Nosferatu is the classic story of Dracula retold in film for what I believe to be the first time. It barely survived destruction thanks to Bram Stoker’s widow who got most of the originals burned! I’m glad it made it.
The music for this scene has the following instrumentation - Mongolian horse-head fiddle, Balinese suling (bamboo flute), acoustic guitar, six-string bass, doumbek (Arabic clay drum), Bodhran (Irish frame drum), assorted shakers
and percussion, and two brandy snifters filled with water to varying pitches.
In this piece various characters and moods are described with different instruments. I used a 9/8 time signature for most of it, and employed chord progressions common to north-Asian music. The descending major seventh motif is retained throughout after the fashion of a passacaglia.