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Series Three

  Series Three episodes
S & J TSC Glock DiM EotD TLE 42 HN FoB Blink Utopia SoD LotTL
action motifs Judoon ●                        
All the Strange, Strange Creatures / power *     ● - -   ○   ○   ○ ○ ○
urban battles ○     ○ ○       ○        
UNIT                       ○  
vamps alien hunt ●                        
kidnap     ●                    
behind you     ● ○                  
in the sky         ○       ○        
cathedral hunt           ●              
universal roaming             ●            
sabotage             ●            
countdown             ●            
jettison             ●            
Blink (suite) I / lonely assassins                   ●      
Torchwood                     ○ ○  
Futurekind                     ●    
emotive motifs Martha's Theme ● ○ ○   ○ ○ ○   ○       ○
Earthlight ●                        
mercy ●                        
space of creation     ○                    
Face of Boe     ○                   ○
Hooverville       ● ○                
space threat       ○ ○   ○            
girl blues       ●                  
Laszlo       ●                  
Lazarus           ●              
solar life             ●            
Mr. Smith and Joan               ●          
Miss Joan Redfern / impossible journal waltz               ●          
Only Martha Knows / maid waltz               ●          
Doctor's Theme / Bad Wolf               ○         ○
Dream of a Normal Death                 ●        
Blink (suite) II / Billy Shipton                   ●      
Rose's Theme / home                     ○    
Martha's Quest / indomitable humanity                     ● ○ ○
trapped                         ○
dramatic motifs Doctor Forever ○ ○ ○   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○   ○ ○
Drowning Dry   ● ○ ○ ○                
Carrionites Swarm / portal   ●                      
traffic     ●                    
hybridization       ●                  
Evolution of the Daleks*       ● ○                
Doctor's Battle         ○               ○
Dalek opera         ○                
New Adventures               ○          
Smith's Choice               ●          
Just Scarecrows to War / scarecrow march                 ●        
This is Gallifrey                     ● ○ ○
rocket                     ●    
humor motifs Pharmacy Town     ●                    
Gridlocked Cassinis     ●                    
miscellany moon ●                        
panic ●                        
bubble ●                        
non-human ●                        
plasmavore ●                        
CPR ●                        
MRI bomb ●                        
lute (tune)   ●                      
Elizabethan   ●                      
motorway mystery     ●                    
alien sounds       ○ ○                
high ambitions       ●                  
preparations       ●                  
pig & showgirl         ●                
blender           ●              
reborn           ●              
empire           ●              
Saxon aide           ●              
LazLabs escapes           ●              
urgent assistance             ●            
relationships             ●            
Saxon spies             ●            
village waltz               ●          
Family of Blood               ●          
stories across time (Utopia)                   ● ○    
conglomeration                     ●    
Master Vainglorious +                     ● ○ ○
Master Tape +                       ● ○
spoken threats                       ● ○

The definitions of "recordings" and "performances" are stretched a bit in this series. If a piece is not composed for the series, and not performed live, I am describing it as a recording--whether the characters hear the results or not. If people are singing or shown playing instruments onscreen, I am accepting the audio results as a performance--even though some of the performances are of the composed music.

Recordings in Series Three episodes:

Live performances in Series Three episodes:

* - "All the Strange, Strange Creatures," the primary action cue for Series 3, plays in the action climax of Gridlock as well as 42 and Family of Blood. The motif's latter part is also the underlying vamp which is overlaid with choral work in the broadcast version of the "Evolution" motif first heard in Daleks in Manhattan. Since the piece is introduced here with another "song on top" so to speak, and because Evolution of the Daleks has so many extensions, variations, and distinctions of both the choral and instrumental aspects, I am listing it as a separate motif. (To take the linkages even further, the "urban battles" and the "power" action motifs share a lot of melodic resonance [but offer rhythmic differentiation]. The two motifs followed each other to great effect in the two-stage Hooverville attack in Evolution of the Daleks.)

+ - The "Master Vainglorious" is not just one motif (from Utopia through Last of the Time Lords). It is a group of cues, all connected with the character. They could be subdivided into the "psychotic Mas-ter fanfare," the "RTD alarm clock" (those 4 beats within a 6/8 rhythm), a swirling ostinato, as well as the 'techno' music played for Martha's capture. (And, for that matter, it could include his final scene.) Beyond that track, a particular "swaggering" cue for the Master in Sound of Drums is represented (a bit beyond the broadcast episode!) by "Master Tape."


Christmas 2006

The Runaway Bride
action motifs Runaway Bride / (motorway) Chase ●
Santa Attack II ●
urban battles ●
vamps in the sky ●
emotive motifs After the Chase ●
Doctor's Theme / Bad Wolf ○
space of creation ●
Bride out of Time ●
Doctor Forever ●
dramatic motifs Doctor's Battle ●
humor motifs Donna's Theme I / rumba ●
taxi toons ●
Donna's Theme II / Clements & proposals ●
waltz ●
Jingle Bells ◎
miscellany Thames rhapsody ●

Live performances in the Runaway Bride:

According to Doctor Who Magazine #378 p. 16, the initial music for the episode was supposed to have been the wedding processional, but it was a production goof.

Recordings in the Runaway Bride:

"Love Don't Roam" is a "recording" in that it is heard that way by the characters, but it is of course composed for the episode.

As in the Christmas Invasion, the characters apparently do not hear the (waltz or the) Jingle Bells tune; it is only for the viewers.

There are some notational examples included here so far, but this episode is so rich and complex in its musical motifs that I will be... writing up quite a bit about it, probably with more examples. Stay tuned...


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