With its emphasis on the budding romance between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala, it is no surprise that the love theme, Across the Stars, is the most pervasive theme in […]
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When John Williams returned to the Star Wars films in 1999 with Episode I: The Phantom Menace, there was something quite different about his approach to the score. Of course,
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In his score for Return of the Jedi, John Williams introduced a handful of new memorable themes into the Star Wars saga including that for the Ewoks, Jabba the Hutt,
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This is the second in a series of six posts on themes from the Star Wars films. Each post will examine a theme from each of the six films in
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Through the first six films of the Star Wars saga, John Williams’ inimitable scores have generated a large body of musical themes that have played an inextricable part in building
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In most film scores, themes are usually associated with a single character. This is the case, for example, with the previous two themes examined in this blog series: those
