Abstract
From Electronic Beginnings to Orchestral Splendour: A Comparison of Doctor Who's “The Daleks” (1963-64) and “Heaven Sent” (2015)
Highlights
With a history spanning almost sixty years and a place as an iconic part of British popular culture, Doctor Who is an apposite object for studying incidental music’s role in sciencefiction television
Music in Doctor Who is integral to the programme’s success, with a wide variety of music deployed across its history, appropriate for its time and production atmosphere: cutting-edge in the s at the forefront of the avant-garde, heralded as the British equivalent of Stockhausen and Schaeffer; and mainstream, grand, orchestral music for the revival
This study explores the appropriateness of both styles of incidental music, concluding by looking to the programme’s future with its new composer, Segun Akinola
Summary
With a history spanning almost sixty years and a place as an iconic part of British popular culture, Doctor Who is an apposite object for studying incidental music’s role in sciencefiction television.
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