For each genre of music, what artist or song do you think captures what it’s all about?

I think “Raider’s March” or “Hedwig’s Theme” capture the movie composition genre perfectly. The goal of a movie song, I’d say, is, beyond making you feel something (which all music does), to put you there, in the movie. Just hearing the horns of “Raider’s March” or heck, the Star Wars theme, puts me there.

John Williams might just be the best movie composer to ever live.