I need some evil music for my lesson

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Its me lesson planning again, am starting a new topic on the nature of evil and have collected some images and want some music to set them to. Something quite haunting. A GCSE class so I am not scaring little children

Danse Macabre?

have not heard of that am listening to a clip

the clip I am listening to sounds quite jolly!

Jaws music?

The music they played when you get stabbed in the shower in

I wanted sinister, slightly threatening music once for an assembly on fears. There's an instrumental on the Trainspotting soundtrack that was good. Might be quite good at suggesting evil.

DH suggested Tubular Bells.....was that by Mike Olfield? or someone else?

He thinks that is scarey

omen music may be OK. I am not sure, I am using real examples of "evil" so scenes from war, images of dictators etc.

O Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

I find tubular bells scary actually.

Do you know what it is called pointydog

O Fortuna aka The Omen/Old Spice ad

night on bald mountain?

O fortuna is quite good, that is one I was thinking off but couldn;t think of the name.

There's a Shostakovich String quartet based on the bombing of Dresden. If I remember rightly, the middle bit is evil in an edgy nervy kind of way. Quite fast, like a scary dance. I used it for a play once at uni, about a bunch of women who'd gone mad. I'll try and find which one if that sounds what you're looking for...

am listening to them all and seeing which sounds the scariest

Tubular Bells as used in the Halloween movies

I've looked it up. It's 'Trainspotting' by Primal Scream. Good, dark atmosphere. Lots of weirdy noises come into it. (And fairly trendy if you want to impress teenagers )

Although a rather cheesy bit starts after 1.5 mins. Hmm. We only used the first bit.

How about Approaching Menace, which was (is?) the theme tune to Mastermind? Composed by a guy called Neil Richardson.

I think the fantasia one may be a bit cartoonish for what we are doing, if that makes sense

I bet you make double sure you've locked all your doors tonight after that lot.

katymac was thinking of Psycho.

I have come to accept I will never impress teenagers.

No question. In the hall of the mountain king from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite

When we were little, my sis and I used to pick this out on the piano so that my brother would run out of the room crying

here you go

Some good stuff on here