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Yesterday I stayed up most of the night binge-reading the Lost Media Wiki. Two days ago however I decided to check out the old rumours that James Horner not only borrowed heavily from dead Russian composers but also from himself, and I found this thread at JWFan, a John Williams fansite:
http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20214-the-ultimate-james-horners-plagiarism-list/
It's really bitchy! I like that.
Exhibit 1a, the twiddly-twiddly bit at the beginning of "Stealing the Enterprise", from Star Trek III, which is right at the start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s5lQ-bGe6c
Exhibit 1b, Prokofiev, "The Death of Tybalt", at 1:30:
https://youtu.be/sz8i68lpBpc?t=90
James Horner often had very little time to write his music, and he had to write a lot of it. On the one hand the idea of interpolating classical themes into music isn't really any different from sampling, and Horner argued that he was quoting works that made sense in context, but on the other hand God smote Horner's aeroplane from the sky and killed him, so there's that.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
Haha, that's a tricky one!
'Wouldn't it Be Nice" famously quotes a melody from Tchaikovsky and that's never really bothered me because, like Horner, it works within the larger work of the song. Is it a straight copy? Pretty close. Is it still a good song. Yes, obviously.
Albert, that song is atrocious. But I totally hear it. Hilarious.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
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