In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

The main theme has a distinct 1960s feel to it and is known to be a highly complex piece of music due to the quick playing of the Violin.

The Salieri piece is used as the warden's theme music, seemingly to invoke the image of jealousy of the inferior for his superior.

Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme ( with Flatt singing ) for Columbia Records ; released as a single, it reached # 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and # 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart ( the lone country chart-topper for the duo ).

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

In music, a concept album is an album that is " unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical.

A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music.

" ( Brubeck wrote, and the Quartet performed, the theme song for the Craig Stevens CBS drama series ; the music from the series became material for the " New York " album.

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

This workshop was also responsible for the theme to the TV series Doctor Who, a piece, largely created by Delia Derbyshire, that more than any other ensured the popularity of electronic music in the UK.

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

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

The theme music played before EBU broadcasts is Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Prelude to Te Deum.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

Gershwin's first A episode introduces the two main " walking " themes in the " Allegretto grazioso " and develops a third theme in the " Subito con brio ".

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

The play's very title, with its mocking paradox ( serious people are so because they do not see trivial comedies ), introduces the theme, it continues in the drawing room discussion, " Yes, but you must be serious about it.

Wagner described two of the songs-" Im Treibhaus " and " Träume "-as " Studies for Tristan und Isolde ": " Träume " uses a motif that forms the love duet in Act 2 of " Tristan ", while " Im Treibhaus " introduces a theme that later became the Prelude to Act 3.

This introduces the second theme in the Disquisition and a counterpoint to his concept of the concurrent majority: political corruption.

A song starts out with a theme that introduces the chords for the solos.

The Great Music of the Ainur progresses thus: Ilúvatar introduces a First Theme to the choir of the Ainur and Melkor ‘ spoils ’ it, with some other Ainur starting to twist their music to Melkor's theme.

A piano riff then introduces a jazzy, trumpet-heavy instrumental theme tune (" Home to My Emily ," composed by series co-creator Lorenzo Music with his wife Henrietta ), as numerous brief shots document Bob's journey home from work, ending with a shot of Emily greeting Bob at their apartment.

( Beethoven gives the impression of rejecting the earlier themes, after he quotes them, and then introduces the famous " Ode to Joy " theme.

The first theme group reiterates the " Dies Irae " theme from the first movement, and then introduces the " resurrection " theme to which the chorus will sing their first words, and finally a fanfare.

The full orchestra repeats the theme and introduces more motifs in the orchestral exposition.

After a cadence on the dominant C, the cello introduces the first theme of the sonata-allegro, which owes its simplicity to Brahms's interest in Hungarian folk music.

A Kalimba ( or Mbira ) playing the opening theme from Pink Floyd's " A Saucerful of Secrets " along with milk-bottle flute introduces the first tune " I Believe in Milko " from The Ninth Tentacle's first album for the Cellartapes record-label: Voyeuradeism.

It is divided into three distinct parts, an opening ( Allegro agitato ), which introduces the main theme, a middle ( Tranquillo – Andantino espressivo ) that introduces an entirely new theme ( both described in the above quote ), and a third ( Allegro vivo – Presto furioso ), which returns to the main theme.

* Zombie Fluxx v1. 1 ( Adapts the game to a zombie theme ; introduces " Creeper " cards.

In the third section ( second subject ), the clarinet introduces the second main theme, which is in the relative major key, E flat major.

Another famous example of emulating instrumentation instead of singing the words is the theme song for The New Addams Family series on Fox Family Channel ( now ABC Family ).

In further play on this theme by the director, Jade Fox, as she dies, refers to the poison from a young child, " the deceit of an eight year old girl ", obviously referring to what she considers her own spiritual poisoning by her young apprentice Jen.

He wrote theme music for the show Undeclared on Fox television and for Crime and Punishment in Suburbia.

* Their song " Busy Office Rhumba " was used as the theme for the 1993 Fox television series Bakersfield P. D.

Despite this, the searchlight theme remains an integral part of News Corporation's Fox branding efforts, still seen in the Fox News Channel logo, and in the new universal station logo utilized by the FTSG stations, those former Fox stations sold to Local TV LLC, and several of Tribune Broadcasting's Fox stations, in addition to being used by some other Fox affiliates not related to FTSG, Local TV and Tribune.

From 1993 – 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a Fox sitcom, which gained high ratings among black audiences ; she also wrote and performed its theme music.

The programme's title music, with its distinctive harmonica theme, was a track called " Stone Fox Chase " by a Nashville band, Area Code 615 ( once played live on the show, in 1978, by Val Doonican and Charlie McCoy ).

Warwick had re-recorded a Pat Williams-arranged version of the theme at A & R Studios in New York because contractual restrictions would not allow the Warwick version from the film to be included in the 20th Century Fox soundtrack LP.

On October 3, 2011, ESPN pulled the theme song after Williams appeared on a Fox News Channel program, Fox & Friends, where he compared a golf outing involving Barack Obama, John Boehner, Joe Biden, and John Kasich to " Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu.

Gimbel and Fox were also the songwriters of " Killing Me Softly with His Song " and the theme songs to films and programs such as Last American Hero (" I Got A Name ," sung by Jim Croce ), Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.

Whereas the Fox series reflected the then-current role of X-Men as freedom fighters battling persecution and bigotry against mutantkind, X-Men: Evolution used the theme of mutant powers as a metaphor for the struggles of adolescence.

* The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountains ( 雪山飛狐 ), theme song from TV series The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountains ( 1985 )

The reaction from film reviewers was mixed, with some panning the film as a retread of older Disney films like The Lion King and the 20th Century Fox film Ice Age ( although Brother Bear began production before Ice Age did ), while others defended the film as a legitimate variation of the theme.

His song " Hockey Monkey ", recorded with the band The Zambonis, was the theme song for the Fox series The Loop.

The song " Hockey Monkey ", which James co-authored with The Zambonis, was used as theme song of the Fox comedy, The Loop.

A notable theme that was once associated with a sport, but because of its popularity, spread network-wide was the NFL on Fox theme, which is now used for MLB on Fox and NASCAR on Fox broadcasts, and is regarded as the network's single theme by October 2010.