Dune (2021 film) soundtrack albums

The 2021 Dune film adaptation by Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part One) was the first screen adaptation of Dune to have several soundtrack albums published during the release of the film. The soundtracks were composed by Hans Zimmer.

Soundtrack albums
The music of the 2021 Dune adaptation was published in three separate soundtrack albums, a main one with the official film score, and two additional ones that focus on further elaborating elements from the main soundtrack, including more elaborate variations on leitmotifs.


 * Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
 * The Dune Sketchbook
 * The Art and Soul of Dune

Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 * Released by: WaterTower Music
 * Release date: September 17, 2021
 * Runtime: 74:12
 * Producer: Hans Zimmer


 * 1) Dream of Arrakis  || 3:08
 * 2) Herald of the Change  || 5:01
 * 3) Bene Gesserit  ||  3:54
 * 4) Gom Jabbar  || 2:00
 * 5) The One  || 2:30
 * 6) Leaving Caladan  || 1:55
 * 7) Arrakeen  || 2:16
 * 8) Ripples in the Sand  || 5:14
 * 9) Visions of Chani  || 4:27
 * 10) Night on Arrakis  || 5:03
 * 11) Armada  || 5:09
 * 12) Burning Palms  || 4:04
 * 13) Stranded  || 0:58
 * 14) Blood for Blood  || 2:29
 * 15) The Fall  || 2:32
 * 16) Holy War  || 4:20
 * 17) Sanctuary  || 1:50
 * 18) Premonition  || 3:30
 * 19) Ornithopter  || 1:54
 * 20) Sandstorm  || 2:35
 * 21) Stillsuits  || 5:31
 * 22) My Road Leads into the Desert  || 3:52

The Dune Sketchbook

 * Released by: WaterTower Music
 * Release date: September 3, 2021
 * Runtime: 101:45
 * Producer: Hans Zimmer


 * 1) Song of the Sisters || 16:25
 * 2) I See You in My Dreams  || 18:25
 * 3) House Atreides  || 13:54
 * 4) The Shortening of the Way  || 11:14
 * 5) Paul's Dream  || 7:03
 * 6) Moon Over Caladan  || 8:34
 * 7) Shai-hulud  || 9:47
 * 8) Mind Killer || 11:11
 * 9) Grains of Sand  || 5:12

The Art and Soul of Dune

 * Released by: WaterTower Music
 * Release date: October 22, 2021
 * Runtime: 103:29
 * Producer: Hans Zimmer


 * 1) Foreword || 4:31
 * 2) This Is Only the Beginning  || 14:26
 * 3) Caladan  || 7:20
 * 4) Giedi Prime  || 8:05
 * 5) Salusa Secundus  || 4:12
 * 6) Arrakis  || 13:28
 * 7) The Attack  || 9:31
 * 8) Deep Desert || 15:14
 * 9) Fremen  || 26:50

Behind the scenes

 * Composer Hans Zimmer wanted to avoid retreading elements of the music from previous screen adaptations. An early decision was the extensive use of various vocals in the film score, primarily female vocals. Zimmer used Middle Eastern associated instrumentation more sparringly, and augmented it with the use of electric guitar, and even some new instruments he developed purely for help with composing the film's music. Zimmer's own statement on the philosophy behind the score was to evoke music and soundscapes that have a hint of the familiar or historial, but otherwise sound like something that could represent a human society many millennia in the future.
 * The film's music also focuses less on distinct leitmotifs for any individual characters, and more on themes and leitmotifs that evoke a mood or sense of place for a particular location, or a particular faction or group of the Dune universe and their place in the storyline. (Some of the very few characters who have something approaching a distinct personal leitmotif of their own, are Duncan Idaho, and to a lesser extent, Paul Atreides. Paul doesn't have a typical full character theme of his own, but musical elements associated with his character are intertwined with several tracks set in different locations he travels through.)
 * Zimmer also has a brief cameo in the film. He portrays the Atreides military bagpiper who steps forth playing the bagpipes during the welcoming ceremony on Arrakis, ahead of the other Atreides soldiers and duke Leto's family.