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There's loads of arrangements of it and a lot of them are great, but the original Derbyshire arrangement has a kind of ethereal, haunting quality to it, kind of spooky, sounds other-worldly but also somehow organic (despite the fact it was made electronically.)

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  • There's loads of arrangements of it and a lot of them are great, but the original Derbyshire arrangement has a kind of ethereal, haunting quality to it, kind of spooky, sounds other-worldly but also somehow organic (despite the fact it was made electronically.)
  • It has also been used for most licensed works featuring the central Doctor Who characters, with the exception of the two Peter Cushing films of the mid-1960s, spin-off programmes, and the occasional audio production that has not featured any theme music. The original version of the theme (heard from 1963-1967, and in a modified arrangement from 1967-1980) is considered a milestone in electronic music and a predecessor of the electronica genre of music.
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  • There's loads of arrangements of it and a lot of them are great, but the original Derbyshire arrangement has a kind of ethereal, haunting quality to it, kind of spooky, sounds other-worldly but also somehow organic (despite the fact it was made electronically.) Apparently each note was individually created by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down hundreds of bits of tape containing recordings of a single plucked string (DUN DUN DUN bassline), white noise (whooshy noises), and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators recorded at different pitches (OOO-WEEE-OOO main melody). It also has a glorious middle eight.
  • It has also been used for most licensed works featuring the central Doctor Who characters, with the exception of the two Peter Cushing films of the mid-1960s, spin-off programmes, and the occasional audio production that has not featured any theme music. The original version of the theme (heard from 1963-1967, and in a modified arrangement from 1967-1980) is considered a milestone in electronic music and a predecessor of the electronica genre of music. Although Grainer has always been credited as the theme's sole composer, several histories of the series indicate that, due to Delia Derbyshire's involvement in creating the theme's iconic initial arrangement, Grainer attempted, without success, to have her credited as co-composer.
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