#Music anayisis

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Analysing and Comparing the Themes in Doctor Who Series 11 - Segun Akinola - and Doctor Who Series’ 1-10 - Murray Gold

For me personally, I think Murray Gold is a huge loss to Doctor Who, But Segun Akinola has a lot of potential to become an iconic part of the new generation of the show. In this, I’m going to compare the 13th Doctor’s theme, with the 9th, 10th, and 11th, plus provide some of my own opinions and draw attention to some things that bothered me about the new series music wise.

The Doctor’s Theme Season 11

It’s actually a really nice track, I admit, but the new season didn’t give Segun Akinola a chance to play this in full, or a chance to repeat this theme in areas of emotional significance. For the most part, the music in the background of Season 11 has been just ambient noise, and not a lot of orchestral or choir pieces that really add to the setting. Which is a shame, because the music is such a big part of Doctor Who. Just listening to the series 11 sountrack, I can tell he did some really good themes, really nice tracks, but going through the series, a lot of them weren’t used for very long, not allowing Segun Akinola to show off his music.

What I think of the track: I liked it. It calls back to series 1 - 4, while also making it something new. I like the new spin on it that Segun Akinola’s doing, and I just wish the new season gave him more places to play that.

How it describes The Doctor: It shows her adventurous, curious spirit, her general nature. It starts as something almost sad, something that feels like ‘rebirth’ as that’s kind of the whole basis of 13. Once it picks up, it almost has a feel of wonder and feels similar to music from lord of the Rings. When it gets to the synthesizers, part of it feels like peril, like somethings weighing down on you as you listen. When it picks up again, that’s when you go ‘Okay, time to Run’. 

This theme completely describes 13 perfectly, and it’s a shame Segun Akinola didn’t get the chance to show this track off. That’s not his fault, it’s the showrunner’s I think. Unfortunately, not every track in the soundtrack is as good as this.

Then there’s Murray Gold. The Doctor’s Theme Series 1 and 2

This was used in other tracks that held significance for The Doctor. 

How it describes The Doctor: It shows that Nine and Ten are, at their core, softer than their exterior would allow. When used with Nine, it showed his caring side, more emotional side. When used with Ten, who is widely considered as one of the more emotional Doctor’s of the newer seasons, it basically just sums up his personality. Murray Gold changed it slightly for season 4, making the Track more epic, more dramatic, because Ten was a dramatic Doctor, and used it in both sadness and anger type situations.

The Doctor’s Theme series 5

This theme is epic and is adapted and twisted in other tracks. Murray Gold was a master of doing this.

How it describes This Doctor: Matt Smith’s Doctor wasn’t quite on the softer side from word go. No, he was all energy and running, he never really seemed to stop and take note of the littler things like 9 and 10 did. 11 was jumpy and action-packed, running towards the danger, and this theme showed that.

These themes were repeated and used in different tracks to create defining moments. Like Gallifrey. Whenever The Doctor talks about Gallifrey, especially in seasons 3, 4 and the Specials of the David Tennant era, we hear a variation of this track:

In the specials, this is the theme simply title ‘Gallifrey’

And again in the specials, the track ‘The Council of the Time Lords’ uses the same base theme. 

My whole point of this post is mainly to showcase Doctor Who’s finest music, and also to point out a few things I didn’t quite like from the new season. I hope Segun Akinola has a chance to really show off his skills like Murray Gold was able to, and I hope in the future, that Segun’s music will become such an iconic staple of the show, that eventually, when it comes time, it’ll be as much of a loss to lose him as it was Murray. He has so much potentional if he’s allowed to show off his themes, he’s limited a lot, and it’s not allowing his music to shine. He’s got a new style, a new way of going about it and I’m curious to see how he does series 12. I hope in series 12, he really lets himself go and gets the recognition in each episode that Murray got constantly. Segun’s a lot younger than Murray. He’s only 25 or 26, while Murray’s 50. He’s got a long way to go but is already incredibly accomplished. I have hope that he’ll find his footing in the show and be able to let his tracks shine.

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