Star Wars-Opening Theme Flashcards

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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
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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
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