Talk:In the Hall of the Mountain King

message: It's been twenty years :), but I could swear that the theme music to Shamus was the Alfred Hitchcock theme, not Mountain King.  I had the Atari 8-bit version; the C64 version may have been different.  --EngineerScotty 05:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Shamus?

message: This piece is in public domain everywhere.  Can anyone secure a version that can be put on this page? Ace of Sevens 05:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Actual recording

message: Is the list of uses in different media (movies, TV and video games) really necessary? If completed, it'd probably be much much longer than the rest of the article. ~ Oni Lukos ct 19:42, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I don't think the list should necessarily be purged of any of the material we have there now, I do agree that it has become rather unwieldy. I think we need a better way of organizing it so that it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the article. --Todeswalzer|Talk 06:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Alright, I've just reorganized the list of popular culture references so that it's more friendly looking. Eventually, however, someone will probably have to go through each of them and rework the phrasing. --Todeswalzer|Talk 19:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Stephen King movie Needful Things used this.  I thought they had a version that had vocal elements.  Does anyone know anything about that?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.241.144 (talk) 04:09, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of uses in media 

message: I just wondered why the score has been presented in the key of G when it starts in B? Drew 04:01, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm the one who made the musical notation file included in this article; but I'm not really sure what you mean. The music is both written and presented in B minor. --Todeswalzer|Talk 04:17, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key 

message: I am quite sure that some windows versions came with a midi recording of this pise, can someone incorporate it nicely in the article?--213.66.131.204 19:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Which Windows version(s)?  Do you know of an independent article or webpage confirming its inclusion?  -- JHunterJ 20:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can confirm from memory that this piece was included with a previous version of Windows. What I can't confirm is whether it was Windows 95, 98, or some other version. --Todeswalzer|Talk 00:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found it to be in C:\windows\Media\In The Hall Of The Mountain King.RMI. it is in a midi format. should be basically in the windows install folder\media at least, along with some others, 24.83.89.241 (talk) 06:16, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  MS windows 

message: I believe this tune was used in the game mentioned in subj. when I played it many, many years ago. Can anyone confirm or rebuke this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avlund (talk • contribs) 16:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tune in Elite II: Frontier 

message: I recently added a new link (for now, it is the one and only link). More performances like this should be included so that the public can be exposed to different interpretations of the same piece. ~~MusicalConnoisseur~~  Got Classical? 06:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Link 

message: There's actually a game based on the song for Commodore 64 and Atari 2600. You had to get a crown from the hall of the mountain king and get to the top of the mountain. 67.224.28.195 (talk) 17:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mountain King video game. 

message: See also Grieg's music in popular culture.
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* a chopped and screwed freestyle rap was recorded to this by the late great DJ screw on his album 'Da Funk is on Your Mind'
* A riff is used at the beginning of the 1966 garage rock song, Stormy, by The Jesters of Newport.
* A version of song was used in the opening credits to the 90s cartoon Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
* The piece was notoriously used as the tune whistled by (and subsequently used to identify) the child murderer in the film M.
* In the 1957 made-for-television color film of Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Piper played the tune on his flute to lure the plague of rats out of Hamelin.
* Big Brother and the Holding Company did a version of the tune.
* The tune was arranged as a rock and roll number on separate occasions by both The Who and the Electric Light Orchestra.
* It was used as the title music for the classic Apple 2 platform game Lady Tut. 
* It was used as the in game music for the classic ZX Spectrum platform game Manic Miner.
* It was used as in game music for the game: Elite 2, Frontier. This is a multi-platform game.
* It was used in the song "Gorgar" on the German speed metal band Helloween's first studio album  Walls of Jericho.
* The heavy metal band Savatage released an album titled Hall of the Mountain King in 1987, with the instrumental song "Prelude To Madness" being an arrangement of the famous piece of music.
* The tune is was used in a TV advertisment in the United Kingdom for Alton Towers theme park and is heard quite frequently playing around the park.
* Rumors circulated by fans of the rock group King Crimson speculate that the name of the group's debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, was taken from this classical composition.
* Some bars of this piece appear at the end of Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
*In september 1995, reformed rock group Rainbow , in their album Stranger in Us All , released a rock version of this piece - track 9 - Hall of the Mountain King - Arrgmt. by Ritchie Blackmore , Candice Night.
* In 1998 Ska-P recorded a version of this piece in their album, Eurosis. The title is 'Simpatico Holgazan'.
* In U.S. Acres, it's used as a theme song for Orson's evil brothers.
* In 2000, the cello rock group Apocalyptica recorded a version of this piece in their third album, Cult.
* For the trailer of the new film Funny Games (2008), Michael Haneke selected the piece as part of the soundtrack.
* Brian Setzer has used this tune as the basis of "One More Night With You" on the album Wolfgang's Big Night Out (2007)
* The song was used on the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode Farmer Hunter/Farmer Hunted.
* The main theme is used in the Little Einsteins episode The Dragon Kite, as the musical ensemble for the episode.
*The song was used in a commercial for Ritz crackers.
*In Britain, the song was used in a peanut butter advert, in which the phrase "yum" was set to the music.
*The main theme was used in sections of the song Dream a Dream by Captain Jack.
*It was used in the 2001 film Rat Race.
*It was used by Vintersorg as an interlude in his song "För Kung och Fosterland" ("For King and Fatherland") on his album "Till Fjälls"
*The theme was heard in demo recordings made by the Norwegian heavy metal band TNT before their 1984 album Knights of the New Thunder. However, at the time of writing the song it was used in has never been released on any official album.
* The song plays in an episode of the internet Flash series International Moron Patrol
* Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett plays a short part of it during a show in San Diego in '92 on the Live Shit DVD box
* The Who perform their interpretation of the piece on the album "The Who Sell Out"
* Marillion used the main theme from the song in their live piece called "Margaret"
* Princess, a hungarian violin-playing orchestra has also played this piece. Hungarian title: "A hegykirály barlangjában" (exact meaning: "in the cave of the mountain king")
*The piece is mentioned in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, in which Toole likens Ignatius's sexual climax to the piece's finale.
*mc chris rapped over the song for his unreleased track called "peer gynt."
* The german psychobilly band Mad Sin added a bridge including the theme in their song "Brand New Gun (Bang Boom Bang)"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.63.148.107 (talk) 14:12, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uses in popular culture (moved here from article) 

message: I've removed this: 
"The music was also used in the 1931 Fritz Lang's feature M, being whistled by the serial killer" 
It certainly doesn't belong in the introduction, which is supposed to give the most relevant facts only, and while I can see the reference is a bit more significant than most (it is a key feature in a pretty notable film), I'm reluctant to start a "Cultural References" section for fear of opening the flood-gates to every pop song, advertizing jingle or ring-tone that's ever used it.
What does anybody else think? Moonraker12 (talk) 12:52, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film reference 

message: I was under the impression that there is no chasing going on whatsoever when this is being played; I am pretty sure that they are in the hall and the trolls are discussing what should be done about Peer, and they eventually start yelling, and whatnot. A few movements later, the track title is "Peer Gynt being chased by Trolls". I would think that is where the chasing happens. The booklet with the CD set with the complete music agrees with this, and having also read the play, this sounds more correct. Does anyone disagree with this, or should it be changed? ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 03:39, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, it should be changed. The dramatic part takes place during the argument of what to do with Peer, and the piece ends with the King calling the line "Ice to your blood friends!". --xensyriaT 13:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't trust myself to do it justice; anyone else want to? ~~ Hi878  (Come shout at me!) 02:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither do I, but at the moment it's just wrong. A lot of people reading it (and not this) will go away thinking they know what it's about, or will be confused by the conflicting descriptions; I propose to remove the description sections of the text and keep the musical description (which, though far beyond me, seems accurate). If no one opposes this then I plan to do this in a week or so's time. --xensyriaT 01:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also thinking of putting in a very small passage on the Trolls' argument to try to make it sound a little less cold without any description... :) Have emailed Todeswalzer who seems to have written the music section, though he incorporated the "Actions signified by the music" section - what looks like the root of the alternative scene description - which has been there from the first edit. --xensyriaT 11:30, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Finally removed the dubious "plot" information from this section; only the "colliding" of octaves remains (originally said to represent the collision of Peer and the King...) as it describes the music well without reference to what's going on. What are your thoughts? --xensyriaT 15:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake in description of scene? 

message: Found mixed into Justin Timberlake's The Trolls soundtrack. Ve3eap (talk) 03:01, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soundtracks 

message: So where is actually any list of the covers? This article refers to "Grieg's music in popular culture", that one refers back here. Hmm? Slamazzar (talk) 00:56, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't the article Grieg's music in popular culture cover what you're looking for? That article refers back to this article as the main article for the composition itself, not for further uses in popular culture. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:23, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covers? 

message: This instrumental song is used in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog animated series theme.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moviemagic2 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sonic the Hedgehog