Re: Re: Re: What are your favorite marches to play?


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Posted by Greg Crider on November 06, 2001 at 15:44:52:

In Reply to: Re: Re: What are your favorite marches to play? posted by Rick Denney on November 06, 2001 at 11:35:28:

Agreed. I think that some of the most ridiculous charges on this board come from those who accuse people of wholesale theft of music, especially when it's obvious that the pieces in question are radically different. My favorite for silliness was the accusation that the "Imperial March" from "The Empire Strikes Back" was nothing but a clone of Barber's "Commando March". Yeah, right; there is a surface similarity in the first four beats of the main melodies, and the rest of the pieces are totally different beyond the fact they are both marches.

Romantic and impressionistic harmony and melody still work well, but it's become next to impossible to compose anything new without it sounding like something that's already been done. Attempts in the modern era to produce fresh musical methods have produced many great pieces, but also an unbelievable amount of unlistenable junk that may be art, but it's not likeable art. Film composers stick so often to tried-and-true compositional methods because audiences connect to them, not because they're unoriginal.

However, if you want to listed to a thoroughly modern, non-romantic soundtrack that works, listed to the composer's commentary on "The Matrix" DVD. It's great.


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