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Star Wars:background information (3)
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- written for Star Wars IV: a new hope
- 1977
- main theme: leitmotif for Luke Skywalker
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Star Wars:form and structure (3)
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- main theme uses AABA
- Rebel blockade runner: starry sky, planets, spaceships, attacks
- main theme: a
3
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Star Wars:harmony (8)
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- mostly diatonic
- melody is accompanied by major and minor chords
- after main theme:dissonant and atonal
- Theme A uses quartal harmony
- main theme: syncopated
- biggest spaceship: dissonance/Tritone
- imperfect cadences
- in b theme there is a dominant pedal
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Star Wars:melody (7)
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- starts as a fanfare(rapid repeated note/triplets)
- imitation
- leitmotif: fourths fifths and sevenths
- b theme: scalic and violins, ends with full descending scale
- Main theme: 4 bar stepwise and leaps idea, triplets and long minims (excited)
- theme b contrasts theme a= feels less forceful
- both teams use anacruisis
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Star Wars:tonality (4)
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- main theme: Bb major
- rebel blockade runner: unstable harmonies/unclear
- spaceships: dissonants/atonal, bitonality
- planets: C major
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Star Wars:texture (4)
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- homophonic
- main theme: block chords and arpeggios
- inverted tonic pedal(intro and theme a)
- theme b: dominant pedal
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Star Wars:rhythm and metre (7)
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- fast tempo=action movie
- 4/4 gives it a march like feel
- triplets
- after main theme: pulse becomes harder to follow
- both themes use anacrisis
- Theme a: syncopated block chords
- spaceships: 3/4
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Star Wars:instrumentation (6)
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- main title/regal blockade runner= full symphony orchestra
- Wind: flute, Picollo, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, bass clarinet
- strings
- brass: Horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba
- percussion: timpani, triangle, Tamtam, vibraphone, glockenspiel, symbols
- piano, harp, Celeste
