Extended Music
This is a listing of music in the Star Wars Galaxy that goes beyond the Saga. These are The TV series, The New Anthology Film series and Exanded Universe. The following is a list of those that include music composed for the media.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 Music: Michael Ciacchino with additional music by John Williams Ciacchino composed several new themes for this film, which were very well merged and interweaved with themes composed by John Williams. An outstanding marriage between the music by both composers. |
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 Music: John Powell and John Williams Powell composed a series of new themes merged with well known themes by John Williams. Williams also composed the theme for Han Solo, which then he laid down the specific areas in the film that he wanted them to be presented. |
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Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
2019 Music: John Williams A symphonic suite of themes Williams composed exclusivity for the Disney theme park. The music can be heard throughout the land and this recording is a suite of all these themes. |
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Oga's Cantina: REX's Playlist
2019 Music: Various An interesting collection of music that sounds like dance music in the Galaxy Far Far Away. Includes names of musicians and their music from stories in canon. The famous Cantina tune composed by John Williams is also included with the title of Mad About Me (a name given to the tune in a Legends novel). This is a great new series of dance music that can be mixed with the older into a nice playlist of music for a Star Wars themes party. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 Music: Kevin Kiner The Animated Film is the launch for the TV Series that follows. The music for the film is composed in much the similar style as the Saga films with Leitmotifs. Themes by John Willialms are also included and interweaved with the music of Kevin Kiner. Kiner keeps his own musical style and flavor but yet is able to create an outstanding wedding with the current catalog of themes by John Williams. |
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Star wars: The Clone Wars
2008- 2014 TV Series (Season 1-6) Music: Kevin Kiner The Six year TV Series contains the story about the Clone Wars that takes place between Episode II and III. Kiner took on the work to compose for the entire series. He continued with the same style with themes as in the film version. Once again he created an outstanding wedding with the music already composd by John Williams. The entire series soundtrack is avalilabe in one collection. |
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Star Wars Rebels
2014- Present
TV Series (Seasons 1-3)
Music: Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner continued to compose the music for the Animated Star Wars series with the Rebels. New leitmotifs have been composed for all new chracters. So far the first two seasons have been released in two seperate albums.
2014- Present
TV Series (Seasons 1-3)
Music: Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner continued to compose the music for the Animated Star Wars series with the Rebels. New leitmotifs have been composed for all new chracters. So far the first two seasons have been released in two seperate albums.
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Star Wars: Battefront
2015 Video Game Music: Gordy Haab The first video game that is included into the Canon of Star Wars. The game was released at the time of Episode VII. Gordy Haab was brought into the fold of composers to create the music for this game. The music is not available as a seperate album as of yet. |
Expanded Universe - Now called Star Wars Legends
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Star Wars Holiday Speical
1978 TV Speical Music: Ken Welch & Mitzie Welch The first Star Wars material outside of the Saga. The script was written by George Lucas, but does not like to talk about it. It was aired once on TV During the Thanksgiving weekend and start of the Holiday season. Original music was composed for this show along with selections of the music of John Williams. This has now become a cult classic for followers of Star Wars. |
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Ewok Adventures
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adenture 1984 Ewoks: The Battle for Endor 1985 Music: Peter Bernstien The two made for TV films on stories about the Ewoks (written by George Lucas) were scored in the same style as the films. The music included new material by Peter Bernstein and includes themes by John Williams. The movies have been released on DVD however the soundtrack was only released on Vinyl in the 1980s by Verse Seraband. |
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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
1996 Music: Joel McNeely Shadows of the Empire is a story that takes place in the timeline between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It was a novel as well as a video game and in comic book format. Action figures were also released by Kenner. This story was created in waiting for the Special Editions and the Prequels to be released. Among all the novels that were published this is the only one that included its own soundtrack. The music is more like incidental music for a novel and includes original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Joel McNeely. Several of John Williams themes is interweaved incuding The Star Wars theme, The Imperial March and a few others. |
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Star Wars: Clone Wars
2003 Music: James L. Vanable/ Paul Dinlntir Before the Canon TV series, Lucksfilm released a 2D animated series on the Clone Wars. This is now available on a Two Volume DVD set. Original music was composed by two composers and includes music composed by John Williams. The story and the battles are not exaclty the same as the TV Series so therefore this one is no longer considered part of the canon of Star Wars. It is however still a part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe and includes many good aspects, including the musical score |
Video Games
Many of the videos games for Star Wars includied a soundtrack recorded by a full orchestra and choir. Some of the music were avalible as a seperate soundtrack and some were not. John Williams music has been included along with new letimotifs for each of these games. This is a list of the video games with year and composer for each game.
Meco - Domenico Monardo
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Domenico Monardo who went by the name Meco created remix disco versons of the music of Star Wars during the release of the Original Trilogy. The Star Wars/ Cantina Band remix was a very popular single that was played in Discotechs (Dance Clubs of the 1970s). He then created more rexmixes for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Along with these remixes Meco also composed and recorded a Star Wars Christmas album with the lead singer being Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. One of the songs in the Christmas album also includes the first recording of Jon Bon Jovi as his cousin's studio was used for the session and he was available to sing one of the tracks.
Along with these remixes Meco also composed and recorded a Star Wars Christmas album with the lead singer being Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. One of the songs in the Christmas album also includes the first recording of Jon Bon Jovi as his cousin's studio was used for the session and he was available to sing one of the tracks.
Other Remixes and Singles
Over the years there has been singles taken from the actual soundtracks but also more recent a few more remixes. Here lists these that have either been sold or are now currently sold.
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Figrin O'an and the Modal Nodes- This was given as the name of the band from the Original Star Wars at the time of the Special Edition. There were two numbers they played in the film and for the first time both were available on the Special Edition CDs along with the entire underscore. The songs are simply called Cantina Band No.1 and Cantina Band No.2. They were also relased in this CD single at the time of the Speical Editions in 1997.
The Max Rebo Band- Originally the song was Lepti Nek in the Return of the Jedi, however a new song was replaced in the Speical Edition titled Jedi Rock. The music was released in the Speical Edition CD along with the CD single. Like the Cantina Band, the Max Rebo band were given a back story along with new added members. (They also appeared in the Clone War TV Series and Sy Snootls had a relationship with the Huts).
The Max Rebo Band- Originally the song was Lepti Nek in the Return of the Jedi, however a new song was replaced in the Speical Edition titled Jedi Rock. The music was released in the Speical Edition CD along with the CD single. Like the Cantina Band, the Max Rebo band were given a back story along with new added members. (They also appeared in the Clone War TV Series and Sy Snootls had a relationship with the Huts).
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Duel of the Fates
1999 Music: John Williams Duel of the Fates was one of the primary themes of the Prequel Trilogy. It was so popular that it was released as a CD Single. The CD single not only had the original music but also dialogue from Episode I. |
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Star Wars Headspace is an electornic music compilation album executively produced by Rick Rubin and Kevin Kusatsu. It compiles electornic dance tracks of acts including Claude VonStroke, Flying Lotus and Royksopp. It featured sound effects and samples from the Star Wars films, but does not contain any sample of John Williams' soundtrack for the series.
From Wikipedia and more about this can be read at the following link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Headspace |
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Rebel Theme (Flux Pavilion's The Ghost Remix)
2015 Music: Kevin Kiner & John Wililams Kevin Kiner not only compsoed the underscore for the Rebles TV Series but he also took the Rebel Theme and remixed it into a dance number along with the Force Theme by John Williams. |
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Imperial March
Artist: Metallica Even Metallica got into the act of arrangement of Star Wars. This is the signle of the Imperial March arranged and recoreded by Matallica. |