John Dalmas:

>IMO it's a specious argument to deny movie music any legitimacy, and
>smacks of the worst kind of intellectual snobbery.

And it's also a-historic.  After all, it's simply a continuation of
incidental music.  Many of the same criticisms leveled against movie music
could be hurled against the *complete* scores to Mendelssohn's Midsummer
Night's Dream, Grieg's Peer Gynt, and Beethoven's Egmont, and Bizet's
L'Arlesienne.  We tend to forget we hear these things in the concert hall
in an edited state.

Steve Schwartz