2 Signature edition questions

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I'm thinking about buying the orchestral score of the suite from Phantom Menace and I have 2 questions: 1) is it "the real thing" or is it an arrangement without choir (I'm referring to Duel of the Fates)? Perhaps it's a silly question, it should be WITH the choir, but I noticed in the Hal Leonard website that in other scores for orchestra and choir it is clearly written that there is the choir, and in this is not so. Since I'll order it, I'd like to avoid bad surprises...

2) "Jar Jar's introduction" is presented as in the CD? The following cue in the same track (Swim to Otoh Gunga) is included? If not so, could you describe me, more or less, what kind of arrangement is it? I'm wondering because, if JJ's introduction is only as it is in the CD, it should be a very short piece, about 2 minutes long...

I'd be very grateful to anyone that will answer me! Thanks and long live to John Williams.

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[EvanED 1]

Speaking as someone who convinced his high school orchestra director to get the Hal Leonard edition of TPM in 2000 and who helped perform it with the rest of the orchestra and the high school choir, yes, it has choir parts. (It also has cues if you want to perform it without.)

The Jar-Jar cue that is part of the suite is actually a combination of several cues that are present on the CD. Perhaps someone else can answer this better than I; we skipped this movement. But's if you're worried about length, don't, since it's a concert arrangement. Same with The Flag Parade. (Lest I scare you off by saying that, remember that all the major character themes you think of that have their own tracks - Leias Theme, Yoda's Theme, Vader's Theme - are all concert arrangements too, yet no one scorns them. Same deal here.)

[Score 770]

OK, thank you very much! It was exactly the kind of information that I was looking for. As for Jar-Jar, I'm happy to know that it is a concert arrangement and, if it is made of other cues from the score, it is surely a great thing; I have always enjoyed very much the concert arrangements of the themes from the other films! I'm on my way to get it!