DETROW: He was 78 years old. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this appreciation. ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Today, we know the music of "The X Files," the sonic soundscape of the show to be spooky and synthy (ph ...

Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned “The X-Files” theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s, died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 78. A 15-time Emmy nominee, he not ...

It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television’s most memorable melodies. By Alex Williams Mark Snow, a Juilliard-trained ...

Mark Snow, who composed the ghostly theme for the long-running occult TV series “The X-Files” and more than 200 episodes of the show as well as its spin-off films, died July 3 at his home in ...