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
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Dune: Official Motion Picture Soundtrack album cover
The Dune Sketchbook soundtrack album cover
The Art and Soul of Dune soundtrack album cover
Track list[]
Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)[]
- Released by: WaterTower Music
- Release date: September 17, 2021
- Runtime: 74:12
- Producer: Hans Zimmer
- Dream of Arrakis || 3:08
- Herald of the Change || 5:01
- Bene Gesserit || 3:54
- Gom Jabbar || 2:00
- The One || 2:30
- Leaving Caladan || 1:55
- Arrakeen || 2:16
- Ripples in the Sand || 5:14
- Visions of Chani || 4:27
- Night on Arrakis || 5:03
- Armada || 5:09
- Burning Palms || 4:04
- Stranded || 0:58
- Blood for Blood || 2:29
- The Fall || 2:32
- Holy War || 4:20
- Sanctuary || 1:50
- Premonition || 3:30
- Ornithopter || 1:54
- Sandstorm || 2:35
- Stillsuits || 5:31
- 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
- Song of the Sisters || 16:25
- I See You in My Dreams || 18:25
- House Atreides || 13:54
- The Shortening of the Way || 11:14
- Paul's Dream || 7:03
- Moon Over Caladan || 8:34
- Shai-hulud || 9:47
- Mind Killer || 11:11
- 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
- Foreword || 4:31
- This Is Only the Beginning || 14:26
- Caladan || 7:20
- Giedi Prime || 8:05
- Salusa Secundus || 4:12
- Arrakis || 13:28
- The Attack || 9:31
- Deep Desert || 15:14
- Fremen || 26:50
Tracks[]
Dune (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)[]
Dream of Arrakis
1. Dream of Arrakis
Herald of the Change
2. Herald of the Change
Bene Gesserit
3. Bene Gesserit
Gom Jabbar
4. Gom Jabbar
The One
5. The One
Leaving Caladan
6. Leaving Caladan
Arrakeen
7. Arrakeen
Ripples in the Sand
8. Ripples in the Sand
Visions of Chani
9. Visions of Chani
Night on Arrakis
10. Night on Arrakis
Armada
11. Armada
Burning Palms
12. Burning Palms
Stranded
13. Stranded
Blood for Blood
14. Blood for Blood
The Fall
15. The Fall
Holy War
16. Holy War
Sanctuary
17. Sanctuary
Premonition
18. Premonition
Ornithopter
19. Ornithopter
Sandstorm
20. Sandstorm
Stillsuits
21. Stillsuits
My Road Leads into the Desert
22. My Road Leads into the Desert
The Dune Sketchbook[]
Song of the Sisters
1. Song of the Sisters
I See You in My Dreams
2. I See You in My Dreams
House Atreides
3. House Atreides
The Shortening of the Way
4. The Shortening of the Way
Paul's Dream
5. Paul's Dream
Moon over Caladan
6. Moon Over Caladan
Shai-hulud
7. Shai-hulud
Mind-killer
8. Mind Killer
Grains of Sand
9. Grains of Sand
The Art and Soul of Dune[]
Foreword
1. Foreword
This Is Only the Beginning
2. This Is Only the Beginning
Caladan
3. Caladan
Giedi Prime
4. Giedi Prime
Salusa Secundus
5. Salusa Secundus
Arrakis
6. Arrakis
The Attack
7. The Attack
Deep Desert
8. Deep Desert
Fremen
9. Fremen
Trailer Music[]
Dune Official Soundtrack - Eclipse - Hans Zimmer - WaterTower
"Eclipse" (Pink Floyd song cover)
Featurettes[]
DUNE - Celestial Sounds Featurette - Hans Zimmer - WaterTower
DUNE: Celestial Sounds Featurette - Hans Zimmer and co. on the making of the film's soundtrack
Denis Villeneueve on Picking Hans Zimmer for Dune's Score
Denis Villeneueve on picking Zimmer as the composer for Dune
How 'Dune' Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score - Vanity Fair
Hans Zimmer on creating Dune's Oscar-winning score
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.
See also[]
- Music of Dune (2021) at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Dune: Part Two (2024) soundtrack albums - The official soundtrack albums of the following film.
- Music from screen adaptations of Dune