* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

Danny Elfman, who composed the score for Darkman, wrote the " March of the Dead " theme for Army of Darkness.

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

Tyrtaeus composed elegies on a war theme, apparently for a Spartan audience.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

The theme music of the same name was composed by Sharon Corr and performed by the Corrs.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

George Frideric Handel used the tune as the theme in the variation piece ' Sarabande ' of his Suite No. 4 in E minor, HWV 429, composed prior to 1720.

Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching classical tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTV's logo changing various colors, textures, and designs.

The One Foot in the Grave theme song was written, composed and sung by Eric Idle.

A key theme of The Histories is the good statesman is virtuous and composed.

Romanticism does not necessarily refer to romantic love, though that theme was prevalent in many works composed during this time period, both in literature, painting, or music.

For this game CBS debuted a new network-wide red, white, and blue graphics package as well as a new theme song ( composed by Frankie Vinci ) for its NFL coverage.

Several remixed versions of the 1993 theme were used upon the return of the NFL to CBS until the end of the 2002 season, when CBS replaced its theme with one composed by E. S.

The music supervisor of Underworld was Troels Brun Folmann, he also composed the main theme, while Colin O ' Malley scored the bulk of the music.

Their albums generally fall into two categories: deconstructions of Western popular music, or complex conceptual pieces, composed around a theme, theory or plot.

They also performed the theme music " Dog on Fire ", composed by Bob Mould, for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

More recently, they composed and performed the music for the TLC series Resident Life, the theme song for the Disney Channel program Higglytown Heroes, and songs about the cartoons Dexter's Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular.

Borges ' total library concept was the main theme of his widely read 1941 short story " The Library of Babel ", which describes an unimaginably vast library consisting of interlocking hexagonal chambers, together containing every possible volume that could be composed from the letters of the alphabet and some punctuation characters.

* The opening theme and other music for the 2008 PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns were produced by Carl Finch and composed, arranged, and performed by Finch and Brave Combo.

The game's sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, features the original version of Dr. Marios " Fever " background music theme and a version of the " Chill " theme arranged by Masaaki Iwasaki, who had previously composed for Magical Drop as part of the Data East Sound Team.

The official Expo 67 theme song was composed by Stephane Venne and was titled: " Hey Friend, Say Friend / Un Jour, Un Jour ".

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A.

The music to all four films was composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin and is still played on radio today.

Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.

Among music composed for the alphorn:

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

Mitridate Eupatore, accounted his masterpiece, composed for Venice in 1707, contains music far in advance of anything that Scarlatti had written for Naples, both in technique and in intellectual power.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

After the re-shoots were completed, Joseph LoDuca, who composed the music for The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, returned to score the the film.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

Barrios composed many works and brought into the mainstream the characteristics of Latin American music, as did the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Coldcut are an English dance music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More.

The music used for all three pieces was composed by Coldcut, with " Revolution ' 08 " featuring a remix by the Qemists.

Computer-generated music is music composed by, or with the extensive aid of, a computer.

We can distinguish two groups of computer-generated music: music in which a computer generated the score, which could be performed by humans, and music which is both composed and performed by computers.