Doctor Who - The Music

Infobox Album |
Name = Doctor Who - The Music
Type = Compilation album
Artist = BBC Radiophonic Workshop


Released = 1983
Recorded = 1963, 1972, 1980 - 1983
Genre = Electronic music
Length = 40:24 / 51:24
Label = BBC Records
Producer = Dick Mills
Reviews =
Compiler = Dick Mills
Chronology =
Last album = "BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects" (1981)
This album = "Doctor Who - The Music"
Next album = "The Soundhouse" (1983)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = "Earthshock" cover
Background = darkseagreen


Lower caption =

"Doctor Who - The Music" was a 1983 compilation of music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop featuring incidental music from the popular science-fiction television series "Doctor Who". The album was the first full-length to feature solely music from the programme. 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 Radiophonic Workshop. Most of the music included came from serials from the previous three years to demonstrate the recent composers' works. For the album, each serial's incidental music was reassembled into short "suites" and although most of the music had been recorded in mono it was, for this compilation, remixed into stereo with sound effects added on to some tracks. The album was re-released in 1992 by Silva Screen records as "Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1", with bonus tracks including "The World of Doctor Who", a track recorded by Mills as a B-side to Dudley Simpson's 1973 "Moonbase 3" single, which featured a mix of music from the serial "The Mind of Evil" with sound effects from "Planet of the Daleks" before finishing with Simpson's "Master's Theme". Selections from both this compilation and its follow-up, "Doctor Who - The Music II", were also re-used on the 1994 Silva Screen compilation "The Best Of Doctor Who Volume 1 - The Five Doctors".

Track listing

Original track listing
#Delia Derbyshire - "TARDIS - "Doctor Who""
#Malcolm Clarke - "The Sea Devils"
#Peter Howell - "Meglos"
#Roger Limb - "Nyssa's Theme" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "Kassia's Wedding Music" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "The Threat of Melkur" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "Exploring the Lab" (from "Four to Doomsday")
#Roger Limb - "Nyssa is Hypnotized" (from "Four to Doomsday")
#Peter Howell - "The Leisure Hive"
#Roger Limb - "Omega Field Force" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Roger Limb - "Ergon Threat" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Roger Limb - "Termination of the Doctor" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Peter Howell - "Banqueting Music" (from "Warriors' Gate")
#Peter Howell - "TSS Machine Attacked" (from "Kinda")
#Peter Howell - "Janissary Band" (from "Snakedance")
#Malcolm Clarke - "Subterranean Caves" (from "Earthshock")
#Malcolm Clarke - "Requiem" (from "Earthshock")
#Malcolm Clarke - "March of the Cybermen" (from "Earthshock")
#Peter Howell - ""Doctor Who""
*Brian Hodgson is credited with "special sound" on tracks 1 and 2
*Dick Mills is credited with "special sound" on tracks 3 - 18

1992 "Earthshock" track listing
#Delia Derbyshire - "TARDIS - "Doctor Who""
#Malcolm Clarke - "The Sea Devils"
#Peter Howell - "Meglos"
#Dick Mills - "The World of Doctor Who" (composed by Dudley Simpson)
#Delia Derbyshire - "Blue Veils and Golden Sands" (from "Inferno")
#Roger Limb - "Nyssa's Theme" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "Kassia's Wedding Music" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "The Threat of Melkur" (from "The Keeper of Traken")
#Roger Limb - "Exploring the Lab" (from "Four to Doomsday")
#Roger Limb - "Nyssa is Hypnotized" (from "Four to Doomsday")
#Peter Howell - "The Leisure Hive"
#Delia Derbyshire - "The Delian Mode" (from "Inferno")
#Roger Limb - "Omega Field Force" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Roger Limb - "Ergon Threat" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Roger Limb - "Termination of the Doctor" (from "Arc of Infinity")
#Peter Howell - "Banqueting Music" (from "Warriors' Gate")
#Peter Howell - "TSS Machine Attacked" (from "Kinda")
#Peter Howell - "Janissary Band" (from "Snakedance")
#Malcolm Clarke - "Subterranean Caves" (from "Earthshock")
#Malcolm Clarke - "Requiem" (from "Earthshock")
#Malcolm Clarke - "March of the Cybermen" (from "Earthshock")
#Delia Derbyshire - "TARDIS - "Doctor Who" - Reprise"
*Brian Hodgson is credited with "special sound" on tracks 1 and 2
*Dick Mills is credited with "special sound" on track 3 and tracks 6 - 21

External links

* [http://www.mb21.co.uk/ether.net/radiophonics/reh462.shtml mb21 Discography entry]
* [http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/audio/composed-bbcr.html Album information]
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