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Wonderfully keen insights, Scott. It's nice to hear about rhythm in Star Wars as this is certainly one of the key ingredients in all these scores' success, both as film scores and simply as music. You mention Williams' use of offbeat accents in the …
The way I understand this unusual hybrid, the third idea must be more like the first idea than is the second such that it produces a sense of return in the manner of a (parallel) period. Antares' example above of Mozart's Flute Quartet is exceptiona…