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Hmmm temporal distortion. Sounds more like Star Trek to me.

It's an older rule, Dev, but it checks out.

 
 
Nice catch. Keep up your keen eye on music scores, and welcome to the forum!
 
 

It's an older rule, Dev, but it checks out.

 
 
Nice catch. Keep up your keen eye on music scores, and welcome to the forum!
 
 

I think the Resistance theme has some potential. It can become an alternate to the "Rebel fanfare".
 
 
You mean the "doo doo doo" bit that plays alongside Kylo Ren's falling motif in the end credits? I wanna hear that played on a contrabass tuba.
 
 

BB-8 is in it and that's all you need to know. Isn't that droid just adorable! So cute!

War Horse is simply one of the best, and most emotional scores of his entire career.  Tintin is a delightful romp.  Lincoln is wonderfully introspective with several A+ themes.  The Book Thief is an engaging score that takes a hold of you from the start and doesn't let go until the end, and The Force Awakens is a delightful new direction in his action adventure scoring with wonderful themes and great variations of all of them (and I'm still chomping at the bit to hear the hour of unused alternates and stuff).
 
I just cannot wait for The BFG, I think its going to be a real special one.  I hope Johnny scores both Ready Player One and Episode 8!

I liked this photo (taken by LSO percussionist and JWO regular David Jackson) of my two favourite musical JWs meeting backstage at the John Wilson Orchestra's recent concert at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. I knew that John Wilson was a big fan of John Williams and it seems as though the admiration is mutual. Larry King photo bombs too, which is nice.

Any chance that the John Wilson Orchestra will do an all-Williams concert at the BBC Proms next time? I saw them again at the Royal Festival Hall this week and they were brilliant as ever.

When Morricone was announced as the winner, I felt dissapointed. I knew he would win, but I still retained some hope.
 
Yet, after watching Morricone walking to the stage and giving a gentlemanly acceptance speech, and mentioning Williams, I felt relieved.
 
It's not like Ludovic Bource winning over Williams just for the film's popularity back in 2011. Morricone is an obviously deserving composer.

When Morricone was announced as the winner, I felt dissapointed. I knew he would win, but I still retained some hope.
 
Yet, after watching Morricone walking to the stage and giving a gentlemanly acceptance speech, and mentioning Williams, I felt relieved.
 
It's not like Ludovic Bource winning over Williams just for the film's popularity back in 2011. Morricone is an obviously deserving composer.

When Morricone was announced as the winner, I felt dissapointed. I knew he would win, but I still retained some hope.
 
Yet, after watching Morricone walking to the stage and giving a gentlemanly acceptance speech, and mentioning Williams, I felt relieved.
 
It's not like Ludovic Bource winning over Williams just for the film's popularity back in 2011. Morricone is an obviously deserving composer.

When Morricone was announced as the winner, I felt dissapointed. I knew he would win, but I still retained some hope.
 
Yet, after watching Morricone walking to the stage and giving a gentlemanly acceptance speech, and mentioning Williams, I felt relieved.
 
It's not like Ludovic Bource winning over Williams just for the film's popularity back in 2011. Morricone is an obviously deserving composer.

Just for the record here's a more detailed analysis of what I was talking about (everything has been transposed to D minor for easier comparison):
 

This is the flute line from the middle, quiet section of the Imperial March (LISTEN here, note I used the string line later on but the melody is exactly the same, only transposed down an octave).
 
Now compare the labelled fragments A, B and C with Kylo Ren's main motif as it appears in Jakku Village (LISTEN):

 
and the "falling" motif as it appears in The Abduction (LISTEN):

 
Fragment C seems to appear in the main horn melody (this is what I was talking about in my earlier post), and the trumpets above it also hint at fragment A.
Whereas the falling motif looks like it's built out of fragment B entirely.
 
I guess it's interesting that Williams appears to base Kylo Ren's music on the middle, quieter section of the Imperial March, but turning it into loud brass statements. Almost as if Kylo Ren has only grasped a small part of Vader's legacy and turned it into something bigger than it actually is, but never getting close to the main power (i.e. Vader's theme, which only plays when Ren looks at Vader's mask.)
 
Does that even make any sense?
 
Anyway, Rey's theme seems, in turn, to be literally reflecting Kylo Ren's theme (LISTEN):
 

...by playing the last three notes, then playing the first three notes in reverse (but G# is brought down to G). *gasp* I wonder what this could mean? (LISTEN)
 
Another "link" which at least appears in the concert suite of Rey's theme is the repeating trumpets, which sound almost like the repeating trumpets playing over Kylo Ren's theme in Jakku Village. It might just be a purely musical choice though.
 
 

Here are the original OSTs released at the same time as the film's release; These were arranged by Williams for listening experience and do not contain the complete scores, but rather the highlights as chosen by him and then re-arranged into a non-chronological order as per his usual MO.
 
SW: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345793
TESB: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345127
ROTJ: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068346287
 
TPM: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345185
AOTC: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1068345124
ROTS:https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1069977430
 
They also released a collection including all 6 of the above titles, but it actually costs $14 more than just buying each of the above for $6 each, so avoid it!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1041511949
 
 
 
In 1997 Lucasfilm hired Mike Matessino to make 2CD sets for each of the original three scores to be in stores the same time as the SE versions of the original films were in theaters for the RCA Victor label.  These are (basically) completely and (pretty much) in chronological order.  Eventually RCA's license ran out and Sony re-issued them in 2004 with new covers but identical content.  Here those are:
 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id394309338
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id261749656
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id261749251
 
It's hilarious to me that Apple is selling those for $16.99-$18.99 each, because you can get them on CD for $8.39 each on Amazon!
 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVIS
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVJC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002YCVK6
 
So obviously I'd recommend doing that instead.
 
For the prequel scores, Sony expanded The Phantom Menace a year after the film's release, but it was a half-assed job; They simply took the final film audio of the final cut of the film, made a few tiny tweaks, and plopped that on CD.  For some films this would be OK, but TPM's score was massively and extensively re-edited and tweaked around in post-production, with a ton of music getting dropped and/or replaced by music tracked in from other stuff.  So the CD actually includes some passages twice because of this tracking.  It's a mess, but the sound quality is really good if you want to check it out
 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id412454908
 
Though much like the other expansions, you can get it on a real CD for much cheaper
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000051VYS/ref=olp_f_new

Cool BTS shot
 
 

 
To bring this thread back on topic, I ripped the unknown statement of the Rebel Fanfare from the Sound of the Galaxy video:
 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9WXNJOUIxR0dBZWc/view?usp=sharing
 

Yeah I hope we get more than the 10 minute featurettes we got in the prequel dvd releases. I want an hour long look into the entire scoring process, or even a full length 120+ min documentary. 

Star Wars: Episode VIII prepping to shoot in Croatia

I much preferred the branding of the "Star Wars Anthology" subtitle it was originally given.  In the end, the movie will be the same.

 
Thomas, this is just a breathtaking quality arrangement! Quite a challenge to play, really. I would say it's flawless.
 
Thank you for permitting us to enjoy your work.

Here is my two piano arrangement of "The Falcon":
 
 
Finn's theme just doesn't get enough love!
 
(Btw, I matched the tempo of this computer recording to the original track, so if you play them both together they should line up...)

John Williams IS Star Wars. It is nothing without him.

This thread has everything!  Williams scoring stage antics, Williams being a Ridley fanboy, people getting pissed about excitement over something they deem inconsequential, people getting pissed at the people getting pissed about excitement over something they deem inconsequential, grammar/spelling wars, and worries about Williams' health.

Trust me. It will be!

Thanks everyone, my first JW concert, this will be a night to remember forever!