TV and Film music
The 12 best uses of classical music in film
What are the best ever uses of classical music masterpieces in film? From heartbreaking love stories to apocalyptic visions, we select our top 12
Star Wars music: ranking the nine film scores from worst to best
How do all nine Star Wars scores stack up? Here's our ranking of the best and worst Star Wars music
We asked today's best screen composers for the greatest movie score of all time. Here's how they voted
We asked over 60 of today's very best film and television composers to tell us which scores would be in their top five of all time, and they didn't disappoint.
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Best movie scores of all time: 20 scores that changed the way we feel movies
Grab the popcorn, dim the lights and settle in for a run through our ranking of the greatest film scores of all time...
Jaws at 50: how John Williams' groundbreaking soundtrack saved Spielberg's cinematic masterpiece from disaster
As Steven Spielberg’s Jaws celebrates its 50th birthday, Charlotte Smith explores the vital role played by John Williams’s famously unsettling soundtrack
Which classical musicians should be the stars of Hollywood blockbusters?
Hollywood has taken an unexpected interest in classical music of late, says Tom Service – so here are some suggestions for their next blockbusting successes
Ranked: the 15 best movie musicals of all time
Ever since sound and film were first united in The Jazz Singer (1927), the musical has been a staple of cinema history and popular culture, but what are the best film musicals of all time?
These are the 15 best movie songs of all time
Are these the 15 greatest original movie songs of all time?
These eight moments in Disney's Fantasia changed how the world heard classical music
It's not just The Sorcerer's Apprentice that makes an appearance in Fantasia. We name all the works – by the likes of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky – that appear in the original 1940 film
The 11 Alan Silvestri film scores you need to hear!
In honour of the great Hollywood composer’s 75th birthday, here’s our rundown of what we think is his very best work…
Lord of the Rings composer honoured at the first ever London Soundtrack Festival
Oscar-winning Canadian composer Howard Shore was awarded ‘The Gunning Inspiration Award’ at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the first ever London Soundtrack Festival…
These are the 11 most unforgettable uses of music in TV and film
From Manhattan to Ghost via A Clockwork Orange, here are 11 unforgettable music moments from film and TV history
G'day! 'Neighbours' celebrates 40 years... but who wrote its classic theme tune?
It’s probably one of the most familiar tunes on TV, but who wrote the iconic theme tune for ‘Neighbours’, the Australian daytime drama which celebrates 40 years on our screens?
Ranked: the 15 greatest Disney songs (a certain decade gave us almost half of them)
Sean Wilson chooses his best Disney songs of all time - do you agree with his choices?
Why's that tune stuck in your head? The science behind earworms
What are earworms? Are they common and how do I get rid of them? Read on to discover more about this annoying musical phenomenon...
And the Oscar goes to… The Brutalist
It was Hollywood’s big night and, musically speaking, it belonged to composer Daniel Blumberg…
And the BAFTA goes to… Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist
The British composer took home the BAFTA for Original Score last night, in recognition of his thrillingly original music for The Brutalist…
40 Years of EastEnders – Meet the composer behind one of British TV’s most familiar tunes
As the BBC’s flagship soap celebrates its 40th anniversary, we sit down for a chat with Simon May, the composer who wrote its eminently hummable theme music
John Williams scores: The 10 most unforgettable soundscapes from Hollywood's master of atmosphere
What are the American composer John Williams's very best film scores, and what makes them so? Here’s a starter for ten, from big hitters the world knows and loves to some that might not be so familiar
Charlie Chaplin: not just a movie legend. A fine composer, too
His name and face are iconic, but what about the music? Jim Lochner explores the genius of Charlie Chaplin, an Oscar-winning composer
Leonard Slatkin: my memories growing up in the Hollywood of Frank Sinatra and Doris Day
As he marks his 80th birthday, conductor Leonard Slatkin shares his lifelong connection to the music of Hollywood
Best sci-fi movie scores of all time: 11 perfect evocations of strangeness, adventure and other worlds
To the moon and beyond: we choose the best cinematic scores for science fiction films
The Apprentice: what music is used for the theme tune?
We take a look at the popular BBC show, The Apprentice's iconic theme tune
The Godfather music: why was Nino Rota's score disqualified from the 1972 Oscars?
Despite being initially nominated, Nino Rota's score for 'The Godfather' was replaced by John Addison's soundtrack for 'Sleuth'.