The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) by John Williams/arr. Paul Murtha

me when band director:

YES AN ARRANGMENT WITH NO VIOLINS NEEDED

Putin’s theme song!

Time to convince my band director to let us play this!

My friend who is a tuba player says that I am doing everything wrong when even though I am second chair and he is first because he thinks he has everything right since he is first chair and he said today he doesn’t listen to the recordings and doesn’t practice because it is to easy for him when he sucks at the music

I played this and I remember when the trumpets would play so loud at measure 29 it made the song so fake

that C#/Db in the arpeggios for clarinets is pain

Nossa muito bom, gostei bastante.

This was a fun one to play for my bands spring concert

You cant make the imperial march without string instru-

Marching band is playing this. I have to switch from flute to piccolo and back. Kill me

cool

Teacher: This will be a fun challenge for all of us
Me, who plays clarinet: *see measure 64*: so this is death

Absolutly perfect.

Lovely arrangement, but I find its lack of sixteenth-note triplets disturbing.

I play clarinet, I died when i saw measure 21

My 8th Grade band is playing this at our summer concert.

I can play this





In 19 years

I actually started breathing like Darth Vader. 😂😂😂

I have been trying to find out my family tree and I wonder if I'm related to Paul Murtha as I'm a Murtha so is my dad and his mum and dad

Nice!
The description is wrong though. The Imperial March isn't 40 years old yet. It was first created and conducted in 1980, just a few months before the movie was released in May of that year. Years before my time as well.

Bari sax part is really cool.

👏👏👏

鬼子进村了

rip to all clarinet 1s (like me)

you underestimate my power.

This is an awesome arrangement, and I wish my band could play it. To be honest though, with our clarinets and trombones, we probably couldn't manage lol.

Need* My manners

I play Bari Sax 😐 I want a piece to learn

My middle school (8th grade) is playing this for the spring concert!

It's a marvelous piece to play but if you play trombone like me, then you have to learn to triple tongue. And there's a bunch of flats, sharps and naturals...

That ending though…

Wrong key I think

I love The Imperial March. Makes it seem like a fully realistic Star Wars movie. News flash: did you know that I went with my dad to see the Star Wars: Last Jedi movie at Cinemark in Valley View Ohio? I think both the movie and the concert arrangement looked realistic at the same time. While I was at my music theory lesson at St. Dominic (located in Shaker Heights, Ohio), Mr. Tennant had me copy down this instrument part for the arrangement Highlights From Star Wars. It was for an assignment in addition to the 1812 Overture arrangement in the music program Sibelius.

Great! But most middle school bands don’t have a battery of horns and baritones. Would have loved to see some tenor sax support.

Sigh, like most other arrangements of this piece, it is one step lower than the original... Concert G is the primary note of the song, not Concert F. The counter-melody simplified rhythm is just inaccurate. Yes, this was made for less experienced bands, but it just sounds weird when it isn't accurate.

If you only knew the power of the dark side

何故オリジナルキーにしないのか。

Alright now that we got this one out of the way, where's the grade 5 arrangement with the 16th note triplets that we all deserve?

The snare drum rhythm/bass line is not correct.

Nice

nice i love it