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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Thank you for the list of other film composers. I'll take a listen to them.
I feel John Williams' five note theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is memorable for both reasons: it is used as a plot device, like you say, but I also feel it is a pretty good sequence of five notes.
Williams also creates a delightful alien musical response that is composed of variations of that five note theme, turning it into a much more complex and interesting piece. The weird, musical playfulness of the response made me not even notice or mind that the aliens, apparently, possessed tubas for making their booming sounds!
I will concede, however, that the human-alien musical scene from Close Encounters of The Third Kind might have been even more memorable if it had gone a little something like *this*:
Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind
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I don't particularly think that the melody is that special, but that could just be my snobbishness.
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Originally Posted by grindy
+ Michael Nyman & Toru Takemitsu
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And I also forgot my all time favourite, Teji Ito. He did a lot of work with Maya Deren. I tried finding Meshes of the Afternoon on Youtube to post here, but all of the videos have alternate soundtracks for some reason.