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.
@Leucrotta hmm... I think the bassoon/tuba refrain was for the monster in the trash compactor, rather than the compactor itself; I seem to remember that there was music as they were dealing with the monster, but once the compactor started up the music stopped. but I'm probably remembering it wrong--so much of that music just fits so seamlessly into the movie!
now that I think about it... when the compactor starts I *think* it switches to the more action-y stuff?
