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Post #69146

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Perfect 5th
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Star Wars Music
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Date created
1-Oct-2004, 1:29 PM
A question for you guys.... I don't have any of the soundtracks, but I've heard that Williams does not cover all the orchestration duties. Is this correct? If so, my opinion of him diminishes somewhat, the orchestration of the SW music being its best feature next to the themes per se and their treatment in the specific scenes in which they are heard. The harmony varies in quality depending on context but is rarely nothing but standard for orchestral soundtracks (listen to Kubrick soundtracks for great composers in this area - Bartok, Ligeti, Strauss...), the voice-leading is sometimes shitty, but the themes and the orchestrations! Man, that will follow me to my grave.