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Post by julesd68 on Jun 28, 2020 14:50:44 GMT
This is quite an eye opener!
Courtesy of TwoSet violin ...
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 28, 2020 18:00:44 GMT
 That John Williams, what a lad! Obvious when pointed out, but I've seen those Star Wars movies many times and it never occurred to me!
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 28, 2020 20:15:04 GMT
Me too!
Blatant is the word.
Use of The Planets is none too subtle either ...
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Post by MartinT on Jun 29, 2020 17:42:23 GMT
Yes, I thought Mars was the most blatant.
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Post by julesd68 on Jan 17, 2021 17:01:42 GMT
Just call me Poireau.  My son is currently learning Chopin’s fabulous Mazurka in A Minor No4 Op17. I thought it sounded familiar - there’s a motif in it which sounds remarkably similar to one used in the main theme from the Cary Grant film ‘Charade’, composed by Henry Mancini. I had watched the film a few weeks ago so it was relatively fresh in my mind. So just for my amusement I decided to investigate a little further. I didn't have to go far - looking at Wiki’s page for Mancini, it states - < According to Mancini biographer John Caps, the young Mancini “preferred music arranging to any kind of musical performance, but taking apart a Chopin mazurka or Schumann sonata in order to play it helped him see…how the puzzle of form, meter, melody, harmony, and counterpoint had been solved by previous composers > Yes, the structural and melodic influence now becomes very clear indeed. Your Honour, I rest my case!  |
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 1, 2021 23:30:31 GMT
I was watching a very interesting programme on movie soundtrack composition and at one point they were eulogising Hans Zimmer. Kind of ironic that they showed a clip from Gladiator, at which point I thought I was listening to Holst's Mars from The Planets. Subtle, not. Sure enough a little research shows that predictably I wasn't the first person to be struck by the similarities - in 2006 Holst's estate filed a lawsuit citing copyright infringement. You'll get the picture very quickly here .. ... And here's the programme I was watching. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002pf6/score-cinemas-greatest-soundtracks |
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