The Score VII • For Your Consideration

The Force Awakens.
December 18 2015.
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The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby darthpsychotic » December 22nd 2015 7:00 pm

source: (waltdisneystudiosawards.com /star-wars-music/)

Disney submitted VII's score to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) with a mini-site featuring the film's direct score



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01 - The Attack on the Jakku Village Part 1 (5:27)
02 - The Attack on the Jakku Village Part 2 (1:53)
03 - The Scavenger (1:52)
04 - Lunchtime (1:12)
05 - I Can Fly Anything (4:09)
06 - Finn’s Trek (1:35)
07 - Follow Me and The Falcon (7:09)
08 - The Rathtars (1:19)
09 - Snoke (2:07)
10 - You Got A Name? (1:32)
11 - I’m No Hero (1:06)
12 - The Starkiller (1:52)
13 - Kylo Ren Arrives at the Battle (2:15)
14 - The Resistance (1:35)
15 - The Abduction (1:35)
16 - Finn and Poe, United (2:01)
17 - The Bombing Run (2:07)
18 - On the Inside (2:54)
19 - Torn Apart (4:24)
20 - The Ways of the Force (3:58)
21 - The Journey Home (2:18)
22 - Farewell and The Trip (3:49)
23 - The Jedi Steps and Finale (9:58)

TOTAL TIME - 1:03:56
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Re: The For Your Consideration Score VII

Postby LukeIamYourFarmer » December 23rd 2015 12:23 am

Thank you for this! Incredible half this stuff was left off the official soundtrack
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Bandersnatch » December 23rd 2015 6:24 am

Cool. Now we need "Jabba Flow" and "Dobra Doompa." :jammin:
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby royalguard96 » December 23rd 2015 9:40 am

DP...still the man after all these years!
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Sith Hunter#1 » December 23rd 2015 10:11 am

Id love to see "The Movie VII - For Your Consideration" appear over Christmas....Going to see TFA tonight...cant wait!
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby bfett81 » December 23rd 2015 9:09 pm

They're still holding out on us...I wish we could get the music when Rey steals the lightsaber from Kylo.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Topeka » December 23rd 2015 9:18 pm

That version of the Force theme was taken from the original Star Wars score.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby CoGro » December 23rd 2015 10:32 pm

It's from the Burning Homestead track. Using recordings from other scores is a major pet peeve of mine. It takes me right out of the movie because I've heard it so many times.

The PT did this constantly.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Bandersnatch » December 24th 2015 6:32 am

It takes you out of the movie?
It gave me goosebumps. :o
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby ki adi moonshine » December 24th 2015 6:49 am

CoGro wrote:It's from the Burning Homestead track. Using recordings from other scores is a major pet peeve of mine. It takes me right out of the movie because I've heard it so many times.

The PT did this constantly.


Yeah but the PT did it to a ridiculous amount.

I thought in this instance it was simply perfect.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby CoGro » December 24th 2015 7:17 am

It was a perfect use of that version of the theme, although the first thing I thought of was Luke standing in front of the burning homestead.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby ETandElliott » December 25th 2015 1:06 pm

This is becoming my favorite John Williams score, yet it's taking a beating from the sheep.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Bandersnatch » December 25th 2015 7:45 pm

ETandElliott wrote:This is becoming my favorite John Williams score, yet it's taking a beating from the sheep.


I'm digging it too, and I've been analyzing the living fuck out of Williams since 1976.

How can anyone hear this and not just love what he's done is beyond me: http://waltdisneystudiosawards.com/musi ... rack23.mp3
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Lord Tuvitor » December 25th 2015 9:09 pm

:mrgreen: Much thanks dp.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby doafhat » December 25th 2015 11:58 pm

ETandElliott wrote:This is becoming my favorite John Williams score, yet it's taking a beating from the sheep.

Bandersnatch wrote:I'm digging it too, and I've been analyzing the living fuck out of Williams since 1976.

How can anyone hear this and not just love what he's done is beyond me: http://waltdisneystudiosawards.com/musi ... rack23.mp3

I've warmed up more to the score after buying the soundtrack. While I don't love the whole score on the same level as Empire's or a couple of the others, The Jedi Steps has definitely become one of my favorite tracks in the whole saga.

It's so haunting and perfect for that last build up to seeing Luke again, and probably even better for someone that jumped into Star Wars for the first time with TFA and is waiting to see Luke for the first time after hearing about him for so long.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby ETandElliott » December 26th 2015 12:33 am

Thematically, it's cohesive and it bests the prequel scores in that regard. There are plenty of big moments in the score, but at least in my viewing of the film, the music was constantly buried in the sound mix and never really able to come alive. There are some key moments where it does, however, such as Rey's Theme and the Force Theme in the finale and the tracked "The Return Home" when Rey gets the lightsaber (two moments where there are no sound effects or dialogue), which didn't fit stylistically with the rest of the score, in my opinion.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Urthona » December 26th 2015 6:33 am

I "pasted" some of the new music into original soundtrack and now I have 31 tracks :D

1. Main title and attack
2. The scavenger
3. Lunchtime
4. I can fly
5. Rey meets BB8
6. Finn's trek
7. Rey theme
8. Follow me
9. That girl
10. Snoke
11. The Falcon
12. You got a name
13. The rathars
14. Maz counsel
15. Finn's confession
16. I'm no hero
17. The starkiller
18. Kylo arrives
19. The abduction
20. The resistance
21. Finn and Poe united
22. Han and Leia
23. March of resistance
24. On the inside
25. Torn apart
26. Ways of Force
27. Scherzo for X-wings
28. The bombing run
29. Journey home
30. Farewell and trip
31. Jedi steps + finale
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby ETandElliott » December 26th 2015 9:40 pm

The second half of "Torn Apart" (OST version, not the FYC) wasn't even used in the film as I recall and it's positively epic.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Doctor When » December 27th 2015 4:55 am

I thought the score ‘in film’ was rather underwhelming. The notable exception being ‘The Scavenger’ sequence. The rest of the time it seemed quite 'background' (more so than usual). In terms of the score itself, Williams can do little wrong, but I do think this is one of the weaker entries into Star Wars (on par with AOTC or perhaps better). Not sure if that is due to Williams himself or the material he had to work with. In terms of the OST, for me, the standout tracks are Rey's Theme (which is reminiscent of Harry Potter ATCOS) and March of the Resistance (which is very Indiana Jones like). I also like Kylo Ren's leitmotif, which in its undeveloped form calls back to the imperial leitmotif of ANH.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby CoGro » December 27th 2015 4:25 pm

After listening to the OST, the score has certainly grown on me. I do think it could have been used a bit better in the film.

It's easily better than the scores for AOTC and ROTS. I'm not sure if it's quite as good as TPM, which was more thematic. There's still plenty of filler in TFA, but it's well done overall.

JW recorded a unique Force Theme cue when Rey grabs the saber that JJ replaced with the cue from ANH. It's an interesting choice, but I might have gone with the new one just for uniqueness.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby Doctor When » December 28th 2015 6:14 am

Better than the OST for ROTS? That's surprising... whilst respecting your preference of course.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby KyleKartanMG » December 28th 2015 8:58 am

RotS is the most unique and outstanding scores of all 7 movie scores we have so far. Anakiny Betrayl, Anakins Dark Deeds, Battle of the Heros, Padmes Rumination, the Opera Scene, Grievous Theme, the complete Battle at the Beginning...so much to take from this score. It was an instand classic, for me at least.

I do agree that after first seeing the movie I really didnt take any of the Music with me. I just didnt delivered the way I expected. After listening the score alone I must say that this is a great score which goes along with movie just perfectly. Kylos "Theme" is much like the Vader/Empire Theme of Ep IV, Reys theme, Resistance Theme, Scherzo of X-Wings, the Attack of the Jakku Camp and the Millenium Falcon are all very great Music cues which suit the movie great. When I saw the movie the second time and was able to notice much more stuff I was Aware of the score much more then when I viewed the movie in the first place.

I cant say anything bad about the score itself beside that its track titles are much more blank than the ones of the other movie scores.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby MannyOrtez » January 6th 2016 12:29 pm

Thanks DP. It is great to have access to all this material.

As I said in the other thread, I still have very mixed feelings on this score. It grows on me with each listen. But there are some tracks (Rathtars, I Can Fly Anything) that are so chaotic and frenzied, and mickey-mouse each beat so much that it's a different piece of music each ten seconds. I much prefer Williams when he is more thematic and less literal. TESB is my favorite soundtrack for that reason. He seemed to look at a scene as a whole and come up with something that worked for the entire scene, not just the next few seconds.

I also thought the music was really down in the mix. Not sure why. That didn't help. I really walked out of their not remembering a single musical cue. It lacked that feature track that all the prequels had. There are still a lot of great pieces of music in here though, and my feelings on it gets more favorable dach day. I'd probably rank it my 6th favorite score in the saga at this point. The AOTC score is my least favorite - and that has nothing to do with Williams. That's for the ridiculous hack job Lucas & Burtt did of the score in the edit. Probably the worst thing Lucas did in the prequels.
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Re: The Score VII • For Your Consideration

Postby CoGro » June 7th 2016 12:11 pm

I'd like to know if they are ever going to release unused music. There's also lots of great JW music from the trailers and TV spots.

The first one-minute spot that opens with Jedi Steps has some great cues. I absolutely love the stuff that immediately follows Jedi Steps and closes out the spot. Feels like it was pulled from 1980.
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