Theme music

A theme song or theme music is a music that initiates a radio or television broadcast, or is used in modifications in several movies.

Use

The melody in the opening credits of a television series or television show is composed by the composer to the widest possible recognition value to and can actually - to develop a real popular song or chart hit - on success of each series.

A theme song can also be used for recurring broadcasts or for other media such as computer games. So the mission reports today in the NDR and WDR radio program entitled Wade is introduced into the Water of jazz musician Ramsey Lewis for decades. The NDR radio broadcast between Hamburg and Haiti used also for many years the title Fiesta in Belo Horizonte by the composer Martin Böttcher from the documentary ... for example Brazil.

When used with movies, which can be described as a series or series, composers often use variations of the theme music of the first film, such as the composer Ron Goodwin for the films of the Miss Marple series. In the official James Bond movies almost all films are introduced by a variation of the theme song of the composer Monty Norman.