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From: dand@tekigm.UUCP (Dan C. Duval)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Flute Theme from THE SHORE LEAVE
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:46:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 14:46:07 1984
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Beg to differ with you, Barry. To be sure, I borrowed a bootleg copy of
THE SHORE LEAVE for my VCR, and played over the disputed pieces (both
involving Ruth) for comparison to my copy of Prelude... by Debussy
(Vienna Symphony; Sergiu Comissions, Cond; VOX,1976,1979). They are
the same melody, up to and including the pauses made by the flutist to
breathe (though the Vienna Symphony flutist is a very heavy breather),
excluding only the symphony score. In other words, the flute melody is
the same, and the Star Trek version lacks only the symphonic harmony score.

If this is indeed incidental music written by Gerald Fried, then there is
a very suspicious similarity to the piece by Debussy, since the first
six bars are the same, note for note. I have played classical organ for 
16 years, and I'm not tone deaf enough to make a mistake this major.
I do not believe this was written specifically for Star Trek, though it
is probably an arrangement for solo flute, since the Star Trek version
picks up some of the clarinet melody from the symphonic version I have.

Probably the only way to settle this to anyone's satisfaction is to write
to the people responsible for the music on this episode. Anybody out there
have the proper addresses for any of the proper people?

Dan C Duval
ISI Engineering
Tektronix, Inc

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