Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music
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 Rating: - A whole galaxy of inspiration and imagination ...
John Williams is - by far - my own favorite film music composer. And John Williams' music for Star Wars is in a class on its own within his astounding oeuvre. Taken as a whole, John Williams' music for Star Wars IMHO even surpasses his own superb soundtrack music for Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, ET, Close Encounters, Jaws, etc.
All of the soundtracks for Star Wars, while being highly imaginative, colorful and exciting, are of course bound together by an intricate and over-arching web of themes and their variations and developments. Every minute of all of the music for Star Wars is specifically there to underscore the drama, to enhance the atmosphere, but it is always vintage Williams, i.e. highly artistic, imaginative, colorful and often surprising, and always bound together by the myriad of distinctive themes and their variations and developments, making for a highly rewarding listening experience.
While all of the soundtracks for Episodes I through VI have many things to say for them, I personally love this soundtrack as one of the best (beside the ones for Episode III and V).

If I may be allowed to simplify the matter somewhat for convenience sake, I think there could be distinguished roughly (!) three main kinds of music on this soundtrack, each with its own 'atmosphere', as it were.
Firstly, there is 'romantic' music, underscoring the deepening, complicating love-relationship between Anakin and Padme, in this episode not yet overshadowed by the Dark Side - only some premonitions now and then, but only just that, like a shadow looming (like Darth Vader's theme/the Imperial March popping up now and then), but still (relatively) far off, as in 'Across the Stars' (providing the main love theme, which comes back now and then throughout the film), 'Anakin and Padme', 'The Meadow Picnic', the first half of 'Return to Tatooine' and in 'Love Pledge'.
Secondly, there is thrilling, faster music underscoring the pure action/chase sequences such as 'The Chase Through Coruscant', 'Jango's Escape', 'Bounty Hunter's Pursuit', 'The Arena' and the bonus track (14) 'On the Conveyor Belt', often with much exotic percussion (something of a John Williams hallmark).
Thirdly there is more darkly brooding, apprehensive music, which represents looming danger (sometimes ending in a crescendo), such as in 'Zam the Assassin', 'Ambush on Coruscant' and 'The Tusken Camp & The Homestead'. Sometimes this music contains male choir (second half of 'Return to Tatooine', where Anakin goes out on a search for his mother on his home planet, containing a direct quotation of 'Duel of the Fates'; 'The Homestead') or solo female voice ('Confrontation with Count Dooku'). Sometimes this music contains exquisite dissonances (for which I also love John Williams).
Anyhow, this music for Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones is colorful, thrilling, uplifting, fascinating music that can be enjoyed on its own just as easily as it is the ideal dramatic 'motor' behind the story as it is told with George Lucas' sweepingly orchestrated pictures projected on the widest of possible canvasses, spanning a galaxy far, far away that has become so very familiar and entrenched in collective memory.

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