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"Concerning Hobbits" is a piece by composer Howard Shore derived from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack.It is a concert suite of the music of the Hobbits, arranged from the music heard in the film during the early Shire scenes, and features the various themes and leitmotifs composed for the Shire and Hobbits; it is intended to evoke feelings of peace. [1]
Felix Mendelssohn’s overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1826) was a descriptive piece intended for concert performance, though he later added incidental music for a production of the play in 1843. [2] The Shakespearian music of the 19th century was more often associated with the opera house or concert hall than with productions of the plays.
Opening credits and theme music to the television cartoon series Calvin and the Colonel. Theme music is a musical composition which is often written specifically for radio programming, television shows, video games, or films and is usually played during the title sequence, opening credits, closing credits, and in some instances at some point during the program. [1]
A love theme is a special theme song (often in various modified forms) that accompanies romantic scenes involving the protagonists of a performance. Theme songs are among the works of incidental music that are most commonly released independently of the performance for which they were written, and occasionally become major successes in their ...
1886 music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (for the Domovoi scene; a different work than either his opera or symphonic ballad of the same name) A Dream Play (Ett drömspel; August Strindberg, 1907) 1915 music by Emil von Reznicek; music by Pancho Vladigerov (an orchestral suite, Op. 13, was published in 1926) music by Wilhelm Stenhammar (died 1927)
Alfred Hitchcock had heard the music in the 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In 1955, when choosing the theme music for his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he remembered the effect that "Funeral March of a Marionette" had on him. It was through Hitchcock's program that the music achieved its widest audience, although few ...
It was the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio, television and film, [1] and has become widely associated with horseback riding since then. Two different parts were also used as theme music for the British television series The Adventures of William Tell , the fourth part (popularly identified in the US with The Lone Ranger ) in the UK ...
Play On! is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, featuring the music of Duke Ellington, conceived by Sheldon Epps, with a book by Cheryl L. West. The musical resets the story from Illyria to 1940s Swing -era Harlem .