Cat No. JM38608
Price £27.50
Composers: Glen Larson, Stuart Philips
Arranger: Leigh Anthony Phillips
Category: FILM MUSIC & MUSICALS

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PROLOGUE AND MAIN TITLE THEME

PROGRAMME NOTES :

Inspired by the success of the first Star Wars film, Universal Studios and the ABC-TV network invested large sums of money on lavish sets and visual effects to tell this epic saga of a ragtag fleet of human survivors. These last remnants of mankind, having escaped slaughter by the android Cylons, set out on a quest to find the legendary lost planet of Earth.

Composer Stu Phillips’ dramatic score for the three hour pilot film was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was also responsible for the themes to Buck Rogers and Knight Rider.

This arrangement contains the rarely heard Prologue’ music which gives a sense of the exotic with its use of bell-like percussion and sinuous flugel solo; this is followed by the now famous ‘Galactica Theme’ which is both heroic and noble in its use of fanfares and militaristic rhythms. The main theme was co-written by series creator Glen Larson.
Leigh Anthony Phillips