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I agree entirely - they may be currently unfashionable compared to vinyl, but I find CDs are infinitely preferable on all fronts!
 
Mark

I agree entirely - they may be currently unfashionable compared to vinyl, but I find CDs are infinitely preferable on all fronts!
 
Mark

I agree entirely - they may be currently unfashionable compared to vinyl, but I find CDs are infinitely preferable on all fronts!
 
Mark

The 2018 mix. A huge number of the vinyl pressing are warped and/or suffer from dreadful surface noise.

I really like how the Battle of Yavin is spotted and scored. It's all very effective. SW didn't use to be wall to wall music.

As much as I like the battles throughout the series, the Yavin battle sequence is the only one with genuine tension. Tension in film is made the same way it is in music, with contrast and rhythm. in this case, the contrast was to have no music to give the ears a breather in the middle of a very long action sequence. The build-up from the time of Red Leader's death to when the Death Star blows up is what makes that scene. Its impact would be less, I imagine, if it had been scored wall-to-wall.
 
Even the prequals had music-less segments, but he wallpaper scoring of todays action films would never allow for this. 

They were thinking
 
No music will give it a quasi documentary feel, consistent with some of the editing and direction. 
  The brilliant sonics alone would mirror the WWII airplane engines and rat-a-tat-tat sounds from the old dogfight footage that inspired and temped the scenes. 
  The first initial bombing runs would leave suspense up to the viewers and not telegraph what would happen if there was no score. 
  The final bombing run by Luke would have more dramatic intensity and catharsis if the music picked up after Red Leader got vaporized, and Luke Skywalker was now in charge of the final chance. 

Yeah, because in the 70s they had actual spotting sessions. Nowadays the director and the composer watch the film together and then decide within ten seconds that the entire film must be crammed with mediocre, non-thematic droning.

There's always a difference between hearing it from "within" the orchestra (or on the podium) and from the audience. Reverb and instrumental balance can vary a lot. A conductor will often have an assistant check the acoustics from further back during an on-location rehearsal, or let the musicians perform on their own at key points to check for him-/herself if no assistant is available. I would make sense for Williams to check how the audience hears his orchestrations and perhaps make some tweaks.

I remember being so happy when the compact disk was invented. I was always struggling with noisy cracking on LPs. And I had a collection of more than 200 LPs at that time. But I don't really miss them.

Ooh, D6/9. Yeah, that too.
 
If you ever need to distract a roomful of jazz pianists for a few hours, just ask them this sort of question.
 
Mark

Ooh, D6/9. Yeah, that too.
 
If you ever need to distract a roomful of jazz pianists for a few hours, just ask them this sort of question.
 
Mark

Very nice - good job.
 
It's not an error in your version, but the published sheet music (available for download from various sites, though you can often only preview the first page) notates more or less the whole melody in straight crotchets (quarter notes) - no triplets anywhere. In the absence of a leak, whether or not that's what JW provided for Dees and Sting to sing in the studio is anyone's guess!
 
Oh, and I'd normally 'spell' Dmaj7(add9) as Dmaj9... unless you're intending the 9th (E) to function as a 2nd... in which case I'd call it Dmaj7(add2)... at which point one is well and truly down a rabbit hole...
 
Mark

Ooh, D6/9. Yeah, that too.
 
If you ever need to distract a roomful of jazz pianists for a few hours, just ask them this sort of question.
 
Mark

Very nice - good job.
 
It's not an error in your version, but the published sheet music (available for download from various sites, though you can often only preview the first page) notates more or less the whole melody in straight crotchets (quarter notes) - no triplets anywhere. In the absence of a leak, whether or not that's what JW provided for Dees and Sting to sing in the studio is anyone's guess!
 
Oh, and I'd normally 'spell' Dmaj7(add9) as Dmaj9... unless you're intending the 9th (E) to function as a 2nd... in which case I'd call it Dmaj7(add2)... at which point one is well and truly down a rabbit hole...
 
Mark

Very nice - good job.
 
It's not an error in your version, but the published sheet music (available for download from various sites, though you can often only preview the first page) notates more or less the whole melody in straight crotchets (quarter notes) - no triplets anywhere. In the absence of a leak, whether or not that's what JW provided for Dees and Sting to sing in the studio is anyone's guess!
 
Oh, and I'd normally 'spell' Dmaj7(add9) as Dmaj9... unless you're intending the 9th (E) to function as a 2nd... in which case I'd call it Dmaj7(add2)... at which point one is well and truly down a rabbit hole...
 
Mark

Not much better to the UK.
 
A relative of mine lives in the US and comes to the UK every so often. I keep buying him presents from US companies before remembering that I have a CD player and like JW but he doesn’t. Silly me. He opens the packages when they arrive at his house and then kindly gifts them to me the next time he visits, since I’ll appreciate them more than him.
 
Or something like that.

It's complicated. 

Not much better to the UK.
 
A relative of mine lives in the US and comes to the UK every so often. I keep buying him presents from US companies before remembering that I have a CD player and like JW but he doesn’t. Silly me. He opens the packages when they arrive at his house and then kindly gifts them to me the next time he visits, since I’ll appreciate them more than him.
 
Or something like that.

I keep hoping we'll someday discover that Williams wrote and recorded an entire Modal Nodes album during the Star Wars sessions.  I'd eat that up.

Indeed - can I put in a shout for Jabba's Baroque Recital?
I also think Cantina Band #2 is underrated, and deserves a much more interesting title!
 
Mark

Wow, that set is perfect! Complete score plus the party arrangements, which I always loved. The Party Sequence from the ost was a track I listened alot.

If they did a proper release of the music we'd know by looking on the back cover of each release 😡

I hate myself for getting the Star Wars Disenchantment references.

Sabrina being an allegory for Star Wars was planned from the beginning: "Sabrina" is actually an anagram for "Lightsaber". You just have to duplicate and flip the r, extend the n, rotate the b, duplicate and cross the i, duplicate the s, and flip one a. These changed letters of course spell "brains", a reference to the immense intelligence you need to discover the truth