music Most beautiful music you've ever heard?

[GrauWitz 1,010]

Was there any bit of music that you thought was beautiful? Share it with us!

The most beautiful music I've heard was from the soundtrack of LOTR; Fellowship of the Ring, "Gandalf Fall"

http://youtu.be/1Ngf6uKNsiU

I do not know if an identical thread to this one already exists

[Thunderchild 875]

This one always flipped my switch:

 

http://youtu.be/OThgdSqRfTg

 

There are a few others as well-but I seem to come back to this one consistently when I need something beautiful.

[Scootalove 10,684]

The most beautiful song that I've ever heard was Fallout by Alter Bridge. This song is pretty beautiful, not a lot of people say that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqkD0zW_s8

[Sleipnir Rising 115]

That's a tough question to answer. I've listened to a lot of music that I consider beautiful. *Thinks for a moment.*

One of the first songs that comes to my mind is this.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6zhpHT0xM

 

Edited September 2, 2013 by Sleipnir Rising

[~Silver Essence~ 2,621]

It's from a completely underrated game that I know, but the main theme of this game is so beautiful, I can't fully describe how amazing it is.

 

Take a listen.

 

[An Old Head 4,815]

My favourite ever song is also the most beautiful song I've ever heard, so win win. I get to post it again! Here's my piece on Come Alive by the Foo Fighters from another thread:

 

Come Alive has everything. Beautiful lyrics, beautiful instrumentation, beautiful progression and beautiful vocals. It's so good that I literally can't get over it. It begins with the acoustic melody, a change from what Foo Fighters normally do and a change that was quite frequent in this album, and flows through a couple of verses with gradually mounting strumming, before launching into drums and rocking out. Those different stages and their ties give the song a storytelling vibe, one which I adore.

 

The theme of the song is how one's world can be reawakened upon becoming a father. I love that. Dave Grohl's favourite simple pleasure in life, according to an AMA that he did, is being a father, and because he's my favourite musician, this song being composed around his favourite thing in the world holds just as much proportional value to myself.

 

Tonality wise, the way they tied the chorus and lyrics into the switch in key (going from B minor in the verse to B major in the chorus) greatly gratifies the meaning of the lyrics. In fact, I'm going to go into the lyrics into a bit more detail, as they especially stand out for me. This is the first verse:

 

Seems like only yesterday

Life belonged to runaways

Nothing here to see, no looking back

Every sound monotone

Every colour monochrome

Life began to fade into the black

Such a simple animal

Sterilised with alcohol

I can hardly feel me any more

Desperate, meaningless

All filled up with emptiness

Felt like everything was said and done

 

I lay there in the dark, and I closed my eyes

You saved me the day you came alive

 

While the entire song has incredible lyrics, this section is especially exceptional. Describing the bleakness of that stasis where you think hope is lost and there's nothing to live for. The reversal of motives is brilliant; "All filled up with emptiness" a way to describe how life will suppress you if you find no purpose in it; "Every sound monotone, every colour monochrome" even the smallest details in life become the same old, something we understand from "Seems like only yesterday".

 

It's also genius in the fact that every third line is a resultant scenario - the other two lines are the current state of affairs leading up to that third line. "Seems like only yesterday, life belonged to runaways" and as a result of that "Nothing here to see, no looking back". That happens another three times in that first verse, and the intricacy of the writing is otherworldly.

 

It's each component of that first verse, tying in with the acoustic guitar playing B minor in the background, setting the stance for the POV of the song, continuing into B minor as the last two lines are sang - and then suddenly switching into B major as the final line is read - turning the tide of depression and creating a sense of hope. That's what I meant by the key gratifying the lyrics.

 

After the second verse is allowed time to breathe, the drums launch in at 1:52 for the second chorus. I freaking love this part of the song. It's the "shit's about to go down moment", and when drums show great personality in their beat, it makes a song tons better. Whenever I'm listening to this song, I drop everything and play the air drums at that precise moment. Then the song rocks out! Completing the progression and kicking in with real rock 'n roll.

 

And to top it all off, Dave Grohl's at the mic. He's an incredible singer. He simultaneously has a kickass rock voice and an agile emotion voice. It's like they packed everything I love in the world and chucked it into a song.

 

 

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

I've always found this song to be beautiful. I remember being in awe the first time I heard it in Halo 3: ODST. There's just something about this song that I really love. Maybe it's the piano music?

 

[DaReaper 1,943]

everytime I listen to this song it gets me, it is a powerful song first heard it when i beat Infamous 2 wish i would have heard it eairler it's a very good song

[Swick (ded) 436]

I think the most beautiful song I've ever heard is My Cadence Ft. Megaphoric and ismBoF. The lyrics are very good, the acoustics are awesome, and the song in general is beautiful.

[Dusknight Haze 161]

This is my personal most beautiful, although not my absolute favorite.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSrrLqlY-Y4

 (not sure if I did this right, since I don't know how to add video the right way [newb])
 
I used to sing this daily after one of my friends died. I know every word and note. I'll probably never forget it.

[Celtore 2,769]

 

Pachelbel's Canon in D is easily the most beautiful song I've ever heard. Maybe not this exact rendition of it, but I think this video does the song justice. It would be very difficult to dethrone it from that position.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Celtore

[Fanglore 140]

 

i would have to say this song
i found it by playing a game called music catch. if you haven't played it you need it its fun and relaxing

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Obviously Boris' masterpiece named Flood takes the cake for the most beautiful sounding album...well technically it is a song since it's basically all one continuous track divided up into different parts and called an album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCLhq8okxc

[VanellopeSofia 32]

I am a huge fan of Les Miserables, just the entire musical. it is so moving to listen to the whole thing start to finish. even more than 25 years after than after its composition it still will bring you to tears at least once. The song bring him home is just crazy beautiful.

[The Blades Shadow 444]

I would have to say Eternal Love:

Maybe I only like it because of the fanfic my mind links it to, but that's not as important. Either way I really love the song.

[ASocialyAwkwardPony 299]

From our own Pony.fm site I found one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard:

 

https://pony.fm/tracks/879-coda-of-eternal-eventide

 

It's hard to explain, it's just an amazingly beautiful, sad, soothing and all in all amazing song.

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

One of the most beautiful songs I have heard that is The Last Unicorn performed by America from the animated movie with the same title.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqyD74t0X8

 

And White Horse by Laid Back

 

[NightOwl 911]

It's either Chopin's Nocturne op. 27 No 2

 

 

 

 

Or... The nothing song by Sigur Ros. 

 

 

 

 

The lyrics in English make me want to cry it's just a really emotional song in my opinion.

[Betez 1,734]

It was probably a classical music piece. Those tend to be the most beautiful sounding to me. However, since classical music tends to have really complicated names (I.e. Blah Blah Third Movement in D Minior Opus 1) I have no idea what it was.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,833]

This. Take a listen.

 

 

Halo 2 has one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever as a whole though, but this song always stood out as my favorite.

[QuirkyUsername 1,576]

A few tracks come to mind all vidya games.

 

The OST for Shepard leaving earth in mass effect 3. Say what you want about the game's controversy the game had an amazing soundtrack.

 

 

 

Assassin's Creed has beautiful music all through out the series but I personally think "Ezio's Family" track stands out the most especially when it hits it's climax.

 

 

 

Asura's wrath was a cinematic experience on its own but the accompaniment of a fantastic soundtrack is what really made it great and this track from one of Asura and Yasha's many fights was my favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6sfVlo7mSw

 

And I mentioned it in another thread but can't remember which one I could listen to the OST in title screen of Dust: An Elysian Tail on a constant loop for the rest of my life. I ADORE this track. If you only choose to listen to one track in this list please let it be this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdWQsPM1Ls

Edited September 3, 2013 by QuirkyUsername

[Wardaddy 470]

Not trying to boast or anything (I'm not that type), but I can go three better than the lot of ya!.......again, no cause for offence.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JknUQTI9Zh4

 

First time I played Bioshock Infinite, this song was just.....Oh my God above. I had never heard anything so peaceful in all my life.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDYpMT923o

 

I didn't play the first Bioshock game, however this song (0:16 to 1:40) made an appearance in Bioshock 2, and I would've cried waterfalls had I not been so exhausted from the final fight. It also served as the basis for one of my fanfics, an alternate ending to "A Canterlot Wedding"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4KcFG4LpcA

 

Then there's this song. I've heard a lot of good musical pieces in Halo, and in my time respectively. But this song..........this song is simply ethereal. The theme for which I will hear when I leave this life to depart into the heavens above, to my final resting place alongside God. Thx 4 reading!

[Raritas 6,820]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_AUhCJP6I

 

This. Whoever has played Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness will know what I mean. It's so powerful, and fits the scene where it is played very very well.

 

*Edit: Can someone please explain how to embed the video? I can't seem to do it???

Edited September 3, 2013 by Raritas

[Lisa 5,551]

BRO U NEED 2 HEER DIS SONG OMFG, THIZ IS DER MOST BOOTIFUL SONG I HAV EVAR HERD

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dRPIm3TPneA

 

SKIP 2 1:45 FOR DA BOOTIFUL PERT

 

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In all seriousness though, 

 

[Envy 5,992]

For me, the second movement of this concerto (starting at 3:33):

 

 

There's just something about the sound of a Baroque-style oboe, and then this piece. It's sooo beautiful, it gets me everytime!