Official Star Wars Music Discussion Thread

i was kidding about the puns, but star wars is kinda more important than dr strange which is why i say that.

 

i think we will see it by next week.

 

No music thread is complete without mentioning the Star Wars Oxygen podcast. I haven't listened yet, but a new episode dropped today --

 

I loved the Giacchino score (while hated his Jurassic World work).

My answer to these questions is affected by that.

- I would love that the approach of having an assembled universe with the new canon also applies to the music. This means, as bolt as it can sound, that Williams should use Jeddha leith motif if we ever visit Jeddha in the sequels.

- Giacchino deserves to write Han Solo... In 2 weeks this time!! Just kidding. The contrary: he deserves to write Han Solo score in a better context.

- New ones: Luke and Rey would be cool, as Williams did with Luke and Leia. Revisit: Rey, Kylo and Resistance probably.

 

When you're old, it's important to keep yourself busy because otherwise your health and mood will deteriorate. This is why John Williams is in such a great shape - he's still composing, he's still active. Looking at his schedule, he's going to be occupied until 2019 and I am sure he'll be back to score Episode IX (unless Rey is killed, what I doubt will happen.)

 

Giachinno's rushed work was still so good and I left the theater with as much as three themes still playing in my head. It was that Hope motif that was tied to Jyn's character (ofc), the Krennic March (like a proto Imperial March theme!) and my absolute favorite: that calm, soothing tune that played during Chirrut's introduction scene.

It makes me hopeful about the future music of Star Wars even if it's not scored by John Williams.

 

I just want an official Finn theme. A theme that's exciting and easier to follow than Finn's Confession.

 

I think Star Wars has the best music out of any movie franchise or stand alone movie. Or at least I have never quite liked any other soundtracks as much.

 

There's a great article in The New Yorker by Alex Ross:

A Field Guide to the Musical Leitmotifs of “Star Wars”

"Scholars like Lehman are exulting in “The Last Jedi” because the score is full of such echt-leitmotivic moments. Williams manipulates his library of themes with extreme dexterity, often touching on a familiar motif for just a couple of bars. (Spoilers loom ahead.) In early scenes set at a remote, ruined Jedi temple, we keep hearing an attenuated, beclouded version of the Force motto: this evokes Luke’s embittered renunciation of the Jedi project. As the young heroine Rey begins to coax him out of his funk, the Force stretches out and is unfurled at length.

...Sometimes, Williams trips us up with musical red herrings. When “The Force Awakens” came out, two years ago, I noticed a vaguely menacing reference to the harmonies of Darth Vader’s march at the end of the film. Had Luke, too, gone dark? The new film tells us otherwise, but shadowy chords surround the exiled hero for much of the film, leaving us in suspense as to his intentions. Another feint comes when we meet a rebel commander played by Laura Dern. She makes a frosty first impression, and the music around her brushes against the flamboyantly sinister theme assigned to Kylo Ren. Is she up to no good? In fact, the suspicion exists mainly in the imagination of the hotheaded flyboy Poe Dameron, who will be forced to reconsider his macho bravado."

The article links to the recently updated compilation by Frank Lehman:

Complete Catalogue of the Motivic Material in Star Wars

 

Hello! I love the music of Star Wars.

I think of Binary Sunset.