Editing Law & Order (section)

===Music and sound effects===
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The music for ''Law & Order'' was composed by veteran composer [[Mike Post]] and was deliberately designed to be minimal to match the abbreviated style of the series.<ref name="Courrier and Green 69">Courrier and Green (1999), p.&nbsp;69</ref> Post wrote the theme song using electric piano, guitar, and clarinet. In addition, [[scene (fiction)|scene]] changes were accompanied by a tone generated by Post.  He refers to the tone as "The Clang",<ref name="Entertainment Weekly 1993-02-26">{{Cite magazine |author-link=Lisa Schwarzbaum|url=https://ew.com/article/1993/02/26/law-orders-tune/ |title=''Law & Order''{{'s}} tune |last=Schwarzbaum |first=Lisa |date=February 26, 1993 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=October 24, 2020 |url-status=live|df=mdy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526005120/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,305720,00.html |archive-date=May 26, 2010 | issn = 1049-0434 | oclc = 21114137 |location = New York City | publisher = Time Inc. }}</ref> while ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' critic [[Ken Tucker]] has referred to the sound as the "ominous ''chung CHUNG''",{{sfn| Courrier | Green |1999|p=69}} actor [[Dann Florek]] (in a promo) as the "doink doink",<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|date=January 7, 2008|title=Thunk-thunk! 'Law & Order' is back in a big way|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/01/thunk-thunk-law.html|url-status=dead|access-date=May 13, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710160011/http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/01/thunk-thunk-law.html|archive-date=July 10, 2012|df=mdy-all|quote=It's not "Thunk Thunk." It's "Doink Doink". Ask Dann Florek. He named it on the TNT promos. — comment by 'dr J', January 08, 2008}}</ref> and [[Richard Belzer]] as "the Dick Wolf Cash Register Sound".<ref name="Belzer On the Media">{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97905053 |title=Richard Belzer: 'I Am Not A Cop' |last=Simon |first=Scott |date=December 6, 2008 |work=[[Weekend Edition Saturday]] |author-link=Scott Simon |access-date=October 24, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013327/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97905053 |archive-date=December 11, 2008 |publisher=[[NPR]] |location=Washington, D.C.|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

According to writer David Allan, 2021:

"The tone moves the viewer from scene to scene, jumping forward in time with all the importance and immediacy of a judge's gavel – which is exactly what Post was aiming for when he created it. While reminiscent of a jail door slamming..."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allan |first1=David |title=Super Sonic Logos: The Power of Audio Branding |date=22 July 2021 |publisher=Business Expert Press |isbn=9781637420829}}</ref>

But according to authors Susan Green and Randee Dawn:

"...it is actually an [[wikt:amalgamation|amalgamation]] of 'six or seven' sounds, including the sound made by 500 Japanese men walking across a hardwood floor."<ref name="Entertainment Weekly 1993-02-26" /> The sound has become so associated with the ''Law & Order'' brand that it was also carried over to other series of the franchise."<ref name="Green and Dawn 60">Green and Dawn (2009), p.&nbsp;60</ref>

The British-aired [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel Five]] versions of seasons 7–16 of ''Law & Order''<ref>{{YouTube|Q5vOprCQ8a4|Law & Order Season 13 opening (Five)}} (February 16, 2007). Retrieved on September 12, 2012.</ref> feature the song "I'm Not Driving Anymore" by [[Rob Dougan]] in the opening credits, while seasons 17–20 used the American theme.