Listening to the Ep IV soundtrack again and trying to think about it;
* harp and triangle get used sparingly. They’re always cues that something magical is happening, that we’ve gone away from technology into fantasy.
* more aware of things as rephrased Luke’s leitmotif/main theme, how stormtroopers get a leitmotif
* lumpish ungrateful stuff gets bassoon and tuba. Jawas and oddly the trash compactor as though it’s alive.
* “Burning Homestead” has a minor, shifted slow rephrase of the Jawa music. Likewise “Destruction of Alderaan” is the princess rephrased.
* there’s a whole piece for the princess which is very much a romance/love theme and never shows up intact in the movie, I think Williams wrote it as something to reference rather than for direct use.
*”Cantina Band I” is a Benny Goodman reference and the pacing is “Sing, Sing, Sing.” “Cantina Band II” is more Glenn Miller and less a specific track.
