"Pablo Massa" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Another case (though there's no literal quoting) is...  John Williams'
>music for "Star Wars".  Isn't the motive of "The Force" very similar
>(almost identical rhytmic structure) to Sigfried's Death motive?.

Not long ago I was in the car w/ a friend who knows next to nothing about
classical music.  We had the radio on to the local NPR, and what should
come on but "Ride of the Valkyries".  His first reaction:  "That sounds
a lot like 'Star Wars'--but it isn't, is it?"

"Bruce Alan Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>