History Main / EtherealChoir

* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', this is the asteroid's {{leitmotif}} and can be heard just about any time it's seen from space.

* Jake hears one when he "sees the light" in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. Likewise, Cab hears the same choir when he has his epiphany in the sequel.

* The opening verse to Music/TheRollingStones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from ''Music/LetItBleed'' is sang like this.

* In the French cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Clementine}}'', every time the GuardianAngel of the main character appears to save her from the BigBad, a very serene-sounding angelic choir sounds in the background.

* In the French cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Clementine}}'', every time the GuardianAngel of the main character appears to save her from the BigBad, a veryy serene-sounding angelic choir sounds in the background.

* In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal,'' a mixed-gender choir wordlessly sets the mood during dramatic or heroic scenes, ominous during villainous activity, grandiose and sweeping during Sailor Moon's {{transformation|Sequence}} and attack sequences.

[[folder:Film]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': "The Bells of Notre Dame" features an Ethereal Choral motif from "Hellfire."

* Used fairly heavily in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCD67CE98D531DCE&search_query=coraline soundtrack]], to great atmospheric effect.
* An ethereal little melody is featured repeatedly on ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' soundtrack to great effect.

* Theme From Flood" from ''Music/{{Flood}}'' by Music/TheyMightBeGiants also starts of with a male and female choir singing the "theme" song" of the album.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': "The Bells of Notre Dame" features an Ethereal Choral motif from "Hellfire."

* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'', Log 187 describes a choir of angels announcing the arival of [[http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-919 RPC-919]], a space toast which tastes disappointedly average.

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* "Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}''.

This is related to the OneWomanWail, which it sometimes accompanies. See also: CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene.

** A part of the theme "Nature's Reclamation" used several times over the course of the movies, and is essentially this. It sounds when Théoden resolves to ride out against the Uruk-Hai at Helm's Deep, and again in ''ilm/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' when the Eagles dive out of the sky to attack the Nazgûl.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Absolute Candor", when the Qowat Milat, a monastic order, is first introduced, we briefly hear a choir. It's part of the track called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcrfEYOc-Sc&t=1m11s Happier Times]]".

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

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* An absolutely epic one when the ents march to trash Isengard in ''The Two Towers'' from Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/LordOfTheRings''.
** A part of the theme "Nature's Reclamation" used several times over the course of the movies, and is essentially this. It sounds when Théoden resolves to ride out against the Uruk-Hai at Helm's Deep, and again in ''Return of the King'' when the Eagles dive out of the sky to attack the Nazgûl.

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Has one singing a variation of the main theme amidst the dramatic silence of space when [[spoiler:the ''Narada'' is finally being broken up and consumed by the combination of a black hole and the weapons of the ''Enterprise''.]]
* Heard in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' to accompany the grandeur of Starbase Yorktown.

* "Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds" from Disney's ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}''.

* In the [[WesternAnimation/CLassicDisneyShorts classic Disney short]], ''Disney/TheOldMill'', the howling wind that can be heard just before the big storm begins (and at one point, during the storm) is portrayed as being this.