Editing Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) (section)

===Music===
{{main|Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture}}
{{quote box |width =33%| quote =  It took me time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. I don't drink much, but I was sipping and it came to me one night. I wrote [the song] in half an hour.|source=Henry Mancini on writing "[[Moon River]]".<ref name="timemusic" />}}

During the film, Hepburn sang the film's signature song, "[[Moon River]]", written by [[Henry Mancini]] and [[Johnny Mercer]]. The song was tailored to Hepburn's limited vocal range and its sequencing was inspired by songs she performed in ''[[Funny Face]]'' (1957).{{sfn|Spoto|2006|pp=204–05}} After the film's test preview in [[San Francisco]], Martin Rankin, Paramount's head of production, wanted "Moon River" replaced with music sung by somebody else. Shepherd claimed he and Jurow refused to replace it – a response attributed to Hepburn herself in another account.<ref>{{cite book| last1=Erwin | first1=Ellen |last2=Diamond | first2=Jessica Z. | title= The Audrey Hepburn Treasures| location=New York | publisher=[[Atria Books]]|date=October 2006| page=107 | isbn=978-0-7432-8986-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |people=Shepherd, Richard |title= Breakfast at Tiffany's – Anniversary Edition/Centennial Edition [[audio commentary]] |medium= DVD |publisher= Paramount |time= 25:20}}</ref>

According to ''Time'', Mancini "sets off [the] melodies with a walking bass, extends them with choral and string variations and varies them with the brisk sounds of [[jazz combo|combo jazz]]. "Moon River" is sobbed by a plaintive harmonica, repeated by strings, hummed and then sung by the chorus and finally resolved with the harmonica."<ref name="timemusic">{{cite magazine| url= http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,896253,00.html | archive-url= https://archive.today/20130204090906/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,896253,00.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= February 4, 2013 | title= Movies: Never Too Much Music| date= May 25, 1962 | magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | access-date=October 3, 2010}}</ref> The soundtrack featured a score composed and conducted by Mancini, with several unreleased musical compositions not featuring in the final film. One piece, "Carousel Cue", appears in a deleted scene, while another piece titled "Outtake 1" also appears in a deleted scene. In 2013, [[Intrada Records]] released the complete score in its original film performance: as with many soundtrack albums from the time period, the album initially released alongside the film was a re-recording.