Soundtracks from 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
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18 songs
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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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 & Orchestra
György 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. 314
Berlin Philharmonic
The space shuttle lands in the space station’s docking bay. A similar spacecraft lands on the moon.
Modern Chorusmusic: Lux aeterna
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
The astronaut crew flies over the lunar surface towards the recently-uncovered monolith.
Gayaneh's Adagio
Gayane Ballet Suite) (Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
The Jupiter mission after eighteen months.
Atmosphères
György Ligeti, Sudwestfunk Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Bour
Bowman inadvertently enters a wormhole.
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. 314
Herbert 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 aeterna
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Helmut Franz
The astronaut crew flies over the lunar surface towards the recently-uncovered monolith.
Aventures for 3 Singers and 7 Instrumentalists
Pierre Boulez, Jane Manning, Mary Thomas, William Pearson, Ensemble InterContemporain
The Blue Danube
Johann Strauss
After the Dawn of man sequence. Shots in space as the satellites move through space elegantly.
Requiem
Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Song during the appearance of the monolith on the moon. Song plays whenever the monolith is shown in the film.
Jupiter and Beyond
Gyorgy Ligeti
Haunting music as they all descend into the pit and find the foreign stone object (monolith). Music builds as they touch it.