| @frey553: I've absolutely no objection to Williams being included in this quiz: he's a successful and popular composer. However, I do think there's very little comparison between what he writes and a classical symphony. Movie scores typically consist of fragments, at most a couple of minutes long, whereas a symphony explores and develops material over the course of 30-45 minutes: it's not just a sequence of tunes. A symphony is a journey; a movie score is a series of well-composed photographs taken along the way. Of course, you wouldn't want a movie score to have the same depth as a symphony because, then, it would distract from, rather than complement, the visuals and the story. |
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