Jeff Dunn wrote:

>Clearly, Rozsa owed a lot to Bartok, Wagner, Korngold and others who
>forged the classic style for cinema, one which is pretty much giving way
>now to pure "mood" over the other elements of musical substance.  Witness
>Badalamenti's music for "Mulholland Drive" which mostly consists of
>obtrusively ominous chords and little else.

To my ears, I often hear the music of Kodaly lurking the background of
Rozsa's music.

Karl