Beauty and the Beast (Disney song) Beauty and the Beast (Disney song) "Beauty and the Beast" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). The film's theme song, the Broadway-inspired ballad was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury in her role as the voice of the character Mrs. Potts, and essentially describes the relationship between its two main characters Belle and the Beast, specifically how the couple has learned to accept their differences and in turn change each other for the better. Additionally, the song's lyrics imply that the feeling
Beauty in the Beast Beauty in the Beast Beauty in the Beast is a studio album from the American keyboardist and composer Wendy Carlos, released in 1986 on Audion Records, her first for a different label other than Columbia Records since 1968. The album uses alternate musical tunings and scales, influenced by jazz and world music. On the back she includes a quote by Van Gogh: "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." As the liner notes state, the entire album is synthesized, meaning that "All the music and sounds heard on this recording