This catalogue lists 18 entries for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Album and trailer entries are shown separately when their scope is recorded.
2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack songs
Catalogue entries · 18 entries
Scene details are included where available. Entries without placement details do not establish where a track is heard.
- Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang)Karl Böhm
The Sun slowly rises behind Earth, which is behind the Moon. An ape realizes he can use a bone as a weapon. Dave transforms into the Star-Child.
- Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & OrchestraGyörgy Ligeti, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Francis Travis
The simian humanoids encounter the monolith. The astronauts examine a monolith uncovered on the moon. Another monolith floats in space close to Jupiter.
- The Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314Berlin Philharmonic
The space shuttle lands in the space station’s docking bay. A similar spacecraft lands on the moon.
- Modern Chorusmusic: Lux aeternaChor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
The astronaut crew flies over the lunar surface towards the recently-uncovered monolith.
- Gayaneh's AdagioGayane Ballet Suite) (Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
The Jupiter mission after eighteen months.
- AtmosphèresGyörgy Ligeti, Sudwestfunk Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Bour
Bowman inadvertently enters a wormhole.
- Aventures for 3 Singers and 7 InstrumentalistsJane Manning
- Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang)Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Böhm
The Sun slowly rises behind Earth, which is behind the Moon. An ape realizes he can use a bone as a weapon. Dave transforms into the Star-Child.
- The Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314Herbert Von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic
The space shuttle lands in the space station’s docking bay. A similar spacecraft lands on the moon.
- Modern Chorusmusic: Lux aeternaChor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Helmut Franz
The astronaut crew flies over the lunar surface towards the recently-uncovered monolith.
- Aventures for 3 Singers and 7 InstrumentalistsPierre Boulez, Jane Manning, Mary Thomas, William Pearson, Ensemble InterContemporain
- Also Sprach ZarathustraRichard Strauss
Opening credits. The sun slowly appears from behind the moon.
- The Blue DanubeJohann Strauss
After the Dawn of man sequence. Shots in space as the satellites move through space elegantly.
- Lux AeternaGyorgy Ligeti
Floyd and other crew flying towards the pit
- RequiemBavarian Radio Orchestra
Song during the appearance of the monolith on the moon. Song plays whenever the monolith is shown in the film.
- Jupiter and BeyondGyorgy Ligeti
Haunting music as they all descend into the pit and find the foreign stone object (monolith). Music builds as they touch it.
- Gayaneh Ballet SuiteAram Khachaturyan
Jupiter mission after 18 months
- AtmospheresGyorgy Ligeti
Plays during the Intermission.