Marriage is back on BBC One tonight (Sunday, August 21), and one of the biggest talking points from viewers is that theme tune.
It’s fair to say that the vast majority have been irritated by it.
So what is the intro music for Marriage and what have viewers said about it?
What is the Marriage theme tune?
The theme tune opens out of seemingly nowhere at the beginning of the show: the loud song involves people shouting instructions like ‘to the side’ and ‘around’.
It’s unlikely to be a tune you recognise, credited as Partita for 8 voices: No 1, Allemande. The acapella tune was created by American composer Caroline Shaw.
It was composed for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth and was released on their Grammy Award-winning debut album in 2012.
The piece was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, making Caroline Shaw the youngest recipient of the award.
It’s even been named one of “the best classical music works of the 21st century”.
But Marriage viewers wouldn’t seem to agree with this!
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