Donald Satz wrote:

>The one element that to me greatly differentiates my perception of
>classical music from film music is that film music is closely tied in to a
>movie.  It has no need to stand on its own, and is therefore in a different
>category.

While film music need not stand on its own, some of it does, and quite well
at that.

>I see the merit of comparing one film score to another, not comparing a
>film score to classical composition which was composed to stand by itself.
>I very much enjoyed the score to "Out of Africa." However, even now, I
>can't listen to it without immediately thinking of the movie.  So, the
>movie score has this built-in advantage.

Are you suggesting that music benefits from having some extra-musical
association?

Karl