Editing The Wicker Man (section)

===Music===
{{Main|The Wicker Man (soundtrack){{!}}''The Wicker Man'' (soundtrack)}}
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[[File:The Wicker Man burns - geograph.org.uk - 50168.jpg|thumb|upright|Wickerman Festival, Dundrennan, Scotland, burning of the effigy]]
The score was arranged, recorded and part composed by [[Paul Giovanni]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/20063|title=10 of the Most Underrated Horror Scores!|author=Sean H. Stewart|publisher=BloodyDisgusting|date=4 May 2010}}</ref> According to Seamus Flannery in a subsequent documentary, director Robin Hardy surprised the cast by suddenly announcing midway through filming that they were making a "[[Musical film|musical]]";<ref>{{Cite web |title=A ★★★½ review of Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man (2001) |url=https://letterboxd.com/man_out_of_time/film/burnt-offering-the-cult-of-the-wicker-man/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=letterboxd.com |language=en}}</ref> performed by [[Magnet (band)|Magnet]] (in some versions of the film credited as "Lodestone"), the soundtrack contains 13 folk songs performed by characters in the film. Included are traditional songs, original compositions by Giovanni, and even a nursery rhyme, "[[Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (nursery rhyme)|Baa, Baa, Black Sheep]]".

"[[Willow's Song]]" has been covered or sampled by various rock music bands. It was first covered by an English musical project known as [[Nature and Organisation]] on their 1994 release ''Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude''. It was covered by [[Sneaker Pimps]] as "How Do", and is included on their 1996 release ''Becoming X''. "How Do" can be heard in the movie ''[[Hostel (2005 film)|Hostel]]'' (2005); credited in the end titles as being composed by Sneaker Pimps. Additionally, the band has covered "Gently Johnny" as "Johnny"; it is featured as a B-side on their single "Roll On" (1996). It also was covered by [[Faith and the Muse]] on their 2003 album ''[[The Burning Season (album)|The Burning Season]]'', and [[The Mock Turtles]] on their album ''[[Turtle Soup (Mock Turtles album)|Turtle Soup]]''.

The songs on the soundtrack were composed or arranged by Giovanni under the direction of Hardy and Shaffer, whose research into the oral folk tradition in England and Scotland was based largely on the work of [[Cecil Sharp]], a "founding father" of the folk-revival movement of the early 20th century. Using Sharp's collections as a template, Shaffer noted to Giovanni which scenes were to have music, and in some cases provided lyrics, which would be appropriate to spring pagan festivals.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bartholomew|first=David|date=1977|title=The Wicker Man|url=http://www.wicker-man.com/articles/cinefantastique_TWM_article_1977.pdf|journal=Cinefantastique|volume=6 |issue=3|pages=22|via=Wayback Machine|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314113156/http://www.wicker-man.com/articles/cinefantastique_TWM_article_1977.pdf|archive-date=14 March 2012}}</ref> Other songs on the soundtrack come from a later folk tradition; for example, "Corn Riggs", by Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns, accompanies Howie's arrival on Summerisle. The lyrics of this song were taken directly from the Burns song "The Rigs of Barley", but Giovanni used a very different tune. Burns' tune was based on "Corn Riggs",<ref>Scots Musical Museum, Volume 1, song 94. Publisher: James Johnson & Co, Edinburgh, 1771</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.nls.uk/87794929|title=Scots musical museum: Volume 1|website=National Library of Scotland|page=94}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-01-20 |title=Corn Riggs |url=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Corn_Riggs |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Traditional Tune Archive |language=en}}</ref> and altered to match his lyrics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoszNAGmPuQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/AoszNAGmPuQ| archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Ossian - Corn Rigs (with lyrics)|last=DmKrispin|date=11 August 2011|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Corn Riggs by Paul Giovanni & Magnet |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/372934 |access-date=2023-06-25 |language=en}}</ref> The song sung by the cultists of Summerisle at the end of the film, "[[Sumer is icumen in|Sumer Is Icumen In]]", is a mid-13th-century song about nature in spring.

The film also gave its name to the [[Wickerman Festival]], an annual music festival held near [[Dundrennan|Auchencairn]] in Galloway. Dubbed "Scotland's Alternative Music festival", it began in 2001 when the festival's artistic director Sid Ambrose hit upon the idea of a local counterculture-based family-friendly festival due to the surrounding area being inextricably linked with various locations used within ''The Wicker Man''. It was held annually until 2015 at East Kirkcarswell Farm, Dundrennan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-11-21 |title=Waving a fond farewell to the Wickerman Festival |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-38051733 |access-date=2023-06-25}}</ref>