How to work (heheh) with reprises and soundtracks

[aerozol]

I haven’t listened to the tracks in question, so I wonder if this discussion around leitmotif’s is relevant?

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…

I ended up making a leitmotif work:

[Halo theme]