Hello and welcome to this week's installment of Cue by Cue.
Today we're going to be listening to 5m2 Yoda Appears.
This cue is only 22 bars long and was orchestrated by Al Woodbury.
Here's the tops of the sketch and orchestrated score:
Now let's listen to the cue together:
At 0:00 the cue begins with some mysterious strings as Luke collects his things and walks over to sit with R2.
At 0;19 an oboe accompaniment joins in, as Luke reaches R2.
Some woodwinds at 0:34 as the lamp turns on, followed quickly by more strings as Luke converses with R2.
A held woodwind note as Luke stands up at 0:43, almost reminiscent of the the woodwinds heard back in the Wampa cave.
One more string line 0:47 as Luke sits back down, followed by an oboe line at 1:00, which leads directly into a short rendition of the Force theme at 1:03. The final note is held ominously, leading into a loud crash at 1:16 for the first sighting of Yoda. Thus, the cue ends...
This is the first cue we've looked at in a while that underwent no picture of music edits in the final cut.
Since I don't have a recording log I'm unsure what day this cue was recorded, but based on the take numbers written in the sketch it was likely recorded in early-mid January. I'm also unsure how many takes were recorded, but according to the sketch the performance edit uses take 223.
This cue has been officially released on one album:
3) In 1997 on RCA Victor's 2-CD Special Edition set
More specifically, 5m2 Yoda Appears can be heard:
From 3:32-end of disc 1 track 7 "Arrival on Dagobah" on the 1997 album.
The album doesn't have a clean opening - however, similarly to 2m2 Ben's Instruction, and thanks to the 1993 and 1997 releases of 5m1 Crash Landing being the same, you can actually use phase inversion to recover the completely clean opening.
Additionally the 1997 set plays at the wrong speed, though this can easily be corrected in an audio editor: it must be sped up by 0.625 to match the film.
For the video above I used a speed-corrected copy of the 1997 set with the clean opening recovered via the trick I just described.
That's all I have for today, thanks for reading! Feel free to leave any comments or questions.
Next week we'll be listening to 5m3 Yoda's Entrance. See you then!
