irae

Also in our music, Dies Irae means day of wrath.

It's no coincidence that Mozart's Dies Irae (Requiem) or Orff's O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) are frequently repurposed since they start with a bang.

Feel free to send me an mail (mail at irae me) for support.

We could not explain why hearts tend to pump blood instead of, say, materializing elephants or playing the Dies Irae of Mozart's requiem.

'Music to invade Poland to' is a memetic concept, so is the dies-irae-theme in all music since the 1400s.

Frankly, I find just hearing Dies Irae alone and apart from Requiem somewhat annoying, the context, mood and setting are lost by not hearing the complete work.

I also keep noticing how certain popular classical works or excerpts (such as O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, Dies Irae from Mozart's Requiem, the overture from Carmen, etc.) are used as stand-in music and in film promotion, and many classical pieces show up in film releases as well.

At which point does a song stop being derivative and becomes an original song (or music in general, see "Dies Irae" for example [1] or even Star Wars [2]).

Often the music doesn't seem to be finished either - I've seen several trailers that substituted (snippets of) iconic classical music pieces (such as the overture from Carmen, "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem, etc.) that weren't used in the finished film.

The 21st century scholar, Roger Nichols, mentions adverse reaction to "the deformed Dies irae plainsong", the "horrible screeching from solo violin", the use of a xylophone, and "the hypnotic repetitions", in which Nichols hears a pre-echo of Ravel's Boléro.