| rdfs:comment | - "Ride of the Valkyries" is a song by Richard Wagner from his opera Die Walküre. Although it was originally written with lyrics, the song has been used as an instrumental in popular culture, and is often associated with Brünnhilde, and her sterotypical opera costume.
- The Ride of the Valkyries is the music heard when the rockets launch at the REPCONN test site at the end of the quest, Come Fly With Me. It can also be heard on Classical Radio in Fallout 4.
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is the opening movement of Act 3 of German composer Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre. The piece is best known for its use in the film Apocalypse Now, during the scene where the American helicopters bombard a Vietnamese village. Despite the film's anti-war stance and negative portrayal of this act, Ride of the Valkyries has come to be commonly associated with one-sided and triumphant battle scenes.
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is a classical music piece developed by Richard Wagner during the late 19th Century, which played during the beginning of Act III of his second opera, Die Walküre. It was frequently utilized by Hitler during World War II. It's most famous use in popular culture was in the gunship scene from Apocalypse Now, which led to it being played when gunship rescues or last-minute cavalry arrivals for the heroes occur in popular culture. Ironically, the music was intended by the producers in that instance to imply the gunship crews were villains.
- The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Ritt der Walküren, or Walkürenritt, as the composer referred to it) is a fanfare-like orchestral music theme originating from Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (The Valkyries), which is a part of the cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). Compare Also Sprach Zarathustra. Examples of this song in the media also qualify as Public Domain Soundtrack.
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| abstract | - "Ride of the Valkyries" is a song by Richard Wagner from his opera Die Walküre. Although it was originally written with lyrics, the song has been used as an instrumental in popular culture, and is often associated with Brünnhilde, and her sterotypical opera costume.
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is a classical music piece developed by Richard Wagner during the late 19th Century, which played during the beginning of Act III of his second opera, Die Walküre. It was frequently utilized by Hitler during World War II. It's most famous use in popular culture was in the gunship scene from Apocalypse Now, which led to it being played when gunship rescues or last-minute cavalry arrivals for the heroes occur in popular culture. Ironically, the music was intended by the producers in that instance to imply the gunship crews were villains. The piece was utilized in the demo for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, then titled simply as Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, as pre-selected music for Big Boss' gunship to play when extracting him from Camp Omega, although the creators confirmed that other music besides "Ride of the Valkyries" could be chosen by the player to play. It was included in the final version of Ground Zeroes, both as a standard Walkman track, and as selectable music for the gunship's landing.
- The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Ritt der Walküren, or Walkürenritt, as the composer referred to it) is a fanfare-like orchestral music theme originating from Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (The Valkyries), which is a part of the cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). When Wagner wrote it, he actually intended it to evoke images of epic battles, but what really made that music the Standard Snippet for military badassery in Western pop culture was the iconic helicopter raid in Apocalypse Now (even those who haven't seen the movie know that scene, or at least used to). As a result, when the characters are charging on big machines, raining Death From Above on their enemies or just riding a helicopter, either the soundtrack will play "Ride of the Valkyries", or a reference to it will be made. Ironically, Richard Wagner initially opposed the use and performance of the piece outside of the original opera, even going as far as to write letter of complaint to publishers who sold the sheet music as a separate work. Also ironically, the scene in Apocalypse Now that served as the Trope Codifier was meant to allude to Nazi Germany (Hitler was a huge fan of Wagner and often used his music to rally his troops), reflecting how the soldiers in that scene are intended to be viewed as war criminals - not that it worked. Compare Also Sprach Zarathustra. Examples of this song in the media also qualify as Public Domain Soundtrack.
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is the opening movement of Act 3 of German composer Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre. The piece is best known for its use in the film Apocalypse Now, during the scene where the American helicopters bombard a Vietnamese village. Despite the film's anti-war stance and negative portrayal of this act, Ride of the Valkyries has come to be commonly associated with one-sided and triumphant battle scenes. There is another reason for this piece of music symbolizing war and destruction: during World War II, the Ride of the Valkyries was used to accompany several editions of Die Deutsche Wochenschau, the German WWII newsreel, featuring sequences of Luftwaffe bombings. In Watchmen, Ride of the Valkyries is mentioned in the first section of Under the Hood. In that passage, Hollis Mason states that "no one else on Earth has to brush away a tear" when they hear that music. In the movie, "Ride of the Valkyries" is actually heard during the Vietnam flashback scene, which shows Dr. Manhattan obliterating Viet Cong soldiers with his godlike powers. Its purpose here is obviously to serve as a shorthand reference to Apocalypse Now and all that it symbolizes. In the world of the Watchmen, it is unlikely that Apocalypse Now was ever made, as the making of that film was very much predicated on America's failures in Vietnam, while in Watchmen's alternate history, America won a clear and decisive victory in that War.
- The Ride of the Valkyries is the music heard when the rockets launch at the REPCONN test site at the end of the quest, Come Fly With Me. It can also be heard on Classical Radio in Fallout 4.
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