Film adaptation Swan both listen to Debussy's "Clair de lune" and Edward composes the piece "Bella's Lullaby" for Bella. While "Clair de lune" was a pre-existing piece of music, "Bella's Lullaby" was not and required original music to be composed for the 2008 movie adaptation. In the 2016 sci-fi film "" adapted from the story by Kurt Vonnegut, the film-makers decided to abandon Vonnegut's choice of music. They stated that they felt that it worked in his prose only because it was not actually heard. Filmmakers' test screenings found that Vonnegut's style of music confused audiences and detracted from narrative comprehension. The
Suite algérienne Suite algérienne "Suite algérienne" in C major, Op. 60 is a composition by Camille Saint-Saëns in four movements. The composer had a lifetime love for Algeria. In 1873, he visited it for the first time. The theme of the third movement of the suite came to him during that visit. He composed a single-movement "Rêverie orientale", which was performed in Paris on 7 June 1879 at a charity concert under composer's direction. His publisher Auguste Durand asked him to write more pieces like this one. So in the summer 1880, which he spent in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Saint-Saëns composed three other movements: