Adagio for Tron by Daft Punk

       If you've watched Tron: Legacy, you know what the best part of the movie is: the music, hands down. Daft Punk knocks your socks off right from the opening scene, and the arpeggiators and synths through the entire intro scream reminiscence of the early Tron movie while adding a full range of sound that swells up from the bottom. Again, heavy arpeggiators and racing synth leads contrast beautifully with Adagio for Tron, the music for the backstory of Rinzler, or Tron.

       I've actually had my musically inspirational father score this out and play it with my full symphony orchestra in high school. And it's freaking awesome. It starts off with a simple cello, making a slow ascending/descending run that moves up the E-minor scale. It has a gripping tone of sorrow and slight anger, but not one with punch. The music gradually adds violin, viola, and bass over the course of the song with different harmonies and bass lines coming in, but the theme remains; sorrow and grief. Near the end of the score, the orchestra builds into what can only be described as extreme anger, but still only anger gripped by sorrow. At the end of the grand finale, one does not sense a resolution.

       The grandiose orchestra has died off, continued only by the sound of one lone cello, just as the beginning, but this time ascending on the whole as each individual run descends down a scale. It only continues for a few measures, then ends with a pp E-minor chord dying of misery.

       So much gripping emotion in only 3 and a half minutes. Give it a listen. You'll hear what I'm talking about.