{"id":12728,"date":"2019-12-22T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:44:03","slug":"star-wars-villain-music-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=12728","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Villain Music Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s said that the Devil gets the best tunes, but Williams has long proved that that maxim applies to Sith lords, too. Within <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u2019 ever-expanding library of leitmotifs \u2014 recurring, malleable musical symbols \u2014 much of the most insinuating material belongs to the villains, from Darth Maul to Jabba the Hutt to Supreme Leader Snoke. Listening to these nefarious themes with the ear of a music scholar offers a lesson in the real power of the dark side, showing us how music can repel, deceive and, with the right compositional tricks, even charm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/how-john-williamss-star-wars-score-subtly-pulls-us-to-the-dark-side\">How John Williams\u2019s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side<\/a><\/strong>, by Frank Lehman<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/30998-star-wars-villain-music-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s said that the Devil gets the best tunes, but Williams has long proved that that maxim applies to Sith lords, too. Within Star Wars\u2019 ever-expanding library of leitmotifs \u2014 recurring, malleable musical symbols \u2014 much of the most insinuating&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=12728\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12729,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}