The Pink Panther Theme - full version (Henry Mancini) - fingerstyle guitar

The iconic Pink Panther Theme music arranged for solo guitar. Took me a long time to get a fingerstyle guitar arrangement this close to the full version by Henry Mancini.

"The Pink Panther Theme" is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards but lost to the Sherman Brothers for Mary Poppins. The eponymous cartoon character created for the film's opening credits by David DePatie and Friz Freleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by Plas Johnson.

"The Pink Panther Theme", composed in the key of E minor, is unusual for Mancini's extensive use of chromaticism.

In his autobiography Did They Mention the Music? Mancini talked about how he composed the theme music:

"I told [the animators] that I would give them a tempo they could animate to, so that any time there were striking motions, someone getting hit, I could score to it.

[The animators] finished the sequence and I looked at it. All the accents in the music were timed to actions on the screen.

I had a specific saxophone player in mind–Plas Johnson. I nearly always precast my players and write for them and around them, and Plas had the sound and the style I wanted." [wikipedia]

It in fact changes key quite quickly, from E minor to G minor, but keeping the same structure, before going back to E minor again.

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