Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Number Of Tracks On The John Williams Score Revealed

While the names of the compositions for the new songs on the soundtrack to Star Wars: The Last Jedi has yet to be fully revealed, we now know just how many musical pieces we’ll hear on the standard release of the OST.

 

Some earlier “leaks” have tried to explain that the number of tracks ahead of time (23 and 24 were popular numbers for fakers), but at this point, just about all of them can be put to rest. According to Amazon (hat tip Sleemo), The Last Jedi features 20 different tracks on the basic copy of the score. Google Play lists said soundtrack as being 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 49 seconds. (For frame of reference, this would make this soundtrack seconds longer than the OST to The Force Awakens.) It should be noted that either of these numbers could be placeholders, but given that both services list there being 20 tracks, there’s probably truth to that.

 

https://sleemo.com/post/167640785222/amazon-tlj-soundtrack

 

Fewer compositions on the soundtrack logically suggests that the average track length is longer than the OST for The Force Awakens, so most pieces are probably longer than two minutes and thirty seconds. I’d also imagine that several tracks borrowed from existing Star Wars movies (particularly The Force Awakens) are reused for this film, like how “Duel of the Fates” played in Revenge of the Sith. Odds are, some tracks won’t be officially released, which will leave it up to fans to properly rip them – but that’s a story for another time.

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

18 thoughts on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Number Of Tracks On The John Williams Score Revealed

  • November 19, 2017 at 6:57 am
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    I’m looking forward to the John Williams music. I’m one of those that stays seated at the end of the movie and listens while the credits scroll.

    • November 19, 2017 at 8:52 am
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      I’ve never left a screening of any SW movie before all the lights went up and the screen was blank. I love the scores to all the movies. JW is irreplaceable.

  • November 19, 2017 at 7:54 am
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    No track names yet?

    • November 19, 2017 at 8:53 am
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      Wouldn’t it be awesome if one of the names turns out to be ‘Ghost of Obi Wan Kenobi’.

      • November 19, 2017 at 3:13 pm
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        17. “Jedi Master Bob”

    • November 19, 2017 at 11:27 am
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      Probably won’t hit until a week or two ahead of the movie. Don’t expect anything like “Qui-Gon’s Noble End”, though.

      – Pomojema

      • November 19, 2017 at 11:46 am
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        18. “Rose’s Light Saber”
        19. “Luke turns to the Dark Side.”
        20. “Kent Kaliber’s Conniption”

        • November 19, 2017 at 4:11 pm
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          “Rose’s Lightsaber” lol!

        • November 19, 2017 at 7:35 pm
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          17. “No Darth Vader in this movie”

        • November 23, 2017 at 4:19 pm
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          15. Haha Snoke IS Plagueis tricked ya.

      • November 20, 2017 at 5:55 am
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        As long as there’s no [deplorable] Giacchino pun titles, there won’t be any complaints from me.

  • November 19, 2017 at 4:35 pm
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    Although the soundtrack to TFA was incredible in it’s own right, it was weak in the film.
    I’m hoping that JW rediscovers the complex sound of Star Wars that really drove the original films forward.
    I don’t like this general modern trend for aural wallpaper (Zimmerisation).
    I miss the days when every little JW moment seemed to have it’s own motif.

    • November 19, 2017 at 5:35 pm
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      I actually thought TFA was his strongest SW score since the original trilogy. And I’d hardly call what Williams did on TFA anything resembling “Zimmerisation”. 🙂 I don’t think Williams could do aural wallpaper if his life depended on it – he’s too classically trained to write anything that would compare to the dreck of most modern film scores. But I wouldn’t expect him to sound like he did in 1977-1983, either. His musical language now is a result of his own aging and changing and growing, just like all of us change with time.

      • November 19, 2017 at 5:45 pm
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        Sadly I think you’re right, his style has changed a lot since his golden era of the late 70’s – early 90’s. I think he could still do it though (Wishful thinking?), to my mind the whole opening of ROTS was classic SW scoring and represents my favourite part of that score.
        I wasn’t really calling TFA a Zimmerisation, just bemoaning the state of film music today.

        • November 19, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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          Well, much as I love mid 70’s – late 80’s Williams-era, it’s unfair to expect him not to grow and change as an artist. His music is still the best, even his new stuff that he’s still cranking out in his mid 80’s, and blows away any other film music coming out today. But I get wishing we could still get new music with his 70s/80s compositional technique. 🙂

      • November 23, 2017 at 4:15 pm
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        Really? What’s you’re take on the ROTS score? That’s my favorite one. Other than that each PT score had its picks such as duel of the fates and across the stars. I also love the score for TFA, but to me JW still has yet to beat ROTS.

    • November 19, 2017 at 5:42 pm
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      “Although the soundtrack to TFA was incredible in it’s own right, it was weak in the film.”

      Yeah, I’m with you on that. I loved TFA, and the soundtrack is incredible. But there were only a couple of times in the film where it really made an impression on me. A Star Wars movie seems off somehow if the music is not regularly present in the story; and it just wasn’t there for TFA.

  • November 20, 2017 at 12:27 am
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    Not to forget Rey’s touching track in Ahch-To: “Papa, can you hear me?”

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