Emperor Palpatine's Music on The Phantom Menace? Music Comparison.

Music comparison between the tracks:

Augie's Great Municipal Band - The Phantom Menace OST

The Emperor Arrives - Return of the Jedi OST

Again, just a theory based in similarities between the tracks. I'm not saying I'm right neither I'm a professional musician. I just have fun with this.

I do not own any of this music or images. All done for entertainment.

[ct]

At the end of Episode 1, everyone was dancing to Palpatine's tune. Literally and figuratively.

[exodus]

My God this is creepy. John Williams you genius.

[dumbcrambo]

The symbolism is deep: children’s voices announcing the beginning of his plan with joy, mature voices chanting in reverence of its culmination.

[JakeT]

Palpatine was the phantom menace. The ending soundtrack perfectly fit that. And in the full version with the end credits Anakins theme plays with the imperial march playing in tone with his theme at the end. John Williams is a genius and Star Wars wouldn’t have been the same without him.

[MedalionDS]

John Williams the king of Easter Egg musical themes

[repatomonor]

Spoiler alert: Palpatine is Palpatine.

[LightningBoltForever]

Spolier: Sheev Palpatine is The Senate.

[StarWarsStory]

Holy This was Palpatine's Victory Music?!?!??!?!!!!

[Ultimatechefchampion]

“I just learned a terrible truth. The song at the end of movie 1 is the theme of a sith Lord”.

“A sith Lord!?”

[dimamatat]

In episode 1, the singers are happy kids. In episode 6, the singers (hummers?) are depressed adults. Now imagine the age and emotional state of the kids from episode 1 in episode 6.

[AndromedaCripps]

HOLY

That’s incredible- and the transition from children’s voices to deep, dark, men’s voices representing the loss of innocence. It only makes sense that Palpatine’s music would be a corruption of the childhood innocence of Naboo, just as he is.

[MonstersOfTheUniverse]

This is intentional and just the tip of the iceberg in the parallels between menace and Jedi. Remember George approached the scenes of his films as if they were stanzas in poetry. Down to shots, framing and color complements in parallel scenes

[eliteplays]

This just makes Star Wars that much darker

[PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Details like this make me love Star Wars even more than I already do

[Lady_Yuna]

As George Lucas would say "It's like poetry, it rhymes." 😊

[HitchedBug]

To add in. In the first episode it’s sung by boys. And the emperor’s song is sung by men. It’s a calling to how innocent everyone is before not knowing that soon everything will go horribly wrong.

[TheLovelyLadybug]

“Everything that has occurred has done so according to my design.”

[joshslater]

I can’t believe I never noticed that. Now the scene feels extremely grim. I know there is already a sense of danger as Palpatine’s future apprentice is to be trained in the force, but knowing that we are celebrating Naboo’s freedom to a cheerier version of a theme that will later spell dread makes it very eerie.

[vader]

1:00 I can't take this seriously due to the person dressed in blues hat

[Digital]

speed up the video to x2 at 0:50 you can hear the Celebration track on the Emperor theme