August 11th, 2015
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Special Edition of Doctor Who Magazine out Thursday 13 August – The Music of Doctor Who!
Six decades of sound design and musical innovation
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Heather Ackroyd
August 14th, 2015 - 3:28pmI just learned that my name and pic is in this one, on the piece about the Doctor Who Fan Orchestra. I can’t wait to get hold of a copy to read it.
Peking Homunculus
August 13th, 2015 - 1:20amOne of the scores that has stuck with me is the music from City of Death. And of course the Cybermen’s theme from Tomb of the Cybermen.(well, it’s most famous as their theme, i think it may not have been the only use)
McGann is the Doctor
August 13th, 2015 - 7:59pmthe “tomb of the cybermen cybermen march theme” is actually a generic piece of space-themed music that was made by a different group without Doctor Who in mind
Floppy Who
August 12th, 2015 - 8:27pmRADIOPHONICS!!!!.,
(Just thought I’d put that out there..!)
Nobody in particular
August 12th, 2015 - 5:30pmThis looks like a good read. Not sure why they say ‘six decades’ on the front though. Five decades and two years doesn’t really classify as a sixth decade
Zygon63
August 14th, 2015 - 9:25pmWell, it’s been around during six decades… 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s…
Peter
August 12th, 2015 - 11:35amIt’s a pity they didn’t include a CD on the cover with some sample tracks.
Anonymous
August 12th, 2015 - 10:40pmMaybe, but apparently they have included You Tube links so you can in many cases hear a piece you’ve just been reading about.
Tom
August 11th, 2015 - 7:10pmAs a composer and sound designer my self I look forward to reading this one
josh smith
August 11th, 2015 - 6:50pmHate the cover 🙁
matparks08
August 11th, 2015 - 5:04pmWhat a strange magazine to bring out…surely the idea of music is to hear it, and if you haven’t seen the episodes they look into how can you possibly know what the music is like. That being said, there’s some very memorable pieces of incidental music in Who’s history!
DOCTOR WHO ONE
August 11th, 2015 - 6:29pmIt may not be everyone cup of tea to read about the making of the music used in Doctor Who since it’s humble beginnings since 1963, but I can imagine a lot of fan’s would enjoy reading this, especially those fan’s on YouTube who make their own renditions of the Doctor Who theme or Stephen Willis’ ‘Doctor Who Fan Orchestra’ on YouTube 🙂
Course, Doctor Who does indeed have some very memorable songs, from Rose’s theme to ‘Song of Freedom’, to ‘Vale Decem’ and even ‘I am the Doctor’.
bryan Simcott
August 11th, 2015 - 7:52pmThere have been some wonderful Interviews, over the years in DWM about the Music, By the Musicians, and thier approach. Not everyone is aware of Click tracks, Holding scores, Why certain music is used, why music is used at all even.
Lots of reasons to read about music, from the people who make it. Thats why Musicians are some of the Biggest Biography Sellers in the world. There are whole sections of waterstones, with books on Music. And with the importance of the theme music and other stand out themes used over the years, this is one special I have been waiting for and wondered why it was not an essential Bookazine.