Episode 8: Star Wars - Part 2

Art of the Score

Nicholas Buc

Education, Tv & Film, Music

5 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In our second Star Wars episode, marking the fortieth anniversary of the film, we complete our exploration of the themes for this landmark film and score from 1977. We take on the franchise’s most defining melody: the Force Theme, and also throw in the Rebel Fanfare, Vader’s motif, and the Death Star, before ending on that eternal question: what links Star Wars and Metallica? Episode notes: 2:15 – The Force Theme (or Ben Kenobi’s theme) 2:50 – Binary Sunset 7:25 – the Alternate Binary Sunset cue 12:30 – the Burning Homestead cue 14:50 – Rogue One: The Master Switch cue 17:10 – the first encounter with Ben Kenobi 18:55 – development with Kenobi, Tales of a Jedi Knight 22:45 – The Force Theme as anxious suspense 24:50 – Luke mourns Ben 26:30 – the martial Force Theme at the Battle of Yavin 28:30 – Use the Force, Luke 32:10 – The Force Theme in Superman? 34:40 – The Rebel fanfare motif 37:21 – The Blockade Runner and Imperial Attack, combining the Rebel and Imperial motifs 42:10 – Rebel fanfare as dramatic relief after the destruction of the Death Star 43:49 – Darth Vader’s motif 49:00 – development in Imperial Attack 55:00 – Ben’s recollections of Vader for solo clarinet 57:50 – Is Vader’s theme really Metallica in disguise? 1:01:11 – the Death Star motif 1:03:00 – Burning Homestead as a theme showcase We love to hear from our listeners – get in touch via Twitter, 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
0:18.8	greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games. I'm Andrew Pogson, and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film,
0:21.6	TV and video games.
0:23.3	I'm Andrew Pogson.
0:24.5	And in each episode, we'll be joined by Daniel Golding and Nicholas Buck as we check out a soundtrack we love,
0:30.1	break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick,
0:33.4	and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtracks.
0:38.3	Music and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtracks.
0:50.3	In episode eight, we continue part two of our celebration of 40 years of Star Wars, A New Hope, with the exploration of the iconic Williams score.
0:53.3	In the last episode, we only got the two of the main themes because we were so excited,
0:58.5	but we're going to continue our analysis and check out a whole bunch of the other remaining
1:04.1	themes from Star Wars.
1:07.2	But joining me, as always, on this continued journey to a galaxy far, far away is composer,
1:13.7	arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and the guy who once told me that he would totally
1:18.4	allow droids into his canteener is Nicholas Buck.
1:20.8	Oh, who told you that?
1:22.6	I am not the conductor you are looking for.
1:26.1	Very excited to get stuck into this great and influential score.
1:30.2	Absolutely.
1:31.3	And having freshly returned from an unsuccessful diplomatic mission to Alderan is writer,
1:36.5	critic, university lecturer and Nick, I've heard.
1:40.0	If you strike him down, he will only come back more powerful than anyone could possibly imagine.
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