Film

Film music includes scores, songs, and sound design created for cinema and related screen forms. It may support action, define a character, evoke a period, or become famous outside the film itself. The tag brings together stories where music and moving image meet, from orchestral film score to popular songs that gained new life on screen.

43 articles related to Film:

Film
La Llorona: the Mexican song of a weeping ghost

La Llorona is a Mexican folk song tied to one of the country's most persistent ghost legends. The song has no single…

July 27, 2026
Film
Cucurrucucú Paloma: the Mexican dove song of love and grief

Composed by Mexican songwriter Tomás Méndez in 1954, Cucurrucucú Paloma entered popular memory as a huapango-style song…

July 13, 2026
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Chaiyya Chaiyya: Sufi-inspired lyrics of the Dil Se train scene

The train-top dance made Chaiyya Chaiyya famous. Beneath that public spectacle sits a lyric image drawn from Sufi…

June 27, 2026
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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Rodgers and Hart's timeless Broadway song

Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered) stands as a celebrated song and show tune hailing from the musical Pal Joey which…

September 29, 2023
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Dammit Janet: the playful proposal song

Dammit Janet is a memorable song from the original 1973 The Rocky Horror Show British musical stage production as well…

July 28, 2023
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Sirtaki: folk dances arranged by Mikis Theodorakis

The Sirtaki dance—a lively and energetic expression of Greek culture—has become an iconic image associated with the…

July 14, 2023
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Jumpin' Jive: a celebration of swing and scat singing

Jumpin' Jive is a notable jazz hit that was originally recorded by the Cab Calloway Orchestra in 1939. The song…

April 29, 2023
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Ave Satani: diabolic essence of The Omen theme song

Ave Satani is a choral work written by the prolific American composer Jerry Goldsmith for the 1976 supernatural horror…

June 12, 2022
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Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001…

May 31, 2021
Film
Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John…

April 28, 2021
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Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama…

February 27, 2021
Songwriter
Ferry Cross the Mersey: Merseybeat classic arranged by the Fifth Beatle

Ferry Cross the Mersey is the best-known track of the Liverpool rock band Gerry and the Pacemakers released in the mid…

February 24, 2021
Orchestra
Handel's Sarabande: obscure keyboard suite that found its iconic orchestration in Barry Lyndon movie

The sarabande is a fiery carnival dance that originated in the 16th century in Central America and then spread to Spain…

February 3, 2021
Film
Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations

Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood…

December 31, 2020
Songwriter
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is an iconic World War II tune written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince for the military musical…

December 2, 2020
Orchestra
Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed…

November 22, 2020
Songwriter
Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway

Minnie the Moocher is an iconic jazz composition showcasing essential examples of scat singing—a vocal technique for…

November 15, 2020
Film
Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the…

January 1, 2020
Film
The necessity of undramatic humanity in Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

A set of 11 short stories collected in the film Coffee and Cigarettes depicts the nostalgic era every older smoker…

January 8, 2019
Violin
The fifth string of the Maihar school lead violin

For more than a century, the tiny town of Maihar—now the de facto cradle of the Indian Classical—has been breathing…

November 23, 20181 comment
Songwriter
Sūrsāgar: ocean of poetry that expanded for five centuries

Sūrdās was a North Indian devotional poet, musician, and saint who lived in the 16th century. His lyrics, addressed…

October 27, 2018
Songwriter
The timeless tragedy of Molly Malone

Not many songs can boast international recognition of being so deeply and fondly Irish the way Molly Malone does. Also…

October 12, 2018
Film
The unique music garden of Toru Takemitsu

Widely considered to be the greatest composer in the classical music tradition in modern Japan, Toru Takemitsu merged…

October 7, 2018
Sarod
Malkauns night music was composed to tame Shiva's dance

Malkauns is one of the oldest music pieces in North Indian tradition that equivalent to Hindolam raga of Carnatic…

September 5, 2018
Film
Five tones of Spielberg's alien language

Close Encounters of the Third Kind—Steven Spielberg’s first and perhaps best attempt at sci-fi—was released in 1977…

August 23, 2018
Film
The drama of The Chain kept alive on the big screen

The Chain, included on Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 Rumours album, has retained that particular brand of culturally…

August 16, 2018
Film
Young Adam score captures the desolate landscape of the 50s Scotland

An adaptation of Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi's loosely autobiographical novel, Young Adam is a harsh portrait of…

August 9, 2018
Film
Instrumental simplicity of the quiet piano drama Breathe In

In the intimate story of a foreign exchange student who causes a deep and devastating rift in a close-knit upstate New…

August 2, 2018
Film
Accordion for Amélie was discovered by a lucky accident

Amélie is a 2001 French romantic comedy classic directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet that depicts a contemporary yet dream…

July 19, 2018
Film
Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play

The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big…

July 12, 2018