Episode 3
Neil Brand reveals how television scores have grown in importance, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, to reach a peak in the big-budget world of Netflix and HBO.
In television鈥檚 early years, specially composed music, otherwise known as the score, which had driven big-budget movies for decades, rarely featured. In this final episode of the series, we see how the importance of a TV score grew, from its origins in the 1960s and 1970s, to reach a peak in the big-budget world of Netflix and HBO.
Neil Brand reveals that his first exposure to the impact of a score on television was in the documentaries of Jacques Cousteau, bringing adventure and drama to the natural world. He demonstrates how music has driven the success of 91热爆 natural history programmes, talking with George Fenton, the film composer behind such landmarks as Blue Planet. Fenton was also pivotal in the development of music in TV drama, with his score for Jewel in the Crown. We learn how these breakthrough drama series competed with cinema in their scale and ambition.
We also meet some maverick creators of the TV score, including Roxy Music鈥檚 Andy MacKay, who wrote the songs that powered radical 70s drama Rock Follies, and David Chase, music buff and creator of The Sopranos. Neil gets to write his own score with Signature Tracks - the team behind some of the biggest successes of US reality TV such as Real Housewives and the Kardashian series.
Finally, we see how the television score has now been forced to compete with the movies in huge blockbuster series such as Stranger Things and Game of Thrones.
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Music Played
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Maurice Jarre
The Rescue of Gasim
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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
The World At War (Main Theme / Cues)
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Geoffrey Burgon
Brideshead Theme
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George Fenton
March of The Lobsters
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Roxy Music
Ladytron
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Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
Dry Bones
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The Mills Brothers
Paper Doll
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Al Jolson With Matty Malneck's Orchestra and The Four Hits and A Miss
After You've Gone
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Katherine Jenkins & Vera Lynn
We'll Meet Again
Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. -
A3, The Sopranos (Television Soundtrack)
Dialogue From "The Sopranos" / Woke Up This Morning
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Alabama3
Woke Up This Morning
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Luba Organasova, Will Humberg & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
La Rondine / Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta
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Deep Purple
Smoke On The Water
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The Rolling Stones
Tell Me
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John Cooper Clarke
Evidently Chickentown
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Frank Sinatra
It Was A Very Good Year
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Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
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John Mauceri and The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Overture
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Kids
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The Crystals
Da Doo Ron Ron
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Neil Brand |
Production Manager | David Prichard |
Series Producer | Ian MacMillan |
Executive Producer | Roy Ackerman |