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Doctor Who theme music

piece of music created by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire
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Doctor Who theme music

Summary

Doctor Who theme music is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (374 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Doctor Who theme music's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Doctor Who theme music's composer is recorded as Ron Grainer[4].
  • Doctor Who theme music was produced by Delia Derbyshire[5].
  • Doctor Who theme music is used for theme music[6].
  • Doctor Who theme music was released on 1963[7].
  • Doctor Who theme music's tonality is recorded as C major[8].
  • Doctor Who theme music's media franchise is recorded as Doctor Who[9].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Community tags: doctor who[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 366cb792-c3ed-305f-a4cc-ed0cf78a6d32[11]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Doctor Who theme music was produced by Delia Derbyshire[5].

Publication

Doctor Who theme music was released on 1963[7].

Why It Matters

Doctor Who theme music ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (374 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Doctor Who

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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