Music By Michael Giacchino

It's taken 172 days (that's five and a half months), but (hopefully) all the themes and motifs from seasons 1-5 of Lost are now listed. 36 main themes and 176 minor motifs in all. That's got to be a record, if not only for a TV series but maybe a composer (maybe?). With the sheer number of "suspense motifs" or "love themes" listed, I've put in brackets their common associations or characters they are usually linked with, which should hopefully give a better idea of their relation to things.

Just to give you a better idea of what counts as a motif, I am only including things that consist of two notes at a very minimum. There are many other textures and dynamics Giacchino uses for certain situations, but simply playing a note on the strings in a particular way is not contributing to the total here.

Season 6 airs on 2nd Feburary however I'll likely keep updates to a minimum (with the nature of new material in later episodes it might seem rather blank until further down the road in the season.) Keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Posted By: Anthony | Date: 11th January 2009 | Time:7:05 PM | Edits: 0

THE FOUR TROMBONES IS BACK

And I'm doing a reset. During the off-season I'm once again going through every episode of Lost, identifying all the various themes and motifs used in the show. While last year's work proved invaluable, I'm now much more comfortable with the size of the task and the sheer number of motifs the show contains. I'm only up to episode three at the time of posting this, but already I've found stuff I missed previously. So as I'll be watching the show anyway, there's no better time to double check my previous work as well as adding season 5!

Posted By: Anthony | Date: 24th July 2009 | Time:12:02 PM | Edits: 0

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