theme music

theme music
  the opening or closing music of a motion picture, often containing the film's 'signature' or leitmotif tune/phrase that is associated with a character or situation within the film
  Examples: 'Laura's theme' in Laura (1944), John Williams' shark music in Jaws (1975).

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