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Songs with Epic Dynamic Progressions - Calm & Beautiful to Intense

Hey everyone,

Thanks so much for all your contributions so far!

I just wanted to offer a quick clarification, as it seems there might be a bit of confusion about my original request, or perhaps some are just sharing great tracks in general – which is always appreciated, but I'd love to steer us back to the specific idea.

To be clear: I'm NOT referring to the technical dynamic range in terms of dB/SPL, but rather the suspense curve or the emotional and intensity build-up of the piece itself. Many of the posts so far, while offering interesting music, seem to be focused on the former point.

What I'm truly looking for are songs that start off relatively slow, calm, perhaps beautiful or even melancholic, and then gradually and significantly build in intensity, power, and emotional weight towards the end.

The post by @punosion is currently the one that really comes really close what I was aiming for. It would be fantastic if we could focus on suggestions along those lines to prevent the thread from derailing further. My apologies if this sounds a bit demanding, but without this specific focus, the thread unfortunately loses its intended purpose for me.

Another pretty clear guideline example:
Rameses B - Inspire
Super slow calm start, increasingly more suspense, more instruments coming in, getting louder until the final climax.




But genuinely, thank you all for your input and enthusiasm!
Swan lake easy then.

Op. 20, Act 2: No. 10, Scene. Moderato:


 

MONO - Hear the Wind Sing (Official Video)​


MONO - Oath (Official Video)​

 
Nils frahm. Saw him the other day, dude literally has silly amount of instruments he runs around adding to melody building the complexity as he does.
 
Postrock is a genre where this is very common (although often in an on-off approach), one example:

Synth/80s-revival:
 
Let me try a couple: new(ish) with a small to epic progression


and older with an invese: manic to calm progression

 
 
 
One more: (my kids used to call this "sleepy music", as I played it at bed time for them; and, now they're adults... and I can't listen to this anymore... I inevitably endup crying)

 
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