Track length: 8:33
Tempo: 69 bpm

Slow atmospheric orchestral strings gently build and drop over 8 and a half minutes, increasing in drama and feeling by adding piano, bass, French horns and muted trumpets, plucked harp, percussion, timpani and gentle but deep taiko drums.

Atmospheric, uplifting yet slightly mournful instrumental film score style music, with an air of grace, beauty and melancholy. Ideal soundtrack music for time lapse films, documentaries, montage clips and more.

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Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.

Total running time: 32:16 (18 tracks)
Tempo: Various

The third volume of royalty-free music for film and documentary makers consists of 18 tracks (32:16 minutes in total) of plucked and pizzicato instrumental orchestral music from film and documentary composer Simon Wilkinson.

The music is ideal for science, travel, nature and wildlife documentaries, film, TV and animated media productions -- listen to extracts in the medley clip above, see the promo video below or click the track details link below for full length previews of all tracks.

This third volume of royalty-free music focuses on delicately arranged instrumental orchestral music featuring quirky and upbeat plucked violins, deep pizzicato cellos and double bass, lively marimba and harp and percussive xylophone and glockenspiel. The mood of the music ranges from quirky and upbeat fun pieces to darker and more serious fairytale-like atmospheric tracks. The music is ideal for science, travel, nature and wildlife documentaries but would also work well for films, cartoons, animations, commercials and adverts.

This album includes a royalty-free license which allows the user to use the music in an unlimited number of film & documentary productions. Whether it’s for TV broadcast, student/feature films, trailers, personal websites, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, Myspace etc. (and up to 1,000 physical copies for retail DVD sales) -- click here for full license details. The ideal audio resource to add to all documentary and filmmakers’ libraries for when you’re looking for the right atmospheric music cue to complete your scene.

The album contains 18 tracks (32:16 minutes) of plucked orchestral strings which will be automatically emailed to you as a zip file after purchase. You can select from mp3 or wav from the dropdown below but please be aware the wav zip file is quite large (300 Mb) so make sure your connection is fast enough to handle large downloads. If you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, Paypal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.

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Fantastic value -- most royalty-free music companies would charge you a similar price for just one stock music track. Get all 18 tracks (32:16 minutes) including the full license to use this music in an unlimited number of your films and projects from a dedicated film composer for just one low price.

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Track length: 2:13
Tempo: 132 bpm

Exciting and epic dramatic orchestral action music with staccato strings, bold sweeping horns, thunderous pounding heavy drums and percussion, punctuated by staccato choirs as the music moves through dramatic chord changes and builds to a frantic action-packed climax.

Ideal symphonic action music for film trailers, TV spots, commercials, medieval battle scenes, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed (e.g. extreme sports, war scenes, danger, excitement, thrilling chase scenes).

Keywords: 300, action, adventure, adventurous, army, battle, big, brass, brave, choir, choral, cinematic, climactic, climax, danger, dark, drama, dramatic, drums, energetic, epic, excitement, exciting, explosive, fight, fighting, film, French horn, gladiator, Greek, Hans Zimmer, heroic, instrumental, intense, LA Lakers, loud, machinima, montage, olympics, orchestra, orchestral, percussion, percussive, pounding, powerful, production, promo, rousing, score, snare, soundtrack, sparta, spartans, sports, strings, suspenseful, symphonic, thunder, thunderous, Titan Attack Zone, trailer music, Trojans, victorious, victory, war, warriors, widescreen

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.

Track length: 3:23
Tempo: 75 bpm

Slow and pensive orchestral strings with haunting and atmospheric ethnic duduk woodwinds, slowly builds in intensity and atmosphere to introduce muted but dramatic deep timpani and taiko drums, sparse piano chords, plucked harp and mournful French horns.

Mournful, mysterious and haunting atmospheric instrumental film score style music that moves through subtle chord changes, with an air of awe, grace, beauty and melancholy. As heard in the soundtrack to the stunning Dakotalapse time lapse video “Plains Milky Way” by Randy Halverson (see the video below).

Keywords: airy, ambient, astronomy, atmosphere, atmospheric, awe, background, beautiful, beauty, bold, brooding, BSG, calm, calming, credits, danger, dark, drama, duduk, earth, epic, fading, faith, fear, filmic, foreboding, French horn, frontier, gentle, grace, graceful, grand, harp, impending, imperial, instrumental, intro, looming, majestic, majesty, melancholy, milky way, minor key, mournful, mystery, mysterious, nature, orchestra, orchestral, ominous, piano, premonition, quiet, sad, score, sedate, slow, sombre, sorrow, soundtrack, sparse, spiritual, stature, strings, subtle, sweeping, taiko, tentative, time lapse, titles, vanishing, widescreen, wonder

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.

Total running time: 44:55 (11 tracks)
Tempo: Various

A collection of my music tracks used in the Dakotalapse series of time lapse films from photographer Randy Halverson. This compilation includes 11 tracks of my atmospheric and dramatic music from the acclaimed Dakotalapse time lapse films including Sub Zero, Plains Milky Way, Tempest Milky Way & Temporal Distortion.

IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ: this collection is for personal listening only and does not include a license to use the music in any of your own films or videos. If you wish to use any of these tracks in your own films you also need to buy the relevant license for each track you wish to use by searching for the track title and then adding either a commercial or non-commercial license to your shopping cart.

Atmospheric, inspiring and dramatic music from the beautiful series of Dakotalapse time lapse films (www.dakotalapse.com), the compilation of 11 tracks also includes a 10 page liner notes pdf. The tracks included are Scorpio, Shadow Watch, Exodus, Eclipse, Tempest, Shadowland, Soma, Atlantis, Reflections, From An Ember To A Sun and Chrome Skies. Listen to the preview of short clips from each track or see below for full length previews of all 11 tracks. The full album plus pdf liner notes will be downloadable after purchase as a zip file containing all tracks as highest CD-quality 320 kbps mp3s.

Keywords: ambient, astronomy, atmosphere, atmospheric, awe, background, beautiful, beauty, calm, calming, cinematic, credits, Dakotalapse, dark, drama, dramatic, earth, electronic, fade, fading, faith, film, filmic, gentle, grace, harp, impending, inspirational, inspire, inspiring, instrumental, intro, looming, majestic, majesty, melancholy, milky way, minor key, mournful, mp3, mystery, mysterious, mystical, nature, orchestra, orchestral, peaceful, piano, Plains Milky Way, quiet, Randy Halverson, relaxing, rousing, sad, score, sedate, serene, serenity, slideshow, slow, sorrow, soundtrack, sparse, spiritual, spirituality, stature, strings, subtle, Sub Zero, taiko, Tempest Milky Way, Temporal Distortion, time lapse, titles, vanishing, widescreen, wonder

Please note: This music collection is for personal listening only and does not contain any license for use in your own films or videos. If you would like to license any individual track from this collection to use in your own film, please purchase the relevant license from the individual track/royalty free collection (you can search the site for the relevant track license by typing the track name in the search box at the top). A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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Track length: 1:06
Tempo: 92 bpm

Dramatic epic orchestral action music with staccato strings, horns, thunderous pounding heavy drums and percussion, punctuated by staccato choirs as the music builds to a frantic climax. With the intro hit and tail trimmed, the track can fit 1 minute scenes exactly.

Ideal dramatic music for trailers, battle scenes, action videos, TV spots, commercials, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed, e.g. extreme sports, war scenes, danger, excitement, thrilling chase scenes (as heard in pre-game intro videos for the L.A. Lakers).  See an example promo video below.

Keywords: action, army, battle, big, brass, brave, climactic, climax, danger, drama, dramatic, drums, epic, excitement, exciting, explosive, fight, fighting, French horn, gladiator, Hans Zimmer, heroic, instrumental, intro, introduction, LA Lakers, loud, machinima, montage, olympics, orchestra, orchestral, percussion, percussive, pounding, powerful, production, promo, sports, strings, third act, thunder, thunderous, trailer music, victorious, victory, war, warriors, widescreen

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.

Track length: 0:45
Tempo: 140 bpm

Dramatic epic orchestral action music ideal for trailers and promo videos. Featuring staccato strings, brass, thunderous pounding heavy drums and percussion, punctuated by staccato choirs as the music builds to a frantic action-packed climax.

A short 45 second dramatic track ideally suited for trailers, battle scenes, action videos, TV spots, commercials, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed, e.g. extreme sports, war scenes, danger, excitement, thrilling chase scenes etc.

Keywords: action, army, battle, big, bold, brass, brave, climactic, climax, danger, drama, dramatic, drums, epic, excitement, exciting, explosive, fight, fighting, French horn, gladiator, Hans Zimmer, heroic, Icarus, instrumental, intro, introduction, loud, machinima, montage, olympics, orchestra, orchestral, percussion, percussive, phoenix, pounding, powerful, production, promo, rise, rising, short, sports, strings, third act, thunder, thunderous, trailer music, victorious, victory, war, warriors, widescreen

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.

Track length: 3:43
Tempo: 97 bpm

Thunderous and epic dramatic orchestral action music with spiccato strings, deep pizzicato double bass, sweeping French horns and staccato choirs as the music builds through ascending chord sequences to a frantic climax.

Ideal dramatic and atmospheric symphonic action music for battle scenes, film trailers, TV spots, commercials, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed (e.g. extreme sports, war scenes, danger, excitement, thrilling chase scenes).

As heard in the stunning Dakotalapse time lapse video Tempest Milky Way by Randy Halverson (see video on the right).

The music is available to download in either of two versions: with or without background sound effects (which include atmospheric wind and thunder claps -- hear the 2nd version above). Select your preferred mp3 version from the dropdown below when ordering.

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Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued. Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant options below. Read about licensing details here.