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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek music identity wanted
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Date: Mon, 27-Feb-84 09:59:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 27 09:59:04 1984
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The piece asked for is a theme that found its way into many Star Trek TV
episodes.  As best I can determine, it was composed by Gerald Fried for
the "Shore Leave" episode and has been called by various names, including
"Kirk's Romance Theme" or "Star Trek Love Theme" or "The Ruth Motif", etc.
Like almost all program music for TV shows, it is probably untitled.  The
titles above are mostly inaccurate, because the music was later incorporated
into many ST episodes, including "This Side of Paradise" for the Spock and
Leila Kalomi affair.  So it has nothing specifically to do with either Kirk
or Ruth, it was just (apparently) created for the "Shore Leave" episode.
Neither can we properly call it "Star Trek Love Theme" because that describes
the Star Trek Theme written by Alexander Courage (who also composed the
music for "This Side of Paradise", among other episodes).  Mostly I just call
it The Star Trek Flute Solo.

By the way, Music Consultant and Music Coordinator for Star Trek's first season
(in which "Shore Leave" and "This Side of Paradise" appeared) were Wilbur
Hatch and Julian Davidson, respectively.
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	Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe