The Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Remastered Soundtrack is a soundtrack album that was released by Walt Disney Records in 2018.

Background[]

After Walt Disney Records reacquired the rights from Sony Classical, they put together a team at Skywalker Sound, whitch consisted of Leslie Ann Jones, all the while being supervised by Shawn Murphy, to create remastered versions of the OST albums for the first 6 films.^[1] These were not just retransfers of the OST master like the Sony Ultimate Digital Collection had been, rather these would be ground-up rebuilds from the original session elements, newly transferred and remastered. Not much information about the behind-the-scenes creation of these releases is available to the public yet, so it is unknown what tapes were transferred for these, just that they were the "best-available"^[2], and that they contained the original Eric Tomlinson film mixes, and not the John Neal mixes that were used on the original OST master.^[3][4]

Track Listing and cue breakdown[]

1. Main Theme – 5:20
   1. 0:00-2:07 : [1m2] Main Title
   2. 2:07-end : [12m2] End Titles
2. Imperial Attack – 6:10
   1. 0:00-3:14 : [1m3] The War (microedited : missing 23 seconds)
   2. 3:14-end : [1m4-2m1] The Escape Hatch
3. Princess Leia's Theme – 4:18
   1. 0:00-end : The Princess Theme
4. The Desert and the Robot Auction – 2:51
   1. 0:00-0:52 : [1m5-2m1] Desert Song (ending cuts off early : missing 3 seconds)
   2. 0:52-end : [2m3 Rev.] More Little People
5. Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack – 3:46
   1. 0:00-2:03 : [9m3-10m1] Ben's Death
   2. 2:03-end : [10m2] Here They Come
6. The Little People Work – 4:02
   1. 0:00-end : [2m3 New] The Little People
7. Rescue of the Princess – 4:46
   1. 0:00-2:05 : [8m2 Rev.] The Rescue
   2. 2:05-end : [9m2] The Swashbucklers
8. Inner City – 4:12
   1. 0:00-1:34 : [7m1 New] Is it a Bird? (ending cuts off early : missing 2 seconds)
   2. 1:34-3:07 : [4m2] Obi-Wan Kenobi (ending cuts off early : missing 2 seconds)
   3. 3:07-end : [5m6 Rev.] The Inner City (microedited: missing 30 seconds)
9. Cantina Band – 2:44
   1. 0:00-end : "Cantina Band" (ending artificially faded out)
10. The Land of the Sandpeople – 2:50
    1. 0:00-1:01 : [3m3 Rev.] The Sand Speeder (ending cuts off early : missing 8 seconds)
    2. 1:01-end : [3m4-4m1 Rev.] The Sandman Attacks (microedited : missing 20 seconds)
11. Mouse Robot and Blasting Off – 4:01
    1. 0:00-2:01 : [7m2] The Mouse Robot
    2. 2:01-end : [6m1] Blasting Away (microedited : missing 15 seconds)
12. The Return Home – 2:46
    1. 0:00-end : [4m4A] A Home Destroyed
13. The Walls Converge – 4:31
    1. 0:00-2:58 : [8m4] The Walls Converge (ending cuts off early : missing 9 seconds)
    2. 2:58-end : [8m3 Rev.] The Water Snake
14. The Princess Appears – 4:04
    1. 0:00-1:50 : [3m1 Rev.] The Princess Appears
    2. 1:50-end : [3m2 New] Lost R2
15. The Last Battle – 12:05
    1. 0:00-1:55 : [8m2 New] More Rescue (ending cuts off early : missing 5 seconds)
    2. 1:55-4:25 : [9m1] Ben Creeps Around (ending cuts off early : missing 9 seconds)
    3. 4:25-7:38 : [11m2 Rev.] Approaching the Target (ending cuts off early : missing 11 seconds)
    4. 7:38-end : [12m1] The Last Battle
16. The Throne Room and End Title – 5:28
    1. 0:00-1:45 : [12m2] End Titles (only first 1:45)
    2. 1:45-2:16 : [12m2X] End Titles
    3. 2:16-end : [12m2] End Titles (only last 3:13)

Total Time: 74:58

References[]

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