The Imperial March first appeared in the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, and was not heard in the preceding original movie. Indeed, not only is the march absent from A New Hope, there's no theme…

It is well known that the classic song When You Wish Upon a Star appears several times in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and mostly in the score composed by John Williams:

• Fairly early in…

Much ink and “ink” have been spilled about Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo. This includes reference to, if not discussion of, how the musical score (composed by Bernard Herrmann) evokes Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. However, many such articles that…

This is the first in what I plan to be a series of posts focusing on aspects of John Williams’ scores for the Star Wars movies. What I hope will be unique about my analyses is that they will examine…

A look at how composers can create musical unity in compositions that are wide-ranging in terms of musical material, mood and style. 

The single Steel + Honey sprang from the simple concept of doing something fundamentally industrial that also had…