Dune
Book Playlist

Dune Playlist

by Frank Herbert

20 tracks
balanced
Nov 6, 2026
17 mixes for this book

This instrumental sequence pairs the film adaptation’s own score with spacious electronic and orchestral textures for Arrakis’s immense deserts, Fremen life, and the pressures of imperial conflict. Its measured shifts from stillness to darker, more forceful passages echo Paul’s transformation and the uneasy tension between belief, love, and power.

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Track List

20 songs
1

Dream of Arrakis

Hans Zimmer · Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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2

Beginnings Are Such Delicate Times

Hans Zimmer · Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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3

Phaedra - Remastered 2018

Tangerine Dream · Phaedra (Deluxe Version)

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4

Bayreuth Return

Klaus Schulze · Timewind (Remastered 2017)

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5

The Fifth Wave

Suzanne Ciani · Pianissimo III

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6

Xerrox Monophaser 2

Alva Noto · Xerrox, Vol. 2

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7

Abiogenesis

Carbon Based Lifeforms · World of Sleepers

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8

Sol

Solar Fields · Movements

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9

Adagio in D Minor

John Murphy · Adagio in D Minor

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10

Says

Nils Frahm · Spaces

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11

A Walk

Tycho · Dive

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12

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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13

Kobresia

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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14

A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air

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15

Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses

Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians

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16

The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets

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17

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: I. Largo

Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14

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18

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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19

Pavane, Op. 50

Gabriel Fauré · The Secret Fauré 2

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20

Rain Tree Sketch II

Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano

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