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Who else here besides me desperately wants a new and improved Music of Star Trek? Jeff's old volume still has a place of honor on my shelf but it was written so many years ago that it's woefully out of date, and the author himself has acknowledged that it contains a lot of errors that working the past several years of Star Trek music releases has brought to his attention.
To add to the existing interviews in the first edition, there's all the interview material recently uncovered for the Star Trek: TOS box set, plus a new composer to interview: Michael Giacchino! (And heck, I wouldn't mind a new interview with Gerald Fried, the only still living composer who worked on the original series -- perhaps he can give some insight into the new arrangement of his Trek themes which is available for download and which he performed live in L.A. just a few months ago...)
The old edition also featured a lot of cue sheets with info for some tracked episodes. In the gargantuan thread here, a lot of people were asking about making the complete cue sheets available for download to accompany the TOS music box release, but Lukas replied saying it really wasn't very feasible. But for a *book* maybe it would be! Say, with other bonus features (audio/video interviews?) on an attached DVD or CD-Rom so as to not up the printing costs.
I'm not in a crazy rush to get this but I think Jeff should start working on it and find a publisher.  I think perfect timing for its release would be with the third (and final?) Abramsverse film when it eventually comes out -- the cast was signed to three films minimum if I'm not mistaken. That way it can get the maximum exposure and attention and be the most up to date, since by that point all of the complete Trek feature scores will probably be out (with the exception of Giacchino's third) plus a slew of TV music releases.
Also, I for one would love to have this book in HARDCOVER! Here's Jeff's chance to compete with his own fancy Elfman/Burton book as well as Doug Adams' Music of the Lord of the Rings Films. I for one think Star Trek's music deserves a presentation on that level.
Who's with me? I think if there was a market for this back in the late 90s, there's probably even more interest now what with all of the definitive music releases, Blu-Ray releases, and Star Trek actually being COOL to the general public thanks to J.J. Abrams!
Yavar
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Who else here besides me desperately wants a new and improved Music of Star Trek?
1) I thought this was an announcement, darn you.
2) Heck yeah.
3) I think that Lukas had indicated that the cue sheets were Paramount internal property or some such and therefore not LLL's to include. AND it would not be feasible due to size. But not just that.
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3) I think that Lukas had indicated that the cue sheets were Paramount internal property or some such and therefore not LLL's to include. AND it would not be feasible due to size. But not just that.
Yeah, so maybe it wasn't worth the trouble to include with LLL's box set, but it would be more relevant to include in a book about Star Trek music, and clearly the "internal property" problem did not prevent a number of cue sheets from being included in the first edition of the book, so I suspect for this project it would be feasible. The size issue would be solved by including a PDF on the accompanying DVD or CD-ROM as I suggested...after all Doug Adam's LotR music book got something similar (not cue sheets; the "bonus disc")
Yavar
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Jan 9, 2013 - 5:44 PM
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SchiffyM
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By that argument, you could say that just typing out and selling all the dialogue and action from an episode -- just the facts of what appeared on television -- could not be copyrighted. But scripts certainly are copyrighted.
Not at all. A script is a creative work. I guess since the titles are named there's creativity, so perhaps that's where it comes in, but there's a big difference between an observable list of facts and a script.
Look, copyright law is very complicated, especially these days where corporations are claiming copyright on the shapes of buildings (if you show the Flatiron Building, they want you to pay for it). But you could well say that a transcript typed of the dialogue and action you saw on television is simply "an observable list of facts." The use of music in an episode is a creative decision, made by directors, producers, and music editors. I'm not saying I'd make that claim, but I do get it.
Titles, in fact, are not copyrightable. You are free to reference a song by title in a movie or television show without any payment. You just cannot sing it or speak any lyrics (past the title).
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