Music - Midsomer Murders Fan Blog

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.

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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)
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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