“The Shining”, Main Title from The Shining, composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind. The piece uses as its foundation “Dies Irae” (Days of Wrath), a 13th century Latin hymn whose primary motif was later used by French composer Hector Berlioz in the fifth movement of his Symphonie Fantastique (1830).
It is one of only two complete pieces of music Kubrick used from the original full score that Carlos and Elkind had composed for the film, although he did use small fragments of other ambient pieces they created.
