Dominic Francis Glynn (born 27 September 1960 in Cuckfield, Sussex) is an English

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composer. Glynn is a prolific composer of music for television and film. His work includes the arrangement of the ''Doctor Who'' theme music which served as the series' theme for

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of the programme. It was replaced by

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's arrangement the next season. He also wrote the incidental music for the ''Doctor Who'' stories ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Dragonfire'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Big Finish Productions has used his arrangement of the theme on several audio plays featuring the

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, starting with ''

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'' in 2003. Glynn has a long-term working relationship as composer for the films of British filmmaker Anthony Baxter, which began with the 2011 documentary '' You've Been Trumped''. Subsequent films include '' A Dangerous Game'' (2014), '' You’ve Been Trumped Too'' (2016), '' Flint: Who Can You Trust'' (2020) and '' Eye of the Storm'' (2021) which won the

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for Specialist Factual in 2021. In the early 2000s Glynn collaborated with screenwriter David McGillivray, writing the music for a series of short low budget horror films which were screened at The

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. In 2007, Glynn wrote and performed the score for the British crime thriller ''Bad Day'', starring

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and

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and

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. As a regular writer for

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, and other production music libraries, his music has featured in episodes of ''

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'', '' Red Dwarf'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Eerie Indiana'', and the feature films ''

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'' and '' Kevin & Perry Go Large''. In 2005/2006, his composition "Dangerous Beauty" was used as the theme to the hit Dutch television thriller series, ''Vuurzee''. A number of his production music tracks have been aired on the

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TV channel "bumps". Glynn has also been active in the alternative electronica field, running the left field record label, No Bones Records and recording under the names Fluid and Cybajaz and, with Justin Mackay, as Syzygy. Much of his work as Syzygy was released during the 1990s on Rising High Records. Syzygy also released music on Infonet Records — an electronic music offshoot of

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. He also co-composed the score of the

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'' Forsaken'' (performing as The Swarm) and also contributed music for ''

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'', both published by

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. He has collaborated with Michael Faulkner's '' D-Fuse AV'' in both live performance and music videos, and has been seen regularly as both artist and DJ at The Big Chill. Glynn has written soundtrack music for many of B7 Productions's audio plays, based on the BBC TV series ''

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'', which subsequently were aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

References

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