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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ir8FnLF_9Q&fmt=18 Nutcracker, anyone?]
* Ophelia's Mad Scene from ''[[Hamlet]]'' by Ambroise Thomas. Thirteen minutes long, incredibly difficult, and incredibly haunting.
* Modern classical, but classical still: composer Christopher Tin of the Video Games example Baba Yetu, has recently released [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504064903/http://www.christophertin.com/callingalldawns.html an album] called "Calling All Dawns." This album can basically be described as more than an hour of Crowning Music of Awesome. A song cycle depicting day, night, and dawn, it is made up of 12 songs (including an epic reorchestration of Baba Yetu itself). Each song is sung in a different language, each segues smoothly into the next, sometimes with no break, and the album ends on the same sequence of notes with which it began. And it is stirringly, [[Tear Jerker|tear-jerkingly]] beautiful.
** Special CMuOA mention goes to "Rassemblons-Nous" (Let Us Gather), which from the title sounds like it would be some type of Kumbaya song, but in French. Instead, it's a techno-backed anthem about [[Screw Destiny|giving destiny the finger]], building a [[La Résistance]] against death itself, and pure, unmitigated AWESOME.
** "Kia Hora Te Marino" needs a mention too. Sung in Maori, it would make for a great anthem for peace. More or less, it's a powerful ending to an incredible album.
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** Singing the concluding Cum Sancto Spiritu, from Vivaldi's Gloria in D major, makes you feel ten feet tall.
* [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''Ride of the Valkyries''. Sure, it's [[Music of Note]], but it's still CMOA.
** Unfortunately, this one's picked up a few nasty connotations due to the Nazis' usage of it. But then, it could be argued that more people associate ''Ride of the Valkyries'' with ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' than with [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Or with Bugs Bunny - "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!" Or the tank driver in [[
** Also, ''Götterdämmerung''. Oh hell, all of ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'' is pretty amazing.
* Charles-Marie Widor's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-gzmGu1J4 Toccata], the finale from his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByRkggPFiMM&NR=1 Symphony No.5 for Organ in F minor,] is a Crowning Music of Awesome, but seeing it played, it also doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for any organist who can successfully pull it off!
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* Zoltán Kodály's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NsG0ATFvo Vainamoinen makes music] for women's choir and piano. The choir gets memorable melodies, playful counterpoint, and tricky rhythms. The piano part is beautiful, epic, and fun to play (which can't be said for a lot of choral literature), especially in the introduction and at the end. Each section is different from the last. It's only 4 minutes long. Go listen.
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