![]() ![]() The aim of this article is to zoom in on the most celebrated recording of the Star Wars main title music in order to shed light on its prominent but also surprisingly eventful career within the Star Wars franchise. And, arguably, its main title music is still the most popular and best-known piece of symphonic film music ever written. To film music historians, the score had already become more or less synonymous with the beginning of a renaissance of classical symphonic film scoring in US film production in the late 1970s thus lending it an enduring iconic status (e.g. ![]() In 2005, celebrating the centenary of American film production, John Williams’ score for George Lucas’ 1977 space opera Star Wars topped The American Film Institute’s list of “the 25 greatest American film scores of all time” (AFI, n.d.). ![]()
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