Music

Already watched: Pilot, Season 01, Season 09, Season 10, as well as information that I have already compiled before.

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 the Great War and 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)
  • Mademoiselle from Armentières (Traditional French army song) (11×01: Shot at Dawn) – sung by “Lionel Hicks” before he picks up the RC car rigged with explosives
  • The Galloping Major (Fred W. Leigh) (11×01): Shot at Dawn) – sung by “Kate Hammond” during the re-eanctment
  • Colonel Bogey March Kenneth Alford) (11×01: Shot at Dawn) – whistled by the soldiers of the Yeomanry 
  • Soldiers of the Queen (Leslie Stuart) (11×01: Shot at Dawn) – sung by “Lionel Hicks” at the very end

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)
  • Bridal Chorus („Treulich gefuehrt“ from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner) (11×02: Blood Wedding – two times: First for Beth Porteous & Sir Edward „Ned“ Fitzroy, at the end for Cully Barnaby & Simon Dixon)

 

Other Music

  • We Shall Overcome (Protest song that played an important role in the US civil rights movement) (11×03: Left For Dead)

 

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