Post by Subtext Mining on Jul 7, 2022 13:22:55 GMT
I enjoy all the music from Episode II, but if I had to pick something in particular it would be the sequence starting from the Fireplace scene through to Departing Tatooine for Geonosis... the second half of the second act.
And if I had to narrow it down more, I'd probably say the music while Shmi is reconnecting with Anakin, and gets to tell him she loves him one last time. It's one of the most tragic and hauntingly human musical moments of the saga and Williams captures the bittersweet emotional scope of it all so touchingly, with the Mother and Son melodies fluttering together, all too briefly.
And those strings as Anakin's disbelief turns into grief which then boils up into anger and an emotional hijacking. And then onto Yoda's meditation where we first hear, in a brassy murmur, Anakin's theme warped into a darker rendition - what will later be The Imperial March.
The Garage scene was also scored so pitch-perfect. You really can get a sense of the emotional roller coaster going on with just the music. Starting with the lonely, melancholy oboe, then into the tormented strings, you can really feel Anakin's turmoil, frustration and desperate determination, shifting into the cold fire of his burning hate as he begins to confess to the slaughter - when we again hear his once innocent, boyish theme turned ominous, from a faint, distant trumpet. The Emperor's theme then rolls in like a dark, consuming thundercloud as he recounts the wrathful acts he carried out which led to his encounter with the abominable abyss of the dark side. Followed by a bona fide Imperial March, dwindling down a bit until finally the somewhat soothing coda of the feminine winds and harp.
And Shmi's Funeral; is there a sweeter moment in the saga than Cliegg's eulogy?
And if I had to narrow it down more, I'd probably say the music while Shmi is reconnecting with Anakin, and gets to tell him she loves him one last time. It's one of the most tragic and hauntingly human musical moments of the saga and Williams captures the bittersweet emotional scope of it all so touchingly, with the Mother and Son melodies fluttering together, all too briefly.
And those strings as Anakin's disbelief turns into grief which then boils up into anger and an emotional hijacking. And then onto Yoda's meditation where we first hear, in a brassy murmur, Anakin's theme warped into a darker rendition - what will later be The Imperial March.
The Garage scene was also scored so pitch-perfect. You really can get a sense of the emotional roller coaster going on with just the music. Starting with the lonely, melancholy oboe, then into the tormented strings, you can really feel Anakin's turmoil, frustration and desperate determination, shifting into the cold fire of his burning hate as he begins to confess to the slaughter - when we again hear his once innocent, boyish theme turned ominous, from a faint, distant trumpet. The Emperor's theme then rolls in like a dark, consuming thundercloud as he recounts the wrathful acts he carried out which led to his encounter with the abominable abyss of the dark side. Followed by a bona fide Imperial March, dwindling down a bit until finally the somewhat soothing coda of the feminine winds and harp.
And Shmi's Funeral; is there a sweeter moment in the saga than Cliegg's eulogy?