Awesome Music: The synth-made score is a wonderful music similar troughout the whole program made by Italian musician R. Anselmi, who's the official composer of most Angela's pieces of Quark. The tune has a basic LeitMotif throughout, but shifting from major and minor mode according to the scene. In particular, the music-score accompanying the human hang-gliding near the Pteranodon in the 3rd episode perfectly underlines the majesty of the giant flyer, and the emotion of the time-traveler to glide near it without peril, averting Terror-dactyl. The music of the travel in the Cretaceous seas with the submarine is particulary soft, to emphatize the particular silence of this world (none of the marine reptile encountered emit sounds), averting Sea Monster. Then, the martial music accompaning a herd of marching Triceratops in the 2nd episode perfectly emphatizes the rhythmic movements of the walking animals, and their peaceful nature, contrasting with Temper-Ceratops. The music of the sleeping Stegosaurus is very relaxing, underlining the calmness of the scene, and averting Tough Armored Dinosaur. More dramatic, of course, are the several music themes played for the battle or predation scenes, likes the ones involving tyrannosaurs and dromaeosaurs, and the music of the falling of the Asteroid on Earth. The music describing the egg-stealing oviraptors has a bit of funny inside, describing the wariness of the animals toward the Protoceratops owners of the eggs (the owners are unseen on screen). The music accompanying the human flying with his balloon is the same throughout the program, and it's a particularly serene tune in major tonality. It's the first music heard in the time-travel of the 1st episode (except for the short motif heard at every shift of epochs when the main host goes to the Time Machine), and also the last heard when the travel goes to the end in the 4th. Always in the 4th episode, it's awesome the menacing descending scale accompanying the Asteroid when is slowly approaching the Earth from Space: it has a beat which strongly reminds a heart pulsating for trepidation. And then, there's the heartbreaking theme in E minor underlining the sufference of the last dinosaurs in the world devastated by the huge celestial body.
Also of count is the opening theme for each episode. It's very different than the basic score above, being a jazz-adapted version of the famous J. S. Bach's "Air On The G String" — actually the opening theme for every series of the whole franchise Quark. Created by a french jazz band named The Swingle Singers (old Angela's friends), this theme is a very familiar music to Italian viewers of Angela's programs — for some, even more than the original Bach's baroque composition itself. True classical music pieces are used to describe Real Life nature scenes, commented by an unknown external voice who's neither Piero nor Alberto Angela (the historical voice for Angela's natural pieces was Claudio Capone, dead in 2008, but not in this series). They're taken from two L. V. Beethoven's symphonies, expecially the 6th Symphony (the "Pastoral") but also the 5th one; from two G. Rossini's ouvertures — "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) and "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie), the latter wittily used to describe scenes with modern birds; but also pieces from J. Haydn (the 104th "London Symphony"), A. Vivaldi (the "Celebrating Seine" ouverture), I. Stravinsky (the "Firebird ballet"), B. Bartok, and other musicians are heard. At the start and the end of the "Behind the Scenes" special, we can appreciate J. Strauss II's waltz "Roses of the South". Also worth of note is that Piero Angela in Real Life was a non-professional pianist other than a professional writer and journalist, and a great lover of both classical an jazz music (expecially the jazz one). In the human-body-related series The Wonderful Machine he's seen playing a grand piano, accompanying in a scene of "The Lungs" episode Raina Kabaivanska, a classical-music Italian singer of Bulgarian origins.
Just for Fun: The dialogues between the main host and his travelling "twin" are often deliberately done in an amusing way to better-appeal the audience, and to "explain the things in a more pleasant and not too unfeeling way" as declaired by Angela himself in the 1st episode. The gag to make two Piero Angelas talking to each other was first-created in the prequel "The Wonderful Machine" (the first time within the franchise Quark where the "Angela's twin" has appeared, in 1990), and then repeated in the sequel "Journey to the Cosmos" in 1997. On the other hand, the dialogues between the main host and his son Alberto tend to assume a generally more serious tone — the father Angela was known for having been a strict educator with his son Alberto, when the latter was still a child.
Nightmare Fuel: This program is rather relaxing overall (typical for all Angela's programs) despite the often dramatic arguments presented including natural disasters, but some scenes can nonetheless qualify in this way — the scenes with the blood involved, and the one with the Asteroid hitting the Earth and the following cataclysm.
Tear Jerker: The final scene of the devastated world after the Asteroid in the 4th episode perfectly matches it, with the skies obscured by the gigantic dusty cloud created by the celestial body, the plants disappearing because they're unable to photosynthetize, and the few dinosaurs that have managed to survive the huge fires and the big freeze slowly dying for starvation — both the herbivores and the carnivores, after the carcasses of the latter's preys have gone out.
, dead in 2008, but not in this series). They're taken from two L. V. Beethoven's symphonies, expecially the 6th Symphony (the "Pastoral") but also the 5th one; from two G. Rossini's ouvertures — "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) and "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie), the latter wittily used to describe scenes with modern birds; but also pieces from J. Haydn (the 104th "London Symphony"), A. Vivaldi (the "Celebrating Seine" ouverture), I. Stravinsky (the "Firebird ballet"), B. Bartok, and other musicians are heard. At the start and the end of the "Behind the Scenes" special, we can appreciate J. Strauss II's waltz "Roses of the South". Also worth of note is that Piero Angela in Real Life was a non-professional pianist other than a professional writer and journalist, and a great lover of both classical an jazz music (expecially the jazz one). In the human-body-related series The Wonderful Machine he's seen playing a grand piano, accompanying in a scene of "The Lungs" episode Raina Kabaivanska