That's right, Mr. Cooke. You can hear somewhat of a Thing precursor, too, in Maestro Tiomkin's Wonderful Life when George enters the graveyard where Bailey Park should be.
Hope this thread keeps going, gives me an excuse to play that marvelous Kane cue in a 5-cycle loop. Everytime.
I would have thought "What Child Is This?" is fairly well known, though I agree with Thor that "Greensleeves" is more pastoral. It just happens to have a Christmas nativity lyric stuck onto it.
Yeah, that Christmas carol was new to me. It's obviously set to the much older melody of "Greensleeves". As far as I know, there is still a lot of mystery surrounding the origin of "Greensleeves".
Granny Wendy (Hook) Vampire Hunters The Hunters Prelude Love Eternal (Bram Stoker's Dracula) The Loss of the Journal and the Return to Winter Camp I Must Go / Only a Sioux Kicking Bird's Gift Farewell (Dance with Wolves) A Christmas Quilt One Snowy Night (Stepmom) Inside the Mansion (Far and Away) Riverside Walk (While You Were Sleeping) Empty Store (You've Got Mail) The Ice Sculpture A New Day (Groundhog Day Intro / The Zoo / The Lair The List Begins The Cemetery (Batman Returns) The Nutcracker Suite (Fantasia) Once Upon a December {I know, technically it's a song. but still...} (Anastasia)
I am very partial to the Isaac Schwartz score to Kurosawa's superb film DERSU UZALA. There is a great sequence in a snowstorm where the 2 protagonists struggle for survival, cannot recall if that sequence was scored, but anyway it is an unusual score for a great movie set in the icy colds of Siberia.
Apart from that I do not believe anyone has mentioned Morricone's haunting score to MOSCA ADDIO, the main theme is here:
I must also must mention Morricone's IL GRANDE SILENZIO, a stunning score that really evokes the 'great silence' of the snowy forests where the film is set:
Finally THE RED TENT (again Morricone) is also superb and the recent expanded Legend recording has some nice new tracks, although the sound quality is not as good as the others, I believe the love theme is on this link:
