This current BSG has changed the music over opening titles.
Do you know what the artist, or name of the CD or where I can find the original music?
It sounded very similar but was more mysterious and haunting.
The Mini-series, Season 1, and Season 2 have all had their own soundtracks that you can buy (Amazon, etc.).
You might find this interesting:
BearMcCreary.com - the composer of BSG.
Go into the online demo, click on video demo, and then on the BSG Promo 1 "Prelude to War" - you will NOT be disappointed - one of the best one and a half minute music videos you will ever see. You can also find it at
YouTube, but it's the same thing at the composer's site listed above.
If you go in and read his blog, the September 13, 2006 entry (under previous entries), he talks about writing for BSG:
I get asked pretty frequently about the use (or lack thereof) of "themes" in Battlestar Galactica. The word "theme" was something that the producers wanted to avoid as they re-launched Galactica, I think because they felt that strong, orchestral fanfare had been done to death in science fiction. Beyond that conceptual premise, the reality is that orchestral bombast in the score would ruin the carefully constructed sense of realism in the writing and production.
However, a musical theme is more malleable and subtle than many people realize. Star Wars and Star Trek have defined "theme" for more than a generation. In reality, many of those "themes" are full-fledged songs, with a unique A-section, B-secton and coda. A theme can be much simpler and more minimal, consisting of the smallest amount of musical information necessary to form identity. This is the model I've based Battlestar on. Think Close Encounters instead of Star Wars.
One of the interesting things about working on a television series (as opposed to a stand-alone film) is that you never know when or how characters are going to develop. I will sometimes introduce a theme for a character and then find out that character dies in the next episode! As a result, I've ended up with close to 60 themes, or signature musical elements, in the 35 shows I've scored thus far. While some of them ended up being unique to their specific episode, many have woven themselves into the sonic tapestry of the show.
Watch the video I linked to above - a lot of us don't pay attention to the music until we see something like that video.