"Flavia's Song"'s first appearance is the scene in "Rose" where Clive tells her that death is the Doctor's constant companion. It sort of became the Doctor/Rose theme, much like how Martha's Theme was also used for the Sparkly Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor.
I know Murray Gold gets a lot of criticism for his music, but I think the actual score for DW is really good -- it's just the volume that's too high, and that's RTD's work.
Murray Gold gets a lot of shit, which is hilarious because he's actually amazing. Everyone who can do a mock-early!Beatles song and make it that good can talk smack, but those who can't need to go to the back of the bus.
The only show with a comparable soundtrack is Battlestar Galactica and in both cases I find myself wondering how they justify the budget for a full-time composer to be remixing their lietmotifs every other episode to soulless corporate controllers. (Especially in an era when most TV shows aren't even afforded a theme song.)
I think Bear McCreary is a lot better than Gold, but only because he's more subtle. I like Gold's music, but his lyrics make me weep a lot of the time -- especially "Song for Ten".
I don't know. It's a tough cage-match for me. Because I love "Song for Ten"... the one that aired in the episode, before they shoved extra lyrics in about their eternal true love blah blah blah. It's a really good ape of songs of the period for me, and most of those lyrics happen to also be inane. I'd wholeheartedly agree otherwise; none of the other songs are immediately special to me, except for mild approval at attempting such a thing on a yearly basis now
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It's gorgeous, and I adore it. In the leaflet, Gold kindly informs us that "this melody was intended to portray that yearning, the loss and the anger", which it does, so thank you, Murray!
I got the S3 soundtrack a few months back and listened to it compulsively for awhile. That theme is still my favorite of everything that's on there, with the music for Human Nature/Family of Blood running a close second. RTD may turn the volume a little too high, but the music is brilliant.
They also play it right after the Doctor's phone conversation with the Master in the Sound of Drums, from when he tells the Doctor to run to when it gets cut off by the teletubbies music.
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It's my favourite as well, with Martha's theme (in the wandering-the-Earth form) and Human Nature/Family of blood tying for second. And oh, you're right about the end of the phone conversation!
Interesting. I must confess that I seldom notice the music except as a constant impediment to actually hearing the dialogue. But the next time I rewatch those eps, I'll try to listen for it.
I usually don't notice cues during dialogue immediately, only upon rewatching, but this one stood out for me during the Gallifrey flashback, and once I had heard the entire sequence on the soundtrack, I noticed it being used in those other scenes as well, just quieter and in shorter excerpts.
Murray Gold's hallmark seems to be to lay a very romantic melody over an insistant bass track (see the Doomsday theme) - and in the Gallifrey theme there's a fantastic mounting tension as nostalgia hardens into the kind of anger that could change the universe. It's far and away my favourite DW track, though there are others I love.
Another example is "All the Strange Strange Creatures". It's so filled with the Doctor's driving restlesness.
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I know Murray Gold gets a lot of criticism for his music, but I think the actual score for DW is really good -- it's just the volume that's too high, and that's RTD's work.
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The only show with a comparable soundtrack is Battlestar Galactica and in both cases I find myself wondering how they justify the budget for a full-time composer to be remixing their lietmotifs every other episode to soulless corporate controllers. (Especially in an era when most TV shows aren't even afforded a theme song.)
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They also play it right after the Doctor's phone conversation with the Master in the Sound of Drums, from when he tells the Doctor to run to when it gets cut off by the teletubbies music.
I've really enjoyed reading your posts and episode reviews--mind if I friend you?
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It's my favourite as well, with Martha's theme (in the wandering-the-Earth form) and Human Nature/Family of blood tying for second. And oh, you're right about the end of the phone conversation!
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Another example is "All the Strange Strange Creatures". It's so filled with the Doctor's driving restlesness.
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