Page four: more music cues from "The Couple Next Door"
This is odd: happy-go-lucky bumpkin music that veers dark at the end. What did the composer envision this would transition into?
I wish I had a better version of this - usual sprightly music-by-the-yard, and then it lays on this great deep chord. You could write a dissertation about that chord. It's not rare in radio / TV soundtracks, and it's certainly more meaningful to its culture than 12-tone row from an academic serial-music composer. Lush comfort and anticipatory anxiety.
Two cuts from the “City Traffic” disk of music cues. There appear to be 100s of variants on this - tempo, key, “horns,” busy-city-dweller strings - and not one of them is exactly the same.
And another:
This 17 second cut is practically a symphony, compared to the others:
I don't know if this was written for a particular mood, or written first and applied later. I mean, how do you describe this?
This was heard a few weeks ago: Music to Indicate the Passing of Time. Now we get into the melody, which is as imaginative as the rest of it.
They just wrote this stuff by the mile. And if you need to close up? Snip off the end of something else and jam 'er in:
Danse Macabre:
Strolling around the neighborhood in a loose and goofy mood. Could also be used for driving an old car.