The main Star Wars tune is pretty much identical to a tune Korngold uses
often in "Kings Row" (the early 50s movie where Ronald Reagan says
"Where's the rest of me?").
RBH
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 09:24 AM 12/31/04 -0500, Christopher Smith wrote:
A master's
musicology student I went to school with put together a series of
needle drops from famous composers' works that very closely mimicked
the Star Wars main title.
Check out "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" from the late 1930s.
Listen to that film overture by Korngold, and you're hearing the fanfare,
melody, harmony, phrasing, orchestration, and structure of the "Star Wars"
overture. I heard it about the time "Star Wars" came out, and knew that
Williams must have cribbed it. I played the "Elizabeth and Essex" music for
my kids back in my elementary teaching days, and they all cheered because I
was playing "Star Wars". It seems to me he cribbed an awful lot of his
material from others, or at best assembled & re-assembled others' building
blocks. He did orchestrate for the big names in his early days, isn't that
right?
As to the transcription topic, I charge MIDI transcription by the hour
after having been burned by quoting a piece-price for a little 4-minute
band march. It turned out the quantization was all screwed up and the
'orchestration' was jumbled lines and scraps patched into place as needed.
Some instruments were used in only one measure.
Dennis
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