What is Epic Music?

If it don’t involve Michael, it ain’t epic. Hell, even the vid is fucking epic. [media=youtube]6ZEAC27GysI[/media]

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This is epic. It’s a slow build up, though.

Kashiwa Daisuke-april. #19

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Hey this combo works!

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Really hoping these guys come out with some new material since they’re back together and touring again.

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I am disappointed in you SRK.

Mozart’s Dies Irae [media=youtube]DFq-HHA0k2E[/media]

Exactly. And

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Is this really epic music? It’s hilarious.

Adding Verdi’s requim and dies irae because it is intense [media=youtube]ZDFFHaz9GsY&NR=1[/media].

I’m guessing epic music is like orchestra opera type music that moves really fast and is about olden times of battles with swords and stuff.

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posting in an “epic” thread

I made a few epics myself
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One vs All(get money)
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Not necessarily. Rhapsody in Blue is just amazing: [media=youtube]1U40xBSz6Dc&feature=related[/media].

Night on Bald Mountain: [media=youtube]V8Ca_edg6RE[/media]

Same with Sorcerer’s Apprentice is another one which is fantastic: [media=youtube]t2Rfriax4DY&feature=related[/media]

Rite of Spring (which is also featured in the original fantasia) caused a riot when it was originally performed. It was considered a great success because of it: [media=youtube]SgHMpYsv0_0[/media]

And one of my personal epic pieces of music, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden: [media=youtube]XoZJkkWX8Yw[/media]. The first time I heard this piece I was waiting for one of my classes to start and something about it just made me start crying uncontrollably.

During the time of Big Band, these were pretty damn amazing: Sing Sing Sing [media=youtube]rtB6dijjWl8, and In the Mood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM[/media].

In country music you have: Boy named Sue [media=youtube]-1BJfDvSITY and Folsom Prison Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsuVuw5JO4; you also have Loretta Lynn with The Pill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoqErv8bdcI (sending middle fingers in the 60’s), and Willie Nelson’s On the Road again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TD_pSeNelU[/media]. Honestly, country is full of epic, people are just horribly misinformed about it.

Blues has The Thrill is Gone [media=youtube]4fk2prKnYnI[/media], (and a lot more, just not as well acquiented with the genre as I wish I were).

Clapton has Tears in Heaven [media=youtube]d3UB5Fr80SM[/media], made even more epic because it was his first performance of the song after the death of his son.

Billy Joel has Piano man [media=youtube]JJAyFsOjFCg&feature=related[/media].

Leaving a bunch of genres out but yeah, epic is across all genres, not just one stylistic direction.

Adding Don McLean’s American Pie [media=youtube]uAsV5-Hv-7U&feature=related[/media].

Edit: fixed a link to a better quality video and adding American Pie.

The concept of “epic music” is way too subjective, almost as bad as trying to describe “good music.” I would never put American Pie as epic music, but I also know its way to nebulous a term to argue over.

[media=youtube]nT1H-18HwYU[/media] THIS!!

This is epic music.

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Honestly this always got my hyped. and thats what I define as epic.

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An epic is a long composition with a protagonist that takes place over long periods of time. If you transfer this over-abused word into sound you’d have way more than the ten minutes YT allows you. :nono: