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The Soundtrack Show

The Empire Strikes Back: the Music Part IV

The Soundtrack Show

iHeartPodcasts

Film History, Music History, Tv & Film, Music

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our final look and listen to the music of The Empire Strikes Back covers the end of the film, and its main location: Cloud City. We listen to more restored music during the lightsaber duel, explore even more themes like Boba Fett's theme and Lando's Cloud City theme, and we examine how John Williams carefully scores the trap that awaits our heroes, playing against the gorgeous visuals and the illusion of safety that they present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tease and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restrictions apply. Ladies and And now, part four of our look at the music to Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back.

1:16.0

This is the soundtrack show. Oh, Oh, Welcome back to the soundtrack show. I'm your host David W Collins and this is the

2:08.8

final episode of our in-depth look at the music of Star Wars, episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back.

2:16.0

A film from 1980 with a film score by John Williams.

2:20.1

We left off last time with Luke Skywalker on the swamp planet of De goba training under Master Yoda while the rest of our characters were hiding out in an asteroid field safe from the Imperial Fleet.

2:32.0

Or, so they thought.

2:35.0

Turns out that the Millennium Falcon is hiding in more than just some cave in a larger asteroid,

2:40.7

without knowing it, they're actually sitting in the belly of the whale, or space slug as the case may be.

2:48.0

This, by the way, is another callback to Joseph Campbell, though with a twist, our characters have no idea.

2:55.8

So we're going to hear a passage that plays largely with no music from the film and ends with

3:00.9

a brand new melody, one that starts off in a similar way rhythmically to the Imperial March.

3:07.0

Instead of,

3:08.0

Don, don, don, don't, we get,

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done, don't, don't, don't, don't,, done, done on, done done,

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It's as if to say, ah, you escaped one crazy threat,

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