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What do you mean by "silly stuff"?
I assume he means "Lapti Nek"/"Jedi Rocks", large portions of "Bounty for a Wookiee", etc.
Am I right, Solium?
You are correct.  I would also use the original music intended for Sail Barge sequence over the cut Lucas had Williams rewrite. There maybe other bits here and there I would cut or remove altogether.
I can see the source stuff not being your cup of tea. But what's so bad about Bounty for a Wookie? I thought that getting all of the Jabba's palace stuff really showed the nuance of Williams' scoring for Jabba.
Sadly I like the rescore of the sail barge fight so much better than his original. Even though it goes back to Star Wars. Although it does the "reprise" of those themes much better than some of the later Death Star stuff. The rescore just has so much more kick than the original. IMHO of course.
I can't imagine Lapti Nek not being on the LP. I mean, that's pretty much why it was in the movie, right?
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May 18, 2013 - 1:24 AM
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Tom Servo
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Below is what I have come up with just recently. I decided to take some ideas from Williams on the original LP for JEDI and expand on that. With four concert arrangements, plus the new Emperor's theme, Williams had a lot of new material to introduce and spread out among the disc space. Also, there is so much constant battle music in the last third that I am sure Williams would spread these around, along with the plethora of Ewok music. Most tracks from the '93 box set, except the end credits and others noted:
LP 1, Side A:
1. Main Title/Approaching The Death Star
2. Parade Of The Ewoks
3. Luke And Leia
3. Han Solo Returns (from Gerhardt album recording)
5. Fight In The Dungeon
LP 1, Side B:
1. The Emperor Arrives
2. Into The Trap
3. Heroic Ewok/The Fleet Goes Into Hyperspace
4. The Death Of Yoda
5. First Ewok Battle/Fight With The Fighters
LP 2, Side A:
1. Jabba The Hut (Varujan Kojian: Utah Symphony Orchestra)
2. The Emperor's Death
3. Through The Flames
4. The Emperor Confronts Luke
5. The Forest Battle
LP 2, Side B:
1. Final Duel/Into The Death Star
2. Darth Vader's Death
3. The Return Of The Jedi
4. Leia Breaks The News (Alternate)/Funeral Pyre For A Jedi (Film Version)
5. Victory Celebration/End Title
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Can't stand the theatrical version of the "Sail Barge". The music and themes swiped from Star Wars are totally out of place. Don't they actually revisit the "Tie Fighter" attack music? How does that become Lukes heroic music?
Easy: "Da-DAAAHHHM-dum, da-DAAAHHHM-dum, da-DAAAHHHM-dum-da-da-dum-dum."
It's the threatening-sounding fanfarish rebel motif which plays such an important melodic part in the Main Title arrangement of the Luke Skywalker Theme. I think the Sail Barge rewrite is an improvement, and the reasoning behind it is explained by the track title "Return of the Jedi." The music is obviously meant to convey the feeling that the characters are back to their old fightin' selves, and also to get the audience pumped, rooting for their success. "The Boys Are Back in Town" might have served as almost as good a track title. The finale of the cue retains Williams' most memorable original material from his first version.
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Easy: "Da-DAAAHHHM-dum, da-DAAAHHHM-dum, da-DAAAHHHM-dum-da-da-dum-dum."
I associate that as the Tie Fighter motif, not a heroic theme for the heroes. (It even sounds somewhat menacing.) It's a very mechanical sounding piece. If nothing else it's a generic "space battle" theme. The Rebels theme or the Force theme would have worked better if they needed to reuse an old cue.
That motif is specifically labeled as the "Rebel Alliance Fanfare", so it's not supposed to be associated with the TIE Fighters at all. In all the liner notes for Star Wars and the sequels, this has always been labeled as a fanfare for the Rebels, so it's entirely appropriate that it gets used again the "Sail Barge Assault" cue.
Fascinating. I never "read" it as such. For me I always associated it with the Tie Fighter attack on the Millennium Falcon. Especially since the Da-Daaahhm-dum starts with the appearance of the Tie Fighters and their pilots. But it is what it is then, "Rebel Alliance Fanfare".
Not that JW was totally strict about this sort of thing, but yeah it was written as the Rebel Spaceship theme. When I was a kid I always associated it with the Imperial Attack (where it's verrrrrry somber) and Inner City (where it's very menacing and "Imperial" sounding). But it is played for the Falcon when they escape. It's most heroic use in Star Wars is in the end titles after Luke's theme.
I don't recall off the top of my head, but doesn't it get used in the Yavin and Hoth battles as well?
Having said all that, after the initial statement when Luke gets his lightsaber back it does go into the TIE Fighter Attack setting. I just don't think it feels like as much of a "let's play the Star Wars record for this part" as some of the Death Star battle stuff does. It feels like a reprise more than a quote. Unlike when the Executor crashes into the Death Star. That feels like they just dropped the needle on The Last Battle.
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