Yellowstone wouldn’t be complete without the sweeping orchestral sounds that open each episode. And naturally, it was all Taylor Sheridan’s idea to make the title sequences sound big and dramatic, said composer Brian Tyler, who joined his colleague Breton Vivian at Deadline’s Sound & Screen event that focused on the big of both the Paramount Network drama and the Paramount+ prequel 1923. “He was writing Yellowstone and was thinking that he wanted to do very cinematic kind of approach.
He wanted orchestral music and he wanted something very emotional that explored the dark side too, that which reflects dynamically against the beauty,” Tyler said. “It’s like where tragedy is beauty and you understand one because of the other.
So I got together with him and, you know, he has his cowboy boots on and everything and … he’s amazing. We just started talking about music and … just understanding the story.
And then all of a sudden I found myself writing that first piece from the screenplay. And the Yellowstone theme became that.” Vivian brought an eclectic background to his composition for 1923, the Yellowstone prequel.
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