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This film has an “oppositional score,” according to Emilio Audissino’s 2014 monograph on its composer. By release date, this is the earliest film in a musical catalog by Frank Lehman. This film’s title theme is scored in B-flat major so as to transition out of the 20th Century (10[1])Fox fanfare, which this film revived. About five minutes into this film, a solo horn introduces the following G minor motif: a leap up from D to a long G, (10[1])then an A, (10[1])then the three notes (10[1])B-flat, C, B-flat. (10[1]-5[1])This film uses a (10[1])Rhodes piano, ARP synthesizer, and steel drum to augment an onscreen wind ensemble meant to be a futuristic take (10[2])on 1930s (10[1])Benny Goodman swing. (10[1])This film’s title theme resembles (10[2])Korngold’s theme to Kings Row, (10[1]-5[1])and is followed by so-called (10[1]-5[1])“Holst chords” based on the (10[1])“Mars” movement. (10[2])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name this (10[1])1977 space opera (10[1])scored by John Williams. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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