Where I can I get the suspense music from?

[Archaeologist]

I really don't know where else to ask this question, but I was watching The Original Series episode, The Changeling, recently. In the episode, at around the 10:08 mark to about 10:41 (on the Netflix version, the scene where they go to the transporter room), I hear this neat suspenseful music I would like to use as a ringtone or maybe an alarm. Star Trek sure had a way with this kind of music, like few other series. There are other suspense cues from TOS that I found floating around the internet, but the ones I mentioned weren't any of them. If you guys can help me find the tracks, maybe on a CD, or at least identify the track names, I would be grateful.

 

[HGN2001]

It was composed by Fred Steiner, if that helps.

Harry

 

[22 Stars]

Watch it and record it with your phone, and turn it into a ringtone.

 

[gottacook]

Go to www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,168119-1138652,00.html (which I just discovered by Googling "Black Ship Tension," the name of the Fred Steiner cue). "BST" is the track that starts playing when you open this page, which is the track you're looking for, I think. There is a "Send Ringtone" field on this page. (I've never downloaded a ringtone.)

I learned the name of the cue from my study of George Duning's scores for "The Empath" and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" for several hours in July 1985 at the USC library, which has all Duning's files, or did then. Duning quoted the cue and credited it, by title and composer, in the handwritten score.

It's one of the very few cues that is heard in all three seasons - was there another? Originated in (I think) "Balance of Terror."

 

[Maurice]

Go to www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,168119-1138652,00.html (which I just discovered by Googling "Black Ship Tension," the name of the Fred Steiner cue). "BST" is the track that starts playing when you open this page, which is the track you're looking for, I think. There is a "Send Ringtone" field on this page. (I've never downloaded a ringtone.)

I learned the name of the cue from my study of George Duning's scores for "The Empath" and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" for several hours in July 1985 at the USC library, which has all Duning's files, or did then. Duning quoted the cue and credited it, by title and composer, in the handwritten score.

It's one of the very few cues that is heard in all three seasons - was there another? Originated in (I think) "Balance of Terror."

If that's the actual music he's after, it appears in its original form on the CD The Best of Star Trek: Volume Two, Track 3 (Balance of Terror: Romulan Warship/Romulan Theme/Centurion).

 

[GSchnitzer]

I really don't know where else to ask this question, but I was watching The Original Series episode, The Changeling, recently. In the episode, at around the 10:08 mark to about 10:41 (on the Netflix version, the scene where they go to the transporter room), I hear this neat suspenseful music I would like to use as a ringtone or maybe an alarm.

That musical cue in "The Changeling" was a re-use of a cue that was written by Gerald Fried for the episode "Catspaw." (You can find it at about the 41:46 mark in "Catspaw" on Netflix--right at the end of Act 3: "Holy Moly! It's a giant cat!")

"Catspaw" is not one of the episodes that has had its music released on CD--either as the original soundtrack or as a re-recording, so I think it would be hard to find this cue. You might end up having to lift it somehow from an actual episode.

 

[Archaeologist]

OK, thank you. Naturally, I'm still searching for some kind of MP3 on the internet, if there is not a CD that contains the cue, but it seems to have been kind of common in the Second Season. I think I can recall hearing it in more than just The Changeling and Catspaw, but where, I'm not sure exactly.