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Wow, thanks everyone!  Obviously, the most important question to address is how I got those italics. Simple! https://lingojam.com/FacebookFonts 

As for the timeframe: I have over a year to hand in the finished manuscript, but my goal is to have it completed well before that. It's a big book, and publishing is a very slow process. But everything so far is proceeding as I have forseen...
 
It's not a guide to the scores really, but something more holistic, with each chapter looking at cues from all three trilogies from some angle: musical referentiality, thematic transformation, concert arrangements, and so on. There will be a ton of music examples (all my own annotated transcriptions as usu.), hopefully presented in an accessible way that draws in people who can't read sheet music. I know notation and music-theory jargon can be intimidating, and I'm hyper-aware of the potential gatekeeping effect it could on an already niche readership. But at the same time, I think we can all agree this music warrants deep and serious analysis! It's a balancing act for sure... 
 
Alas, I don't have special access to recordings, and can't speak to official expanded album releases, as amazing as they would be! 
 
Incidentally: I don't see it trumpeted nearly enough on these boards but Chloé Huvet came out with a book on SW music (mainly the OT and PT) a couple years ago that is absolutely brilliant and similarly synthetic in approach. The book is in French, which limits the audience, but it's worth getting your hands on if only for the fantastic music examples and charts.  The amount of insight in her prose is incredible too, and it's been a major source of inspriation to me. 

The happy news I cryptically alluded to last week is now something I can make official: I just signed a book contract with OUP for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴!   It's a book it feels like I've been writing in my head for a long, long time -- since middle school, kinda? And unless Williams somehow returns to write another entry in the series, I'm treating it a chance to provide a properly 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 investigation into these scores, all nine of them.   Even Rise of Skywalker?? 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 Rise of Skywalker!   My hope is this book does some justice to the complexity, challenge, and sheer magic of this music.   Now, back to the grindstone!   https://www.facebook.com/Falstaft/posts/pfbid0L6wUjeDDxj6AmhwHh1f9obrVMJfYbPx4GJM8YaEWiZtqxwp37A88monPFVDxBQ26l  
Congratulations, @Falstaft!

My pictures while examining those sheets.  Was such a thrill to hold the original, hand written full scores!  

 
Three piles, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. 
 

I certainly did until this thread was so rudely bumped … 

I certainly did until this thread was so rudely bumped … 

I certainly did until this thread was so rudely bumped … 

Classic Jedi hubris.

I wish I could remember. I guess his Trek theme's use in TNG would have been an early one; I didn't see TMP until a little later. I did see Planet of the Apes as a kid but the music didn't make much of an impression on me at the time. (Don't worry, I love it as an adult!) Soarin' Over California definitely caught my attention, as did his Universal logo. And I did have a compilation album that included Alien and Gremlin.
 
I probably didn't realize how much standing JG had with fans until I joined this community in the mid or late aughts. From there, my appreciation slowly grew, although there's still a large portion of his work I haven't heard.
 
Oh, and for the record, I do not view the TMP theme as a Star Wars knockoff in any way. It conjures very different emotions/images for me, and I can't point to any objective commonalities beyond "loud orchestral main theme in one or more major keys, featuring trumpets or violins on a triplet-heavy melody." That's hardly unique to SW.

I wish I could remember. I guess his Trek theme's use in TNG would have been an early one; I didn't see TMP until a little later. I did see Planet of the Apes as a kid but the music didn't make much of an impression on me at the time. (Don't worry, I love it as an adult!) Soarin' Over California definitely caught my attention, as did his Universal logo. And I did have a compilation album that included Alien and Gremlin.
 
I probably didn't realize how much standing JG had with fans until I joined this community in the mid or late aughts. From there, my appreciation slowly grew, although there's still a large portion of his work I haven't heard.
 
Oh, and for the record, I do not view the TMP theme as a Star Wars knockoff in any way. It conjures very different emotions/images for me, and I can't point to any objective commonalities beyond "loud orchestral main theme in one or more major keys, featuring trumpets or violins on a triplet-heavy melody." That's hardly unique to SW.

I wish I could remember. I guess his Trek theme's use in TNG would have been an early one; I didn't see TMP until a little later. I did see Planet of the Apes as a kid but the music didn't make much of an impression on me at the time. (Don't worry, I love it as an adult!) Soarin' Over California definitely caught my attention, as did his Universal logo. And I did have a compilation album that included Alien and Gremlin.
 
I probably didn't realize how much standing JG had with fans until I joined this community in the mid or late aughts. From there, my appreciation slowly grew, although there's still a large portion of his work I haven't heard.
 
Oh, and for the record, I do not view the TMP theme as a Star Wars knockoff in any way. It conjures very different emotions/images for me, and I can't point to any objective commonalities beyond "loud orchestral main theme in one or more major keys, featuring trumpets or violins on a triplet-heavy melody." That's hardly unique to SW.

I wish I could remember. I guess his Trek theme's use in TNG would have been an early one; I didn't see TMP until a little later. I did see Planet of the Apes as a kid but the music didn't make much of an impression on me at the time. (Don't worry, I love it as an adult!) Soarin' Over California definitely caught my attention, as did his Universal logo. And I did have a compilation album that included Alien and Gremlin.
 
I probably didn't realize how much standing JG had with fans until I joined this community in the mid or late aughts. From there, my appreciation slowly grew, although there's still a large portion of his work I haven't heard.
 
Oh, and for the record, I do not view the TMP theme as a Star Wars knockoff in any way. It conjures very different emotions/images for me, and I can't point to any objective commonalities beyond "loud orchestral main theme in one or more major keys, featuring trumpets or violins on a triplet-heavy melody." That's hardly unique to SW.

I wish I could remember. I guess his Trek theme's use in TNG would have been an early one; I didn't see TMP until a little later. I did see Planet of the Apes as a kid but the music didn't make much of an impression on me at the time. (Don't worry, I love it as an adult!) Soarin' Over California definitely caught my attention, as did his Universal logo. And I did have a compilation album that included Alien and Gremlin.
 
I probably didn't realize how much standing JG had with fans until I joined this community in the mid or late aughts. From there, my appreciation slowly grew, although there's still a large portion of his work I haven't heard.
 
Oh, and for the record, I do not view the TMP theme as a Star Wars knockoff in any way. It conjures very different emotions/images for me, and I can't point to any objective commonalities beyond "loud orchestral main theme in one or more major keys, featuring trumpets or violins on a triplet-heavy melody." That's hardly unique to SW.

That’s no Klingon moon!

Not necessarily. The last name can influence the choice of the first name. Maybe they'd have thought "John Nagle" doesn't really roll off the tongue, and named him Kevin Towner Nagle instead.

He owns JoAnn Kane Music Service, arguably the biggest name in music preparation for films. (Music prep is the process of rapidly creating the finished sheet music based on what the composer, arranger, or orchestrator provides. In the olden days, that meant handwriting the conductor's score and every player's part. Now it's accomplished with software like Finale or Sibelius.)

Zekeckis is an akazing kan, omay? Don't kame fun.

No, he's saying it was the Force's plan. It wanted Vader to catch Luke. In the fourth trilogy, the Force itself will be revealed as the true villain behind everything bad that's ever happened in SW. The peoples of the galaxy will have to rise up and go to war with their own midi-chlorians. (That end battle was sure tricky to shoot, back in 2018.)

If Zekeckis ever sells BTTF to Disney, we could make a Disenchantment Under the Sea Thread...
 
EDIT: Well that's just too funny a misspelling to correct.

If Zekeckis ever sells BTTF to Disney, we could make a Disenchantment Under the Sea Thread...
 
EDIT: Well that's just too funny a misspelling to correct.

No, he's saying it was the Force's plan. It wanted Vader to catch Luke. In the fourth trilogy, the Force itself will be revealed as the true villain behind everything bad that's ever happened in SW. The peoples of the galaxy will have to rise up and go to war with their own midi-chlorians. (That end battle was sure tricky to shoot, back in 2018.)

If Zekeckis ever sells BTTF to Disney, we could make a Disenchantment Under the Sea Thread...
 
EDIT: Well that's just too funny a misspelling to correct.

@Mattris Copy that. Looking forward to that midi-chlorian trilogy bringing us to your plane of enlightenment, God whilling.

If Zekeckis ever sells BTTF to Disney, we could make a Disenchantment Under the Sea Thread...
 
EDIT: Well that's just too funny a misspelling to correct.

@Mattris Copy that. Looking forward to that midi-chlorian trilogy bringing us to your plane of enlightenment, God whilling.

@Mattris Copy that. Looking forward to that midi-chlorian trilogy bringing us to your plane of enlightenment, God whilling.