The Musical Force Of Star Wars: Exploring Diegetic Music | Video Essay

In this video essay we'll analyze the music that George Lucas wrote into the original Star Wars trilogy, how that in-universe diegetic music served a different purpose than the more symphonic scores that John Williams composed, and finally we'll theorize about what Lucas might have meant in how he structured these melodious moments.
#starwars #musicanalysis

This video's original concept came from this script's co-writer E.S. Anderson
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