Via Starwars.com:

SOME OF THE SAGA’S MOST MEMORABLE SEQUENCES FEATURE NO MUSIC AT ALL.

Even if we put aside the visual innovations of George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, we’re still left with a groundbreaking aural experience that forever changed the way we hear cinema. Though there were many people involved with the way Star Wars sounds, it’s doubtful that things would have been the same if it weren’t for composer John Williams and sound designer Ben Burtt. Williams’ inimitable score and Burtt’s familiar-yet-alien sound effects bring the six original Star Wars films to life in a way that’s unique to that universe.

So much has been written about the magical quality that a John Williams score lends to a film, but even Williams knows that sometimes, a score isn’t called for. Steven Spielberg, in his speech at John Williams’ AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony put it succinctly: “Great composers like John know that the power of music also lies in the absence of music.”

And so, during postproduction, some scenes in a film end up without a score. In score spotting sessions, it’s decided which scenes need music and which ones can go without. This is when Ben Burtt is given the full attention of the audience, and being Ben Burtt, he rarely disappoints. There are three notable sequences where the sound design grabs the full spotlight, so much so that you might not even notice the absence an epic Williams track.

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