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That’s a bass drum.

It seems a likely candidate, but nothing from the sheet music we’ve seen for ‘Whip at a Gun Fight’ is in this track.

Really loving 3:47-4:07 of The Grafikos! Sounds like music for some kind of moment where the magic begins to work, or the machine whirs to life.

@Falstaft After noting the surprising lack of snare drum in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, I think you’ll be pleased to hear that the Indy 5 album has plenty of snare! In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more snare just on the OST than in the entirety of those three scores.

Sounds like some various high-pitched wood blocks and/or temple blocks: This whole track has some particularly striking orchestrations, right?

The Raiders, rather than TLC, Nazi theme is present.

So great to finally have the studio version of Helena’s theme! I notice the orchestration of the opening has been revised since the concerts to feature piano rather than woodwinds.

Also, extremely minor nerdy detail: based on “3M10”, looks like he’s continuing to use the type of numbering he used for TROS, where each reel starts over at 1: 1M1–1M12 2M1–2M12 3M1–3M12 etc. Rather than the numbering he used for TFA and TLJ, where the cue numbers continue to increase throughout the film: 1M1–1M9 2M10–2M19 3M20–3M29 etc.

It’s even got a date: 7/28/22

The Disney site specifies the duration as 4:17.

TLJ technically tracks TFA if you count the reused main title recording. TROS went absolutely nuts with tracking from other episodes. Some instances are only a couple seconds, and some are quite lengthy: The Force Awakens (11) 1M1A Starry Night 3M26R You’re Han Solo (x2) 4M36R I Ran Into You 5M46R Kylo Stalks Rey 6M50R Han and Leia Reunion 6M56E Ren in Cockpit 7M65B Father And Son 7M67B Rey Gets Sabre 8M77 March of the Resistance The Last Jedi (8) 1M9 Revisiting Snoke (x2) 2M18A Holdo’s Secret Plan 3M22 Fun With Finn and Rose 4M36 Luke and Rey 5M48 Insert 9M85A Insert - Rey Looks 0M8 Saying Goodbye to the Fathier Revenge of the Sith (3) 7M3 The Birth of the Twins (x2) 7M5 Plans for the Twins Return of the Jedi (1) 13M2 Vader’s Death Total: 20 unique tracked cues, 23 instances

Seeing this thread bumped reminded me: I’m surprised the Sabrina theme was never paired with any lyrics, because those phrase endings sure sound like they were meant to accompany the name “Sabrina”:

Speaking of FYCs, we’ve been spoiled by having the FYC very soon after the OST for almost every JW score of the 2010s: only The BFG wasn’t a year-end release (and we sadly still haven’t heard that FYC). So, we’ve got a big wait in store to see exactly what we’re getting with the FYC this time, and obsess over which favorite moments missing from the OST will make it or not…

The Ark theme from Raiders is based around a repeating three-note idea.

The end titles are often one of the very last things to be completed for a film, and it seems pretty common that edits are required to get the music to time out properly, at least in recent years.

@ragoz350 has actually done at least a couple for TROS already, like these:

Whoa, fantastic work on this, @ragoz350!

The OST badly needed the complete Jungle Chase…

One month to go!

One month to go! Possibly even a little less if the album is out June 28th, as Mangold suggested.

It’ll be worth it for ‘The North Star’ alone!

Map cue confirmed?

I’m not 100% sure yet whether this belongs here or in the general forum, but let’s be hopeful. Mike Matessino just made some interesting comments over on the Film Score Monthly forums, and apparently he has a release that will be announced very soon: Intriguing, right?

I absolutely love this release so far! The themes themselves are gorgeous, and the orchestration absolutely sparkles. I've been comparing the alternates to see what's different: To Paris Opens with the B-section of the Sabrina theme, rather than the A-section. Learning The Ropes Includes the very 90's New Jack Swing-style rhythm section mercifully omitted from the main program. Work Montage Heavier orchestration, including timpani dropped from the main program version. Growing Up In Paris The big swell of the full orchestra towards the end was replaced with a much lighter passage spotlighting the piano. La Vie En Rose As, @MrJosh pointed out, orchestration accompanies the accordion solo from the beginning. On The Porch The accompanying woodwind figures are staccato rather than legato. Linus’ New Life A significantly different composition overall, with a different opening ostinato rhythm. The ending is much more ambiguous in tone. After several listens, I'm still not sure about what's different about the alternates of 'Sabrina Is Home' and 'Have Your Tea'. Could you help me out, @Jay? I wish this release had included detailed notes about the alternates like Amistad, but we now know it was basically finished back in 2020. Hopefully future releases will include them. 🤞