Rabscuttle · 41-45
-Christopher Tin's Baba Yetu, the opening theme from Civilization 4. The first piece of video game music to win a... not an Oscar, that's movies. What's the musical one?
-Kila's Beilin Meala is a song that sounds tailor-made for singing to your sweetie as you cuddle together in the hammock; unless you speak Irish, in which case you KNOW it's tailor-made for that.
-Their "The Mama Song", off the same album, is also upbeat, but in a far more intense way; it's... happy, but I don't think I'd call it "lighthearted". The "Eye of the Tiger" to Beilin Meala's "Saint Elmo's Fire", if you will.
-There are a few selections from the Ring Trilogy that would qualify, depending on how you define "song", but people tend to be touchy about Wagner, so...
-Since you specified "not in English" and not 'in another language", I'll add in Roever and Korb's Highland Cathedral, which has no lyrics (at least not in its original form), but manages to convey a sense of laid-back grandeur anyway, especially when played on the Great Highland pipe.
-And this list couldn't be complete without mentioning "Ode to Joy"- again, depending on how you define a "song"- which is riotously lighthearted. They told Beethoven "you can't have a hundred singers all bellowing the chorus at once; that's insane!". And it was- but it went beyond mere insanity, into the realm of Beethoven. When you listen through the whole symphony, and get to the last movement, and hear that rising, terrifying tension, that suddenly falls silent, hesitantly restarts, and is blown out by a hundred voices lifted as one, shouting their anthem of happiness and human brotherhood, there are only two proper responses: either you leap to your feet, hands in the air, and bang you head as you sing along in gibberish German, or you leap to your feet, hands in the air, and bang your head as you sing along in actual German, if you know the words.
In Japan, the song is played as a New Year's ritual, and since the Japanese (or some of them, at least) understand these things, they decided that rather than a hundred singers being too much, it was a problem because it wasn't enough, and at one point, at least, had a stadium of TEN THOUSAND singers do it instead.
-Kila's Beilin Meala is a song that sounds tailor-made for singing to your sweetie as you cuddle together in the hammock; unless you speak Irish, in which case you KNOW it's tailor-made for that.
-Their "The Mama Song", off the same album, is also upbeat, but in a far more intense way; it's... happy, but I don't think I'd call it "lighthearted". The "Eye of the Tiger" to Beilin Meala's "Saint Elmo's Fire", if you will.
-There are a few selections from the Ring Trilogy that would qualify, depending on how you define "song", but people tend to be touchy about Wagner, so...
-Since you specified "not in English" and not 'in another language", I'll add in Roever and Korb's Highland Cathedral, which has no lyrics (at least not in its original form), but manages to convey a sense of laid-back grandeur anyway, especially when played on the Great Highland pipe.
-And this list couldn't be complete without mentioning "Ode to Joy"- again, depending on how you define a "song"- which is riotously lighthearted. They told Beethoven "you can't have a hundred singers all bellowing the chorus at once; that's insane!". And it was- but it went beyond mere insanity, into the realm of Beethoven. When you listen through the whole symphony, and get to the last movement, and hear that rising, terrifying tension, that suddenly falls silent, hesitantly restarts, and is blown out by a hundred voices lifted as one, shouting their anthem of happiness and human brotherhood, there are only two proper responses: either you leap to your feet, hands in the air, and bang you head as you sing along in gibberish German, or you leap to your feet, hands in the air, and bang your head as you sing along in actual German, if you know the words.
In Japan, the song is played as a New Year's ritual, and since the Japanese (or some of them, at least) understand these things, they decided that rather than a hundred singers being too much, it was a problem because it wasn't enough, and at one point, at least, had a stadium of TEN THOUSAND singers do it instead.