Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Flute Theme from THE SHORE LEAVE Message-ID: <489@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 15:14:11 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxn.489 Posted: Mon Mar 5 15:14:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 08:31:44 EST References: <59@tekigm.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 20 > This music is not incidental music, but is by Claude Debussy and is > called "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun". This music was also used > in the movie "Nijinski". This statement is blatantly false. The music in question was indeed incidental music for the Star Trek series. One could probably find out who wrote it by examining the credits for the earliest episode in which it appears. The credits probably said: "Music by Gerald Fried. Star Trek Theme by Alexander Courage." If memory serves, Courage actually wrote the ST theme, and for at least one of the three years of the series, Gerald Fried wrote the other music for the show. The piece in question is definitely one of my favorite film/TV music pieces. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", which also begins with a flute solo (very chromatic), is a truly exquisite piece of music, but it was not used in Star Trek, at least not in the episodes mentioned (Shore Leave and This Side of Paradise). -- Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway oh, god, I'm so depressed... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr