soundtrack for events/characters not in the films

[atamascolily]

I was thinking today about what music might be appropriate for characters and events not shown in the films. Obviously, we can't have John Williams write us an opera based on the Thrawn trilogy--though it would be awesome--and distinctive leitmotifs would carry over, but I'm curious what music and songs people imagine to fill the void. Any ideas?

(AKA I want an excuse to listen to music I haven't heard before through the lens of my Star Wars obsession.)

Comments

[threadsketchier]

I...am LIVING for this discussion because AT LAST MY TIME HAS ARRIVED

*cough* Well, then again, I doubt my highly personalized soundtracks would hold the same meaning for anyone else XD but I am such a ho for temp-tracking my fics so I can't NOT comment on this subject...

Don't laugh, because I'm sure it's too corny, but I've used "Theme From Tin Man" by Simon Boswell as a generic love theme for Mara and Luke. I like how the first half of the piece is tempered by some slightly ominous melancholy and then it bursts out in sweeping, triumphant sunniness and sappiness at the end. Super melodramatic, but hey, MELODRAMATIC SPACE TRASH™. For a lyrics-based song, my OTP jam for them is "One and the Same (Coda)" by Rob Dougan. I just love that it's...very much not a traditional song. Gravelly vocals with a pop beat AND a full-blown orchestra and chorals in background with a techno ending? SIGN ME THE HELL UP.

On a classical angle, I also love "Phaéton, Op. 39" - specifically conducted by Lorin Maazel and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - as a sort of Luke/Mara theme.

I do find it funny that apparently I'm not the only one who got Thrawn trilogy vibes from hearing the TFA soundtrack. XD

My playlist for I'll Come With You is a whopping 126 songs/7 hours and 35 minutes long, so uhhhhhhhhh, if anyone's curious, HMU. ;D

(I also have a separate playlist for Love Thy Enemy, but that's not really a Legends-focused fic series, I know.)

For Naboo - I know this is weird, but I have music from Elizabeth: The Golden Age and, uh...Somewhere in Time spread across my fic playlists for time spent there. *hides under the couch* DON'T JUDGE ME. There's also a little sprinkling of George Fenton from Planet Earth and The Red Violin as well.

[klcthebookworm]

I'm not judging. For Naboo, I was considering going for any Italian composers I have in my CD collections (and I have no idea if I have any) or poking at the prequels sountracks to see if John Williams wrote a Padmé theme all by itself.

"Theme From Tin Man" is probably NOT the track that my head went to. No, it wasn't I'm using "Central City" as the O.Z. theme song in another project. I will have to listen to that album again.

[atamascolily]

I, er, might want to hear these playlists actually. Don't worry, I won't judge you!