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Art of the Score

Art of the Score

36 Episodes • By Andrew Pogson, Nicholas Buc and Dan Golding • www.artofthescore.com.au/
Art of the Score is the podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games. In each episode we’ll be joined by Andrew Pogson, Dan Golding and Nicholas Buc as we check out a soundtrack we love and break down its ma ...more
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Art of the Score
Art of the Score
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Episode 36: Interstellar
Time dilation is a funny thing. For many, we underst... more
Jan 22 2024 1h 30m
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Episode 35: Studio Fanfares Part 2
It’s Episode 35, and the long-awaited part two to ou... more
Oct 3 2021 1h 30m
Chapter 1 1 min
The Art of the Score fanfare Nancy Buc (1980)
Chapter 2 1 min
The studio revival in the 1980s
Chapter 3 3 mins
Amblin Entertainment John Williams (1981)
Chapter 4 3 mins
The Ladd Company John Williams (1981)
Chapter 5 3 mins
United Artists Joe Harnell (1982)
Chapter 6 6 mins
THX Deep Note James Andy Moorer (1983)
Chapter 7 3 mins
Tri-Star Pictures Dave Grusin (1984)
Chapter 8 2 mins
Carolco Pictures Jerry Goldsmith (1985)
Chapter 9 4 mins
And now, the news
Chapter 10 3 mins
Disney John Debney (1985)
Chapter 11 3 mins
THX Cimarron James Horner (1988)
Chapter 12 3 mins
Castle Rock Entertainment Marc Shaiman (1989)
Chapter 13 1 min
Warner Bros. and an off day in the synth studio
Chapter 14 1 min
The Art of the Score fanfare Barry Buc (1990)
Chapter 15 4 mins
Universal James Horner (1990)
Chapter 16 55 sec
Hollywood Pictures Danny Elfman (1990)
Chapter 17 2 mins
Village Roadshow (1992)
Chapter 18 2 mins
Columbia Jonathan Elias (1993)
Chapter 19 5 mins
Studio fanfares you might have heard before…
Chapter 20 3 mins
New Line Cinema Michael Kamen (1994)
Chapter 21 3 mins
United Artists Starr Parodi and Jeff Eden Fair (1994)
Chapter 22 1 min
Disney and Pixar Randy Newman (1995)
Chapter 23 1 min
HBO (1996)
Chapter 24 3 mins
Dreamworks John Williams (1997)
Chapter 25 4 mins
Universal Jerry Goldsmith (1997)
Chapter 26 2 mins
Warner Bros. Gabriel Yared (1999)
Chapter 27 2 mins
The Art of the Score fanfare Tobias H. Buc (2000)
Chapter 28 4 mins
Sony Home Entertainment and Animation (2005/2006)
Chapter 29 3 mins
Disney Mark Mancina & Dave Metzger (2006)
Chapter 30 4 mins
Studio Canal Alexandre Desplat (2011)
Chapter 31 3 mins
Paramount Michael Giacchino (2011)
Chapter 32 1 min
Universal, updated Brian Tyler (2012)
Chapter 33 5 mins
Marvel Tyler/Giacchino (2013/2016)
Chapter 34 5 mins
Netflix Lon Bender and Charlie Campagna (2015)
Chapter 35 3 mins
Streaming Star Wars (2019)
Chapter 36 2 mins
MGM (2021)
Chapter 37 2 mins
The Art of the Score fanfare Nicholas Buc (2004)
Chapter 38
“Name That Theme”, with your host, Andrew Pogson
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Episode 34: Studio Fanfares Part 1
You’re sitting in a darkened movie theatre, and the ... more
Jul 25 2021 1h 30m
Chapter 1 2 mins
The origins of the fanfare
Chapter 2 3 mins
The studio system and the sound of the Big Five
Chapter 3 3 mins
MGM: Lions, Stars, and Celebrities, oh my!
Chapter 4 4 mins
RKO: Morse code, crime, and Howard Hughes
Chapter 5 1 min
Paramount Pictures on Parade (allegedly)
Chapter 6 5 mins
20th Century Fox Alfred Newman (1933)
Chapter 7 5 mins
Warner Brothers Max Steiner (1937)
Chapter 8 27 sec
The Little Three (that’s Andrew, Nick, and Dan)
Chapter 9 6 mins
Universal Studios, Tchaikovsky, and Superman Jimmy McHugh (1936)
Chapter 10 1 min
United Artists (so united they didn’t have a fanfare)
Chapter 11 1 min
Columbia Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1934)
Chapter 12 1 min
Beyond the Big Five and the Little Three
Chapter 13 2 mins
Selznick International Alfred Newman (1936)
Chapter 14 2 mins
The Art of the Score fanfare Thaddeus Buc (1935)
Chapter 15 2 mins
Into the 1950s: lawsuits, widescreens, and the birth of television
Chapter 16 4 mins
VistaVision Nathan van Cleeve (1952)
Chapter 17 5 mins
CinemaScope 20th Century Fox Alfred Newman expands his fanfare (1954)
Chapter 18 54 sec
MGM Leo the Lion (1957)
Chapter 19 2 mins
The Art of the Score fanfare Jerry Buc (1960)
Chapter 20 3 mins
The emergence of television and the NBC chime
Chapter 21 3 mins
Desilu Wilber Hatch (1966)
Chapter 22 4 mins
The Art of the Score fanfare Teddy Buc (1970)
Chapter 23 6 mins
Paramount’s Parade Lalo Schifrin (1970), Jerry Goldsmith (1976 and 1977)
Chapter 24 2 mins
Columbia Suzanne Ciani (1976)
Chapter 25 7 mins
Walt Disney Productions When You Wish Upon a Star (1972)
Chapter 26 1 min
PBS Paul Alan Levi (1971)
Chapter 27
Associated Film Distribution (1978)
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Episode 33: Arrival
It’s finally time for Episode 33, and Art of the Sco... more
Dec 23 2020 1h 30m
Chapter 1 8 mins
Arrival arrives, and Jóhannsson thrives
Chapter 2 2 mins
Around the Clock News
Chapter 3 6 mins
Arriving in Montana
Chapter 4 8 mins
Seja breaks down the Arrival sound
Chapter 5 4 mins
Looping with Seja
Chapter 6 4 mins
First Encounter
Chapter 7 3 mins
Sapir-Whorf
Chapter 8 6 mins
Hazmat
Chapter 9 9 mins
Heptapod B
Chapter 10 3 mins
Non-Zero-Sum Game
Chapter 11 4 mins
Deciphering
Chapter 12 5 mins
One of Twelve
Chapter 13 18 mins
Rise, and Max Richter’s On The Nature of Daylight
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Episode 32: The Mummy
It’s Episode 32, and we come back to you from the ci... more
Aug 31 2020 1h 30m
Chapter 1 2 mins
That’s Goldsmith, Jerry! Goldsmith!
Chapter 2 1 min
Podcast recommendation: The Goldsmith Odyssey
Chapter 3 8 mins
The Universal history of the Mummy
Chapter 4 5 mins
Hamunaptra theme
Chapter 5 2 mins
A brief introduction to the film’s other themes
Chapter 6 5 mins
Hamun it up
Chapter 7 4 mins
Hamajor Hamontage
Chapter 8 2 mins
Jerry’s percussion
Chapter 9 5 mins
Imhotep’s motif
Chapter 10 2 mins
Nick comes clean about his bullying ways
Chapter 11 5 mins
The love theme
Chapter 12 4 mins
Luteish love and handy hand percussion
Chapter 13 3 mins
The power of French Horns propels you
Chapter 14 5 mins
A romantic finale
Chapter 15 7 mins
Rick’s theme
Chapter 16 3 mins
Here come the baddies
Chapter 17 2 mins
The Mummy Strut
Chapter 18 3 mins
A sourcey rag
Chapter 19 5 mins
The Musicians of the Nile
Chapter 20 7 mins
Hollywood’s sound of Egypt
Chapter 21 3 mins
Do camels have scales?
Chapter 22 7 mins
The key is octatonic
Chapter 23 7 mins
Frightening mummy
Chapter 24
Imhotep’s death (or, that’s a wrap folks!)
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Episode 31: How To Train Your Dragon
It’s Episode 31, and we’re swooping into the new yea... more
Apr 21 2020 1h 30m
Chapter 1 2 mins
How To Train Your Dreamworks
Chapter 2 3 mins
The John Powell Up
Chapter 3 2 mins
Nick leaves his wife for John Powell
Chapter 4 1 min
The Friendship theme
Chapter 5 3 mins
Toothless’s theme
Chapter 6 5 mins
Bagging Bagpipes
Chapter 7 7 mins
Hammering Dulcimer
Chapter 8 2 mins
Tin whistle and bodhran
Chapter 9 4 mins
Let’s b (theme) friends
Chapter 10 5 mins
Powell-chords
Chapter 11 3 mins
Toothless in three
Chapter 12 1 min
Toothless Face/Off
Chapter 13 3 mins
The Band with a Dragon Tattoo
Chapter 14 5 mins
The Berk theme
Chapter 15 3 mins
A point of pronunciation
Chapter 16 6 mins
Father and Son
Chapter 17 3 mins
The cavalry arrives
Chapter 18 5 mins
The Viking theme
Chapter 19 5 mins
How To Write A Dragon Melody
Chapter 20 2 mins
Dragon scales
Chapter 21 9 mins
Astrid’s theme
Chapter 22 2 mins
The Evolution of Powell’s style
Chapter 23 5 mins
Battle theme
Chapter 24 5 mins
Telling the Tail
Chapter 25
John Powell’s best score?
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Episode 30: The Little Mermaid
It’s Episode 30, and we at Art of the Score are fina... more
Dec 24 2019 1h 30m
Chapter 1 1 min
The Art of the Mailbag?
Chapter 2 3 mins
The Disney Dark Ages
Chapter 3 4 mins
Alan Menken: the secret to Disney’s revival
Chapter 4 2 mins
Ariel’s theme: Part of Your World
Chapter 5 3 mins
“I want”
Chapter 6 5 mins
Ariel’s verse
Chapter 7 3 mins
Ariel’s verse (Hoarders edition)
Chapter 8 4 mins
Creative voicing
Chapter 9 2 mins
A pre-chorus?
Chapter 10 3 mins
Recorders on the beach
Chapter 11 3 mins
Ariel’s musical maturity
Chapter 12 2 mins
Ursula’s theme: Poor Unfortunate Souls
Chapter 13 5 mins
Craberet
Chapter 14 3 mins
Fortunate Souls
Chapter 15 2 mins
Poggo’s Unfortunate Lyrics
Chapter 16 4 mins
Scheming eels
Chapter 17 5 mins
Prince Eric’s Roadshow
Chapter 18 3 mins
Eric’s Organ Announcement
Chapter 19 3 mins
Triton’s Fanfare
Chapter 20 2 mins
Triton’s Minor Fanfare
Chapter 21 8 mins
Scuttle’s scuttlebutt
Chapter 22 10 mins
Mickey Mouse-ing
Chapter 23 7 mins
Le Chef, and Nick’s waltzing tangent
Chapter 24 2 mins
Andrew’s Chef genocide tangent
Chapter 25 4 mins
Under the C
Chapter 26 9 mins
Dan’s reggae tangent
Chapter 27
Fathoms Below and the opening song
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Episode 29: The Film Music of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Episode 29 marks Art of the Score’s first ever live ... more
Nov 26 2019 1h 30m
Chapter 1 4 mins
A very special live episode
Chapter 2 58 sec
The Nick Cave and Warren Ellis sound
Chapter 3 1 min
Alice Wading
Chapter 4 2 mins
A band process for film music
Chapter 5 2 mins
The Proposition
Chapter 6 1 min
The meat pie western
Chapter 7 3 mins
The drone, the voice, the piano
Chapter 8 3 mins
Nick’s singing (The Rider)
Chapter 9 1 min
Martha’s Dream
Chapter 10 3 mins
The Cave Waltz
Chapter 11 2 mins
The Rider Song
Chapter 12 2 mins
The Assassination of Jesse James
Chapter 13 3 mins
The celeste
Chapter 14 2 mins
A Rather Lovely Thing
Chapter 15 2 mins
An arresting chord progression
Chapter 16 2 mins
The Assassination lullaby
Chapter 17 3 mins
Song for Bob
Chapter 18 4 mins
The Road
Chapter 19 2 mins
The Mother
Chapter 20 2 mins
The Far Road
Chapter 21 3 mins
The House
Chapter 22 1 min
The ray of hope
Chapter 23 30 mins
The Ellis Cave DNA
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Episode 28: The Empire Strikes Back - Part 2
In Episode 28, we conclude our time with The Empire ... more
Aug 31 2019 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
The Days of Han and Leia
Chapter 2 5 mins
Tchaikovsky’s Star Wars
Chapter 3 2 mins
Han’s Soli
Chapter 4 1 min
Williams’ melodic patterns
Chapter 5 4 mins
A polite argument (for strings)
Chapter 6 4 mins
Melodus interruptus
Chapter 7 1 min
Bespin Cellos
Chapter 8 4 mins
I love cue (I know)
Chapter 9 5 mins
Resolving Solo and the Princess
Chapter 10 7 mins
Bassoon Fett
Chapter 11 9 mins
The droids dance
Chapter 12 1 min
The droids return in Solo
Chapter 13 4 mins
Hyperspace strings
Chapter 14 6 mins
Empire’s action ostinati
Chapter 15 2 mins
Lando’s palace, where all your dreams come true
Chapter 16 3 mins
A choir in the clouds
Chapter 17 3 mins
The magic tree
Chapter 18 2 mins
The synth side of the force
Chapter 19 7 mins
John Williams’ best action cue, ever?
Chapter 20 3 mins
The space tritone
Chapter 21 1 min
Looping the woodwinds
Chapter 22 4 mins
The battle in the snow
Chapter 23 6 mins
The Carbonite Procession, and John Williams’ greatest finale ever?
Chapter 24 5 mins
The end credits
Chapter 25
The greatest score ever written?
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Episode 27: The Empire Strikes Back - Part 1
May 24 2019 1h 30m
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Episode 26: Blade Runner 2049
In Episode 26, we return to the world of Blade Runne... more
Apr 4 2019 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
How the sequel came to be
Chapter 2 4 mins
Jóhann Jóhannsson, and what could’ve been
Chapter 3 4 mins
Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
Chapter 4 2 mins
The opening title card (the Memory theme)
Chapter 5 1 min
Or is it the Puzzle theme?
Chapter 6 6 mins
The 2049 Melody (the Soul theme)
Chapter 7 7 mins
Sapper Morton’s musical secret
Chapter 8 3 mins
Voices in the furnace
Chapter 9 2 mins
Sound design
Chapter 10 4 mins
The rebel’s fan fair
Chapter 11 3 mins
The return of the opening chords
Chapter 12 3 mins
Synth talk with Seja
Chapter 13 10 mins
Seja talks us through her reconstruction of 2049’s opening cue
Chapter 14 5 mins
The final product
Chapter 15 4 mins
Joi’s theme
Chapter 16 12 mins
Wallace’s throat singing
Chapter 17 3 mins
Flight to the LAPD
Chapter 18 7 mins
Sea Wall
Chapter 19 4 mins
Tears In (The) Rain
Chapter 20 4 mins
The Mesa Melody
Chapter 21 3 mins
The scoreless moments
Chapter 22 3 mins
D for Diegetic
Chapter 23 3 mins
Punching with Presley
Chapter 24 6 mins
One For My Baby, and One For The Replicant
Chapter 25 8 mins
Peter and the Wallace
Chapter 26
Final thoughts
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Episode 25: Blade Runner
In Episode 25, we’ve seen things you wouldn’t believ... more
Feb 25 2019 1h 30m
Chapter 1 1 min
A special Art of the Score guest
Chapter 2 7 mins
A history of Blade Running
Chapter 3 4 mins
The Vangelis sound
Chapter 4 4 mins
Sound design versus music
Chapter 5 6 mins
The Blade Runner main theme
Chapter 6 5 mins
Synth talk with Seja: the Yamaha CS-80
Chapter 7 3 mins
Aftertouch
Chapter 8 4 mins
Oscillators and ring modulators
Chapter 9 2 mins
The pitch ribbon
Chapter 10 9 mins
Seja recreates the Blade Runner theme
Chapter 11 2 mins
Pronunciation fun with Dan
Chapter 12 1 min
Tears In Rain
Chapter 13 13 mins
Blade Runner and the film noir sound, from Double Indemnity to L.A. Noire
Chapter 14 4 mins
The Blade Runner Blues
Chapter 15 4 mins
Rachel’s theme
Chapter 16 4 mins
The Love theme
Chapter 17 2 mins
The ‘ethnic’ influences on the score Blush Response
Chapter 18 4 mins
Tales of the Future
Chapter 19 5 mins
Damask Rose
Chapter 20 3 mins
One More Kiss Dear and Blade Runner’s world of jazz
Chapter 21
The End Titles
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Episode 24: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 2
In Episode 24 we end our journey through Harry’s thi... more
Dec 3 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 9 mins
Aunt Marge’s waltz
Chapter 2 2 mins
The jazz bus
Chapter 3 2 mins
A short ride in a magical machine
Chapter 4 7 mins
Bebop patronum
Chapter 5 5 mins
A stretchy middle eight
Chapter 6 5 mins
A fugue for quidditch
Chapter 7 5 mins
Willow whomps
Chapter 8 5 mins
A danger to birds and flute players
Chapter 9 2 mins
Snowfights and woodwind bites
Chapter 10 6 mins
Swing, swing, boggart
Chapter 11 3 mins
Carried on the voices
Chapter 12 3 mins
Book cranks and classic horror
Chapter 13 8 mins
Sirius Black to the future
Chapter 14 4 mins
Watch me if you can
Chapter 15 15 mins
The John Williams greatest hits album
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Episode 23: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 1
In Episode 23 we return to the wizarding world with ... more
Nov 19 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Dan makes a big claim
Chapter 2 8 mins
Some Azkaban homework
Chapter 3 1 min
Hedwig’s theme goes on holiday
Chapter 4 11 mins
Something wicked this way hums
Chapter 5 3 mins
Crumhorn, Sackbut, and Azkaban’s medieval sound
Chapter 6 2 mins
Meeting Buckbeak
Chapter 7 2 mins
Searching for the Fat Lady
Chapter 8 3 mins
Some sleeping celeste
Chapter 9 7 mins
The renaissance fair
Chapter 10 13 mins
A Window to the Past
Chapter 11 4 mins
Some serious Sirius
Chapter 12 2 mins
Pettigrew’s motif
Chapter 13 6 mins
Buckbeak’s brilliant flight
Chapter 14 4 mins
Buckbeak’s equally brilliant second flight
Chapter 15 4 mins
The Dementor’s dialectic. Thesis: aleatoric horror
Chapter 16 1 min
Antithesis: the angelic Patronus
Chapter 17 7 mins
Synthesis: the Dementors converge
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Episode 22: Conan the Barbarian
In Episode 22 we travel to the distant Hyborian era ... more
Nov 6 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
The secrets to Conan’s success
Chapter 2 4 mins
John Milius’s machismo
Chapter 3 6 mins
Basil Poledouris’ score
Chapter 4 2 mins
Conan’s canon what era does the music come from?
Chapter 5 7 mins
Anvil of Crom: the Hyborian rhythm and Nick’s rave remake
Chapter 6 8 mins
Twenty-four French Horns and Total Recall’s Barbaric Recall
Chapter 7 9 mins
Conan’s theme
Chapter 8 10 mins
Double reeds and the passing of time
Chapter 9 11 mins
The love theme, and saying more than Arnold through music
Chapter 10 4 mins
The Riders of Doom theme
Chapter 11 4 mins
O Fortuna’s influence on Conan (and film music generally)
Chapter 12 2 mins
Conan’s Battle on the Ice
Chapter 13 3 mins
The Wheel of Fifths
Chapter 14 13 mins
Doom’s Dies Irae
Chapter 15 4 mins
The Wheel of Pain’s ostinato
Chapter 16 4 mins
Waltzing through theology
Chapter 17 1 min
The villain’s music for the hero’s journey in the kitchen
Chapter 18 7 mins
Waltzing through an orgy
Chapter 19 6 mins
The Pit Fights and the Mountain of Power, via 1950s sword and sandal epics
Chapter 20
Conan’s Firebird finale
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Episode 21: Journey
In Episode 21 we finally make good on our long-held ... more
Oct 5 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
How does videogame music differ from film or television?
Chapter 2 1 min
Dan’s complicated menu music
Chapter 3 6 mins
thatgamecompany’s journey to Journey, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘flow’
Chapter 4 2 mins
The rise of independent videogame development and aesthetics
Chapter 5 3 mins
Nascence and Wintory’s main Journey theme
Chapter 6 4 mins
Tina Guo’s cello, Amy Tatum’s flute, and Charissa Barger’s harp
Chapter 7 4 mins
Solo cello in Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hans Zimmer’s The Last Samurai
Chapter 8 2 mins
Journey’s central weenie
Chapter 9 4 mins
The Call, the sonic palate cleanser
Chapter 10 3 mins
The Mountain
Chapter 11 2 mins
Sound design and music in Journey
Chapter 12 4 mins
The First Confluence and the absence of a downbeat
Chapter 13 3 mins
The Bridge and the Second Confluence
Chapter 14 3 mins
The first encounter and Journey’s dance
Chapter 15 2 mins
‘I was born for this’
Chapter 16 6 mins
The Desert’s Threshold and the musical interactivity of Journey
Chapter 17 6 mins
The melancholy beauty of the machines
Chapter 18 9 mins
The Descent, and Nick’s musical snowboarding adventures
Chapter 19 5 mins
The Belly of the Whale’s Serpent
Chapter 20 2 mins
The gaze of the sentinals
Chapter 21 6 mins
Journey’s achingly beautiful string writing and Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Chapter 22 4 mins
Atonement and the giant structure
Chapter 23 8 mins
Journey’s Buddhist links
Chapter 24 8 mins
The ascent to the peak (‘The Crossing’)
Chapter 25 5 mins
The nadir
Chapter 26 11 mins
Apotheosis and the hero realised
Chapter 27 6 mins
The return to Tina Guo’s solo cello
Chapter 28 2 mins
What does Journey mean? Is it a metaphor?
Chapter 29
The Return?
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Episode 20: James Bond - Part 3
In Episode 20 we conclude our three-part retrospecti... more
Aug 28 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
Arnold, David Arnold
Chapter 2 4 mins
Tomorrow Never Plays the Fanfare
Chapter 3 1 min
The fanboy composer?
Chapter 4 6 mins
Surrender’s presence in the score
Chapter 5 4 mins
Arnold’s neo-Barry romance writing
Chapter 6 4 mins
The World Is Sort Of Enough
Chapter 7 5 mins
Arnold’s muscular action writing the submarine escape
Chapter 8 6 mins
Score Another Way (electronically) in Die Another Day
Chapter 9 4 mins
Bond joins the choir
Chapter 10 5 mins
Blond, James Blond
Chapter 11 3 mins
Parkour percussion
Chapter 12 5 mins
You Know My Chord Progression
Chapter 13 2 mins
Vesper’s Theme
Chapter 14 3 mins
Quantum of Solace
Chapter 15 2 mins
Watery woodwinds at the opera
Chapter 16 3 mins
DC3s, tempo, chromaticism, and the peak of Arnold’s action music
Chapter 17 1 min
Thomas Newman, Bond’s new man
Chapter 18 4 mins
M’s retiring brass statements
Chapter 19 2 mins
Bond on a boat
Chapter 20 6 mins
Severine and Newman’s romantic strings
Chapter 21 3 mins
A Spectre haunts 007
Chapter 22 1 min
The Writing’s On The Train
Chapter 23
At the end: our favourite score, and our favourite song
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Episode 19: James Bond - Part 2
In Episode 19 we continue our ambitious attempt to a... more
Jul 22 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Roger Moore’s more George (Aston) Martin Bond music
Chapter 2 3 mins
The 1970s funk boat chase
Chapter 3 3 mins
Nick has a problem with The Man With the Golden Gun’s parallel motion
Chapter 4 1 min
The Spy Who Wrote A Fantastic Opening Song
Chapter 5 6 mins
James ‘Disco Stu’ Bond
Chapter 6 4 mins
The singing pyramids
Chapter 7 4 mins
The Space Who Loved Me
Chapter 8 2 mins
Bossa, James Bossa
Chapter 9 8 mins
Bill Conti’s For Your Funk Only
Chapter 10 5 mins
John Barry’s finale: Octopussy, A View To A Kill, and The Living Daylights
Chapter 11 5 mins
Dalton’s daylight drum machine
Chapter 12 6 mins
Michael Kamen’s License to Trill
Chapter 13 3 mins
Bond’s power ballad romance
Chapter 14 8 mins
Serra’s synth sound for Goldeneye and the sonic reinvention of James Bond
Chapter 15 4 mins
Acid James
Chapter 16 1 min
Escaping the Archives
Chapter 17 11 mins
Goldeneye’s Tank Chase and John Altman’s replacement music
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Episode 18: James Bond - Part 1
In Episode 18 we begin one of our most ambitious mus... more
Jul 2 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 1 min
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass make an unscheduled appearance
Chapter 2 3 mins
The evolution of the Bond franchise and its importance in film history
Chapter 3 2 mins
“The best Bond film is the next Bond film”
Chapter 4 2 mins
The birth of the Bond theme, with Monty Norman’s sitar
Chapter 5 6 mins
John Barry’s swinging ‘60s style
Chapter 6 1 min
Monty Norman’s Dr. No score
Chapter 7 2 mins
‘Three Blind Mice’ and Norman’s Jamaican grooves
Chapter 8 4 mins
Bond and orchestra swat a bug
Chapter 9 7 mins
Lionel Bart’s ‘From Russia With Love’, the first title song
Chapter 10 3 mins
John Barry’s 007 theme
Chapter 11 3 mins
John Barry’s idiosyncratic action cues and quotations of the main theme
Chapter 12 5 mins
James Bond’s travelogue music
Chapter 13 4 mins
Goldfinger’s swinging ‘Into Miami’
Chapter 14 4 mins
‘Alpine Drive’ and ‘The Raid on Fort Knox’
Chapter 15 6 mins
Thunderball’s alternate themes
Chapter 16 2 mins
Barry’s underwater fight scenes
Chapter 17 3 mins
The brass-fanfared evil lair
Chapter 18 7 mins
You Only Live Twice’s slow-moving villainous space capsule
Chapter 19 2 mins
Nancy Sinatra’s ‘You Only Live Twice’
Chapter 20 4 mins
The ‘Japanese’ music in You Only Live Twice
Chapter 21 3 mins
On Her Majesty’s Australian Service
Chapter 22 3 mins
‘We Have All The Time In The World’
Chapter 23 5 mins
“This never happened to the other synth”
Chapter 24 2 mins
The horny saxophone
Chapter 25 3 mins
Diamonds Are Forever
Chapter 26
The creepy saxophone
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Episode 17: Gladiator
In the year 2000, the sword-and-sandal epic was revi... more
Jun 4 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Gladiator as the breakthrough Hans Zimmer score
Chapter 2 9 mins
Some background on the significance of Gladiator, sword and sandal films, epics, and peplum
Chapter 3 6 mins
Hans Zimmer style and the 1990s action film
Chapter 4 2 mins
Hans Zimmer and the synth
Chapter 5 1 min
The unusual instrumentation of Gladiator
Chapter 6 1 min
A duduk demonstration
Chapter 7 6 mins
The themes of Gladiator Commodus’ theme
Chapter 8 6 mins
The power of Lisa Gerrard’s voice
Chapter 9 3 mins
Maximus’ hymn
Chapter 10 2 mins
Maximus’ polyrhythms
Chapter 11 2 mins
Zimmer’s Vangelis’ moment
Chapter 12 5 mins
Once Upon a Time in Ancient Rome
Chapter 13 7 mins
The Earth theme Gladiator’s musical soul
Chapter 14 4 mins
Lucilla’s theme
Chapter 15 2 mins
The Gladiator waltz
Chapter 16 4 mins
A Holst heist?
Chapter 17 4 mins
Gladiatorial piracy
Chapter 18 4 mins
The death of an emperor (or, Mozart’s Da Vinci Code)
Chapter 19 2 mins
To Zuccabar
Chapter 20 5 mins
Gladiator’s establishing music (and a surprise)
Chapter 21 2 mins
Zimmer’s answering horns
Chapter 22 7 mins
The Might of Wagner
Chapter 23 2 mins
The Hans Zimmer Olympics
Chapter 24
Gladiator’s finale: Now We Are Free
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Episode 16: The Force Awakens - Part 2
In Episode 16, we finish our look at Williams’ seven... more
May 11 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 1 min
Yes, this was recorded before The Last Jedi was released, and we’re sorry
Chapter 2 5 mins
What were our reactions to The Force Awakens’ music when it was released?
Chapter 3 2 mins
Ice Landing and the Rebel Fanfare
Chapter 4 7 mins
Han Solo and the Princess in The Force Awakens
Chapter 5 5 mins
Scherzo for X-Wings and the undanceable dance
Chapter 6 3 mins
The Force Theme Awakens
Chapter 7 6 mins
The Homestead Burns Again
Chapter 8 1 min
The sonic signature of The Force Awakens
Chapter 9 2 mins
Williams’ emotional mood shifts and the journey to Luke Skywalker
Chapter 10 1 min
The brief return of Darth Vader
Chapter 11 7 mins
Nick promises to walk out of The Last Jedi in disgust (Narrator: he did not)
Chapter 12 3 mins
Andrew embarrasses himself with some music-inspired Last Jedi predictions
Chapter 13 3 mins
The Skywalker map and the tritone
Chapter 14 8 mins
Snoke’s supreme choir and Andrew embarrasses himself again
Chapter 15 15 mins
The death scenes of The Force Awakens and John Williams’ string lament’s across episodes
Chapter 16 1 min
Finn’s Phantom Confession
Chapter 17 2 mins
Maz Kanata’s Jabba Flow
Chapter 18 6 mins
Dan hopes for some more zany Williams jazz (Narrator: he got it)
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Episode 15: The Force Awakens - Part 1
In Episode 15, we return to the galaxy far, far away... more
Apr 3 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 5 mins
A disclaimer (and possibly an apology!)
Chapter 2 2 mins
Dan is writing a book about Star Wars
Chapter 3 2 mins
The weight of expectation for The Force Awakens
Chapter 4 6 mins
The legacy film
Chapter 5 1 min
The return of little-known composer John Williams
Chapter 6 5 mins
Rey’s theme
Chapter 7 3 mins
Rey’s riff
Chapter 8 4 mins
Rey eats her lunch, on solo flute
Chapter 9 2 mins
Rey’s abduction
Chapter 10 3 mins
Rey’s impassioned bridge
Chapter 11 8 mins
Comparison to other John Williams work: Potter and The Terminal
Chapter 12 2 mins
Williams bringing Rey and The Force together in the end credits
Chapter 13 2 mins
Rey’s theme the dance remix
Chapter 14 1 min
Musically, Rey is a Jawa
Chapter 15 5 mins
Kylo Ren’s theme
Chapter 16 4 mins
The Kylo Ren B motif the call of the dark side
Chapter 17 1 min
Ren and the Imperial March
Chapter 18 3 mins
The March of the Resistance
Chapter 19 5 mins
The March or the Fugue?
Chapter 20 6 mins
Poe’s theme
Chapter 21 2 mins
Finn’s rhythmic motif
Chapter 22 9 mins
The mixed-meter Falcon theme
Chapter 23 1 min
John Williams as the bloodline of Star Wars
Chapter 24 58 sec
…and more to come in Part Two!
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Episode 14: Stranger Things
After a short break, Art of the Score enters the new... more
Jan 11 2018 1h 30m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Welcome to special guest Seja Vogel. Find Seja’s podcast, ‘Hear Sej’ here ( and her amazing Etsy store for felt synth models here (
Chapter 2 3 mins
Into the nostalgic world of Stranger Things
Chapter 3 1 min
The ‘nostalgia film’ and Fredric Jameson
Chapter 4 2 mins
Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon and their analogue synth band S U R V I V E
Chapter 5 1 min
‘Dirge’, the track that formed the Stranger Things sound
Chapter 6 3 mins
The influences and musical tools of S U R V I V E
Chapter 7 6 mins
How the music works in Stranger Things a scene comparison with Williams’ E.T
Chapter 8 3 mins
The main title is it E minor or C major?
Chapter 9 2 mins
Seja breaks down the synths involved
Chapter 10 2 mins
Seja’s meticulous reconstruction of the Main Title
Chapter 11 10 mins
Square waves and pulse waves, filter sweeps and resonance
Chapter 12 7 mins
‘Kids’ and keying between worlds
Chapter 13 3 mins
Nancy and Barb
Chapter 14 10 mins
Eleven’s theme and its development throughout season one
Chapter 15 4 mins
Lay-Z-Boy couch theme
Chapter 16 3 mins
The Upside Down
Chapter 17 4 mins
The Demogorgon
Chapter 18 2 mins
Searching the woods
Chapter 19 5 mins
The government evildoers in portamento bass
Chapter 20 5 mins
‘This isn’t you’
Chapter 21 3 mins
Linking sound with image was Stranger Things written to footage?
Chapter 22 4 mins
How each kiss is scored
Chapter 23 3 mins
Pop music in Stranger Things: The Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Chapter 24
Stranger Things’ secret pop: We Can Be Heroes
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Episode 13: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
From Hedwig’s theme to Quidditch matches, the musica... more
Nov 13 2017 1h 30m
Chapter 1 3 mins
a brief history of the franchise
Chapter 2 36 sec
Harry Potter, one of the largest franchises of the 21st century
Chapter 3 3 mins
John Williams on how he came to be involved with Harry Potter
Chapter 4 1 min
Hedwig’s Theme
Chapter 5 1 min
the celeste and its use in other films and, famously, Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Chapter 6 1 min
Andrew drops a bombshell
Chapter 7 6 mins
Breaking down Hedwig’s Theme
Chapter 8 1 min
a recounting of the day the musicians first encountered the score
Chapter 9 3 mins
Hedwig’s Theme and its variations
Chapter 10 1 min
is Hedwig’s Theme the last John Williams melody to enter pop culture?
Chapter 11 11 mins
The Flying Theme or the Nimbus 2000 Theme
Chapter 12 6 mins
Harry’s Theme or the Family Theme
Chapter 13 2 mins
the appearance of the tri-tone
Chapter 14 7 mins
Harry’s Wondrous World Theme
Chapter 15 1 min
the Hogwarts School Song
Chapter 16 2 mins
we apologise for what is about to happen…
Chapter 17 3 mins
Philosopher’s vs Sorcerer’s (Stone) and some of the localisations
Chapter 18 7 mins
The Stone motif
Chapter 19 6 mins
the Voldemort motifs
Chapter 20 8 mins
the music of Diagon Alley
Chapter 21 5 mins
some banquet music from Harry Potter and other films
Chapter 22 3 mins
the Quidditch Fanfare and its similarity to other “arena” cues
Chapter 23 2 mins
John Williams’ use of synthesizer for the Invisibility Cloak
Chapter 24 3 mins
the diegetic (harp) music of Harry Potter
Chapter 25
the action music compositional style of early 2000s John Williams
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Episode 12: Back To The Future
After a short hiatus, we’re Back – from the future –... more
Oct 18 2017 1h 47m
Chapter 1 3 mins
We’re back, from the future
Chapter 2 8 mins
Following in the Spielbergian mould
Chapter 3 2 mins
Romancing the Silvestri-Zemeckis relationship
Chapter 4 3 mins
The main theme
Chapter 5 5 mins
Asking questions through tritones
Chapter 6 3 mins
Mysterious origins of the time machine
Chapter 7 3 mins
Main theme variations
Chapter 8 7 mins
Going through the gears
Chapter 9 2 mins
The main theme, romantically
Chapter 10 2 mins
Marty’s theme
Chapter 11 4 mins
The time motif and the Back to the Future sound
Chapter 12 3 mins
Doc’s turning wheels
Chapter 13 2 mins
The octatonic scale
Chapter 14 2 mins
The Biff motif
Chapter 15 2 mins
Back to the Predator
Chapter 16 7 mins
Art of the Score dissects the climactic suite
Chapter 17 2 mins
Is it the best climax suite in film music?
Chapter 18 5 mins
The songs! The Power of Loving Back to the Future
Chapter 19 10 mins
Mister Sandman
Chapter 20 6 mins
Night Train
Chapter 21 5 mins
Earth Angel
Chapter 22 10 mins
Andrew’s Johnny B Goode telephone authorship theory of doom
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