The Empire Strikes Back Music Cue List

So a long ago, I found a cue list for Empire. So I've decided to post it here.

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

1. "Fox Fanfare" (1M0) and "Main Title" (1M1) is not in the cue list. I added it in just for the sake of the cue list.

2. Throughout the cue list, Williams consistently spells Vader as "Vadar."

3. "5M3 End Fix" is the film-version ending of "5M3 Yoda's Entrance" ("Luke's Nocturnal Visitor") with one interesting quirk.

4. Both "New Start" and "Insert Bar 80″ are present on the 1997 Special Edition soundtrack. "Insert #2 Bar 109″ is a minor tweak of the transition between bars 109 and 110, and it appears to not have been used, although I may be wrong.

5. There is no 9M5, possibly because Williams wrote "Carbon Freeze" earlier in the process and chose a higher-than-necessary number to represent it.

6. "Insert Bar 57″ is the alternate portion of the cue heard on the 1997 Special Edition CD.

7. "12M4 End Credits" was originally labelled "12M3."

8. In "9M3", Threepio is spelt "ThreePio".

97. This is the longer version of the "Finale," with the full quote of the love theme.

Concert Version:

1. Darth Vadar's Theme

2. Yoda's Theme

Cue List

1M0 Fox Fanfare

1M1 Main Title

1M2 The Imperial Probe

1M2 New Start

1M2 Insert Bar 80

1M2 Insert #2 Bar 109

1M3/2M1 Luke's Escape

2M2 Ben's Instructions

2M3 Luke's Rescue

2M4 The Probe Scanner

3M1 Drawing The Battle Lines

3M2 Leia's Instructions

3M3 The Snow Battle

3M4/4M1 Luke's First Crash

4M2 The Rebels Escape Again

4M3 The Asteroid Field

5M1 Crash Landing

5M2 Yoda Appears

5M3 Yoda's Entrance

5M3 End Fix

5M4/6M1 Solo And The Princess

6M2 Yoda's Teaching

6M3 This Is Not A Cave

6M4 Training A Jedi

6M5/7M1 The Magic Tree

7M2 Attack Position

7M3 Yoda Raises The Ship

7M4/8M1 Vadar's Command

8M2 City In The Clouds

8M3 Lando's Palace

9M1 Luke To The Rescue

9M2 Vadar Shows Up

9M3 Putting ThreePio Together

9M4 Trouble In Prison

9M6/10M1 Carbon Freeze

9M6/10M1 Insert Bar 57

10M2 Luke Pursues The Captives

10M3 Chewie Chokes Lando

11M1 Through The Window

12M1 Losing A Hand

12M2 To Hyper-Space

12M3 Finale

12M4 End Credits

12M4 End Credits Insert

none said:

This list was the foundation for this project:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Dark-Jedi-ABCs-ESB-IMPERIAL-EDITION-ART-OF-SCORING-Restored-Recordings-against-the-B-W-GOUT-JW-LSO/topic/11786/page/1/

I hope you're not accusing me of stealing. I never knew of that post. I found the cue list on a site that has now been shut down.

The Nerd said:

none said:

This list was the foundation for this project:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Dark-Jedi-ABCs-ESB-IMPERIAL-EDITION-ART-OF-SCORING-Restored-Recordings-against-the-B-W-GOUT-JW-LSO/topic/11786/page/1/

I hope you're not accusing me of stealing. I never knew of that post. I found the cue list on a site that has now been shut down.

I think he's just telling you that it's known.

timdiggerm said:

I think he's just telling you that it's known.

Oh. I thought this was almost the discovery of a lifetime. But what about ANH and ROTJ? I've never been able to find a cue list for them.

none said:

And I thought you might be interested in a project which very successfully recreates the experience the people at the original recording sessions experienced.

The JWFan message board has thoughts on the ANH and RotJ cue lists:

http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9006&hl=Resource

It looks very interesting. It's cool that fan work together to try to recreate a cue list or original score recordings. The only problem is that the list in the link and my own research doesn't seem to have any 1M1, 2M4, 5M8, etc for ANH and ROTJ.