History Main / EtherealChoir

* Used at various points throughout the Murray Gold scores for DoctorWho. Generally acting as a musical personification of Time, although this sometimes ends up as a OneWomanWail. For the Daleks it becomes OminousLatinChanting. Notable at the end of "Gridlock", when the population of New Earth sings an acapella version of Abide with Me.

* The scene in the musical ''Brigadoon'' where Mr. Lundie talks about hearing voices from the outside world.

* Parodied in a later episode of JohnnyBravo. The choir accompanies the appearance of a large ad that happens to be about the very thing Johnny needed the most in that particular scene. The camera then pans to slightly, [[SorryILefttheBGMRunning revealing an actual church choir.]]

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* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has this in their main theme.

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* Parodied in a later episode of JohnnyBravo. The choir accompanies the appearance of a large ad that happens to be about the very thing Johnny needed the most in that particular scene. The camera then pans to slightly, revealing an actual church choir.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSorp9x3nUE The Judge]], the final boss theme from {{Kamui}} uses this.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTfBOdjj_U "Lady in Black"]] by Bad Boys Blue uses this during its main riff. The chorus and secondary riff use a OneWomanWail.

* Immediate Music's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC6TdndpVYg&feature=related Requiem Rave]] fuses fast electronic beats with a mostly female choir singing vowel tones.

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* A staple of DannyElfman's work.
* Baten Kaitos uses this music as in the Interdimensional Cracks. It's not ominous enough for OminousLatinChanting - though it borders on it. It's more there just to add drama to the idea that you're entering a different dimension.

* Holst's ''Planets'' ends with an EtherealChoir whose voices slowly fade away after the orchestra stops playing.
* The opening verse to TheRollingStones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is sang like this.

* One of the pieces of stock background music in ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.

* Used fairly heavily in ''{{Coraline}}'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCD67CE98D531DCE&search_query=coraline soundtrack]], to great atmospheric effect.
* ''BrokenSaints'' features this in a number of pieces. Some of the pieces are original music, some are classical works, some alternate with OminousLatinChanting, and one of them does include a OneWomanWail.
* ''{{Bleach}}'' uses this with a weird electronic effect in a lot of scenes.
* The song "High Charity" in ''[[{{Halo}} Halo 2]]''. Also used in the ''Halo 2'' version of the title theme, and "Heroes Also Fall" and "Roll Call" in ''Halo 3''.
* In ''The President's Analyst'', the title character starts to crack up - he sees men in black suits and sunglasses ostensibly out to get him everywhere, punctuated with an alarming piece of vocalese.

* In 1951's ''AChristmasCarol'', Scrooge hears the wailing of Marley's fellow doomed spirits at the end of the latter's visit, and again later when taken to his own grave.
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has this in their main theme.
* Frequently featured in Nox Arcana's work.
* The Enchantress Y'gael is rather annoyed at the Ethereal Choir repeating whatever she says in a sing-song tone when you encounter her in Zork: Grand Inquisitor.
* Used starkly near the end of ''{{Xenogears}}''.
* One of the main themes of ''GhostInTheShell'' is a slightly dischordant choir singing a capella.

* The music used in the main menu of Ninety-Nine Nights (N3) counts, and also doubles as OneWomanWail.
* An ethereal little melody is featured repeatedly on the Prince of Egypt soundtrack to great effect.

* Warrhammer 40k has the choir of the astronomican that psykers and the occasional pious Space Marine can hear.

* Immediate Music's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC6TdndpVYg&feature=related Requiem Rave]] fuses fast electronic beats with a mostly female choir singing vowel tones.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTfBOdjj_U "Lady in Black"]] by Bad Boys Blue uses this during its main riff. The chorus and secondary riff use a OneWomanWail.
* The Ark theme from ''RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTfBOdjj_U "Lady in Black"]] by Bad Boys Blue uses this during its main riff. The secondary riff uses a OneWomanWail.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTfBOdjj_U "Lady in Black"]] by Bad Boys Blue uses this during its main riff.

* "Lady in Black" by Bad Boys Blue uses this during its main riff.

* "Velvet Room," aka "The Poem/Aria for Everyone's Souls" in the ''{{Persona}}'' series (and augmented as "The Battle For Everyone's Souls" in ''{{Persona 3}}'' is exactly this, to enhance the otherwordly, mystical atmosphere of the Velvet Room. In the first two (three if you count both ''{{Persona 2}}''s) games it was explicitly sung by Igor's assistant, Belladonna, but by the time of ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''[[{{Persona4}} 4]]'' there was no place for the opera diva anymore.