What would Game of Thrones be with out its theme music? Composed by Ramin Djawadi, the music has change into so indelible you could possibly play it on nearly something and the vibe remains to be there. Djawadi was informed to keep away from flutes, pianos, and violins (since they’ve been featured so typically in fantasy themes), and so as a substitute he made an absolute banger out of cellos enjoying a minor key, making an animated map really feel completely epic and surprisingly versatile.

So it is sensible that House of the Dragon wouldn’t reinvent the wheel there with their very own title sequence. While co-creators Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik mentioned they needed to keep away from a title sequence within the pilot, episode 2 marks the debut of the official House of the Dragon opening sequence.

The title sequence brings again Game of Thrones’ unique theme, however modifications up the visuals to match the collection’ concentrate on House Targaryen. Meanwhile, the visuals of the brand new title sequence take viewers in a hovering view of the present’s characters, represented by numerous trinkets and symbols, utilizing the identical cogs and gears that turned the Westeros map for the opening sequence of the unique present. Meanwhile, because the digicam pans throughout all of those symbols, a brilliant crimson stream of blood runs down the partitions of a fortress finally protecting each.

Djawadi is again at it once more with the cellos, one thing he informed Entertainment Weekly he noticed because the “big sound of Game of Thrones.” Beyond that Djawadi says he targeted on pulling the themes he thought had been most helpful from the unique present in creating a brand new sound for House of the Dragon.

“This is all about the Targaryens, so the big thing was to keep their sound and their themes,” Djawadi informed EW. “Definitely the sound that Daenerys had is tied to the Targaryens. The sound is the same. However, I think it’s important to point out that, actually, Daenerys has a separate theme than the Dragon theme. So, they’re the two separate themes, but sonically, they’re similar.”