David Bell

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

David Bell
Date of birth:	17 April 1954
Awards for Trek:	4 ASCAP Awards
Roles:	Composer

For the stunt performer, please see David LeBell.

David Bell (born 17 April 1954; age 70) is a composer who wrote music for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He shared four ASCAP Award wins for his work on Voyager and Enterprise. Some of Bell's scores for DS9 were released as part of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection.

Many of Bell's scores for DS9 featured Klingons, episodes like "The Sword of Kahless", "Sons of Mogh", "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" and "Soldiers of the Empire". Bell commemted: "In the last few years I've been the Klingon guy, because... I took this real Wagnerian musical approach and I even used a bunch of Wagner tubas. They loved it". (The Music of Star Trek, p 190)

Bell has also composed scores for Simon & Simon, Jake and the Fatman, Murder, She Wrote, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III and In the Heat of the Night.

Credits

• DS9:
  • "Second Skin" (Season 3)
  • "Past Tense, Part II"
  • "Heart of Stone"
  • "Improbable Cause"
  • "The Sword of Kahless" (Season 4)
  • "Sons of Mogh"
  • "The Quickening"
  • "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" (Season 5)
  • "The Ascent"
  • "Business as Usual"
  • "Soldiers of the Empire"
  • "In the Cards"
  • "Rocks and Shoals" (Season 6)
  • "Sacrifice of Angels"
  • "Statistical Probabilities"
  • "Who Mourns for Morn?"
  • "In the Pale Moonlight"
  • "Profit and Lace"
  • "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" (Season 7)
  • "Treachery, Faith and the Great River"
  • "Covenant"
  • "'Til Death Do Us Part"
  • "Tacking Into the Wind"
  • "The Dogs of War"
• VOY:
  • "Faces" (Season 1)
  • "Projections" (Season 2)
  • "Persistence of Vision"
  • "Meld"
  • "The Thaw"
  • "Flashback" (Season 3)
  • "Remember"
  • "Warlord"
  • "Fair Trade"
  • "Unity"
  • "Distant Origin"
  • "Nemesis" (Season 4)
  • "Revulsion"
  • "Waking Moments"
  • "The Killing Game"
  • "The Killing Game, Part II"
  • "Demon"
  • "Extreme Risk" (Season 5)
  • "Once Upon a Time"
  • "Bride of Chaotica!"
  • "Dark Frontier"
  • "11:59"
  • "Barge of the Dead" (Season 6)
  • "Alice"
  • "Fair Haven"
  • "Memorial"
  • "Child's Play"
  • "Muse"
  • "Imperfection" (Season 7)
  • "Flesh and Blood"
  • "Nightingale"
  • "Prophecy"
  • "Homestead"
• ENT:
  • "Terra Nova" (Season 1)
  • "Dear Doctor"
  • "Fusion"
  • "Fallen Hero"
  • "Minefield" (Season 2)
  • "Singularity"
  • "Dawn"

External links

• David Bell at Wikipedia
• David Bell at the Internet Movie Database
• David Bell's Music Scoring for Star Trek^(X)