#tfa score

[reyintherain]

John Williams won a Grammy for the The Force Awakens soundtrack. Can’t wait to hear his work for The Last Jedi, knowing he is there for Rey and Daisy. Rey’s Theme and The Jedi Steps are the highlights of the TFA score, imo, and are definitely one of my favourite pieces from the Star Wars score.

[oldadastra]

Is John Williams leaving us a clue to the future in The Force Awakens “Torn apart” track?

I’ll preface this by saying that I am not a musician, so I hope people who do know music might have some comment on this.

In the music from the bridge scene (track 19 of The Force Awakens score), there’s a little motif that caught my notice.  In the film, it’s the moment on the bridge when Kylo Ren holds out the hilt of his lightsaber to Han. For a suspended instant, we imagine it might actually work; that he will walk away from the First Order and come home. He doesn’t, of course, and this track is probably the saddest music in the entire movie - except for that one moment. It’s just a few notes, and they come right around the one minute mark:    

To my ear, this fragment of melody sounds different from everything else in the Force Awakens score. Unlike the rest of Kylo Ren’s music, this little string of notes sounds... heroic, for lack of a better word. 

My theory? I think that in this track, John Williams may be foreshadowing the music that will become Ben Solo’s theme sometime in VIII or IX. 

Many have noted that Rey and Kylo Ren’s musical themes share interesting mirrored characteristics.  Does the melodic fragment in “torn apart” have any structural similarity to either?