Editing Approved Music (section)

==Film Score Composers==
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*'''Alan Silvestri''': Did the themes for Back To the Future, Captain America and the Avengers.

*'''Ramin Djawadi''': Game of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim.  Hans Zimmer's protege and has worked on many other projects with Zimmer.  He's been around since the turn of the millennium, and has already gathered himself a nice shelf of awards.

*'''Danny Elfman''': AKA Batman theme guy. He's done tons of other stuff too, like Marvel junk, plenty of Tim Burton films (including Nightmare), and interestingly enough, The Simpsons of all things. Its fascinating to see how he goes from playing stuff as zany as is in these weird animated movies he's done, to something much more serious and dark, back to happy again. His old new wave band Oingo Boingo is fun too.

*'''Philip Glass''': Technically not even a movie composer, but happened to write bunch of scores anyway (most known from Koyaanisqatsi and Truman Show). Glass is first and foremost one of the lead contemporary classic composers, opera writer and the "face" of minimalism trend. As such, his compositions are build on ever-increasing repetitions, which makes ''excellent'' ambient music for your games without being tiresome or overwhelming, while lasting for 10-15 minutes a piece.

*'''Jerry Goldsmith''': Did the music for about half the pre-reboot Star Trek films (including the first one and First Contact) and the themes for Voyager and Next Generation, as well as Patton and Rambo.  His night battle theme for ''First Knight'' is suitably [[Bretonnia|Bretonnian]].  

*'''Bernard Herrmann''': Like the films of Alfred Hitchcock? This man worked with Hitch on many of his best films and single-handedly popularized screechy violin strings as a scare theme. Also scored ''Taxi Driver''.

*'''Joe Hisaishi''': The Studio Ghibli music guy. Everything from Nausicäa to Spirited Away was soundtracked by this guy, and his skills as not only a composer, but as a conductor and arranger are on full display. Lush, rich textures, incredibly well-balanced orchestral sections, as well as music that matches the tone, themes and atmosphere of the movies they're written for perfectly. Also, unlike some of the other composers on this list, his soundtracks are listenable on their own without the film they were written for.

*'''James Horner''': The man behind the epic score for ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'', which made him so famous that Paramount couldn't afford him for Star Trek after III.  Went on to do Aliens, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Mask of Zorro (''"The pointy end goes into the other man."'') and... Avatar.  Then shortly thereafter he died at age 61, surprisingly young for a person in this list.

*'''Jóhann Jóhannsson''': Scored a lot of stuff for Dennis Villeneuve's films, so expect large amounts of atmosphere, grimdark and [[awesome]]. Also worth mentioning is his synth-heavy, unsettling and totally badass score for Panos Cosmatos' Mandy. Rip in piece, sweet Icelandic prince.

*'''Ennio Morricone''': One of the pioneers and innovators of film scoring, which is fairly impressive, given that he started fairly late into that arts' existence, and it shows; the dude's style is old-school classical music. Most famous for his Spaghetti Western scores, but Morricone had quite a large array of great scores besides that, his most famous outside of the Dollars trilogy being "The Mission", which flawlessly blends Amerindian folk music with baroque chamber music. 

* '''Basil Poledouris''': Did three things that /tg & /m fucking adore (''Red October'', ''Starship Troopers'', and ''Conan the Barbarian/Destroyer''), and the rest of his career was pretty forgettable.

*'''Brian Tylor''': Another up-and-coming name active since the early 00's.  Did a few movies for Marvel (Thor: Dark World, Iron Man 3, Age of Ultron), as well as Children of [[Dune]].

*'''John Williams''': The Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and 80% of anything Spielberg guy. Has done everything, from the Grimdark tragic music of the prequel trilogy to the heroic themes of Superman and The Goonies. The man just has a talent for this that you can simply spend hours appreciating. His music is considered to be the "real spice" behind all the films he puts sound to. If you have heard of Star Wars and not of this man then you are either a [[Ork|mongoloid]] or [[Tau|extraordinarily sheltered]].  Of all the people on this list only Morricone and Williams are held in regard by the classical music community for writing stuff that stands on its own merits without their movies.  

*'''Hans Zimmer''': Award winning guy from The Lion King who has also composed sheer awesome music for films ranging from total [[fail]] to pure unadultered [[awesome]]. Jack Sparrow theme anyone? How about Gladiator? Maybe Inception has your tastes right now? All Hans Zimmer. Specializes in, and pioneered, a blend of traditional orchestral arranging with modern compositional software, leading to his signature synth "BWAH"s and instense, stabbing string textures which are all oh-so present in much of his work. This has lead to some instances of [[skub]] within the classical community, but you'd be a fool to say that he isn't influential, at the very least.