Mozart and THE LION KING

Mozart and The Lion King

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For those who have the soundtrack of Hans Zimmer's Oscar-winning score for The Lion King, you may wish to check out a quotation from Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, which we heard in class.
     In two tracks from that score, Zimmer uses the melody near the end of Ave Verum Corpus, which accompanies the words, vere passum, immolatum (3rd line) and  esto nobis praegustatum in mortis examine ("be for us a foretaste in the testing of death" (7th line).
     The quotations appear in two places:
     On Track 7, "To Die For. . . ." it appears at 2:44 into the track.
     On Track 8, "Under the Stars," it appears at 0:54 seconds into the track.
     Of course, in both cases, Zimmer chose to quote the Mozart score to evoke the text of the hymn in relation to the film's context ("subtext"). Moreover, the listener, familiar with the text of Mozart's score would link not only the music with the scene but the text (words) as well. Go here or click on the console below.

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