A Disney Requiem? Iterations of the “Dies irae” in the Score to The Lion King (1994)

daniel trocmé-latter is Associate Professor in music at Homerton College and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. His research interests include the role of music in liturgy and ceremony, especially in the sixteenth century; he has published one monograph on the music of the European Reformation, with another forthcoming. A longstanding interest in film music—especially music's signifying functions and the use of pre-existing music—has only recently manifested itself academically; this article is his first film music publication. Daniel is also the recording and digital media reviews editor for the Oxford University Press journal Early Music.