Pagz said:

I heard a story, and this might be entirely fictional, that John Williams was so unhappy with the way his score was butchered in Episode I that he wrote George Lucas a letter where in he disowned the score as it appears in the final cut of the film. Urban legend perhaps? I don't know. I do know that the way Lucas makes his movies now prevents Williams from scoring them the way the OT was scored. Hence why so many musical cues are recycled over and over in each film.

I did hear that JW wasn't at all happy with how his score was utilized in Episode 2 - e.g. how what he composed for the arena battle was removed in favour of no music followed by recycled stuff, and how it was then butchered and used entirely unsuitably in the march on the temple in ROTS.

He also wasn't given enough time on the AOTC soundtrack, it was rushed and there's a lot of horrible recycling of the same tracks throughout the film as a result (as well as from TPM). The episode 2 soundtrack is the only one not to have been released as a 2 disk uber edition - there's just not enough material to even make one. If there was it would've been milked, I'm sure!

Anyway, kinda straying from the topic a bit...

@Jaitea I completely agree that OT and PT williams have a totally different feel to eachother.