The 1812 Overture. Although it's a bit overdramatic--I picture some pompous general getting blasted to glory on a puffy pink cloud, his sword unsheathed and pointd upwards whenever I hear the final chorus.
There is one song on the "James Galway and the Chieftains: In Ireland" album that would be heart-rending for the scene when Frodo leaves Middle Earth for the west. It's NOT Danny Boy, though Danny Boy would be pretty good too...
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"The other [theme] had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony...and it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern..."
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