{"id":714,"date":"2016-01-01T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/7-things-we-learned-about-star-wars-the-force-awakens-from-its-music\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:22:45","slug":"7-things-we-learned-about-star-wars-the-force-awakens-from-its-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/7-things-we-learned-about-star-wars-the-force-awakens-from-its-music\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things we learned about &#039;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#039; from its music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Star-wars-music\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzEyLzMxL2M2L1N0YXJXYXJzTXVzLjkzMGU4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/a9c90ec8\/4b5\/Star-Wars-Music.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=7+things+we+learned+about+%27Star+Wars%3A+The+Force+Awakens%27+from+its+music&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F12%2F31%2Fstar-wars-music-theory%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F12%2F31%2Fstar-wars-music-theory%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Warning: This post contains spoilers, in that it discusses plot details from a movie you really should have seen by now.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The experience of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/star-wars\/\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/em> is one of sensory overload. Amid the eye candy, the lightsabers and explosions, you may not be actively interpreting the film\u2019s music<\/p>\n<p>But in the background, the music is telling you how to interpret the film \u2014 and revealing secrets about its characters.<\/p>\n<p>John Williams\u2019 score connects <em>The Force Awakens<\/em> with the previous six chapters in the franchise, invoking nostalgia and drawing the new heroes and villains into a web of operatic connections. But the music also fuels speculation about what\u2019s to come in future installments. And it can even help answer <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/18\/star-wars-calendar-17\/\">burning questions<\/a> \u2014 such as \u201cwho is Supreme Leader Snoke?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/31\/star-wars-music-theory\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/star-wars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Star Wars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/film\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Film<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/star-wars-episode-vii\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Star Wars Episode Vii<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/21j0Gps-y5Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This post contains spoilers, in that it discusses plot details from a movie you really should have seen by now. The experience of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is one of sensory overload. Amid the eye candy, the lightsabers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/7-things-we-learned-about-star-wars-the-force-awakens-from-its-music\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,90,54,1,89,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film","category-music","category-other","category-star-wars","category-star-wars-episode-vii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}