List of Music

This page lists canon and background music for Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

Most of the music was composed by Mark Isham.

Trivia
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Production Notes

 * Mark Isham has composed over 1600 tracks of music between both Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
 * About 24 minutes of new music is scored for each episode, with any additional music taken from previous episodes.
 * Mark Isham has a massive notated theme index to keep track of all characters and concepts.
 * Mark Isham composed a track entitled "Shattered Heroes" for the episode "Fall", but it was ultimately left unused.
 * "Child of the Moon" and "Sympathy for the De Vil" are named after the Rolling Stones songs of the same name.
 * For the episode "Welcome to Storybrooke", the writers Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss originally wanted the radio to play a Hall & Oates song, but could not find any 1983 songs by the duo that would fit. They went with "This Must Be the Place (Native Melody)" by Talking Heads instead.
 * Adam Horowitz is a fan of Bruce Springsteen. To date, three episodes are named after songs from the singer: "New York City Serenade", "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and "Souls of the Departed".
 * All these episodes are the midseason premieres since Season Three.
 * The sixteenth episode of the third season is named after a song sung by Kermit the Frog made famous on Sesame Street in the early 1970s.
 * The nineteenth episode of the third season takes its name from the lyrics of the Huey Lewis song "The Power of Love" from the movie Back to the Future.
 * The fifteenth episode of the fourth season is named after Ursula’s "Poor Unfortunate Souls" from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
 * However, the title of the episode is singular, while the Disney song title is plural.
 * The twenty-second episode of the fifth season is named after the song "Only You" by Yazoo, which was previously featured in "The Price" and "Dreamcatcher".