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Title Music By?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorprimetime21
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For a TV Series (or miniseries, as is the case I'm talking about), would you give a credit that reads Title Music By a Composer or Theme By credit?

Literally it's more along the lines of Composer, but thematically (no pun intended) Theme By seems more appropriate...
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I would enter "Title Music By" as "Theme By".
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Agreed. "Title Music" is the theme tune.
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Thanks that's what I was thinking too!
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I agree. Title music is theme.
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I would also 100% agree.
It seems to me TV series mostly credit as "Music by", i.e. "Composer". So if they instead say "Title music by" that's a definite "Theme by".
Maybe because that TV series has a distinct theme but then the other music used is more random?

Also, naturally the one having written the music for the theme is also a composer, but I'd guess "Theme by" still implies that.
(I must say, with all the copyright around music sometimes it's hard to decide what's what. But let's not go there.)
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Often the theme is written by the original composer of the TV series and then someone else goes on to do incidental music for future episodes.
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