Star Wars: "Ben's Death/TIE Fighter Attack” by John Williams (Score Reduction and Analysis) 

I was wondering about the choice of Leia's Theme and I see you've answered my question; interesting to hear John's reason for choosing it and it makes sense.

This is the passage from the film that made me want to be a composer. It worked. JW set the bar pretttttty high.

The passage beginning at bar 47, there's one more thing to say about it: Williams seems to be generating suspense and intrigue by alternating whole tone scales.

Actually when the horns play the fanfare, the trombones come in along with the violins and violas.

Great work again, keep it up. Fast becoming my fave channel!

That bit starting from 0:52 to 1:20; When I played Xwing v Tie Fighter that music was always playing in the background--and when I paused the game it was quite...uh...'strident'.

The idea in 2:10 is a quite old one in the history of composing: It is imitating the bells of a cathedral. One bell starts ringing an then another starts an so on.

From 1:56 in my own analysis I discovered that this whole section is a sequence of chromatic mediant shifts almost all of which are based on whole tone scales/Fr6ths the bass line is the key to it. Starts B whole tone then down to G# whole tone then a semitone shift to G whole tone, E whole tone, C whole tone, A octatonic then the last mediant shift to F whole tone....

If this is the actual score by Williams, I like the fact that he doesn’t put keys on the left and notates each sharp and flat in the actual score.

What a fantastically amazing track. Elongated as the Falcon leaves bay 327.

anyone who has played empire at war has this stuck in their head

At m7 on beat 3 wouldn't it a Bbm/A (due to the enharmonic C#)? Great analysis!

The music @ 0:52 reminds me of the NBC news Mission theme, maybe you could do an analysis of that.

How did you get the actual score from the movie