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The use of music was a key component in the fictional Buffyverse established by the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Many actors of both series are professional singers/musicians, including Anthony Head, James Marsters, Amber Benson, Andy Hallett and Christian Kane.

The "Buffy theme" is the music played alongside the opening credits of the show. The theme itself has no lyrics; it begins with several notes played by an organ, a signifier for horror in movie culture from the 1930s onwards, followed by upbeat rock music. The theme was played by the pop punk band Nerf Herder. In an interview the band explained how they came to produce the theme:
"[The Buffy production staff] had hired some famous theme song composer to come up with a theme and they didn't like the one he came up with so they were kind of on a low budget, and asked local bands to come up with theme song ideas." In the DVD commentary for "Welcome to the Hellmouth", Whedon explained that part of his decision to select Nerf Herder's theme was that Alyson Hannigan had made him listen to the band's music. Nerf Herder later recorded a second version of the theme which was used for the opening titles from season 3 on. In 1999, Nerf Herder lead singer Parry Gripp gave the background on the writing of the melody. The original melody was written before Whedon contacted the band asking them to submit a demo for a theme tune, and was not written specifically for the show:
"We did the theme song before the show was on the air. It was a song that had already been written, but we really didn't know where to take it. I had some ideas it was originally going to have some kind of science fiction theme, which is weird, because we don't do songs like that. I remember having the title of 'Outer Space Rock' or something like that; that was a working thing".

Darling Violetta is an alternative rock group that had performed two songs, "Cure" and "Blue Sun" in the Buffy episode "Faith, Hope & Trick." They cowrote the song with songwriter Holly Knight. The following year, Angel invited bands to submit demos for the theme music to the show. They asked bands to use "dark superhero ideas" and "Cello rock". Darling Violetta and Knight watched key Angel related episodes of Buffy such as "Passion", "Becoming, Part One" and "Becoming, Part Two" for inspiration. Eventually Whedon accepted their interpretation of an Angel theme as the most suitable for the show. The theme has a slower tempo than the Buffy theme, and heavier use of acoustic instruments such as cello and violin. In 2005, Holly Knight and the band composed an extended version of the Angel theme called "The Sanctuary Extended Remix", which featured on the soundtrack of the series Live Fast Die Never. Joss Whedon and Alexis Denisof sing their own lyrics to the theme song in the DVD commentary to the episode "Spin the Bottle".

Many people have worked on the scoring of Buffy and Angel. Some of the main composers were:

Walter Murphy was the main composer on the first season of Buffy.

Thomas Wanker was the main composer for the majority of the 5th and 6th seasons of Buffy. His work tended to be subtle, and was described by one reviewer as "unassuming mysterious underscore". In "Shadow" and "Into the Woods", some of his tragic melodies are used in musical montages shown as Buffy and Dawn cope with their mother's illness, and Riley's feelings of alienation from Buffy.

Robert Duncan is credited as composer for Buffy episodes 7.02 and 7.04 7.22. His tracks included:
"Chosen", Buffy and Spike's love theme, Faith and Robin's theme, and the theme of Slayer Victory during the fight in the Hellmouth. "Every Girl, A Slayer", which plays while Buffy proposes her idea to overcome the First.

After Veruca makes a brief solo appearance ("Living Conditions"), her band Shy appears in two episodes. Shy performs "Overfire" at The Bronze in "Beer Bad", and plays two other songs, "Dip" and "Need to Destroy" (rehearsal), in "Wild at Heart". Shy's music was actually performed by THC, a Los Angeles based trip hop duo consisting of singer/lyricist Sarah Folkman and producer/composer/musician George Sarah. The three songs featured on Buffy appear on THC's 1999 album Adagio.

The Buffy EP was released by Velvet Chain in February 1999, following their appearance in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date". The title track, "Buffy", is a retelling of the relationship between Buffy Summers and Angel during seasons 1 and 2 of the show. The album also features the songs "Strong" and "Treason", the two songs the band played during their appearance on the show.

Sarah McLachlan's music is used twice on Buffy at key moments, in the finales of Seasons 2 and 6. In "Becoming, Part Two", "Full of Grace" plays as Buffy leaves Sunnydale. The song and Buffy's abandonment signify the character reaching an all time low. At the end of the sixth season in "Grave", "Prayer of St. Francis" plays as Buffy climbs out of the ground with Dawn. The song is about overcoming that which is wrong, and renewal. The song appears in the U. S. version of Radio Sunnydale, but not in the UK one.