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The Doctor Who theme music is a piece of music written by Australian composer Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.Created in 1963, it was the first electronic music signature tune for television.
The Doctor Who theme music was composed by Ron Grainer and initially arranged by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Various composers subsequently arranged it for later versions of the theme. In the classic series, each serial's director chose the freelance composer for the incidental music in the serial.
The theme was reworked over the years, to her horror, because the only version that had her approval was the original. [19] Delia also composed music for other BBC programmes, including Blue Veils and Golden Sands and The Delian Mode. [20] The Doctor Who story Inferno reused some of Derbyshire's music originally composed for other productions. [21]
The most famous of the Workshop's creations using 'radiophonic' techniques include the Doctor Who theme music, which Delia Derbyshire created using a plucked string, 12 oscillators and a lot of tape manipulation; and the sound of the TARDIS (the Doctor's time machine) materialising and dematerialising, which was created by Brian Hodgson running ...
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Among his television work was the music for Moonstrike (1963), theme music for The Last of the Mohicans (1971), theme music for The Brothers (1972), The Tomorrow People (1973), Moonbase 3 (1973), The Ascent of Man (1973) and Blake's 7 (1978). He also composed music for several plays from the BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Also includes versions of the Doctor Who Theme by Delia Derbyshire, Peter Howell, and Dominic Glynn. Reissues Reissued on CD as Evolution - The Music From Dr Who by Prestige Records in May 1997. [4] Reissued on CD as Music from Doctor Who by Castle Pulse in April 2002.
The collection was produced by Workshop member and long-time Doctor Who sound-effects creator Dick Mills. It featured the original Delia Derbyshire arrangement of Ron Grainer 's theme tune and music by Malcolm Clarke from the 1972 serial " The Sea Devils ", which was only the second to have an incidental score provided completely by the ...