A Thought

Oct 26, 2012 09:43

Here's "Gray's Theme":

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Here's "Melody Pond":

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*Side-eyes everyone*

i pretend to know music theory, torchwood, doctor who

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glenniebun October 27 2012, 00:51:44 UTC
OT: The integration of the Gallifrey theme into "Melody Pond" was a wonderful, wonderful surprise when the S6 album came out.

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sariagray October 27 2012, 01:45:22 UTC
Yes! I love when composers do that.

Like in Torchwood. Part of The Ballad of Ianto Jones is used in I Can Run Forever (when Jack leaves earth post COE). And bits of Captain Jack's Theme are used throughout in interesting places, like Owen Fights Death.

Or in Sherlock. SHERlocked is a variation of The Woman and Irene's Theme.

I have been listening to a lot of soundtracks lately.

ETA: I just did some listening and basically Owen Fights Death is Owen's Theme sped up and a bit more hard, combined with Captain Jack's Theme.

This is a fun game!

ETA the Second: I just realized both Ben Foster and Murray Gold worked on both series together. It's weird, Spotify and iTunes only credit Foster for Torchwood, and only credit Gold for Doctor Who.

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glenniebun October 27 2012, 02:08:51 UTC
From what I've read, Murray Gold writes all of the music for Who and then Ben Foster orchestrates it & conducts the orchestra. I believe Gold is based in New York and the recording sessions are in Wales. Of course they're in Wales! Then when Torchwood started, Gold did the first batch of episodes (five or six, I think?) and then Foster took over fully after that. Hence the co-credit on the first CD and the full credit for Ben Foster on Children of Earth.

I love picking out some themes that survived the jettisoning of The Doctor's themes during the transition from Ten to Eleven, like that small use of the Gallifrey theme and some quotes of the Cyberman theme in "The Pandorica Opens."

I've not listened to the Torchwood or Sherlock CDs enough to pick out more than the obvious. More of Irene's theme is always good thing, though.

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