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- The music you’ll hear (at least most of it) comes directly from Star Wars, composed by John Williams; the clip is evidence of how Williams himself has gone on to be a pop culture icon (and that he still possesses a sense of humor!).
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May 4, 2024 · Not the synthy disco-tinged music that underscored many futuristic visions of 70s filmmaking, but instead the uptempo, jazzy tune Williams composed for A New Hope called simply called “Cantina...
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May 4, 2022 · Origins. John Williams composed the theme for Star Wars in the late 1970s. Williams has also written the theme for seemingly hundreds of other movies, including Jaws, E.T., and...
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Apr 17, 2024 · The music you’ll hear (at least most of it) comes directly from Star Wars, composed by John Williams; the clip is evidence of how Williams himself has gone on to be a pop culture icon (and that he still possesses a sense of humor!).
Jan 1, 2020 · David McCaulley. 16.8K subscribers. 788. 27K views 4 years ago. How did John Williams go about writing and scoring the music for the original Star Wars films? This video takes a...
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- A Trend-Setting Throwback
- Wagner: The Original Franchise King
- Tchaikovsky: Instrumental Color
- Holst: Journey Into Space
- Korngold: Movie Master
- Stravinsky: Uncanny Rite
- Orff: Sing A Song of Sith
- Elgar: A New Hope and Glory
- An Original Alchemy
One of the reasons Star Wars made such an impact was that in a decade marked by stark, intellectually ambitious science fiction films—including George Lucas's own THX-1138 (1971)—Star Warswas a shamelessly sweeping throwback to space operas in the Buck Rogers mode. Part and parcel of Lucas's approach was to commission a grand symphonic score, rathe...
The ultimate influence on Williams's vision for Star Wars was Richard Wagner, whose Ringcycle combines a wealth of musical ideas that would inform Williams's work. Daringly dissonant and boldly dramatic for its time, Wagner's four-opera cycle was the original "cinematic" composition, its lurid Romantic vocabulary providing the basic toolbox for a c...
You don't necessarily think Nutcracker Suite when you think Star Wars—but it's more appropriate than you might realize that The Force Awakenswas released during the Christmas season. Tchaikovsky was a master of orchestral color, and when you listen to his score for the "coffee" interlude next to Williams's Jawa theme, you're reminded that Clara's m...
Other than the composers shot into orbit by Stanley Kubrick in 2001 (Ligeti, Khachaturian, both of the Strausses)—and the composers literally shot into orbit on Voyager II (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven)—there's no composer in the classical repertoire who's more closely associated with outer space than Gustav Holst. The Planets has been mined for any num...
Of all Williams's borrowings, there's none more notorious than his nod to Erich Korngold—right out of the gate, no less. As many listeners have noted, the main Star Wars theme (technically, Luke Skywalker's theme) bears more than a passing resemblance to Korngold's theme for Kings Row(1942). Whether you'd go so far as to call this a "cinematic swip...
Stravinsky's influence on Star Wars might have come by way of Fantasia, where his instantly infamous Rite of Springwas used to soundtrack a desiccated landscape where dinosaurs marched to their deaths. As C-3PO and R2-D2 survey the barren sands of Tatooine, classical music fans must have wondered when a young Twi'lek was going to dance herself to d...
Believe it or not, when it came time to score the Star Wars prequels, there was one classical monster hit that just about every film composer except for Williams had plundered. That's Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, whose O Fortuna choir has been cribbed for seemingly every movie that culminates in a supernatural apocalypse. When it came time for Qui-G...
The theme that soundtracks the Throne Room procession (sorry for the spoiler) in the original Star Wars movie is a perfect example of Williams's special talent for creating music that's simultaneously new and old. Thanks to Williams's gift for melody and tone, you probably don't think about your high school graduation when Luke and Han are walking ...
Although Williams owes debts to all these composers—and many more—every composer stands on the shoulders of giants. Williams's homages may have been a bit more direct than some other composers', but the bottom line is that his mastery of melody and deftness of tone make the Star Wars scores a signal achievement in the history of cinema. Just as Luc...
Aug 24, 2021 · After producing eight film scores in the Star Wars franchise, Williams’ use of full symphony orchestra never lost its potency. And the force has remained strong with the composers who’ve since composed for Star Wars, continuing Williams’ legacy of truly great orchestral film score writing.
The music for the primary feature films (which serves as the basis for the rest of the related media) was written by John Williams. Williams' work on the series included the scores of nine feature films, a suite and several cues of thematic material for Solo and the theme music for the Galaxy's Edge Theme Park.
