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John Williams wrote the musical score for the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, as had been the case for the four previous Star Wars films. He used the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices to perform the music. Only the orchestra was used for "Across the Stars", the motif used to represent the romance between Anakin Skywa...
Accompanied by triplet arpeggios, this love theme illustrates the bond between the queen-turned-senator Padmé Amidala and the slave-turned-Jedi-Knight Anakin Skywalkerslowly strengthening and blossoming into love. The forbidden love is sealed in matrimony and continues until it slowly crumbles when Anakin turns to the dark side.
The theme starts off with a slow, emotional part performed by the violas, which play long notes, and the harp, which plays repeating triplets. As the strings continue, a solo oboe comes in with the primary melody. After the oboe finishes half of the melody, the strings finish the other half and end the first section. Next, the strings join the harp...
In the soundtracks
It is available from Sony Classical on the Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack, as the second track entitled "Love Theme from Attack of the Clones." It is used another nine times in five other tracks on the soundtrack. The first appearance after track two is forty-five seconds into "Yoda and the Younglings." The second is three minutes and twenty-four seconds into the same track. The track "Anakin and Padmé" contains the theme fifty-nine seconds in and again two minutes and...
In the movies
The piece appears in both Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. In Revenge of the Sithit appears for a final time as Padmé is in contemplation upon landing on Mustafar.
In the Expanded Universe
"Across the Stars" can also be heard in the trailer for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as in Chapter 1 of the Star Wars: Clone Wars microseries. The piece makes appearances in both Star Wars: Battlefront and Star Wars: Battlefront II. The theme is also used in the title screen of the game Star Wars: The New Droid Army. It is once again used in the end credits of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and the video game adaptation of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, and i...
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