He enjoyed the ability to imagine different scenarios and react to them "without fear of fighting another element." Unrestricted by film timings, McNeely was able to focus on certain elements as long as he liked, noting that "Every passage represents some person, place or event in this story." Recording However, since there was no film, McNeely was not having to work against a temp track, sound effects, film timings, etc. McNeely chose to use the existing music of Star Wars as thematic pillars rather than give a "poor man's imitation of John Williams." He set out to make an "eclectic" piece that would tell the story of the characters and events through music, much like a film score. He met with McNeely to discuss the project and provided him with Ralph McQuarrie's concept paintings of Coruscant for inspiration. The idea for a score based on a work of literature was inspired by classical program music by composers like Beethoven and Strauss, of which Townson considers film scores to be the modern extension. Ralph McQuarrie's concept paintings of Coruscant inspired "Imperial City." Writing McNeely initially turned down the offer because he was working on two other films at the time, and so the project was temporarily shelved however, when a two-week window opened up in his schedule, he signed on to write the score. Aside from previously conducting several score re-recordings for Varèse Sarabande, McNeely had scored the film Radioland Murders as well as numerous episodes of Young Indiana Jones for Lucasfilm. Townson's first choice for a composer was Joel McNeely. The idea did not come to fruition at the time, but when the Shadows of the Empire project came along, the two decided that it would be the perfect opportunity for a Star Wars score based on a novel. Around that time, he and Lucasfilm's Lucy Autrey Wilson discussed the idea of an orchestral soundtrack based on the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. In the early 1990s, Robert Townson of Varèse Sarabande Records worked with Lucasfilm to release four soundtrack albums of music composed for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. 5.1 Main Theme from Star Wars and Leia's Nightmare.In addition to the score, the CD contained exclusive CD-ROM features with behind-the-scenes content. The album was released by Varèse Sarabande Records on April 23, 1996. The 51-minute score, conducted by McNeely, was performed by the 90-piece Royal Scottish National Orchestra and a 150 voice chorus in Glasgow, Scotland in early 1996. While McNeely set out to make an eclectic piece of his own style rather than try to imitate John Williams, three familiar themes from the movies can be heard in tracks one (" Main Title" and part of "Carbon Freeze"), eight (" The Imperial March" and " Force Theme"), and ten ("The Imperial March"). The score, much like classical program music of the past, is based on a piece of literature rather than a motion picture. The Shadows of the Empire soundtrack is a musical score by Emmy Award-winning composer Joel McNeely which was inspired by author Steve Perry's 1996 novel of the same name. ![]() To enable the mod, make sure you go into the Editor in game and manually set the database via the dropdown menu at the top to "rlmodmwr3"." An original orchestral score composed for a book? Why not?" ― Robert Townson Extract everything from the downloaded file above into your games directory Navigate to your install directory (you can do this by right clicking MWE on your Steam Library, then going into the Manage hotbar and clicking "Browse Local Files") Download the file linked above and use winrar/winzip to open the file. If anyone has a link to a more recent version, feel free to either post it here or add me to update the link in this post, or make a new thread with your version! ![]() This is the last version I released of my mod, so it's pretty old (from 2016), but it should make do for anyone who wanted to play with an RL Mod but couldn't since the forums went down. Google Drive changed permissions, so here's a new link to this older version of the mod for all who want to download and give it a shot! I promised a little while ago I'd post the RL Mod here, and this is the latest version I have on file. EDIT: A more up to date fan version of the mod is available here for this who haven't tried it yet:
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