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Caroline Shaw<\/a> composed the original score for Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon\u2019s forthcoming documentary Leonardo da Vinci<\/em><\/a>. On October 25, she\u2019ll release the music on a new album<\/a> for Nonesuch<\/a>. Below, check out the new song \u201cIntentions of the Mind<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Shaw recorded her Leonardo da Vinci<\/em> score with bassist John Patitucci and the three ensembles with which she works most closely: Attacca Quartet, S\u014d Percussion, and Roomful of Teeth. In a statement about the score, David McMahon said, \u201cCaroline\u2019s existing body of music\u2014joyful, daring, at times transcendent, and wholly unique\u2014seemed to speak directly to Leonardo, a seeking soul who, 500 years after his death, can come across as strikingly modern. A fully original score, we believed, would add crucial connective tissue to areas where the record of Leonardo\u2019s life is thin and it\u2019s possible to briefly lose his trail. The music Caroline created is dynamic, enthralling and filled with wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n The Burnses and McMahon\u2019s two-part, four-hour documentary airs on PBS<\/a> on November 18 and 19. \u201cNo single person can speak to our collective effort to understand the world and ourselves,\u201d Ken Burns said in a statement about his film. \u201cBut Leonardo had a unique genius for inquiry, aided by his extraordinary skills as an artist and scientist, that helps us better understand the natural world that we are part of and to appreciate more fully what it means to be alive and human.\u201d<\/p>\n Caroline Shaw\u2019s Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score)<\/em> will follow her recent album with S\u014d Percussion, Rectangles and Circumstance<\/em><\/a>. She also has lately shared two songs with her partner, Danni Lee Parpan, for their band Ringdown, \u201cTwo-Step<\/a>\u201d and \u201cGhost<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n