While the faces in front of the camera may be new this season on “Doctor Who,” fans will have one familiar element carryover to the new era of the series–the incidental music.
Composer Murray Gold, who has written and directed the incidental music for the show since it returned in 2005, has signed on to continue his duties for the upcoming fifth series.
“I have started writing some themes and it all looks good; I really wanted to work with Steven. Writing music for ‘Doctor Who’, there are no limitations on it; it’s not like other jobs which immediately create a ceiling to your ambitions, you know you have to work within these kind of confinements,” Gold tells Hot Off the Press. ” There aren’t any confinements on ‘Doctor Who’ and if there are in one episode, they’re pretty soon gotten rid of in another episode. I love Steven Moffat’s stuff.”
Gold is also currently at work on the incidental music for the show as well as a new version of the classic theme tune for the new era. Gold wouldn’t offer much about how he’ll re-work and tweak the iconic music, but he did play a short bit of it for interviewer, Michael Beek.
As for what fans can expect to hear in series five, Gold says it will be different and the same.
“I think they like the music and I’m sure they wanna make some refinements. I’m sure they don’t wanna throw out the baby and the bath water, otherwise they would have got somebody else,” he said. “In all honesty I make refinements anyway, when I score Steven’s episodes, because they do come at the story from a different angle. I don’t know if you can even talk about a single approach, musically, to all of the episodes as they’ve been done so far – there’s a different approach to each one – and that’ll be the same again.”
“I mean with Mark Gattiss and Gareth Roberts and people like that writing episodes, you know what their episodes are like from previous series. So it’s going to be that, with Steven’s comments, and Matt’s performance are going to be different and they might be different in structure somehow… every episode might not involve so much running down corridors! I don’t know,” he added.
