Episode 28: The Empire Strikes Back - Part 2

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 28, we conclude our time with The Empire Strikes Back, and our exploration of perhaps the best Star Wars film and score ever made. In this episode, we make our way through some remaining themes and motifs, as well as the major action setpieces of the film, and ask the biggest question of all: is this the best film score ever written? Episode notes: 2:41 – The Days of Han and Leia 6:37 – Tchaikovsky’s Star Wars 11:51 – Han’s Soli 14:21 – Williams’ melodic patterns 15:27 – A polite argument (for strings) 20:14 – Melodus interruptus 24:22 – Bespin Cellos 25:51 – I love cue (I know) 30:48 – Resolving Solo and the Princess 36:32 – Bassoon Fett 43:36 – The droids dance 52:43 – The droids return in Solo 54:18 – Hyperspace strings 58:28 – Empire’s action ostinati 1:05:24 – Lando’s palace, where all your dreams come true 1:07:42 – A choir in the clouds 1:11:34 – The magic tree 1:15:10 – The synth side of the force 1:17:52 – John Williams’ best action cue, ever? 1:25:08 – The space tritone 1:28:31 – Looping the woodwinds 1:29:43 – The battle in the snow 1:34:29 – The Carbonite Procession, and John Williams’ greatest finale ever? 1:40:32 – The end credits 1:45:43 – The greatest score ever written? We love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and if you like The Art of the Score, please take a moment to subscribe, rate and comment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Art of the Score, the podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film,
0:21.3	TV and video games.
0:23.0	I'm Andrew Poxson.
0:24.2	And in each episode, we'll be joined by Daniel Golding and Nicholas Buck,
0:27.6	as we check out a soundtrack we love, break down its main themes,
0:31.3	explore what makes the score tick,
0:33.3	and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtrans.
0:48.8	Music and hopefully impart our love of the world of sound trends. In episode 28, we make the jump back into the Empire Strikes Back with part two and a look at some of the
0:56.8	remaining key themes that we didn't get to in part one and also a dive into the lesser
1:01.8	known motifs along with our favorite William's set pieces and joining me in his little
1:08.7	Corellian freighter you know the one the one, the affordable model from last season.
1:12.9	It's composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and scruffy-looking nerve-heder.
1:17.9	It's Nicholas Buck.
1:19.7	Who you're calling orchestrator?
1:24.4	No, look, I'm very excited to be back, guys.
1:27.3	We have yet to touch on some of the greatest music that Williams has ever written
1:31.8	and we're going to hit it in this episode.
1:34.0	I can't wait.
1:34.7	Absolutely.
1:35.7	And having trained as a medical droid in his earlier years,
1:39.3	later receiving his PhD from Bestman Tech,
1:42.0	that's a good place, it's a good uni.
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