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Alyshondra's avatar

I love this.

After listening to it a bunch, I’m PRETTY sure that those beautiful driving horn notes in Luke’s March are the same as in the Imperial March, just in a different key and in a different rhythm. Thank you for encouraging me to listen closer!

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Vlad's avatar

An amazing analysis! I've been a fan of Star Wars music since I first saw the movies, and one of my favorite memories from high school was, on a long bus ride to some extracurricular, a friend kindly lent me his nice CD player (yes, I know, it's been a while) with high-quality CDs of the soundtrack. I didn't even know the word leitmotif back then, but I was lost in another world when I listened, and profoundly transformed when I was done.

The bit about Luke's march is brilliant. The scene stands out so clearly to me, and now I'm pretty sure the music contributed to the memory. It is a scene so purely Star Wars, so, dare I say it, archetypal, a moment when we look at the machines and the blasters and the laser swords and see something very close to home, to our history and lived experience. I love your analysis of how the aural dimension complements the visual one to create this effect.

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