Others that come to mind:

The building up of music as people run to the empty van, just before we first hear the 'cycling theme' in the finale of ET.

The music as Anakin looks at the screen and goes mental in AOTC.

The climatic part of the Adagio in Alien 3.

The beginning of the chase in Sleepy Hollow.

The piece where Wallace cries out Freedom! in Braveheart.

The President is finally pulled on board in Air Force One.

Bruce Willis wrestles with Orange Man in Unbreakable, and (admittedly very similar) the brachiosaurus bangs on the cave wall in Dinosaur.

Everyone salutes the President after a great speech in Independance Day.

Simba climb up pride rock in the rain and lets rip with his roar in The Lion King.

and of course:

Luke gets all heated up about Vader's comments about Leia and takes the lightsaber duel up a gear in Return of the Jedi.

phew

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Originally posted by Timmer:
Agree with Camillu about the Dinosaur piece (it's the track called 'Breakout' Mark )

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Originally posted by Timmer:
The Fortress Of Solitude from SUPERMAN,

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Good to see this mentioned, one of Williams' best pieces.

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Tango Urilla from STARSHIP TROOPERS.

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Is that the one where they enter the asteroid field or something like that? If so, I definitely agree.

I find it impossible to list my own. Many other great bits have been mentioned, and there are too many more.

But methinks you forgot something, Tim.

mmmm?....I kept totally to film music unless you were thinking of something else Marian, you'll have to remind me?!

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Originally posted by Camillu:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by Timmer:
[b]Agree with Camillu about the Dinosaur piece (it's the track called 'Breakout' Mark ) <HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>
I know what it's called, but the thread asked for 'pieces' not 'tracks'

Sorry if that sounded condescending Mark, it wasn't intentional.

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Originally posted by Timmer:
I kept totally to film music unless you were thinking of something else Marian, you'll have to remind me?!

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Well, it didn't say "just film music" anywhere, and since you've mentioned your one single absolutely favourite piece of music several times, I missed it.

"Bogoroditsye devo" from Rachmaninoff's Vespers

the Hallelujah Chorus

the ending of Arvo Part's "St John Passion[/b]

the Adagio in Bruckner's 8th

'Ave maris stella' from Monteverdi's Vespers, dating from 1610.

the 2nd movement of John Adams's Violin Concerto

Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor, JS Bach -- I have an orchestral transcription by Stokowski, and it is just EPIC!

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Originally posted by Camillu:
Any film score pieces JJ?

Timmer - no problemo. Am now curious to hear that piece you're so hooked on...

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There's a lot of versions of it out there Mark, I'd suggest Sir John Barbirolli's which you should be able to find cheaply, it's a glorious piece of music, both Mark Hatfield and Thor recently 'discovered' this music and love it!

I can't recommend highly enough.

Jaws - John Williams - All of it.

Film Music of Garry McDonald and Luarie Stone: track one, Time Track suite.

NBC news theme, long version. JW.

Multiple cues from The Omega Man. Don't know how i can ever thank FSM for that.

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Originally posted by Timmer:
both Mark Hatfield and Thor recently 'discovered' this music and love it!

I can't recommend highly enough.

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those I mentioned are my absolute favorite pieces, or moments, in music.

try listening to those and tell me if you find them lacking!

NP -- watching SportsCenter on ESPN; my Cowboys atoned for their embarrassing loss in Houston! woo-hoo! How ironic they beat the OLD Houston team

FRIDAY THE 13TH PARTS 1-6 & 8 (Harry Manfredini):
*Let's just say ALL of it!

ALONG CAME A SPIDER (Jerry Goldsmith):
*The Herrmannesque strings like in "Megan On Surveillance Camera", "Roses Hear The Tape", and "Jonathan Mercusio Bottle"

HOLLOW MAN (Jerry Goldsmith):
*The ascending high-pitched brass from the start of "Electrocution"
*Blaring French horns from finale of "The Big Climb" and end of "Bloody Floor"
*Triumphant music from "Isabelle Comes Back", conclusion of "The Big Climb", and the "Escape" portion of "Bloody Floor".

Philipp

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And I still like "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Grieg. Especially when it gets faster and faster.

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Star Wars: A New Hope - the opening credits and the binary sunset

Superman - The helicopter sequence...specifically when he opens his shirt for the first time and we see that "S" fill the screen

Back to the Future - Marty's sent back to 1985. I love the triumphant trumpet playing as Doc cheers

Goonies - Sloth/Superman

Raiders - Indy is spotted on the sub. I defy you not to smile at that scene

Last Starfighter - Alex is going back up to the ship at the end and his girlfriend decides to go with him

Willow - The snowchase is about to begin

Glory - The only score to a movie that I haven't seen...Track 11. I forget the name

Batman Returns - "What are you waiting for? The signal!" Bruce Wayne sits alone in his room, and the signal lights up the room. Pure magic

Jaws - When that kid is attacked by the shark, and the camera zooms on Brody's reaction, and we hear those freaky strings

Jurassic Park - "Welcome....to Jurassic Park..."

It is weird, because we all have them. I've done near worn out several cd buttons replaying 30 second cues or 10-second openings or passages in things. Like the one guitar, tranquil piece from DEEP BLUE SEA (and the piano version of it too).

Or, as someone mentioned the BTTF score -- there's one great moment, I think it's when he goes back to see Doc and he's not dead in the mall parking lot. Silvestri uses a slower, more string-heavy version of the famous theme. I get chills whenever I hear it (Chills! from BTTF!)

The crux of that one now-overplayed Craig Armstrong trailer-ready cue as the choral part kicks in big time (I still listen to that whenever thinking of a new idea for a story or movie)

The moment where the metronome-like ticking in THIN RED LINE's "Journey to the Line" becomes first matched with the other part of that score piece and right on through to its crescendo.

The final cue from Goldenthal's TITUS as it winds down to almost near-silence. Breathtaking.

The meeting of Jack Putter and Tuck Pendleton in INNERSPACE, basically the whole part when Tuck becomes un-miniaturized, much like the BTTF score beat, there's a pastoral, nicely moderated version of the main theme.

The opening strains of "Cadillac of the Skies" from EMPIRE OF THE SUN. Very goosebumpy.

Burwell's score to accompany the rising and then crashing to the ground of the hot air balloon in BEFORE NITE FALLS. I just wish there was more of this score that it could have its own album, but there isn't much in the film or repped on the soundtrack album, but this moment is what scoring to the visuals of a film should be all about.

Not score, but a source cue -- the spanish guitar-y music (also in 24's pilot, i noticed) from THE INSIDER, the scene where Wigand is standing by the water, debating whether to appear in court or not. I literally murmured to my friend "This is ****ing awesome" about that film when that scene came on, it's the crux of what's great about Mann's use of music in his films.

The use of the John Scott cue in DIE HARD. A), for years I never knew that that and ALIENS were tracked in, this was before I was into film music and was just watching films, B) I haven't heard much of Scott's other score work, yet this cue remains so closely tied to DIE HARD that I not only hum it all the time, I sometimes just watch the dvd for that cue.

The piece from HANNIBAL that I guess was composed by Klaus Badelt/Zimmer, though I'd first thought it was a classical piece. Gor-geous. Its use at the end of the film, regardless of what one thinks of it (I think it's a sound but not particularly resonant piece of entertainment) was just great...I'm a big fan of fading out dialogue or holding on a visual and then dissolving or whatever as music cues are brought in.

The opening brass pulse of CAPE FEAR's score. Nuff said.

And, back to Silvestri -- both the opening vocals for "Prince's Day" in BLOWN AWAY and one of the haunting, more drawn out versions it briefly shows up in during the film (I forget when, I think it's when Bridges' character is reunited w/Suzy Amis at the end). I wish I had this score on CD so I could listen to about, oh, 1:30 of music 99 times a day.

Anyhoo....interesting thread. I have more, I'm sure, just not thinking of them now. Plus, there's obviously the obvious, the SUPERMANS and the "brontosaurus/welcome to jurassic park" beat from JURASSIC PARK, just seminal stuff like that.

Peace out.

John Williams
Harry potter - hedwig's theme
Jurassic park - journey to the island
AI - the Mecha World
Deer Hunter - cavatina

Jerry Goldsmith
Papillon - theme
gremlins - gremlin rag
Mulan - suite

James Horner
glory - charging fort wagner
aliens - ripley's rescue
the rocketeer - the flying circus

James Newton Howard
dinosaur - the Egg travels
wyatt earp - it happened that way
signs - the hand of fate
the sixth sense - run to the church

Howard Shore
lord of the rings - the ring goes south/ Concerning Hobbits

Trevor Rabin
armaggedon - launch

Alan Silvestri
back to the future - overture
forrest gump - crusade
the mummy returns - sandcastles

Bruce Broughton
Silverado - theme

Klaus Badelt
the time machine - I don't belong here

Bernard Hermann
Vertigo - prelude
North by northwest - theme

Randy Edelman
dragonheart - to the stars
gettysburg - theme

Danny elfman
dick tracy - theme
Men in black - theme
spiderman - farewell
mission impossible - main title

john powell & harry gregson-williams
antz- the colony
shrek - ride the dragon
chicken run - build the crate

• Vader enters the Rebel base on Hoth and Williams plays his theme on top of those frantic string rhythms.
  
• That one slammed piano chord in the middle of The Hunt in Lost World.

The first is the "Star Wars" main title, and this only applies to Episode IV. When the French horns take another go at the main theme, it's absolutely inspiring. You feel the yearning for adventure, and it's only during those 12 or 13 seconds.

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The first is the "Star Wars" main title, and this only applies to Episode IV. When the French horns take another go at the main theme, it's absolutely inspiring. You feel the yearning for adventure, and it's only during those 12 or 13 seconds.

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