what would game of Thrones be without its theme song? Composed by Ramin Djawadi, the song has become so indelible you could play it on almost anything and the vibe is still there. Jawadi was said to avoid flutes, pianos and violins (since they were so common in fantasy themes), so instead he made an absolute bang out of cellos playing a minor key, making an animated map feel utterly epic and surprisingly versatile.
So that makes sense house of the dragon wouldn’t reinvent the wheel there with their own title sequence. While Co-creators Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik said They wanted to avoid a title sequence in the pilot, Episode 2 marks the official’s debut house of the dragon opening sequence.
The title sequence brings back Game of Thrones’ original theme but changes the visuals to match the series’ focus on House Targaryen. Meanwhile, the graphics of the new title sequence take viewers in a soaring glimpse of the show’s characters, represented by various trinkets and symbols that use the same cogs and gears that spun the Westeros map for the original show’s opening sequence. As the camera pans across all of these symbols, a stream of bright red blood runs down the walls of a castle, eventually covering each one.
Djawadi is back with the cellos, something he told Entertainment Weekly
“This is all about the Targaryens, so it was important to keep their sound and themes,” Djawadi told EW. “The sound that Daenerys had is definitely connected to the Targaryens. The sound is the same. However, I think it’s important to point out that Daenerys actually has a different theme than that dragon Theme. So they’re two separate themes, but sonically they’re similar.”