MORE ON THE

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject: Re: MORE ON THE
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7570] Re: MORE ON THE
Date: 8/22/00 10:25 pm  (ET)

By: jferer
Re John Williams:
I have to listen again. What he's doing is not necessarily illegitimate,
so long as he doesn't pretend he did it himself.
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But he does. I've got Star Wars and Conan, at least, and they both list
John Williams as the composer, not even assists on Conan from Holst
and frankly, Conan was the worst. If Holst was alive he could sue JW's
tail off.

However, its not illegitimate because the works he uses are long out of
copyright protection, but, IMNSHO, that doesn't justify it.

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But the question becomes, what KIND of score should the Potter movie
have? I don't think it should be grandiose like the Star Wars or Indiana
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Totally agree with this. The music should be varied and backgroundy,
not large and grandiose. Parts of it should be unusual, mysterious and
secretive while other parts should be "normal." I could see folkish music
for diagon alley. Actually, I think in general there will be sufficient
going on in the movie that the music shouldn't be extremely noticeable. It
should blend in and not call attention to itself, if that makes sense.

It will be interesting to see how they deal with the Hogwarts anthem,
where each student/students get to pick their own tune. That could sound
as awful as the ghost music. :-)

vicki