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The music for all seven ''Star Wars'' feature films, from 1977 to 2015, was written by composer John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. This encompasses both the original and prequel trilogies. In July 2013, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe that Williams would be returning once more to score ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens''.〔("John Williams to Record Star Wars: The Force Awakens Score" ), ''StarWars.com'', Retrieved November 30, 2015〕 Williams' scores for the two existing trilogies count among the most widely known and popular contributions to modern film music. Additionally, music for a spinoff was written by Kevin Kiner, and further music has been composed for ''Star Wars'' video games and works in other media. The 2016 spinoff film ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' will be scored by Alexandre Desplat the first major ''Star Wars'' film not to use Williams. The scores utilize an eclectic variety of musical styles, many culled from the Late Romantic idiom of Richard Strauss and his contemporaries that itself was incorporated into the Golden Age Hollywood scores of Erich Korngold and Max Steiner. While several obvious nods to Gustav Holst, William Walton and Igor Stravinsky exist in the score to ''Episode IV'', Williams relied less and less on classical references in the latter five scores, incorporating more strains of modernist orchestral writing with each progressive score. The reasons for Williams' tapping of a familiar Romantic idiom are known to involve Lucas' desire to ground the otherwise strange and fantastic setting in well-known, audience-accessible music. Indeed, Lucas maintains that much of the trilogy's success relies not on advanced visual effects, but on the simple, direct emotional appeal of its plot, characters and, importantly, music. ''Star Wars'' often is credited as heralding the beginning of a revival of grand symphonic scores in the late 1970s. One technique in particular is an influence: Williams's revival of a technique called ''leitmotif'', which is most famously associated with the operas of Richard Wagner and, in film scores, with Steiner. A leitmotif is a phrase or melodic cell that signifies a character, place, plot element, mood, idea, relationship or other specific part of the film. It is commonly used in modern film scoring as a device for mentally anchoring certain parts of a film to the soundtrack. Of chief importance for a leitmotif is that it must be strong enough for a listener to latch onto while being flexible enough to undergo variation and development. A series of concerts which featured ''Star Wars'' music, ''Star Wars: In Concert'', took place in 2009 and 2010. First performed in London, it went on to tour across the United States and Canada, last playing at London, Ontario, Canada on July 25, 2010. ==Composed for the original trilogy== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Music of Star Wars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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