Masirimso3 said:
I understand, that's cool. In my opinion the lightsaber fight in A New Hope, while still fun, lacked the energy of the fights in Episode V, VI, I, II and III. Adywan's added music belped add some energy and excitement to the fight. While the Bespin duel was much better, I thought some more excitement would be welcome so I decided that Duel of the Fates, while, yes, it didn't have to do anything with Vader and Luke, still added a lot of excitement and fun to the already emotionally and physically strong battle making t even more perfect than it was. Well, maybe when it's released I might add the music to the downloaded fanedit, like I'm planning to do for ADigitalMan's version (along with removing the added Wampa Shots restoring "the Jaws effect" as HelloGreedo from YouTube put it).
Also why does Adywan want to remove the music from ANH:RHD? I thought the music helped the fight very much (I already explained how).
The thing is, duels (lightsaber or otherwise) can have significance other than 'exciting' and 'cool'. It's understandable that the Episode I clash would be scored with exhilarating choral music, because it's a visually spectacular duel with relatively low stakes.
But the later battles (each of which involves Anakin or Vader, by the way) have increasingly more complex emotion behind them - they're still epic, but in a different way. I personally feel that 'Battle of the Heroes' is a bungled choice; it shouldn't be a loud and energetic piece of scoring at all, given that the Episode III duel is the tragic climax of the saga.
But moving on to the OT, the scoring is just right as it is - in Star Wars the very idea of a lightsaber battle was new, so it's understandable that scoring wasn't felt necessary until the very end; the (carefully edited) music in the ESB duel beautifully captures Luke's fear and heartbreak; the climactic Jedi clash is scored with one of the finest pieces in the whole saga (a truly epic cue if every there was one).
To plaster these scenes with pounding action music would be to completely miss the point.