But instead, Djawadi gave us hints of Daenerys’s music - but the most dominant music was the Baratheon theme. ![]() So I was expecting to hear a combination of Daenerys’s music and the Stark theme for the entry to Winterfell. After a close-up of Daenerys, the Greyjoy theme gets added in to the mix in the lower strings: As the camera pans over the Iron Fleet, we hear Daenerys’s music. Take for example season six, when Daenerys teams up with the Greyjoys. Usually when there’s a union between houses, Djawadi combines the themes of these houses. Season seven closed with Jon and Daenerys riding North, and S08E01 opens with them riding into Winterfell to a characteristically frosty reception from the sceptical Northeners. But was a musical moment episode that made me raise an eyebrow, in the opening scene. ‘Winterfell’ lays out all the plot lines that are going to be crucial for the coming season, so we’re music-light in this episode and dialogue heavy. Not just because the music in this show is awesome, but also because sometimes composer Ramin Djawadi leaves intriguing musical hints in episodes. As the final season airs I’m going to try and keep up with a musical analysis of each episode as we go along. ![]() So the final season of Game of Thrones is off to a flying start, with more intrigue than you can shake a stick at in the first episode, ‘Winterfell’.
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