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Star Wars Theme - Different Orchestrations

Discussion in 'Star Wars And Film Music' started by adamclark83, Oct 31, 2012.

  1. adamclark83

    adamclark83 Jedi Master star 3

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    The Star Wars theme had different orchestrations for Episodes IV-VI and I'm just wondering why John Williams didn't do it with the prequels?
     
    adamclark83, Oct 31, 2012
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  2. aalagartassle

    aalagartassle Jedi Master star 4

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    The star wars theme is essentially Luke's, leias ,kenobis[force theme]and vaders theme all rolled into one. It's probably because Luke and Leia aren't around in the prequels so the leimotifs needed to change accordingly.
     
    aalagartassle, Nov 5, 2012
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  3. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    No. He/she's talking about the opening crawl music, which was only recorded once for TPM and used in all three prequel films. I'm assuming it was done to save time/money.
     
    Bacon164, Nov 7, 2012
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  4. WIERD_GREEN_MAN

    WIERD_GREEN_MAN Jedi Knight star 4

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    And it's crawl music. It doesn't need to be different.
     
    WIERD_GREEN_MAN, Nov 7, 2012
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  5. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    Why shouldn't it be? Different recordings set up different moods, however minute, for each of the OT films. It's always left a bad taste in my mouth that it wasn't recorded for AOTC and ROTS.
     
    Bacon164, Nov 7, 2012
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  6. adamclark83

    adamclark83 Jedi Master star 3

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    For the OT, I would have to say my favourite orchestration of the theme is ROTJ.
     
    adamclark83, Nov 14, 2012
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