Music
Already watched: Pilot, S01, 09×02, 09×03, 09×04, 09×05, 09×06, 23×01. As well as information that I have already compiled.
Note: There isn’t much to discover just yet – essays will be published gradually from late May. Until autumn, think of this more as a gateway than a library.
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A wide variety of music is played in Midsomer Murders. I’m collecting all of it – except for the background score. First, I’ll list all pieces composed specifically for the series, regardless of genre. Then I’ll sort them by genre.
Music composed specifically for Midsomer Murders
- Agnus Dei (Jim Parker) (01×02: Death of a Hollow Man)
- Libera Me (Jim Parker) (08×06: Hidden Depth)
- Midsomer Rhapsody (probably Jim Parker) (08×08: Midsomer Rhapsody)
- NN (Song played by Hired Gun as they take the stage, until Mimi dies from electric shock) (10×04: The Axeman Cometh)
- Ballad of Midsomer County (Seth Lakeman) (17×03: The Ballad of Midsomer County)
Traditionals and children’s songs
- Sumer is icumen (Medieval English round) (09×01: The House in the Woods)
- Calon Lân (walisisches traditional hymn) (10×05: Death and Dust)
- And the Green Grass Grows All Around (folk song from the Appalachians) (12×05: Small Mercies) – it’s not a British song, but US-American
Songs that were popular during World War II
- Hokey Cokey (Hokey Pokey) (Al Tabor) (10×01: Dance with the Dead)
Goodnight Sweetheart all my prayers are for you) (Ray Noble) (10×01: Dance with the Dead) - I‘ll Be Seeing You (Sammy Fain) (10×01: Dance with the Dead)
- Chattanooga Choo Choo (Harry Warren) (10×01: Dance with the Dead)
Brass Band
- Blue Tail Fly (Traditional) (08×01: Things That Go Bump in the Night) – it’s not a British song, but US-American
- A brass band performing a swing number I can’t identify (08×03: Orchis Fatalis)
Blues, Rock
- Dimples – I love the way you walk (Delroy Wilson); In this case, intoned by Tom Barnaby and Jack McKinley (10×04: The Axeman Cometh)
Church Hymns and choral works
- Glory to thee, my God, this night (Thomas Tallis) (08×01: Things That Go Bump in the Night)
- unknown piece at the beginning (09×07: Death in Chorus)
- Fair Phyllis (John Farmer) (09×07: Death in Chorus)
- Dies irae (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; aus: Requiem) (24×01: The Devil‘s Work)
- Lacrimosa (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; aus: Requiem) (24×01: The Devil‘s Work)
Classical music
- Nocturne op. 9 no. 1 in B flat minor (Frédéric Chopin) (09×01: The House in the Woods)
- Für Elise (For Elise) (Ludwig van Beethoven) (09×02: Dead Letters)
- Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur (Johann Sebastian Bach) (23×02: The Debt of Lies)
- „Au fond du temple saint” (Tenor-baritone duet from Georges Bizet‘s Les pêcherurs de perles/The Pearl Fishers) (09×04: Down Among the Dead Men)
- Prelude and Fugue in C major (Johann Sebastian Bach) (09×04: Down Among the Dead Men)
- Zadok the Priest (George Frederic Handel) (09×05: Four Funerals and a Wedding)
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The Chronology of Midsomer County by Year or by Episodes • Deep Dives into Midsomer & History • History of Midsomer Murders Film Locations
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