September 4, 200817 yr Actually... Jaws is quite obviously ripped off from the Rite of Spring! No kidding. Listen to it from about 3 minutes into the piece... You hear stuff extremely similar in texture, motive, etc Then, just like John Williams does, Stravinsky has the intense driving rythm sections broken up by heavy use of various chaotic wind pointilistic segments etc. You just hear it. It seems so obvious that there is a connection. I don't know whether John Williams was consciously aware of it but it does sound rather similar to me. Chris It seems Williams kinda ripped off a lot of Stravinsky, intentional or not. I'm specifically talking about Star Wars and Jaws, but there may be others.
September 4, 200817 yr Yes, but I think Star Wars was more a case of George Lucas being stuck to the style of the temp track in many cases. In any case, "Empire" and "Jedi" are much more original scores, but "Star Wars" is still brilliant as used in the film. Anyway, a piece I wish I had written is Rachmoninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
September 13, 200817 yr Charles Ives' Third Symphony. And I've met at least two or three other composers who felt the same way. Uncle Dave
September 13, 200817 yr Baba Yaga - Modeste Moussorgsky Gaspart de la nuit (Ondine + Le Gibet) - Maurice Ravel Sonata "Messe Noire" - Alexandre Scriabine LOTR's Symphony - Howard Shore =D
September 13, 200817 yr Messiaen's quartet for the end of time for one. I second Gaspard de la nuit, as well as the preludes, images, or etudes by Debussy. Also, Music for 18 Musicians! I wouldn't mind having the Beethoven c# minor quartet on my resume either.... And I think that from the Schindler's list soundtrack, there are better things than the theme, which is the first track. I like the 'remembrances' theme on the... uh flute thing (I think that's the instrument). But my favorite tracks are "I could have done more" (which has the main theme too) and especially "Auschwitz-Birkenau", which is especially chilling.
September 13, 200817 yr If I had to pick only one work, it'd definitely be John Williams score to E.T. -- its absolutely brilliant, especially when you listen to the entire score, and not just the happy-children-E.T. theme; that score is dark!! Other than that, maybe Bernard Herrmann's Psycho or North by Northwest scores, or Elgar's Violin(/Cello) Concerto. Also, Music for 18 Musicians! Interesting choice...I'm not a huge fan of Steve Reich, both as a composer and a person; I much prefer Philip Glass over him.
September 13, 200817 yr I think Phillip Glass's best work is Koyaanisquatsi - which I do very much admire. And he seems like a nice enough guy. There's a documentary about him I would like to watch sometime. But for me personally, there about Reich's music that interests me. There are so many great pieces by him - the Sextet, Octet, the various 'counterpoints', different trains, triple quartet... I can't make such a long list of pieces I like of Philip Glass's works.
September 13, 200817 yr You know... odd thing. I just wrote that post, and then I put on the soundtrack to 'The Hours' without even thinking it was Glass. Strange! I guess I do really like Glass!
September 14, 200817 yr Achron's Hebrew Melody. :sadtears: I'm impressed by that choice - Achron has several other pieces worth knowing as well, three violin concerti and the "Golem" Suite: My biography of Achron: allmusic ((( Joseph Achron > Biography ))) Uncle Dave Lewis
November 14, 200817 yr Beethoven- Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 18 Schubert- Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished" Impromptu Op. 90-2 in E-flat Impromptu Op. 142-2 in A-flat Chopin- Waltz No. 19 in A minor Op. Posth. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat "Heroique", Op.53 Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op.66 Bach- Trio Sonata for Organ no. 3 Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor BWV 1041 Brandenburg Concertos Vivaldi- Violin Concerto in E "Spring" Op.8-1 RV 269 A lot right? ... kind of pathetic
November 17, 200817 yr If anything, Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" and his "St. Paul Suite". Not that I find my own works to be any greater than the masterpieces before mentioned.
November 17, 200817 yr I'm surprised no one's said Holst's Planets Suite yet. I'm gonna go ahead and make that my choice.
November 17, 200817 yr "Happy Birthday" I'd be rich from all the lawsuits won after suing for infringement on their song, "Good Morning to All." So, I guess I'd have to say, I wish I'd written "Good Morning to All." Copyright on the work ends 2030 in the States and 2016 in European Union countries. It's worth $5 Million at the moment. Too bad Patty and Mildred Hill wrote it back in 1893... such is the life of a composer. Someone else gets paid for the hit YOU write. Also, I'll have to second Wagner's Tristan. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Krystof Penderecki's St Luke Passion, and there are probably a couple of others I'm not remembering.
November 18, 200817 yr The music to Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings trilogy...Dvorak's New World Symphony...any of Chopin's nocturnes..."Tonight" from West Side Story...Grieg's lyric pieces (Butterfly, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen)...to name a few.
November 18, 200817 yr Ligeti's Requiem, Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Madar
November 18, 200817 yr When I think of Jaws.....I think Dvorak! Yeah, not that there is any connection between the main theme of Jaws and the fourth movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony. :whistling:
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