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Coulais’s score was very much his own. Of course there was an Elfman influence, use of the children’s choir, harmonic motion by half-step, and a general “spooky” sense of orchestration (hardly avoidable in a movie with a tone such as Coraline’s). But Coulasis’s score was far more modern than Elfman’s. Don’t get me wrong, I love Elfman’s stuff, but Coulasis’s use of extended technique in the strings, a more melodic treatment of the children’s choir, and I’d say generally a more tasteful use of orchestral color which he uses to contrast Coraline’s two worlds in a way that I felt to be very much in a more progressive style.

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