Pieces You Wished You Had Composed

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.

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.

Charles Ives' Third Symphony. And I've met at least two or three other composers who felt the same way.

Uncle Dave

Baba Yaga - Modeste Moussorgsky

Gaspart de la nuit (Ondine + Le Gibet) - Maurice Ravel

Sonata "Messe Noire" - Alexandre Scriabine

LOTR's Symphony - Howard Shore

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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.

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.

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.

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!

Mmmh Clapping Music rocks lol !

Mendelssohn's "You spotted snakes", from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Achron's Hebrew Melody. :sadtears:

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:

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Uncle Dave Lewis

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Wagner`s Tristan and Isolde, Die Walk

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

the above is a lot.

but your choices basically covered what i was gonna say.

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.

I'm surprised no one's said Holst's Planets Suite yet.

I'm gonna go ahead and make that my choice.

"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.

The B minor mass.

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.

Ligeti's Requiem, Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Madar

and of course Brahms's cello-piano sonata in e minor

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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