sasha 22:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Sasha, if you have a copy of the verses sung to this tune, it would be most excellent of you if you could include them with this article. (Or post them here on the talk page.) --Todeswalzer|Talk 01:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay in replying. Alas, I don't have a copy of the lyrics and my knowledge of Norse laguages is limited in the extreme, so I can't transcribe it from my recording. I'll ask my Danish friends when I see them in Spring. There are several other choral pieces on this CD including a beautiful rendering of Solveig's song. Sasha 09:17, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Key
I just wondered why the score has been presented in the key of G when it starts in B? Drew 04:01, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm the one who made the musical notation file included in this article; but I'm not really sure what you mean. The music is both written and presented in B minor. --Todeswalzer|Talk 04:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Limewire and the Mountain King
Limewire has a tendency to mislabel songs and artists (ie; 'LoZ' is not by Soad, Rammstein did not cover 'Barbie Girl' as it is actually in Dutch, not german..)
Anyway 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' is available on Limewire as being part of Mozart's work. I believed it too until I checked Wikipedia, and realized the dates didn't add up, as well as the fact Mozart didn't write this song.
Is this Limewire-error worth a jot on this page? ie; Sometimes Mozart is mistaken as the composer of 'In The Hall of the Mountain King', instead of Edvard Grieg. JimmmyThePiep 09:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Jimmy, I don't think this warrants a mention on this page, for two reasons. First, as you already mentioned, Limewire has an infamous tendency to mislabel almost everything, so the fact that this one was mislabelled as well doesn't seem particularly noteworthy. (The general public seems to think that all classical music was written by either Mozart or Beethoven, and if not by one of them, then Bach. I don't find it surprising that these three composers are attributed works which are not theirs.)
- Second, Mozart and Grieg lived almost a century apart and wrote in vastly different styles. I don't think anyone with even an elementary knowledge of music history could honestly mistake Mountain King as a product of Mozart's pen. --Todeswalzer|Talk 00:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MS windows
I am quite sure that some windows versions came with a midi recording of this pise, can someone incorporate it nicely in the article?--213.66.131.204 19:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- Which Windows version(s)? Do you know of an independent article or webpage confirming its inclusion? -- JHunterJ 20:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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- I can confirm from memory that this piece was included with a previous version of Windows. What I can't confirm is whether it was Windows 95, 98, or some other version. --Todeswalzer|Talk 00:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
