Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!alberta!steve From: steve@alberta.UUCP (Steve Sutphen) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Holst & "2001" & public domain Message-ID: <363@alberta.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 14:19:16 EST Article-I.D.: alberta.363 Posted: Mon Dec 17 14:19:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:34:47 EST References: <21500002@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 17 > The other day I listened to "The Planets" for the first time in six > months (this corresponds directly with how long I've had my CD player). > When I got to Neptune (I think) (Whichever one is the Mystic), I started > feeling 'deja vu'. It sounded just like part of the music from > "Raiders of the Last Ark". It may have just been the instrumentation but > did any one else notice this? It wouldn't surprise me any considering > that Williams wrote the score for Raiders as well as "Star Wars". I never > did understand how he could so blatantly plagerize 'Mars' for "Star Wars", - > or is Holst considered public domain now? This may have been discussed > here before but I'm new to the net and would appreciate any comments on this. > I have also noticed similarities between some of the "new" movie music and some older classics. Try part of the Star Wars music and Glazanov's "Seasons". Although I do not have the Star Wars album to compare with they seem virtually identical. Steve Sutphen