[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yeah, I was unsure if I was going to re-post this “oldie” from 2004. It’s rather vague, and I usually hate it when parameters of threads are too vague.

But I suppose there are plenty of examples, if we put our minds to it.

I consider these three themes “siblings”, of sorts: David Raksin’s LAURA theme, Bernard Herrmann’s “Scene d’Amour” from VERTIGO and John Williams’ skull theme from THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. They hover around the same tonal mid-range, uncomfortably so, connoting some sort of intense yearning and “pull” towards something not quite defined. Two about love, one paranormal. It’s pretty heavy on the ears, and I can’t say it’s my favourite type of “longing music”, but I can’t deny that they have this quality.