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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Scoring

 * 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 sometimes writes themes for new characters based on scripts, but usually he writes them after the episode is edited.
 * Each episode is usually scored after they are edited. Exceptions include ballroom scenes, where they send the music in advance so that they can film to them.
 * In the middle of the Season, the scoring process for an episode is usually one week from spotting the episode to scoring stage.
 * Mark Isham composed a track entitled "Shattered Heroes" for the episode "Fall", but it was ultimately left unused.
 * Mark Isham has been streaming portions of his scoring sessions on Periscope, beginning with the second half of Season Five:
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Promo Music

 * A theme song titled "Rescue Me (How the Story Ends)" was written and performed by music artist Kerrie Roberts specifically for the series. It was used in an early promo for the series in 2011, months before it premiered, but was ultimately unused for the series itself.
 * Kerrie Roberts released the song on iTunes, under an Extended Play titled Once Upon a Time.
 * The song "People Are Strange" by The Doors was used in the promo for "Hat Trick".
 * The song "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell was used in promo videos for "A Land Without Magic". The song is notably known as the leitmotif of the film Requiem for a Dream.
 * The song "A Little Taste" by Skyler Stonestreet was used in a promo for ABC's Fall 2012 lineup.
 * The song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen is used in a promo for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
 * A track titled "Emma Swan" was scored specifically for the Dark Swan promotional video that was shown at San Diego Comic Con 2015.
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Episode Titles

 * "Child of the Moon" and "Sympathy for the De Vil" are named after the Rolling Stones songs of the same name.
 * Adam Horowitz is a fan of Bruce Springsteen. To date, four episodes are named after songs from the singer: "New York City Serenade", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Souls of the Departed" and "Tougher Than The Rest".
 * 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".
 * The tenth episode of the sixth season is named after the Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here" and the album of the same name. Adam Horowitz is a fan of the band.
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Miscellaneous

 * 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.
 * Notable music artists have guest starred on the show. These include Roger Daltry as the Caterpillar, who was replaced by another music artist Iggy Pop for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland; and Marilyn Manson as the Shadow.