Re: OT: Musical languistics

--- Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
>
> Williams is probably my second favorite 20th c.
> composer.  Another example of good movie music was
> that composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su for
> The
> Last Emperor.  It did a good job of translating
> Chinese musical traditions into a Western symphonic
> form that would be suitable for the movie and its
> audience by bridging the gap between two disperate
> traditions.
Hate to break it to you, but Williams is a hack, and
is not considered to be a composer in the tradition of
Mozart, Beethoven, et al. Most of what he writes was
written first (and better) by earlier composers.
(Listen to Gustav Holst's _The Planets_ and tell me
that Williams didn't base his entire Star Wars music
on it.)

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James Worlton
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                 -Unknown

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