This paper presents a new symbolic corpus of musical themes from the complete Star Wars
trilogies (Episodes I-IX) by John Williams. The corpus files are made available in multiple …

Film Studies have long been characterised by a visual bias (“image first, sound later”) and a
“content-oriented” approach (“What is the message?”) that, when dealing with music, have …

Yearlong research and writing is never done in isolation, it is the accumulation of the work
and dedication of a number of people. First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge my …

John Williams er uten tvil en av de største nålevende komponistene innenfor filmmusikk, og
kanskje også innenfor orkestermusikk. Hvordan ble han så stor og hva er det som gjør John …

Film scores have been written for over a century and are still regularly criticized for being
lazy, unoriginal, and for stealing from “classical” works. This prejudice has placed film scores …