User blog comment:Midhav/A question regarding the soundtrack/@comment-1984959-20170124182252/@comment-2084412-20170127204800

I agree completely - too many reused themes in P4! Although I did enjoy the ones J Fan pointed out, especially with the Spanish influence. I think it was more the director than Disney who forced Zimmer to bring back old music, thus ruining the experience for him and seemingly souring it enough to make him sign off for the next one. Quite unfortunate, but Geoff should be up to the challenge.

As for the themes, I think the one originally spoken of is just a "Curse theme" variant - we hear it again, as stated, in the end battle. I don't think it appears in Mutiny, but that track is pretty much just a remix of cursed crewman themes, so it would easily fit right in.

The "Davy Jones cue" used twice in OST could be called the "Jar of Dirt" theme, but I prefer to call it the "Triple Guns" theme - it plays when the Dutchman is chasing the Pearl (using the triple guns) in DMC and again in the Maelstrom sequence in AWE when the Dutchman is once again chasing the Pearl using the triple guns. I did find it quite odd that it was brought back for the carriage chase and the final duel in P4 - although I am quite fond of that particular motif, I didn't think it fit at all for either scene in P4, and it seems as though the director simply liked the music and wanted it brought back. I would be very intrigued to see what Zimmer would have created given full freedom though.