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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Shining vs the Wendy Carlos Score

Terror is the wendi carlos part. Horror is the pendereki part. There's also just what you might call spooky music, or eerie music. And i think actually a lot of the most iconic horror movie themes fit more into this category. They're not used during scenes that are at the height of terror, but rather t they tend to play early in the film. The shining will lead us there with something we've already talked about: fear.

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