Cavatina (Myers)

"Cavatina" is a 1970 classical guitar piece by British composer Stanley Myers based on music he originally wrote for the soundtrack of the film The Walking Stick (1970). After Myers expanded the piece and it was recorded by guitarist John Williams, "Cavatina" was popularized as the theme from the 1978 film The Deer Hunter.

The beginning of the piece takes up the first bars of the accompaniment to Mozart's Laudate Dominum from the Solemn Vespers for a Confessor (K. 339), in a different key: E major instead of F major.

The Italian musical term cavatina is frequently applied to any simple, melodious air.

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