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David Arnold on his approach for scoring Sherlock (and plans for 2016), excerpted from a June 15 2016  BBC interview (x).

[Interviewer]: The modern Sherlock by Cumberbatch and co., you’ve done the music for that with Michael Price. So how did you approach defining it musically?

David Arnold:

There’s a certain amount that you bring to Sherlock Holmes because there’s so much we know about him. But again that’s all about character.

There’s two parts to it. There’s the Sherlock Holmes theme and the Doctor Watson theme. They’re both mirror images of each other.

I think the Doctor Watson theme allows us to bring the humanity to the show, and Holmes, I suppose, to a certain extent the inhumanity.

There is a kind of sense of yearning in the main theme, in the title sequence, which suggests to us perhaps that there is something more going on than just this kind of seemingly uncaring genius, but we never really get to the bottom of that. You hint at it, through the various things have happened in the show.

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