The familiar sounds of the “Star Wars” theme filled the middle school auditorium Thursday afternoon during a science and sound mini-lecture.

Cape Cod Conservatory Director of Community Education George Scharr gave the eighth grade class a small lesson on the dynamics of sound and space. The lesson is part of a larger Cape-wide initiative called Tix4Music, which is starting its first year in Wareham. The program is geared towards middle and high school students, and offers students free tickets to the symphony.

Scharr split the 40-minute presentation into three chapters, the first of which dealt with the fact there is no sound in space, because space is a vacuum, and sound cannot travel in it.

“Space is almost a vacuum,” Scharr said, adding to the answers. “It’s not a perfect vacuum, but close. And what does sound need to travel? Sounds needs air.”

Scharr then talked about the sounds of space, as conceived by Hollywood. He used the iconic movie soundtrack from “Star Wars,” as well as that of the new movie, “The Martian.” Because the talk tied into the school’s core curriculum, however, he kept the talk science-based and interactive, asking the students to explain what was wrong with a 30-second clip of “Star Wars” that showed a the final space battle sequence from “Return of the Jedi.”

“Light can’t travel in space,” said one student.

Another said there couldn’t be an explosion like that in space, because there is no atmosphere.

The final chapter focused on Pythagoras, and how his work informs musical scales. For instance, using his work, musicians get the familiar beginning sounds to “Star Wars.”

Scharr also offered 10 tickets to students who would like to go to the Cape Cod Conservatory’s symphony Saturday night, as part of the Tix4Music program. The program, he said, is meant to build on programs aimed at younger students, called MusicWorks! Everyday, and Music Memory. He said he hopes those two programs will come to John W. Decas Elementary and Minot Forest Elementary soon, because of the response it generates in the kids.

“The teachers on Cape Cod report 15 minutes more of productivity a day by giving these kids five minutes of music listening in the morning,” Scharr said.