As they have evolved, the franchises have picked up plenty of supporting music on their various soundtrack albums.
The Esterházys were one of the wealthiest and most-influential families of the Austrian empire and boasted a distinguished record of supporting music.
(For its part, Phish recently gave would-be pirates a new incentive to do the right thing, announcing that it was donating its profits from Live Phish Downloads to a nonprofit group supporting music education for children).
The Jyske Ensemble, based in Viborg on the Jutland peninsula, was one of six "basis ensembles" in Denmark set up to work alongside the larger symphony orchestras, and help bring classical music to the regions while supporting music education in schools.
Apart from rare exceptions such as an occasional "television opera," a dance-film, or Stravinsky's mixed media The Flood (1962)—original music to television is chiefly confined to the provision of theme passages or supporting music hopefully intended to enhance verbal or dramatic presentation.
As I recall, it made up a good 50percentt of the supporting music, and I shall always associate it, quite happily, with Ming the Merciless and amusing little rocket ships trailing wisps of white smoke, taking off in ascending corkscrews from odd, mountainous worlds.
