
I thought it would be cool to kinda do the same play with the music. Djawadi said that he wanted to reflect the "backstabbing and conspiracy" and the unpredictability of the show: ". The tune begins with the riff played on strings in a minor key, then changed to a major key after 2 bars, and back to minor again. Cello is featured strongly as Benioff and Weiss wanted to avoid the flutes or solo vocals found in many other productions in the fantasy genre so as to give the show a distinctive sound, and Djawadi chose cello as the main instrument for the music as he thought it has a "darker sound" that suited the show.ĭjawadi started with a riff and he built the title theme around the riff. Djawadi said he intended to capture the overall impression of the show with the theme tune. After Djawadi had seen the preliminary animated title sequence the visual effect artists were still working on, he was inspired to write the piece. According to Djawadi, the show creators wanted the main title theme to be about a journey as there are many locations, characters in the show and involves much traveling. Weiss sent him, and discussed the concepts of the show with them.


Ramin Djawadi began composing the music for the show after he had watched the first two episodes of the series that the showrunners David Benioff and D.B.

The theme most commonly plays and is most known for in the title sequence but also plays throughout other parts of the series (usually during important moments such as finales).

It has appeared the most out of any theme or motif on the Game of Thrones soundtracks and is the main theme of the entire series. The Game of Thrones theme is a theme appearing in the Game of Thrones Television Soundtracks.
