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Star Wars: Main Theme/Rebel Blockade by John Williams (Fanfare (Brass…
Star Wars: Main Theme/Rebel Blockade by John Williams
Main title
Music from start of film
Often orchestral
Uses & establishes leitmotifs
Cue
Any piece of music from a film soundtrack
End credits
Either a song or musical summary of the soundtrack
Underscore
Music that sits in the background to a scene which sets mood & adds character
Diegetic music
Music you hear and see being performed
Non-diegetic
Music that's heard but not seen performed
96 piece symphony orchestra
Large brass and percussion sections
Fanfare
Brass flourish
Simple harmony
Loud
Staccato
Powerful
Leitmotif
Bold and heroic
Accented
Leap of 7th
Similarities between A and B
Both start w/ anacrusis
Same starting pitch
Both end w/ long note, same pitch
1st beat low to high then downwards scale movement
Central bar is more different
Triplets provide unity
Bb major
Start
Ternary form (Main Title)
Intro (fanfare)
Mainly diatonic
Introduces common shapes of leitmotif
Cymbal crash
Triplet rhythms
Triangle tremolo, harp glissando, violins
A (4-12)
Some quartal harmony
Pick up
Octave displacement
Homophonic chords
Accented triplets
Syncopated
Reharmonisation (8-11)
B (12- 20)
Contrast - more lyrical
Strings in octaves
Occasional big leaps
Horn counter melody
Dominant pedal
Octave displacement
Take a note from normal shape and place up or down octave
Quartal harmony
Like a triad
Built on 4ths not 3rds
Dissonant by definition
Inverted pedal
Pedal in highest pitch of music
Link section
Rising sequences
Chords built on augmented triad - 2 major thirds - mystical sound
Expansive pitch range
Pedal - tension
Light texture
Piccolo solo
Ornamentation
Very high
Light instrumentation
Harp, woodwind chords
Neapolitan harmony
Based on flattened 2nd of the key
Used in Rebel Blockade leitmotif
Dissonant ostinato near end
Cross rhythms