Common melodies in soundtracks

[aerozol]

I had a similar question on the forums ages ago regarding leitmotifs/themes. The discussion has a bit of relevant input:

The General Chatter/Off Topic Thread

Does anyone have any advice on how to link common themes? A bit out of my depth, entering the scary world of ‘works’ here. There’s an iconic theme that is referenced/used throughout the Halo soundtracks, tweaked a bit, or mixed with other bits of music, usually with a new name and without crediting the original composers. Two are already there as a basic ‘recording of’ relationship (on that link above). One of those already sounds quite different to the other, so not sure if that’s correct. B…

Specifically the style lead has this to say:

@reosarevok

For stuff like “variations on piece X” I’ve always used “based on”, but for stuff like “this contains a brief quotation of Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto” we have nothing rn

I ended up doing this:

[Halo theme]

Note: Not saying your examples should necessarily be a separate “leitmotif” work, I have not compared them.