Development
In September 2017,it was reported that Abel Korzeniowski was assigned to compose the score for The Nun. [1] Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema executives thought of using Abel's musical approach,and contacted Abel who in turn spoke to Hardy,who was filming for Romania at that time. Since he was involved in the film during the early stages of principal photography,it helped him accumulate layers of ideas for the film. Abel worked with Hardy closely during the production. Some of his influences include Krzysztof Komeda's score for Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Wojciech Kilar's score for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992);Abel wanted to pay homage to that film's score through his composition. [2]
Abel wanted the score to feel the sense of dread and has to affect the composer as if he was the audience watching the film,feeling the jump scares. Though,Abel refrained from referencing other films,he watched the first two films in The Conjuring Universe to know on how the audience would expect in a thematic way towards the film or he would write it in "a more romantic style,with more counterpoint and less electronics" otherwise. He tried to make it as more of an earlier form of horror film score and more orchestral than the previous films. [2] [3]
Since The Nun is set in the 1950s,it allowed him to use more elaborate melodic elements than The Conjuring and refrained the use of modern musical elements. The setting in Romania,helped him to learn about Romanian music elements,with influences of an Eastern Orthodox Church setting due to a male choir singing in lower octave and out of the world basses,which was different from other male choirs. The other vocal elements were used for pagan rituals which was deemed by the church as something Satanic. The hissing sounds come from the orchestral instruments,with the brass players hissing into the instruments. A session which he described it a "wild session",had him doing percussions,orchestral elements and scratching sounds. They also used seven huge brass drums and several other brass instruments that provided an unusual type of brass chorus that naturally ring outs from the brass drums. Abel worked on the score for over ten months, [2] [3] from September 2017 to July 2018. [4] [5]
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