Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekigm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!tekigm!dand From: dand@tekigm.UUCP (Dan C. Duval) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: Flute Theme from THE SHORE LEAVE Message-ID: <62@tekigm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 14:46:07 EST Article-I.D.: tekigm.62 Posted: Tue Mar 6 14:46:07 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:50:04 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 27 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 tektronix!tekigm!dand