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One of the reasons I'd love an expanded release of Prisoner of Azkaban is for the cues that feature Peter Pettigrew's theme that never made it onto the OST.

It made me wonder if there are any other JW themes and motifs that were omitted from the original soundtracks?

Mola Ram's theme came very close.

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The Longing for the Lost Child theme from A.I. was left off from the OST entirely.

Tavington's motif appears only once on the Patriot OST.

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The patriotic Homeland Defense theme from 1941 was left the original OST.

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The Longing for the Lost Child theme from A.I. was left off from the OST entirely.

Tavington's motif appears only once on the Patriot OST.

The first one is a real head scratcher, as it is an absolutely sublime theme. In what track in the OST of the Patriot can I hear Tavington's motif?

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The Longing for the Lost Child theme from A.I. was left off from the OST entirely.

Tavington's motif appears only once on the Patriot OST.

The first one is a real head scratcher, as it is an absolutely sublime theme. In what track in the OST of the Patriot can I hear Tavington's motif?

Yeah the first one is really a baffling case as the piano theme is as you say sublime.

Tavington's Trap 0:32 onwards in the rhythmic strings. Williams reprises it a couple of times on woodwinds in the film. He uses it as a base for the Martin VS Tavington though but it is more in the use of the rhythmic strings than actually fully reprising the idea.

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Didn't Jerry leave Lancelot's Theme off the First Knight OST?

Yes. Which was a shame as it has that wonderful swashbuckling feel to it.

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The carnivore motif from TLW is absolutely on the OST

Not the Jurassic Park one. Apart from the near subliminal hint in Hammond's Plan.

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Basically, the two greatest appearances were left off, The Scroll/To Pankot Palace and Approaching the Stones. That album was missing like 70% of the greatest music.

This is what you're talking about, right?

Although it sound exactly like an audio rip and not part of an "expanded soundtrack."

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The carnivore motif from TLW is absolutely on the OST

Not the Jurassic Park one. Apart from the near subliminal hint in Hammond's Plan.

That's right, I'm not talking about the Island Motif. They're both four notes so it can get confusing describing them. The Carnivore motif is the one that goes up a minor second, down a major third, then down an augmented fourth--often played on shakuhatchi.

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The love theme from The Village is almost absent. The film has several beautiful piano renditions, but the album only has the statement at the beginning of Those We Don't Speak Of.

Really needs an expansion.

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I wonder what that lovely melody from the Talk of Podracing is meant to represent thematically as it is reprised in the finale of the film?

Qui-Gonn's theme is sadly not on the original album but then again it is one big mess of a soundtrack album.

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Wait, are you talking about the melody heard at the beginning of this track (which is also heard at the beginning of Talk Of Podracing on the UE)?

I always thought that was Qui-Gon's theme.

You don't visit JWFan much, do you?

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I wonder what that lovely melody from the Talk of Podracing is meant to represent thematically as it is reprised in the finale of the film?

It's the A Jedi In The Making motif! In Talk Of Podracing, it plays when Qui-Gon is saying how badass Ani is for being able to drive a podracer and he must have Jedi reflexes, and in The High Council Meeting, it plays when Palpy says "We shall watch your career with great interest..."

Not sure about the second one, though. I may be remembering incorrectly. Same for the first one, actually...

Doug Adams should be wary. You might steal his film music analysist par excellence post soon.

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Didn't Jerry leave Lancelot's Theme off the First Knight OST?

I forgot about that one. Really a shame because it's a good theme.

Alfrid's Theme is left off the Battle of the Five Armies OST

I wish the whole character was left off the movie to be honest.

The carnivore motif from TLW is absolutely on the OST

Yeah, The Raptor's Appear contains several renditions of that theme although I would have liked JW to have reused the carnivore theme from JP1 if only for consistency.

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The track "Han Solo and the Princess" includes both the new theme (Han Solo), and Princess Leia's theme from Star Wars. The track title just got stuck to the theme.

Also correlates with Williams' statements that he did not write a Star Wars love theme until AOTC :)

(This is not my theory, BTW, it's Doug Adams' - but it made the Star Wars scores/themes click a little better for me)

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Wait, are you talking about the melody heard at the beginning of this track (which is also heard at the beginning of Talk Of Podracing on the UE)?

I always thought that was Qui-Gon's theme.

Qui-Gon's theme is the big, sweeping theme that plays when Qui-Gon and Darth Maul fight in the desert. It's introduced a little before that scene - it opens Disc 2 of the UE set, and it also plays at the end of the movie when he dies in Obi-Wan's arms. Awesome theme.

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Yea, he definitely could have used it throughout the first half of the film instead of saving it for the second half. He must have written it late in the game, I guess.

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It's actually one of the first melodies I picked out when I first watched TPM. It may not appear as often as the others, but it's a great tune.

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The desert duel was the music I was most excited to find clean when I discovered how to rip the music out of the Phantom Menace video game back in 1999

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