CGCJ

Another little project during quarantine! 
 
I'm halfway through rewatching the series for the first time and I've been making note of unreleased music in relation to the fantastic cue list analysis posted by CGCJ just a few posts up the page. Here are a few descriptions of some of the unreleased music from Chapters 1-4, matched up with what I assume to be the correct cue title.
 
Chapter 1
Open the Hatch - Opens with some synth action before orchestra (primarily brass and strings) comes in. Plays as Mando and bounty escape the ice creature in the Razor Crest. Comes after Hey Mando! in sequence.
 
Have to Use the Vacutube - Mainly just the travelling motif in menacing mode, similar to the statement in Chapter 3's A New Day, when Mando flies into Navarro. Comes after Open the Hatch in sequence.
 
Chapter 2
There's a very short cue that opens with the woodwinds from the start of Jawas Attack and is overtaken by rising tension in the strings. It plays as Baby Yoda begins to approach Mando as he mends his wound. Comes after Walking on Mud in sequence. This moment doesn't have appear to have a cue equivalent in the GEMA repertoire, so it's possible it's made up of tracked elements. A bit of a puzzler.
 
Found the Egg - The eerie synth from The Egg, which also appears in Chapters 5,6, etc., plays when Mando goes to collect the mudhorn's egg. Comes after The Mudhorn in sequence. 
 
Chapter 3
Mando's Back - Either the music that plays when Mando walks into the bar with his new armour (short moment opens with distorted guitar wail and thumping percussion) or the music that plays when Mando first decides to go back for Baby Yoda (a really cool cue that riffs on the Child motif with guitar and then the the whole orchestra). It's possible that in the cue database the latter is included in the cue Second Thoughts even though it's not on the album that way. Either way I'm stumped, and this is the one cue I wish they could've tacked on to the Chapter 3 album. Comes after Signet Forging in sequence. 
 
Your Only Hope - Another neat cue that begins with low synth elements similar to those in Second Thoughts, before ramping things up with a brass statement of the recorder riff overtop of a hip-hop style beat. There's then an edited section that leads into Mando Rescue, which gets a little confusing. Comes after Whistling Birds in sequence. 
 
Chapter 4
Keep an Eye on the Asset - Building suspense in the strings as Mando tracks Cara's footprints. Comes after Off the Grid in sequence.
 
Please Come In - Razor Crest motif on acoustic guitar, as in The Ponds of Sorgan, but receives a stronger backing from the string section. Comes after Keep an Eye on the Asset in sequence. 
 
Fits Right In and Leaving Him Here - Two short cues, the first starting with that same Razor Crest motif on acoustic guitar, moving into the recorder riff on woodwinds (clarinets?), and then ominous music as we cut to the bounty hunter. Comes after Spirit of the Woods in sequence. 
 
That's the best that I can make out of these. There are also two source cues listed on GEMA for Chapter 1 and 4 but I can't really hear them in the show. 

The opening cue appears to have been written by David Glen Russell:
 
 

Which reminds me: I’ve seen the new cue titles from GEMA listed previously, but here are the cue titles we already knew that do not appear in GEMA, and so are most likely unused in the final cut:
 
Dunkirk (unless ‘The Dunkirk Shot’ is the same cue)
Jumping the Chain
Quicksand
Return to Tattooine
Rey’s Grief
Rey Trains (not to be confused with ‘Rey’s Training’)
 
GEMA also has two John Williams compositions registered for Rise of Skywalker with no title. One should be the untitled 3M3 speeder chase cue, but I’m uncertain what the other might be.

Perhaps The Crowd Joins In is the scene at 01:55:31 just after the "Dunkirk" scene; the sith followers begin to chant before Ben wakes up and is thrown into the pit. Actually, I'm almost certain that has to be it!

Anyone else care to speculate with me about what the Episode IX unknown cues might be? (While dreaming of a sessions leak...)
 
It Fits!
 
I don't believe that line is actually uttered anywhere in the movie, but I'm pretty sure this would be the scene of Rey holding up the Sith dagger to the Death Star wreckage, perhaps even just an insert. Many of the Episode 7 and 8 inserts have their own titles. 
 
Emperor's Attack
 
Most likely the scene just prior to "Seeing Sights", with the Emperor knocking Ben into the pit and using lightning on the fleet.
 
The Dunkirk Shot
 
Almost certainly the scene with Lando and the enormous fleet, replacing "Dunkirk", if that's in fact a different cue.
 
Chewie's Interrogation
 
Seems to confirms that this scene shown in concept art was filmed:

 
Filial Fencing
 
Filial is defined as "of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter", but no one fights their parent in this movie, so perhaps he meant to refer to Luke and Leia's sibling relationship. The young Luke and Leia lightsaber training does seem more like fencing. The cue could have been written when that scene was intended as the original opening, or the flashback during the Ahch-To scene (as in the final film).
 
Or perhaps it's referring to a grandfather, as in this Kylo/Vader scene glimpsed in concept art?

 
Or perhaps it was meant for the young Luke and Leia lightsaber training, which does seem more like fencing, either as part of the original opening or during the Ahch-To scene (as in the final film).
 
Ready To Be A Jedi
 
I think this may actually be 'A New Home' instead of 'Return to Tatooine', which does not appear in the GEMA Repertoire database. Notably, 'Quicksand' is also missing, which seems to imply only cues appearing in the final cut were registered, so 'Return to Tatooine' is probably a different cue for that scene.
 
The ones that have me the most stumped are "The Crowd Joins In" and "Name That Tune". I assume "Name That Tune" most feature one of the best-known Star Wars melodies prominently, like the main title, Imperial March, or force theme. If we didn't already have "The Dunkirk Shot", I would have thought it was the music for that scene, though it could an insert or split in two.

Basically, it's like this
 
Early version of the the film:
1M01 Main Title, per OST track 1 cues we don't have for the pan down from the stars and establishing shot of Ajon Klass, unknown setup that goes from Leia reminiscing to the Luke/Leia lightsaber training flashback, potentially unknown scene with Leia and Rey after that (?) 1M05 Rey Trains for Rey's training 1M06 Ren's Entrance for any/all of these potential scenes: Kylo first shown on Mustafar, Kylo fighting the Vader faithful, Kylo talking to the Oracle, Kylo getting the Wayfinder (Kylo fighting the faithful could be the music we have in the middle of OST track 2) cue for Kylo traveling to Exegol using the Wayfinder, which is potentially the music we have that opens OST track 2 1M08 Approaching The Nursery, for Kylo talking to the Emperor without a fleet reveal, which we have in edited form in OST track 1 2M01 Cockpit Dialog for the big Falcon chase scene Nov 11 cut
1M01 Main Title, per OST track 1 [new cue] 1M022 The Ninth Beginning for the pan down from the stars and establishing shot of Exegol, with Kylo arriving there, walking from his ship towards the Emperor's temple with his lightsaber drawn, per OST track 1 1M08 Approaching The Nursery, for the beginning of Kylo talking to the Emperor, per OST track 1 [tracked new cue] 1M15 Vader's Castle tracked in for the shots of the Fleet rising [tracked] 8M04 Psalm of the Sith tracked in for the end of the Kylo/Emperor conversation [new cue] 1M24 Meditation for Rey meditating 1M09 Rey Wakes Up for Rey coming down from meditation [new cue] 1M20 Rey Training for the bulk of her training 1M05 Rey Trains for the end of her training [tracked] 9 seconds of 2M03 The Wisdom of Maz tracked in [new cue] 1M13 Tell Me What They Are for Rey talking to Leia after the training [new cue] 1M26 Lightspeed Skipping for the big Falcon chase scene Final cut
1M01 Main Title, per OST track 1 [tracked] 1M1A Starry Night from Episode 7 for the pan down from the stars and establishing shot of Mustafar (FYC Prologue 0:00-008) tracked music for transition from establishing shot to first shot of Ren (FYC Prologue 0:08-0:56) cue for Kylo fighting the Vader faithful and then getting the Wayfinder, from the second half of OST track 2 (FYC Prologue 0:56-1:28) tracked in from 6M13 Rey's Trip To P for Kylo flying to Exegol (FYC Prologue 1:28-1:37) 1M022 The Ninth Beginning segment for walking from his ship towards the Emperor's temple with his lightsaber drawn, as in the Nov 11 cut (FYC Prologue 1:37-end) tracked 5M06 Hard To Get Rid Of to end Kylo's arriving A hodgepodge of {19 seconds of 1M08 Approaching The Nursery / 9 seconds of unknown music / 13 seconds of 1M08 Approaching The Nursery / 12 seconds of an unknown cue / 10 seconds of no audible music / 7 seconds of an unknown cue} for the beginning of the Kylo/Emperor conversation [tracked] 1M15 Vader's Castle tracked in for the shots of the Fleet rising, like the Nov 11 cut [tracked] 16 seconds of 5M08 Geneology and 13 seconds of 6M07 Stop and Start tracked in for the end of the Kylo/Emperor conversation (FYC Falcon Flight) 1M26 Lightspeed Skipping for the big Falcon chase scene, potentially with [new cue] 1M14 Falcon's Last Flight insert replacing a portion of it 1M24 Meditation for Rey meditating, like the Nov 11 cut 1M09 Rey Wakes Up for Rey coming down from meditation, like the Nov 11 cut 1M20 Rey Training for Rey training, like the Nov 11 cut 1M13 Tell Me What They Are for Rey talking to Leia after the training, like the Nov 11 cut (no way to tell if if 9 seconds of this music is 2M03 The Wisdom of Maz tracked in like the Nov 11 cut)

Approaching The Nursery is for the original version of Kylo's talk with the Emperor on Exegol, that was both longer (the OST track is edited down from the full recording) and didn't feature the reveal that Palpatine had a fleet.  It looks like when that reveal got moved into the opening, in the Nov 11 cut, they tracked in 14 seconds of Vader's Castle and then 43 seconds of 8M04 Psalm of the Sith.. In the final cut, we hear the big Vader's Theme statement from OST track 2, so I'd assume that's Vader's Castle, but then 16 seconds of Geneology (Join Me), 13 seconds of Stop and Start (Final Lightsaber Duel), and 25 seconds of unknown music, which could be Psalm of the Sith, maybe.
 
The whole reason the OST and Nov 11 info only has The Ninth Beginning in between the Main Title and Approaching The Nursery seems to be because in the Nov 11 cut JJ had excised Mustafar from the film entirely.  I guess Williams liked what he originally wrote for Kylo's flight to Exegol and the fight he had with the Vader faithful so wanted it on the OST album.  So one possibility for track 2 is 0:00-0:51 is the original music for his flight there, replaced in the film with music tracked in from an alternate take of Rey's flight there.  And then 0:51-end is the original music for the battle Kylo had with the Vader faithful, since that's what music  still scores in the final cut, with Mustafar now restored.  Except the part from 1:56-2:13, which certainly seems to be Vader's Castle, potentially an insert that replaced a portion of the fight, like perhaps if he looks up and realizes he's close Vader's place and an establishing shot of it is scored by that powerful rendition of the theme.  Or maybe only 0:51-1:56 is for the fight, and 1:56-end is all Vader's Castle, but only a small portion of it was tracked into the fleet reveal scene.
 
Basically it's impossible to edit tracks 1 & 2 into a chronological order, since track 2 seems to contain music for Kylo's flight to Exegol yet track 1 contains a replacement cue for him arriving there when Mustafar was dropped from the film.  So you have to remove one or the other from a main playlist and move one to a bonus track to maintain some semblance of strict chronology

To elaborate on the Starry Night being labeled "(Edited incorrectly)"

0:00-0:11 should have gone into the Kylo Theme at 0:32 and 0:11-0:00 should have gone after 1:02 for the "Free version"

1:03-1:13 almost seems to be layered from 7M66 The Control Room and Ren in the Forest

So I updated the titles of the unreleased music I have hosted on google drive, to be more accurate to the cue list, based on info provided by those who have been able to get a hold of the partial sheet music leak:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p9uTxtd8s6eM6_sw77x7__n2bnTJe07L
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E0mLeNoiWK7-3XohSd_byCGkcJRNhFbD
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QTP02C-XqvYEybBIl8AqZNa7zD0Z4rAl
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9d0hlNXlzc0dKVU0
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9OXRoNnNxWE9uZGs
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9bGxlejg1QUxsNlU
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9aHNsYTFiOGVhT1E
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9WlBmdjJiMU03a3c
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxQSwI5aPja9LWE1RXhPZi11Wmc

No. They're likely just uses of the themes that were listed like in the table on the first page that happened to get entries in the repertoire due to them having timings to them, not actual cues. The use of the Emperor's theme in The Last Jedi got an entry even though it is simply a part of 7m60 Come Closer, Child.

That's 2M18A Holdo's Secret Plan (Identified by it's placement in the online cue list matching it's tracked place during Poe stalling Hux at the beginning of the film, about 4 minutes in).

I started going through the film and notating the starting and stopping points of every cue (or piece of tracked music) in it, for those who want to hear certain things when you get the blu ray. 
 
Here's what I have so far, from the start of the film until they arrive as Pasaana
 

Start End Reel/Part Cue Length Tracked Tracked
(Prior
Films) Source
Music FYC   OST 0:18 1:44 1M01 Main Title 1:26           01A [0-1:26] Fanfare and Prologue 1:44 1:54 TRACKED 1M1A Starry Night from Ep7     0:10         1:54 2:02 TRACKED "Journey to Exegol"   0:08     01A [0:00-0:08] Prologue 0:08 02 [0:47-0:51] Journey to Exegol 2:02 2:50 ?M? "Journey to Exegol" 0:48       01B [0:08-0:56] Prologue 0:48 02B [1:02-1:40 / 2:13-2:33] Journey to Exegol 2:50 3:22 TRACKED 6M13 Rey's Trip To P   0:32     01C [0:56-1:28] Prologue 0:32   3:22 3:32 TRACKED 1M022 The Ninth Beginning   0:10     01D [1:28-1:37] Prologue 0:09 01C [1:45-1:52] Fanfare and Prologue 3:32 3:38 TRACKED 5M06 Hard To Get Rid Of   0:06     01E [1:37-end] Prologue 0:07   4:21 4:33 ?M? "Every Voice Inside Your Head" 0:12             4:33 4:40 TRACKED 1M08 Approaching The Nursery   0:07         01E [2:52-2:58] Fanfare and Prologue 4:40 5:14 ?M? "Every Voice Inside Your Head" 0:34             5:24 5:31 ?M? "The Final Order" 0:07             5:31 5:46 TRACKED "Journey to Exegol"   0:15         02C [1:56-2:13] Journey to Exegol 5:46 6:40 ?M? "The Final Order" 0:54             7:53 10:17 1M14 Falcon Flight 2:14       02 Falcon Flight 2:22   10:17 10:28 1M24 Meditation 0:21             10:28 10:51 1M09 Rey Wakes Up 0:23             10:51 11:59 1M20 Rey Training 0:57             11:48 12:16 1M05 Rey Trains 0:28             12:52 13:43 1M13 Tell Me What They Are 0:51             15:17 17:16 2M30 Rey's Mission 1:59             17:19 19:26 2M06 The Medal 2:07       03 We Go Together 2:10 09A [0-2:33] We Go Together 19:26 20:41 2M02 Fixing The Helmet 1:15             21:14 21:16 TRACKED unknown cue at this time   0:02           21:16 21:42 2M07 Ship Trip 0:26           09B [2:33-end] We Go Together  
 
It's bugging me I can't place what that tracked bit just before Ship Trip, it sounds familiar yet I can't place it
 
Also, I have no idea why the cue we used to call "We Go Together" is called "The Medal", because there is no medal seen at all in that scene

This is where it gets hard doing score restore videos because Williams clearly scored a very different version of the film for many cues on the OST.
 
Rather than conform the music to fit the final picture (the film already does that) I've tried to find the best fit for the music with slight edit changes to help it fit. Surprisingly, not much needed to be done for either of these two cues (although I did repeat a couple of shots just to fill some dead space).

Obviously Journey to Exogol went totally unused while Prologue was only partially used in the final cut (it was mostly dialled out or replaced with tracked music). So here is all the music restored with my best approximation of what Williams was trying to accomplish, synced to film based on what remained of these cues in the final cut. The music for Kylo Ren entering the temple is a noteworthy addition that was dialled out in the final cut:
 

 

This was a score restore I had to try but the results have broken my heart.
 

 
I accomplished this with a single 8 second trim of JW's cue. How they felt obliged to dump the entire second half of Williams' intentions and replace it with tracked music from TFA is anyone's guess. Surely the film's most offensive instance of tracking, and certainly the most unnecessary.
 
 
Thanks, fixed!

Just wait until you see what I've discovered with the Speeder Chase! 

I suspect, if Anthem of Evil is Psalm of the Sith, then it was initially tracked to resemble something like this:
 

 
Of course, the final cut plasters Vader's Castle over the Anthem of Evil theme, then fragments of Final Saber Duel over the rest (plus other incidental evil music that we can't place, because it isn't in the spreadsheet either).
 
It's conceivable the entire Star Destroyer reveal originally belonged at the end of the film, and this is what Williams scored to accompany it.

Taken from one of the extras.

Taken from one of the extras.

Taken from one of the extras.

The Maestro's Finale extra has a few clear shots of sheet music:
1M20 "Rey Training" (w 11-3-2019 fixes)
8M4 "Psalm of the Sith"
9M3 "Bows" [There's text under the title but it's unfortunately not legible]