Joseph LoDuca
American composer
Joseph LoDuca (born 1958) is an American television and film score composer best known for his work writing television scores for the series Spartacus, Leverage, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Young Hercules, The Librarians TV series, American Gothic and Jack of All Trades. Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the Detroit (MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director Robert Tapert, producer/director Sam Raimi, producer/director Dean Devlin and actor Bruce Campbell's films and series. Prior to his work on The Evil Dead, his first film, he released a jazz LP titled Glisten.
LoDuca was nominated for and won the Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his music in Legend of the Seeker.
LoDuca played in a rock band in his teens, before studying literature and composition at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He claimed to prefer composition, because it let him "run among the disciplines without getting caught".
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Works
- Air Herc
- Amazon Pyre
- At Mother’s Tomb
- Back From the Dead
- Backstabber
- Barn Blazers
- Battling Archangels
- Beautiful Mendi
- Bloodlust
- Body Snatch
- Burning Down the House
- Burying the Past
- Caesars’ Mark
- Call to Arms
- Callisto Becomes a God
- Callisto in Hell
- Capoeira Fight
- Caught in the Current
- Challenging the Gods
- Crucifixion of Xena
- Darfus
- Dead?
- Death of Iolus
- Deep Sea Breathing
- Draco’s Men
- Dreamscape
- Druid Chant
- End of Days
- Everybody Dance Now
- Execution of Xena, Part 1
- Faith
- Faith's Song
- Fight on the Heads
- Fighting Destiny
- Flying Machine / Believe in Yourself
- Flying Ninjas
- Friend
- Funeral Dance
- Funeral Pyre
- Gabby Dance
- Gab’s Trial
- Giants
- Go to Them
- Going to Kill Me
- Goodbye
- Hail Xena
- Hard Core Fishing
- Hate is the Star (Song of the Torment)
- Hello Beautiful
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Hero's Welcome
- Horrible Drag
- Hunk 'OHerc
- Illumination
- India’s Different
- Indrajeet Arrives
- I’m in Heaven
- Justice Reborn
- Keep Coming
- Krishna
- Ladder Fight
- Lambikin’s Missing
- Leaping for Tataka
- Main Title
- Making Camp
- Many Winters Ago
- Maven
- Melt Into Me
- More Fun and Games
- Morrigan Regrets
- Mud Bath
- Naima Ascends
- Naima on the Scene
- Now or Never
- On a Cow
- On the Balcony
- Once and for All
- One Dinar a Dance
- Out of Options
- Page of Fate / Approach Me
- Pop Goes Xena
- Quarterman’s Festival
- Quicksand
- Raven's Wind
- Rebuilding
- Resistance
- Restoration
- Return of the Rheingold
- Return to Chin
- Reversing / Never Gave Up / Ascension of Iolus
- Rhein Maidens
- River Wild
- Roll in the Leaves
- Rrarr
- She’ll Be Here
- So Lonely
- Solstice Night
- Soulmates
- Spirit Dance
- Squeal
- Stowaway
- Sumerian Boat Chant / Up the River
- Swamp Creatures
- Sword Play
- Taking Flight
- Talk With Solan
- Tataka
- The Ballad of Joxer the Mighty
- The Bath
- The Berserker
- The Deliverer
- The End of the Book
- The Energizer / Strife Killed
- The First Fate
- The Gauntlet
- The Kiss
- The Oracle
- The Ring
- The Sweat Hut
- The Warrior Princess
- The Way Out
- The Wrath of Callisto
- They’re Coming
- Thor's Break In
- Tired of Life
- To the Rescue
- Traveling With Eli
- Up the Rhein
- Valhalla
- Visit to the Damned
- War and Peace
- Wave of Density
- Way of Pain
- We Go Now
- Welcome the Avatar
- What's Still Unwritten... (Song of Illusia)
- Where as Me
- Who’s Who
- With the Angels
- Works of Art, Part 1
- Xena Is Bitten
- Xena Kicks Bacchae Butt
- Xena and the Big Bird
- Xena vs. Alti
- Xena: Warrior Princess
- Xena: Warrior Princess: Main Title
- Xena’s Web
- You Really Believe That
- Zalin Rocks
- Zombie Fight