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The Hero with a Thousand Faces Playlist
20 tracks
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Sep 16, 2026
Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” is a map of transformation—departure, ordeal, and return—so this playlist moves like a myth: suspense and momentum build, then soften into reflection. The instrumental half gives you spacious, story-like continuity for close reading, while the vocal half offers lyrical prompts about fate, courage, surrender, and the ache of returning with something new.
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20 songs
1
Blade Runner Blues
Vangelis · Blade Runner (Music From The Original Soundtrack)
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2
Simple Gifts
Traditional · Classic Yo-Yo
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3
Heroes
David Bowie · Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 5
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4
The Chain
Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition)
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5
Fire and Rain
James Taylor · Greatest Hits
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Let It Be - Remastered 2009
The Beatles · Let It Be (Remastered)
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Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen · Various Positions
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I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Proclaimers · Sunshine on Leith
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9
No Surprises
Radiohead · OK Computer
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10
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band · The Band
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11
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke · Ain't That Good News
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12
Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Variation IX. Adagio "Nimrod"
Edward Elgar · Britannia
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13
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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Carmen Suite No. 1: Aragonaise. Allegro vivo (Prelude to Act IV) - 2017 Remastered Version
Georges Bizet · Bizet: Carmen Suites Nos. 1 & 2 - Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2
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15
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
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Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191: II. Adagio ma non troppo
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: Cello Concerto
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17
Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · TOP Mozart – The Most Essential Mozart Masterpieces
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18
Bolero
Maurice Ravel · Klassik die man kennen muss! Die größten Werke der Klassischen Musik
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Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Adagio in G Minor
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