Great Movie and TV Theme Tunes Played on the Theremin
If you love those 1950s eerie movie theme tunes, spooky background effects and incidental music that always seemed to accompany alien invasions, then you've stopped at the right lens!
Here are some of my favourite classic movie scores which use the Theremin, as well as some more recent films and television shows which have also used this unusual electronic musical instrument to great effect!
Great Theremin Movie Themes No.1 - 'Spellbound'
Composed by Miklós Rózsa - theremin performed by Dr. Samuel Hoffmann
Spellbound on CD and DVD
Spellbound
Amazon Price: $15.99 (as of 12/10/2009) 
Spellbound
Amazon Price: $22.99 (as of 12/10/2009)
Great Theremin Movie Themes No.2 - 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on CD, DVD and Blu-ray
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Amazon Price: $12.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
Day the Earth Stood Still (Score)
Amazon Price: $17.98 (as of 12/10/2009)
![The Day the Earth Stood Still (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5156g5ERx2L._SL75_.jpg)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
Amazon Price: $18.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
'Ed Wood' on DVD and CD
Ed Wood: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Ed Wood (Special Edition)
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 12/10/2009)
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The theremin (Theremin World), originally known as the aetherphone / etherophone or termenvox / thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.
The theremin is associated with an Category: wiktionary - :eerie|eerie sound, which has led to its use in movie soundtracks such as those in Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Theremins are also used in art music (especially avant-garde and 20th- and 21st-century new music) and in popular music genres such as rock.
'Mars Attacks!' on CD and DVD
Mars Attacks!
Amazon Price: $9.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
Mars Attacks! Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Great Theremin Movie Themes No.5 - 'It Came from Outer Space'
Musical score composed by an uncredited Henry Mancini
'It Came from Outer Space' on DVD
It Came From Outer Space
Amazon Price: $12.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
Great Theremin Movie Themes No.6 - 'The Woman Eater'
Musical score composed by Edwin T. Astley
'The Woman Eater' on DVD
![Woman Eater (Ws) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BV840183L._SL75_.jpg)
Woman Eater (Ws) [VHS]
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Great Theremin Movie Themes No.7 - 'The Lost Weekend'
Musical score composed by Miklós Rózsa
'The Lost Weekend' on DVD and CD
The Lost Weekend
Amazon Price: $12.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
Lost Weekend / Night of the Hunter (OST)
Amazon Price: $18.98 (as of 12/10/2009)
Great Theremin Movie Themes No.8 - 'Alien Trespass'
Original score by Louis Febre
'Alien Trespass' on DVD and Blu-ray
Alien Trespass
Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 12/10/2009)
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Alien Trespass [Blu-ray]
Amazon Price: $22.49 (as of 12/10/2009)
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Midsomer Murders - The Early Cases Collection
Amazon Price: $79.99 (as of 12/10/2009)
Is that a tweet I hear...or is it a theremin?
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- thejawline
- will be performing theremin blues tonight at sigma bar under the Cask Inn Scarborough UK. It's the Blues Club's JAM NIGHT. doors open 8ish
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- Kalyr
- RT @TheReasoning: now has a theremin and is not afraid to use it - COOL!!!
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- TheReasoning
- now has a theremin and is not afraid to use it - COOL!!!
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- nickbournes
- Theremin: first electric instrument controlled using electric signals. two hands are needed. yeah well that explains that one :D
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- nickbournes
- you want us to leave? yes unless you can learn the theremin. LOL
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today, i got a call from eslite telling me one of the books i ordered had arrived. it was volume 17 of the mook(magazine+book=mook) publication otona no-kagak - Ethermusicfest.com - Home
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- A Google user experience designer has created a neat Theremin simulator using a remote and Roland synth.
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- [...] also accompany the delirious Soviet futurist drama AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS (1924) on the Mighty Wurllitzer and the Theremin, backed up by Mark Goldstein on the Buchla Lightning.
- DIY Solar powered IKEA Theremin
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- Filmtracks: Mars Attacks! (Danny Elfman)
- Includes reviews, audio clips, track listings, pictures, and other notes about the soundtrack for Mars Attacks! by
Danny Elfman - The Tim Burton Collective - From Elfman to Theremin
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- PatinKC PatinKC Jan 23, 2009 @ 5:25 am
- This is not an instrument you hear very much about. I am a fan of a young woman in New York that is a renowned Theremin artist. This is a YouTube link to a video of her performance and her explanation of how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ywH1Vj8_U
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