Editing Theremin (section)

=== Film music ===
Russian composer [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] was one of the first to incorporate parts for the theremin in [[Orchestra|orchestral pieces]], including a use in his [[Film score|score]] for the film {{transliteration|ru|[[Odna]]}} ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Одна (фильм)|Одна]]}}, 1931, [[Leonid Trauberg]] and [[Grigori Kozintsev]]). While the theremin was not widely used in [[classical music]] performances, the instrument found great success in many motion pictures, notably, ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'', ''[[The Red House (film)|The Red House]]'', ''[[The Lost Weekend]]'' (all three written by [[Miklós Rózsa]], the composer who pioneered the use of the instrument in Hollywood scores), ''[[The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)|The Spiral Staircase]]'', ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'', ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'', ''[[Castle in the Air (film)|Castle in the Air]]'', and ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brend|first=Mark|title=The Sound of Early Sci-Fi: Samuel Hoffman's Theremin|url=https://reverb.com/news/the-sound-of-early-sci-fi-samuel-hoffmans-theremin|website=Reverb|date=16 June 2021|access-date=19 March 2024}}</ref> The theremin is played and identified as such in the [[Jerry Lewis]] movie ''[[The Delicate Delinquent]]''. The theremin is prominent in the score for the 1956 short film ''[[A Short Vision]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhNED3-mnI | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/BkhNED3-mnI| archive-date=2021-10-31 | url-status=live|title=A Short Vision |via=YouTube | date=19 May 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which was aired on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' the same year that it was used by the Hungarian composer [[Mátyás Seiber]]. More recent appearances in film scores include ''[[Monster House (film)|Monster House]]'', ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'', ''[[The Machinist]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/fullcredits |title=Full cast and crew for Maquinista, El |access-date=2007-09-01 |publisher=IMDb }}</ref> and ''[[The Electrical Life of Louis Wain]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10687506/fullcredits |title=Full cast and crew for The Electrical Life of Louis Wain |access-date=2023-02-20 |publisher=IMDb }}</ref> (2021), (last three featuring [[Lydia Kavina]]), as well as ''[[First Man (film)|First Man]]'' (2018).

A theremin was not used for the soundtrack of ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'', for which [[Bebe and Louis Barron]] built disposable oscillator circuits and a [[Ring modulation|ring modulator]] to create the electronic tonalities used in the film.<ref name="MovieDiva-Forbidden-Planet">{{cite web
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Los Angeles–based thereminist Charles Richard Lester is featured on the soundtrack of ''[[Monster House (film)|Monster House]]''<ref>{{IMDb title|tt0385880|Monster House|(2006)}}{{better source needed|date=May 2025}}</ref> and has performed the US premiere of [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov's]] 1932 score for ''Komsomol – Patron of Electrification'' with the [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]] and [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2377 |title=L. A. Philharmonic concert details |publisher=Laphil.com |access-date=2012-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917010157/http://www.laphil.com/music/piece_detail.cfm?id=2377 |archive-date=2009-09-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In Lenny Abrahamson's 2014 film, ''[[Frank (film)|Frank]]'', Clara, the character played by [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], plays the theremin in a band named Soronprfbs.<ref>[[Anthony Lane|Lane, Anthony]]. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/hide-seek "Hide and Seek"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', August 25, 2014.</ref>