for his Jurassic Park Main Theme. I was listening to the Shos 8th and I couldn't believe he would steal that 3 note motif. I'm seriously thinking of selling all my Williams CDs and erasing his autograph from my Accidental Tourist Warner copy.
Get a life, David. What a ridiculous thing to get so upset about. I'm sure Mr. Williams , when composing JP, said to himself, "You know, I'm sure I can rip of these three notes from S's 8th Symphony and get away with it!' A rude and stupid post. Who cares? These isn't a composer, living or dead, who hasn't borrowed from another composer with absolutely no malice or ill-will intended.
Get a life, David. What a ridiculous thing to get so upset about. I'm sure Mr. Williams , when composing JP, said to himself, "You know, I'm sure I can rip of these three notes from S's 8th Symphony and get away with it!' A rude and stupid post. Who cares? These isn't a composer, living or dead, who hasn't borrowed from another composer with absolutely no malice or ill-will intended.
Yeah it was an early April Fool's joke. I was in fact listening to the Shosty 8th and it did strike me that it kind of reminded me of Jurassic Park but as most of you know, it's silly to go crazy over these superficial similarities given the limits of the 12 tone equal tempered western tuning system. Especially when working in a diatonic framework.
I thought most would get the humor especially coming from me. Oh well...
Yeah it was an early April Fool's joke. I was in fact listening to the Shosty 8th and it did strike me that it kind of reminded me of Jurassic Park but as most of you know, it's silly to go crazy over these superficial similarities given the limits of the 12 tone equal tempered western tuning system. Especially when working in a diatonic framework.
I thought most would get the humor especially coming from me. Oh well...
for his Jurassic Park Main Theme. I was listening to the Shos 8th and I couldn't believe he would steal that 3 note motif. I'm seriously thinking of selling all my Williams CDs and erasing his autograph from my Accidental Tourist Warner copy.
What a hack!
I know the bit you mean, the first repeated phrase of the allegretto, which is very similar to the start of the main JP theme.
Yeah it was an early April Fool's joke. I was in fact listening to the Shosty 8th and it did strike me that it kind of reminded me of Jurassic Park but as most of you know, it's silly to go crazy over these superficial similarities given the limits of the 12 tone equal tempered western tuning system. Especially when working in a diatonic framework.
I thought most would get the humor especially coming from me. Oh well...
I got it.
april's fool's or not...always remember what Stravinsky said...the hacks quote, but the real artists STEAL...
for his Jurassic Park Main Theme. I was listening to the Shos 8th and I couldn't believe he would steal that 3 note motif. I'm seriously thinking of selling all my Williams CDs and erasing his autograph from my Accidental Tourist Warner copy.
What a hack!
I know the bit you mean, the first repeated phrase of the allegretto, which is very similar to the start of the main JP theme.
A grown up joke...
And the allegro non troppo clearly temped the opening of "Sahara", as can be heard in Clint Mansell's excellent track "Ironclad".
The fact is the Main Theme opening figure is a very simple one. It's bound to resemble many pieces composed prior to it because it's firmly rooted in diatonicism with the root moving to a major 7th and back. Hence my joke since it's ridiculous to vilify Williams for this.
It was actually amusing how some people got so offended by something so overtly silly.
And then there's the "sneaking around" music Bernard Herrmann composed for North by Northwest which sounds suspiciously like a motive for strings in the second movement of Shostakovich's 9th symphony....
