royal coronation music?

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12 Mar 2011, 3:28 pm

looking for music that suggests royalty, someone being crowned queen or something.

Something classic, elegant, instrumental and the like.

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12 Mar 2011, 3:32 pm

Something like this? It sounds elegant and regal to me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMyyAOvzdtc[/youtube]

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12 Mar 2011, 4:12 pm

I was thinking more real-world coronation or whatever music. Something they would actually play for the queen.

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12 Mar 2011, 4:17 pm

Ah. :lol: Final Fantasy 8 is the best game ever though. :wink:

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12 Mar 2011, 6:14 pm

Handel wrote four anthems to be used at the coronation of British monarchs: Zadok the Priest, My Heart Is Inditing, The King Shall Rejoice and Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened. Zadok the Priest is the best-known one.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI0YOPoj4t0[/youtube]

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14 Mar 2011, 3:44 pm

skysaw wrote:

Did not know that Handel wrote for coronations but the first piece that came to mind when I read the original question was Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks".

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14 Mar 2011, 5:23 pm

what would they play for the queen if she arrived somewhere or was attending something?

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14 Mar 2011, 6:24 pm

The British queen?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KveQdaNmA[/youtube]

Or alternatively... :lol:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQP0A9wJq3A[/youtube]

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15 Mar 2011, 12:18 am

how 'bout "the crown imperial march" by sir william walton, as performed by frederick fennell and the eastman symphonic winds, on a very good mercury CD. every time i listen to this march, i get a stiff upper lip and start goosestepping and shouting "CHEERIO!" seriously, it is good music for coronations and such, oh so edifying and proper and dignified.

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21 Mar 2011, 6:06 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

what would they play for the queen if she arrived somewhere or was attending something?

I see Handel has already been mentioned, but he wrote a piece called Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba.
I don't know if it is actually used in royal ceremonies anywhere anymore.
I'm sure I heard somewhere that Philip Glass based his piece Akenaten on Handel's Queen of Sheba piece. Neither piece conjures up images of royalty for me, although the Philip Glass piece is quite hypnotic, and so perhaps fairly suitable for a sun god!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGKJ9MgCOQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWrJnkX0eww&feature=related[/youtube]

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