content: "'''''Game of Thrones'' Theme'''", also referred to as "'''''Game of Thrones'' Main Title Theme'''", is the theme music of HBO's award-winning fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'', and plays during the title sequence.  It  was composed by Ramin Djawadi in 2011, after series creator David Benioff and D. B. Weiss approached him requesting a theme.
  Asked to avoid flutes and violins, which the producers felt were overused in fantasy themes, Djawadi used the cello as the lead instrument.  The piece begins in a minor key, then switches between corresponding major and minor keys repeatedly.  Djawadi was shown a preliminary rendering of the title sequence before composing this music to accompany it.  Several artists have covered or parodied the music, sometimes adding lyrics to the originally instrumental work.