weird/strange pieces.

[kclee6337]

Im sure somewhere on the internet this topic has already been covered but I have been searching for days and I can't seem to find anything.

So Im looking for weird/strange/creepy music. Not 12 tone stuff. Just music thats different.

So far on my list that i've compiled is:
Prokofiev fugitive visions 1 and 2
Liszt Hungarian rhapsody 17
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Satie gnossienne

I know theres a lot out there thats very fast paced, but I'm looking for something slower with a strong melody.

[coda_colossale]

Liszt- Funérailles
Liszt- Nuages Gris
Liszt- Totentanz
Liszt- Malediction
Burgmüller- L'Orage
Alkan- Prelude "Song of the Madwoman on the Seashore"
Mussorgsky- Catacombs&The Old Castle
Lyapunov- Transcendental Etude No. 6 "Storm"
Rachmaninoff- Oriental Sketch
Rachmaninoff- Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C# minor
Brahms- Intermezzo Op. 118/6
Schumann- Fantasiestücke Op. 12 No. 5-In der Nacht
Shostakovich- Prelude and Fugues in G# minor&E minor
Scriabin- Pretty much everything he wrote, especially his later works
Pierne- Prelude Op. 29
Frank Martin- Preludes
Adès- Darknesse Visible
Ornstein- Suicide in an Airplane
Ornstein- Long Remembered Sorrow
Schönberg- Op. 19
Wyschnegradsky- Preludes in Quarter-Tones
Prokofiev- Toccata Op. 11

[coda_colossale]

Sorry for double post

[stevensk]

Messiaen apparition de l'eglise eternelle

Messiaen - Éclairs sur l'au-delà

[visitor]

[mjames]

 Nocturne op. 9 no. 2

[j_menz]

Nocturne op. 9 no. 2

Is Chopin the only composer you equate with Voldemort?

Other suggestions:

Tausig's Ghostship

Smetana's Macbeth and the Witches

Dvořák's Na starém hradě

[mjames]

Hehehee voldemort clever


Speaking of witches, there's this cool piece called the witches dance or something by this American composer named McDowell or McDonalds idk

It's a pretty cool piece

[j_menz]

Speaking of witches, there's this cool piece called the witches dance or something by this American composer named McDowell or McDonalds idk

It's a pretty cool piece

Edward MacDowell, also goes by the name Hexantantz.

You could also try his A Haunted House

[j_menz]

You might think this is twelve tone, but you'd be wrong - let it grow on you:

[mjames]

Good stuff

[visitor]

[coda_colossale]

I don't know why nobody mentioned Chopin.

[visitor]

[goldentone]

This kind of a piece is hard on the ears yet seemingly would connect with the past.

[quantum]

For a long while, these have felt weird to me:

[visitor]

this is a strange and eerie work. title suggests sacred or spiritual/religious, but the sound is decidedly sinister.

PS and a cool one not too unlike some Prokofiev...

[justanamateur]

Gershwin-Wild etudes

[quantum]

Scriabin did acknowledge his affinity for writing weird music.  The title is quite descriptive.

[semicroma]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJf_XOjjj8

[nanakwame]

Hmmm.

Try the following 

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3
Liszt Funeral Prelude & Funeral March
Liszt La Lugubre Gondola No. 1 &2
Liszt Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort
Liszt Unstern! Sinistre, Disastro
Debussy: Élégie (1915)
Ravel Le Gibet

... Scriabin.... That's all 

Satie Vexations
Bartok - Three Etudes op. 18
And I am surprised no one brought up Ligeti - Requiem (1965) and
György Ligeti: Lux Aeterna.


I am now listening to Penderecki: "Dimensions of Time and Silence" and this probably wins the creepiest music.

[coda_colossale]

I am now listening to Penderecki: "Dimensions of Time and Silence" and this probably wins the creepiest music.

If orchestral music is included, nothing can beat Xenaxis' Metastasis.