Henry Jackman returned from Winter Soldier to score the sequel. He found the movie to be tonally different from the previous one, which necessitated a much more symphonic and orchestral score. This culminates in the final fight between Captain America, Winter Soldier, and Iron Man, the music for which Jackman described as “somewhat operatic and … almost classical in its style”.

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Though Jackman reprised and developed his themes for Captain America and the Winter Soldier from the previous film, and introduced motifs for the new characters Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Zemo, he was wary of pushing the audience to one side of the central conflict or the other by using character-specific music; Jackman composed a new main theme for the film to represent the Civil War, “a generic theme to balance everything out”, “toward which all the characters can gravitate.

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It wrapped them all up and it helped to bind the movie together rather than do endless disparate themes.” Jackman also wrote a thriller theme that appears whenever the mystery surrounding Zemo’s plan is explored. This was inspired by the works of Jerry Goldsmith. The score was released on a soundtrack album by Hollywood Records on May 6, 2016.