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Lux Aeterna is a piece for a 16-part mixed choir, written by György Ligeti in 1966. It is most famous for its use in Stanley Kubrick 's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey , and its 1984 sequel, Peter Hyams ' 2010: The Year We Make Contact .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... A Space Odyssey "Lux Aeterna" (Mansell), the theme song to Requiem for a Dream, ...
2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1968.The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in popularity, such as Johann Strauss II's 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György Ligeti's Atmosphères.
Two new films from polarizing filmmaker Gaspar Noé, "Vortex" and "Lux Aeterna," open in Los Angeles within a week of each other. Review: Gaspar Noé is up to his old tricks, and some new ones ...
The soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey includes excerpts from four of his pieces: Atmosphères, Lux Aeterna, Requiem and Aventures. [65] Atmosphères is heard during the "Star Gate" sequence, with portions also heard in the Overture and Intermission. Lux Aeterna is heard in the moon-bus scene
Lux Æterna (Classical Latin: [ˈluːks ae̯ˈtɛrna], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈluks eˈterna]; "eternal light") is an orchestral composition by Clint Mansell. Performed by the Kronos Quartet , it forms a leitmotif in the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream , and is the penultimate piece in the movie's soundtrack .
Micropolyphony is a kind of polyphonic musical texture developed by György Ligeti, which consists of many lines of dense canons moving at different tempos or rhythms, thus resulting in tone clusters.
Clytus Gottwald [needs IPA] (20 November 1925 – 18 January 2023) was a German composer, conductor, and musicologist who focused on choral music. He was considered by music critics to be a key figure in contemporary choral music, [2] and is known for his arrangements for vocal ensembles of up to 16 voices.