D#m Orch Hit -6 Infernal Dance [1.109s]

Orchestra hit (D# minor, transposed down 6 semitones from the original A minor), chopped from the beginning of a public domain recording of "Infernal Dance" from Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, performed by the United States Marine Band. No additional processing has been made to the audio, aside from transposing down 6 semitones, normalization (post-chop) and a short fade out.

This hit samples the same composition (from a different performance) as the (in)famous ORCH5 orchestra hit sample included with the Fairlight CMI synthesizer and many subsequent sample libraries and dance songs. However, this sample is unencumbered by copyright and should therefore be safe to share and remix in your own works.

The original audio was sourced from its MediaWiki page at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infernal_Dance_from_The_Firebird_by_Stravinsky.ogg

Public Domain rationales:

• This original recording this file is sampled from is a work of a United States Marine or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain.
• The composition is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.
• The author died in 1936, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.