Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

Secret of Manas title theme, " Angel's Fear " is well known by video game music aficionados for its haunting, echoing piano melody, and was featured in the third of the Orchestral Game Music Concerts, the fifth of the Symphonic Game Music Concerts, as well as serving as the base for many remixes.

King has attended many Prisoner cast reunions and appeared on the documentary " On The Inside " which was based on the series ' haunting theme tune.

In particular, the album's first tune, " Minuano ( Six Eight )", represents a good example of the Pat Metheny group compositional style from this period: the track starts with a haunting minor section from Mays, lifts off in a typical Methenian jubilant major melody, leading to a Maysian metric and harmonically-modulated interlude, creating suspense which is finally resolved in the Methenian major theme.

His previous works qualified him to try his hand at the theme for Tales from the Darkside, and the haunting composition helped define the series as a separate entity from Creepshow.

The haunting theme music was " Highland Lament " by series composer Basil Adlam.

The last title was also often applied to the series ' memorable, haunting theme music.

He is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme to the 1944 movie Laura, which became the 1945 song " Laura ".

The episodes usually end with Banner hitch-hiking down some outbound highway or road, with a strikingly haunting and sad piano solo version of the series theme music playing as the ending credits visualize.

This connects with the theme of haunting by a father as well as the names in the book ( e. g. Elsinore, Osric, Fortinbras ).

This is followed by a restatement of the opening clarinet theme, played loudly in the full orchestra, which transitions to a haunting variation of the theme by the solo piano.

The fourth variation, possibly the most famous, is a haunting, wandering meditation of the main theme, with free dialogue between the piano and orchestra ; a recurring motif of cold, ethereal falling thirds from the piano adds to the faintly other-worldly mood set by this section.

The science and supernatural theme is also present in Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit which, in addition, shares similar elements with The Stone Tape such as an abandoned house with a reputation for hauntings ; the collection of documentary evidence of the haunting ( also a trademark of M. R. James, a writer much admired by Kneale ) and the sensitivity of certain characters to the supernatural.

Toru Fuyuki originally composed a calm, serene, and haunting theme for Zoffy to be inserted in scenes in Ultraman Ace where he appeared.

The second movement returns to a more lyrical theme with the Españoleta, which has a particularly haunting tune with rich accompaniment of the strings.

" Live to Tell " starts with an excellent instrumental introduction, performed by the synthesizer and it continues a catchy and haunting slow theme tune which runs for about 54 seconds before Madonna starts singing.

Its haunting closing theme tune was " Silks and Satins " by Peter Yorke.

The solo voice that sings the haunting theme of Into the Labyrinth is Lynda Richardson, who also sings the main melody line of the Children of the Stones theme.

" Also in 1986, Sting contributed a haunting song made famous by Billie Holiday, " Strange Fruit ," to a fund-raising compilation album entitled Conspiracy of Hope: Honouring Amnesty International's 25th Anniversary.

Marty Balin contributed the haunting ballad " Caroline " to their first album Dragon Fly, but did not join the band again until January 1975.

Joe Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War contributed five songs to the soundtrack for the movie Permanent Record, which featured a young Keanu Reeves: " Trash City ", " Baby the Trans ", " Nothin ' ' bout Nothin ", " Nefertiti Rock ", and the haunting instrumental " Theme from Permanent Record ".

As an encore he played Bach's haunting sarabande no.

* Jim Carrey in 2009 ( Carrey also played the three spirits haunting Scrooge ).

A senior Cabinet Minister of the present government of Sri Lanka and veteran actor Jeewan Kumaranatunga played the role of ' Jesus ' in this play and the haunting musical score was created by Dinesh Subasinghe, and his music brought an outstanding depth to this passion play.

A number of elegantly dressed couples are seen below, waltzing to a haunting version of the song " Grim Grinning Ghosts ", played on a large organ.

This is the least sung or played of the five pancharatna kritis, but it is considered by some to be the most haunting and beautiful.

Four of the strings are strung and played like a violin, while the rest, aptly named understrings or sympathetic strings, resonate under the influence of the other four, providing a pleasant haunting, echo-like sound.

Half a year later, viewers were shocked with the revelation in the 2003 season finale that new girl Tasha ( played by Isabel Lucas ) was Angie's daughter – a move which led to Foell returning to the show briefly as Angie in 2004 as visions haunting Tasha.

Martin Scorsese cast the actress in the supporting, but vital role, of the dead wife haunting the dreams of marshal Teddy Daniels ( played by Leonardo DiCaprio ) in Shutter Island, a psychological thriller based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 best-selling novel by the same name.

A recording of his haunting singing of " Come Unto These Yellow Sands " from The Tempest was played.

When actor Michael Darbyshire ( who played the role of Davenport ) died in 1979, Anthony Jackson ( Mumford ) declined to appear in the next series, leaving Michael Staniforth's Claypole the sole original ghost ; Davenport and Mumford's absences were explained at the start of the series by them having acquired permanent haunting jobs at a stately home.

In Led Zeppelin's concert film The Song Remains the Same, " No Quarter " was the thematic music behind Jones ' personal fantasy sequence, in which he played a haunting masked horseman roaming the graveyards.

The ghosts haunting them, the games being played on them and the impending danger that will come from beneath are all connected to the First Evil.

The World Music influences are certainly present ( some of Peter Gabriel ’ s musicians played on the tracks ), but overall the tracks have a more haunting and minor key texture than the Mango Groove songs.

`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

Investigation of the afterlife also includes the study of ( among others ) cases of haunting, apparitions of the deceased ( including, in some cases, information conveyed by those same apparitions ), instrumental trans-communication ( recording of electronic voice phenomena on tape ), and mediumship.

In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.

Sakharov never felt that by creating nuclear weapons he had " known sin ," in Oppenheimer ’ s haunting expression.

Thompson's own haunting recitation of his 1950 poem of " apocalyptic expectation, " The Place Called Choice ," appeared on the 1984 vinyl recording, " The Apocalypso ," by Canadian pop group, Singing Fools, released by A & M Records.

Girvan also attributed Udo as a mystic and poet whose poetry was set to music by Carl Orff with the haunting O Fortuna in Carmina Burana.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

Fred had been interested in books from his youth, and by the time he was in Washington was a collector haunting the book shops and building a small collection.

Although Enrique is temporarily employed once again, he is distracted by haunting daydreams about his sister's lost desires for a better life.

His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.

" Robert Lewis Shayon stated in the Saturday Review, " in the years I have been watching television I do not recall being so engaged by a drama, nor so stimulated to challenge the haunting conclusions of an hour's entertainment.

The haunting score composed by Bernard Herrmann for this episode would be reused for several episodes of the series, most notably " The After Hours " and " The Last Flight ".

Not everywhere, of course, as proved by the haunting " Rise ".

In 1978's haunting film Dawn of the Dead, a character mentions that they are flying over Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and quips that the people are actually entertained by the zombie outbreak.

" Written by Matt Wagner, it was described as " playing the ' 30s with a ' 90s feel ... haunting, film noir-ish ...," and starring original Sandman Wesley Dodds in a title whose " sensibilities echo crime genre fiction.

The first manifestations of the Bell Witch haunting supposedly occurred in 1817 through 1820 on a farm owned by John Bell.

The haunting was investigated by the Yorkshire Post newspaper, writer Colin Wilson, and featured in his 1981 book Poltergeist!

“ Still we must exercise our judgment and must not allow it to be clouded by emotions and memories, however deep or haunting.

This sequence is influenced by Barrie's allusion to the mermaids ' " haunting " transformation at the " turn of the moon, where they utter strange wailing cries " when " the lagoon is dangerous for mortals ".