With Elastigirl and family heading back to theaters next week, I thought now would be as good a time as any to get back into the “swing.”

On the next “Picture Perfect,” we’ll sample from music from “The Incredibles” (2004), alongside that for three other computer-animated features.

Pixar’s sly superhero satire was composer Michael Giacchino’s first major feature and his break-out success. The now much-in-demand Jersey native has gone on to write music for the “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Star Trek,” and “Star Wars” series. But arguably his most charming and lyrical work has been for the Disney-owned animation studio.

For “The Incredibles,” director Brad Bird had originally hoped to enlist John Barry, who popularized the swinging espionage “sound” through his work on the James Bond films. When the veteran composer demurred, insisting he had moved on and had no interest in looking back, Giacchino was hired to out-Barry Barry.

As a nice counterbalance, we’ll also hear selections from Giacchino’s Academy Award-winning score to Pixar’s poignant adventure “Up” (2009). “Up” was nominated for Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, only the second animated feature ever to be included in that category.

We’ll continue in the realm of computer animation with music from “Ice Age” (2002). The score was composed by David Newman, son of Golden Age heavy-hitter Alfred Newman, brother of Thomas Newman, and cousin of Randy Newman.

We’ll also hear some of John Williams’ music for “The Adventures of Tintin” (2011), after the comic book adventurer created by the Belgian artist and writer Hergé. Tintin’s popularity in Europe failed to translate into big domestic box office, comparatively speaking, but the score is Williams’ best of its kind – an exciting adventure piece full of leitmotifs and great action cues – since the first Harry Potter film.

In a day when so many films sport scores made up of droning electronics, punctuated by colorless action cues, the computer-generated feature seems to attract composers who still understand how to write music.

I hope you’ll join me for an hour of “animated” scores this week, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.