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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Playlist
A restrained, cinematic score for the novel’s 1930s Georgia setting and its web of loneliness: intimate piano and strings give way to restless jazz, Southern-inflected melodies, and moments of mounting tension. The final three vocal songs evoke Singer’s grief, Mick’s yearning for a larger life, and the novel’s community of people longing to be understood.
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20 songs
1
Main Title
Elmer Bernstein · To Kill A Mockingbird (Original Motion Picture Score)
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2
The John Dunbar Theme - From "Dances With Wolves"
John Barry · 100 Greatest Western Themes
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3
Main Title
Angelo Badalamenti · Secretary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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4
The Gael
Dougie MacLean · The Search
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5
Theme from "A Summer Place"
Percy Faith · Theme from "A Summer Place" (Remastered)
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6
Laura
David Raksin · The Golden Age of Light Music: The 1940s
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Moonlight Serenade
Glenn Miller · Pure Gold
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Blue And Sentimental
Count Basie · The Complete Decca Recordings
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9
Solitude
Louis Armstrong · The Great Reunion
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10
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin · Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris
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Appalachian Spring: III. Moderato
Aaron Copland · Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid & Fanfare for the Common Man
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12
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber · Classic
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13
The House of the Spirits
Hans Zimmer · Das Geisterhaus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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14
The Ludlows
James Horner · The Ludlows
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15
A Way of Life
Hans Zimmer · The Last Samurai: Original Motion Picture Score
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16
The Piano
Michael Nyman · The Piano
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17
The Deer Hunter: Cavatina
Stanley Myers · Play
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18
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Notturno. Andante
Alexander Borodin · Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
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19
Georgia on My Mind
Ray Charles · Milestones of Legends Kings & Queens of R & B, Vol. 1
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