 Credit: HBO Show Still can’t get that track from the Game of Thrones finale out of your head?Warning: Spoilers are about to follow for “The Winds of Winter”, the season six finale of Game of Thrones. Read at your own risk. The opening scene of the season six finale of Game of Thrones has quickly become legendary on the Internet. That’s not only because of what it showed, including the explosion of the Sept of Baelor as well as the death of characters like Grand Maester Pycelle, but also for the background music. Here’s what you need to know. First off, the nearly-ten-minute track is entitled “Light of the Seven”, a pretty obvious nod to the gods worshiped at the Sept of Baelor. It was composed by Ramin Djawadi, who has scored every single episode of the show, including the now-iconic theme song (which you now almost certainly have stuck in your head). Want to relive the moment and listen to “Light of the Seven”? It, as well as the rest of the Game of Thrones season six soundtrack, has made its way to Spotify. The track has also been posted on YouTube: Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Djawadi noted that the only recognizable theme in the piece is a version of the Game of Thrones theme. He said, “We knew right away we couldn’t play a Lannister theme, because even though the scene is about [Cersei] and her trial, it would put too much in her court.” Instead, he went for piano, organ, strings, and vocals to build up to a climactic finish that’s suddenly cut off as Cersei’s plans come to fruition. Djawadi has created some iconic songs during his time on Game of Thrones, but “Light of the Seven” might be his finest piece yet. We can’t wait to see what he does for seasons seven and eight. For more Game of Thrones news, check out the FanSided hub page. Usually, after Game of Thrones’s transportive title sequence plays, you can expect to immediately see characters bickering, slinging swords, or taking off their clothes. But during the series’s sixth-season finale this past Sunday night, something else happened. After an epic “previously on Game of Thrones” montage and the whirring gears and castles of the opening, viewers heard a surprising sound: silence. Then, as characters in King’s Landing braced for Loras’s and Cersei’s trial, we were met with chilling piano music unlike anything we’d heard on Thrones thus far. “A scene can say so much,” says composer Ramin Djawadi, who has been with Game of Thrones since its inception. “It’s all about Cersei in that moment, yet we cannot play the Lannister theme or ‘The Rains of Castamere’ because people would immediately be like, ‘Wait a minute. Why is this about her? Is Cersei up to something?’ “Even though we know she’s awaiting her trial, [that] could have tipped it,” Djawadi continues. “So that’s why we decided, no; this [music] has to be more neutral. This has to be a scene that we’ve never heard before.” Director Miguel Sapochnik and show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss warned Djawadi before he had even seen the episode that they wanted to experiment here, creating a completely new musical feel for it. “I saw a first rough cut of it, and then I saw what they were talking about,” Djawadi said. The opening scene, which shows various characters preparing for trial, “is so long. There’s hardly any dialogue. It has this long build, and you don’t want to give it away—but you know something’s brewing. And slowly, things unravel.” Together with the show-runners and director, Djawadi began to play with pacing and instrumentation for the opening piece, which would eventually be titled “Light of the Seven.” The composer played organ as a child, and jumped at the chance to include the instrument once more on Thrones (its first appearance came during Season 5’s atonement sequence). Meanwhile, Sapochnik suggested using piano, which eerily sets the stage and remains in play throughout the composition. “I thought it was great that we ended up with the piano, because there’s nothing like it,” Djawadi said. “The decay and the impact of that sound is just unique. You cannot imitate it with anything else. We tried the same thing on harp and on bells and things like that, and we always came back to the piano. It is a unique sound, and it’ll surprise people in a good way. It has the right tone for this scene.” Traditionally, a Game of Thrones soundtrack piece is heavily orchestrated, leaning on soft or sinister strings and a driving tempo—as with the show’s unforgettable theme song. But “Light of the Seven” has just four key components: piano, frenetic strings, organ, and a choral element performed by two boys. “The two boys, they don’t really sing any lyrics. It’s just ‘ah’s and ‘ooh’s,” Djawadi says. “I thought it could be another cool element to add because you see these kids running around [during the opening], and it added a little bit of that haunting feel.” It’s unusual for Thrones to highlight music to this extent. “The show is so dialogue-heavy, and the writing is so great, that many times you don’t need to have a score there to support it,” Djawadi says. “If we bring music in, many times it’s just a mood or a tone, so it really sits in the background.” Even in Season 6’s ultra-dramatic “Battle of the Bastards,” the show went light on music, instead letting sound effects—thundering horses, pained screaming—convey the toll of a bloody skirmish. 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