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The Soundtrack Show

The Empire Strikes Back: the Music Part III

The Soundtrack Show

iHeartPodcasts

Film History, Music History, Tv & Film, Music

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our in-depth look at The Empire Strikes Back continues as we examine the middle of the film: the asteroid field, the planet Dagobah, and more. Continuous changes to the final score are discussed, and we get our first listen to an instrument that makes its debut in the Star Wars saga: the synthesizer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.2

Our in-depth look at the Empire Strikes Back continues. This is the soundtrack show. Oh, Oh, no, no. Welcome back to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W Collins and today we're continuing our look at Star Wars

1:35.2

episode 5 the Empire Strikes Back a film from 1980 with a film score by John

1:40.9

Williams. Last time we looked at the beginning of the film which takes place on the planet

1:46.8

Hoth. Today we're going to be focusing mainly on the middle of the film which sees our

1:51.7

characters split into two separate

1:54.6

storylines. Han, Lea, Cheubaca, and C3Pio on the run from an imperial fleet of

1:59.4

star destroyers and all of the musical adventures that that brings,

2:03.0

while Luke Skywalker is in the swamp of De go-ba

2:06.0

with a wise Jedi master named Yoda.

2:09.0

Besides taking a listen to the fantastic music,

2:12.0

we'll also take a listen to even more cues that didn't make the cut of the film, or some cues that were changed.

2:19.0

First, we're not quite done with Hoth.

2:23.5

There are a couple of fascinating moments where music was omitted

2:27.0

or swapped with other music that provides even more insight

2:30.5

into the filmmaker's process of fine tuning the tone of this film.

2:35.0

After looking at all of these moments together,

2:38.0

we'll really see just how much thought went into the music in each and every sequence of empire.

2:45.0

Because even after all this time I'm still amazed by the quality of the music that was

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