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Haven't heard it. How does a score for a novel work?
It pretty much follows the pacing of the book very well and I was surprised that anyone that wasn't John Williams make something Star Wars. It's really interesting becuase the composer (Joel McNeely) had to straddle the bridge musically from Empire while building toward Jedi (without borrowing any themes from it either), and all the while innovate and pace it with the book. As the book is actually pretty dark, most of the music is the same and thus there is this iciness throughout it that is supremely interesting because in Shadows you don't only have the evil of the Empire, but also of Xizor's equally vast syndicate. The final sequence is utterly grandiose with Xizor's palace being toppled and the music swelling in and out...reaaly top-notch.
But the most incredible thing again is that you can listen to the entire trilogy and if you do put this one in between Empire & Jedi, you really can hear the story progress...
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P.S. - Nice username, Hoichi! Kwaidan is a great film!
Indeed it is...thats my real forte actually, Asian film.
