crumbs 14,317 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Okay, this was bugging me as soon as I watched ROTJ tonight. There's an eerily similar motif in these two scenes. Am I going crazy or is this potentially an intentional link between the two scores?ROTJ, the musical motif from 4:07 onwards (which I can't place): ROTS: the short motif from 0:19 onwards: I can't write sheet music, but both of these statements follow the same pattern. They start around the middle of the stave, the second note is lower, the third note is the same as the first, the fourth note goes higher, then the last note lower.Is it too much of a stretch to say this might have been intentional? Is the motif from ROTJ an excerpt from a theme that I just haven't recognised? Feedback please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,043 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Interesting catch, but I'm sure it was just a coincidence born of the same composer writing music for the same character. The similarities are not strong enough to suggest otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 Yeah it's similar but that's all. Man I love that part of ROTS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 What you're probably picking up on is similarities in harmonic rhythm and melodic contour. The differences are in actual harmony (the ROTJ is partially chromatic: Bm -> Bbm -> Bm -> Em/C#, whereas the Darth Plagueis bit is completely tonal - tonic, subdominant and tonic in the key of C#m) and the melody (F#->F->F#->B vs. E->D#->E->F#). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 It's also similar to the Vader/Luke duel, and Yoda's death. All of these are great moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Both of those film scenes and score cues are really very good.In Revenge of the Sith especially, McDiarmid and Williams just nailed it between the 30-50 second mark. crumbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,317 Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 Williams nailed the underscore in ROTS. Huge step up from AOTC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyy38 21 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 I want to hear what you're trying to say, but I just don't. At least not, so far....Oh yeah, ROTJ marked the FIRST time that a lightsaber duel was underscored by music.Star Wars didn't do this.Nor did Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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