Hello and welcome to this week's installment of Cue by Cue. Apologies for the late post this week I've been a bit busy
Today we're going to be listening to 4m3 The Princess Reappears. This cue is just 11 bars long, and was orchestrated by Herbert Spencer.
Here's what the top of the conductor's score looks like:
Now let's listen to the cue together:
At 0:00 the cue opens with some sparkling celeste and harp, as the hologram reappears.
This leads into a statement of Princess Leia's theme from 0:06-0:38, as Leia talks. This statement is very similar to the one in 3m1R The Princess Appears from 0:31-1:01, just with some different orchestration.
Then from 0:38-end we get a lead-out, again with celeste and harp. Thus the cue ends.
This cue was recorded on March 9, 1977, the third day of the recording sessions. It was the fourth and final cue recorded that day. Five takes were recorded, numbered 68-72. According to the 1997 take log, the performance edit used just take 72.
This cue has been officially released on just one album:
3) In 1997 on RCA Victor's 2-CD Special Edition set
More specifically, 4m3 The Princess Reappears can be heard:
From 2:40-3:31 of disc 1 track 8 "Tales of a Jedi Knight/Learn About the Force" on the 1997 album.
The 1997 set features a clean opening, but unfortunately it crossfades this cue into the next one, meaning it does not have a clean ending. Further, the film fades the cue's ending out a second or two early, meaning the film audio can't be used for the clean ending. Unfortunately this means that the clean ending of this cue is completely unreleased, you'll notice my video above cuts off early instead of fading out completely like it should.
Otherwise though, the 1997 set does seem to match the film take exactly, and it is not brickwalled, so it is currently the best available source for this cue.
That's all I have for today, thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any comments or questions.
Next week we'll be discussing 4m4 Rev. A Home Destroyed. See you then!
