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'''Dust and Echoes''' is a song included in the [[Halo: Original Soundtrack]].
 
'''Dust and Echoes''' is the twenty-fifth track in ''[[Halo: Original Soundtrack]]''.
 
==Overview==
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]]''.


==Appearances==
==Appearances==
It plays during the end of [[The Maw]], in the ending cutscene.
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}}.


==Overview==
==Arrangements==
This track gives the player the feeling of being alone; that they lost everything and that the victory came at a terrible cost, which it did. Rather than infect the galaxy with the [[The Flood|Flood]] or activate [[Halo]], which would destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy, the total destruction of the ring was concluded to be the only course of action.
The track has been arranged into the following:
*''[[Wake Me When You Need Me]]'' in ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]''.
*''[[Flotsam, Jetsam]]'', ''[[Captain, My Captain]]'', and ''[[Exfiltration]]'' in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: Original Soundtrack]]''.
 
==Production notes==
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."


==Other Appearances==
==Sources==
*The middle section of the piece is the same as [[The Maw (music)|The Maw]].
{{Ref/Sources}}
*The intro was remade as part of the [[Sacred Icon Suite]] on the [[Halo 2: Original Soundtrack]].
*The third part of this piece is remade in the second half of ''Halo 3'''s "[[Wake Me When You Need Me]]" track. Both are named after quotes from [[Cortana]] and [[John-117]] during the final cutscene from both games.
*The first part is played in reverse on the level [[Keyes]] during the cutscene where [[John-117]] retrieves the Flood-assimilated Captain's neural implants.


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Dust and Echoes redirects here. For the achievement, see Dust and Echoes (achievement).
Dust and Echoes

Album:

Halo: Original Soundtrack

Composer(s):

Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori

Length:

2:49

Previous:

Shadows

Next:

Halo

 

Dust and Echoes is the twenty-fifth track in Halo: Original Soundtrack.

Overview[edit]

The track opens with an eerie ambiance, quickly followed by reversed strings,[1] which build up to a climax. The eerie ambiance continued, soon joined by the male choir, singing the main melody The Maw. The eerie ambiance briefly returns before strings take over, somberly playing a variation of the Halo Theme.

Appearances[edit]

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 Captain's neural implants from the Proto-Gravemind. The track plays in full during the final cutscene of the level The Maw, when John-117 escapes the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.

Arrangements[edit]

The track has been arranged into the following:

Production notes[edit]

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."

Sources[edit]