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Great topic! My favorite has always been from Empire. The Clash of Lightsabers from 2:36 to 2:60. Goosebumps every time! I also really am enjoying The Battle of Crait 3:45 to 4:00 as well!
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Jan 15, 2018 - 4:14 PM
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bobbengan
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Outside of the theme suites, which will always take the cake for me when it comes to STAR WARS music, I really must call out two instance of phenomenal, exciting musicianship with one-off or 'smaller' motifs that really jumped out at me, both incidentally from RETURN OF THE JEDI:
A.) The giddy fanfare first heard when Jabba's sail barge explodes, and then later when the Death Star follows suit. For my money, this is the catchiest and most memorable action scoring of the entire franchise. I can't recall a single note of that famous Asteroid Chase cue, but oh boy, this little exclamatory motif is never far from my mind!
B.) Late in the film when Luke is fighting Vader and jumps from the shadows with a resounding "Nooo!", only to savagely defeat and nearly kill Vader. The low male choir and reverential strings are genius, truly goosebumps-inducing stuff. It takes a moment that could have been scored ominously or bespoke of action/heroics, and instead elevates the moment with mythic, reverent gravitas. Only a musical dramatist of the highest order would approach a moment like that with such an emotionally ambitious bit of scoring, and pull it off with such aplomb.
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I agree with Adam B. about the unused Empire but. It's my favourite bit of music in the entire thing.
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ANOTHER SW thread?
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