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| {{Center|'''Dust and Echoes''' redirects here. For the achievement, see [[Dust and Echoes (achievement)]].}} | |
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| | name = Dust and Echoes
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| | yt = OmlfnuGrG6E
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| | album = ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''
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| | composer = [[Martin O'Donnell]] and [[Michael Salvatori]]
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| | length = 2:49
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| | last = [[Shadows (music)|Shadows]]
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| | next = [[Halo Theme|Halo]]
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| '''Dust and Echoes''' is the twenty-fifth track in ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''. | | '''Dust and Echoes''' is a song included in the [[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]. It plays during the end of [[The Maw]], in the ending cutscene. |
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| ==Overview==
| | It runs for 2 minutes and 49.743 seconds (2:49.743). |
| The track opens with an eerie ambiance, quickly followed by reversed strings,{{Ref/YouTube|Id=IGN|9ndZbg8Mr-Q|IGN|Halo: Combat Evolved Devs React to Speedrun (Martin O’Donnell, Marcus Lehto)}} which build up to a climax. The eerie ambiance continued, soon joined by the male choir, singing the main melody ''[[The Maw (music)|The Maw]]''. The eerie ambiance briefly returns before strings take over, somberly playing a variation of the ''[[Halo Theme]]''.
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| ==Appearances==
| | The name of this piece is most likely in reference to [[Cortana|Cortana's]] quote at the end of [[Halo: Combat Evolved]]: "Just... dust and echoes. We're all that's left." |
| The reversed strings plays in the opening cutscene of the level ''[[The Library]]'', when the [[activation index]] is shown in the [[Library]]. An extended version of the opening eerie ambiance plays in reverse during the mid-level cinematic of ''[[Keyes]]'', when [[John-117]] retrieves the [[Flood]]-assimilated [[Jacob Keyes|Captain]]'s [[neural implant]]s from the [[Proto-Gravemind]]. The track plays in full during the final cutscene of the level ''[[The Maw]]'', when John-117 escapes the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}. | |
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| ==Arrangements==
| | [[Category:Halo Music]] |
| The track has been arranged into the following:
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| *''[[Wake Me When You Need Me]]'' in ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]''.
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| *''[[Flotsam, Jetsam]]'', ''[[Captain, My Captain]]'', and ''[[Exfiltration]]'' in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: Original Soundtrack]]''.
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| ==Production notes==
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| The name is derived from [[Cortana]]'s quote upon scanning the vicinity of the destroyed [[Installation 04]], "Just... dust and echoes. We're all that's left."
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Soundtrack|H1}}
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