The Fable Soundtrack - A 'Pet' Project

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Lionhead Studios audio director/composer Russell Shaw discusses the process of creating the soundtrack for Fable over at Music 4 Games. A snippet:

Fast-forward to September 2003 and, incredibly, there is a rumour that Microsoft are actually in talks with Danny Elfman's agent and there is a distinct possibility that he would be interested in doing the Fable theme for us. We all held our breaths and one month later it is a reality so myself, Peter (Molyneux) and the Carter brothers are huddled around a conference telephone talking to Danny himself. The upshot of the call was that Danny would supply us with a three minute theme comprising the emotional and moral elements of the game - heroism, darkness, light, evil, good, combat etc. He would go away and compose some demo sketches from which we could choose the bits we liked. He'd take on board our preferences and supply us with a finished demo version. Once we'd OK'd it he would record it with a Hollywood orchestra and supply us with the finished track, all session score sheets, the score itself and all the relevant midi files that he'd worked from himself.