Jonny Greenwood

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Jonny Greenwood was born in 1971 in Oxford and is the guitarist and multi-instrumentalist of the band Radiohead. He briefly studied music but was mostly self-taught, with a great interest in Messiaen and Penderecki. His first film score was for the documentary Bodysong (2003). For Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007) he wrote string music with clusters and gliding tones, which makes the oil, the desert and the protagonist's obsession audible. With Anderson he also made The Master (2012) and Phantom Thread (2017). The latter, by contrast, sounds romantic, with piano and strings in the style of the 1950s. For Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog (2021) he had a cello plucked like a banjo.

Listening

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  Future Markets · Jonny Greenwood, 2007
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  House of Woodcock · Jonny Greenwood, 2017
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  25 Years · Jonny Greenwood, 2021
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  Open Spaces · Jonny Greenwood, 2007

Discography

Studio albums

• 2003Bodysong (soundtrack)
• 2007There Will Be Blood (soundtrack)
• 2010Norwegian Wood (soundtrack)
• 2011From Here On Out
• 2012The Master: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2014Inherent Vice: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2014There Will Be Blood
• 2015Junun
• 2018Phantom Thread (soundtrack)
• 2018You Were Never Really Here (soundtrack)
• 2019Volume 2: Industry Water
• 2021Spencer (soundtrack)
• 2021The Power of the Dog: Music From the Netflix Film (soundtrack)
• 2023Jarak Qaribak
• 2025One Battle After Another: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2026Ranjha
• 2026Ranjha

Other work

• 2012The Master
• 2021The Power of the Dog
• 2025One Battle After Another

In School of Rock

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Mentioned in other articles

• Ambient, drone and new modernism GenreJonny Greenwood, guitarist of Radiohead, wrote string music with quarter tones and clusters for There Will Be Blood (2007).

See also

• Ambient, drone and new modernism
• Modernism, atonality and avant-garde