Death Star motif
The Death Star motif is a piece written by John Williams for the A New Hope soundtrack. It represents the Death Star. It was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1977. The motif is also played in Return of the Jedi in representing the threat of the second Death Star.
In the 1995 video game, Star Wars: Dark Forces, the motif is played when Darth Vader first appears. It is also played when Phase II dark troopers are deployed to Talay.
In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series episode "Cat and Mouse," a rendition of the motif is played as Obi-Wan Kenobi reveals the IPV-2C Stealth Corvette to Anakin Skywalker.
The motif reappeared in LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, where it plays over a hologram of the second Death Star. The same motif is also played in "Zander's Joyride", when Zander Freemaker encounters and is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer, as well as when Freemaker is approached by an IT-O Interrogation Unit.
The motif is played in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as Grand Moff Tarkin and Director Krennic observe the completion of the Death Star's superlaser. The theme also appears in Solo: A Star Wars Story, as the Millennium Falcon encounters an Imperial Star Destroyer while fleeing from Kessel ("Reminiscence Therapy"). As an iron is visually portayed as a large starship in The Last Jedi, the Death Star motif is played. When it is shown that the "ship" is simply an iron, a light rendition of "The Force Theme" is played following the motif.
