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Encyclopedia > Barrington Pheloung

Barrington Pheloung (born 1954) is an Australian composer, now living in England. Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total...


Best known for the theme and incidental music to the Inspector Morse television series, he has also composed for dance companies, such as the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and for events, including the opening night of the Millennium Dome. Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption (with Kevin Whately as Lewis (right)). Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series... The London Contemporary Dance Theatre was a contemporary dance company, based at The Place, which was founded by Robin Howard during the 1970s and based on the ideas of Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham. ... The O2 redirects here. ...


His film work includes Hillary and Jackie for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, Touching Wild Horses and Shopping. He also made the music to Revolution Software's adventure games In Cold Blood and the first two Broken Swords. Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 movie starring Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths as the sisters Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré. The movie is based on Hilary du Pres book about her sister Jacqueline. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Revolution Software Logo. ... Adventure is a genre of video games typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ... In Cold Blood is an adventure game for the PlayStation and PC released by the UK based Revolution Software in 2001. ... The header for Broken Sword: The Angel of Death For other uses, see Broken Sword (disambiguation). ...


Pheloung's other work includes music for the Sydney Opera House's Twentieth Birthday Celebrations and he contributed to the music for the film, Truly, Madly, Deeply in which he also appeared. He composed the incidental music for the first series of Boon. He composed the full music score for the video games Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2. Truly, Madly, Deeply is a British romance film, made in 1990 for the BBCs Screen One series. ... Boon is a British television drama series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker and later on Neil Morrissey. ... Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (known as Circle of Blood in the United States) is a third-person, point-and-click adventure computer game released to the PC on November 5, 1996. ... Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror is the second game in the Broken Sword series of computer games, and was released on October 31, 1997. ...


It is also worth noting that Barrington Pheloung has been (and may still be) an associate lecturer at the South East Essex College (of Arts and Technology)


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Born in Sydney Australia, Barrington Pheloung first became involved in music at the age of six when he was given his first guitar.
Since then Barrington's work has been enjoyed on all of the Inspector Morse episodes with which he reached No. 4 in the UK album chart in 1991 and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Television Music in 1992.
Barrington continues to keep up his passion for live performance and recently could be seen conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
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