Han Solo and the Princess

Han Solo and the Princess is a musical theme composed by John Williams and played by the London Symphony Orchestra for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

It is the love theme of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa, most prominently played during those characters' romantic encounter aboard the Millennium Falcon in the belly of the space slug. It is reused in a more dramatic manner as Solo is frozen in carbonite in Cloud City. It is played in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi when Leia reveals herself to Han after freeing him from the carbonite in Jabba's Palace, and also immediately following the destruction of the Second Death Star, when Leia reveals to Han that Luke Skywalker is her brother, effectively ending whatever competition Han thought may still have existed between the two for Leia's affections.

The love theme is considered a complementary expansion of Princess Leia's Theme, the theme of Princess Leia, first heard in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and also begins on a major sixth. Whereas Princess Leia's Theme represents a pure innocence of the Princess, Han Solo and the Princess trades in this innocence for a new element of maturity in her personal character.

Behind the scenes
In Star Wars: Battlefront II the theme is played when playing as Han Solo.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark,another theme(Marion's Theme) is used for the love theme very similar to this theme,hence Harrison Ford plays in both The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the lost ark.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi