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Originally Posted by peter eldergill
I have recollection that the Star Wars theme(s) were a rip off of Wagner or someone similar to that. Anyone know about this?
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Dude, Williams rips off
everybody. 
That being said, Star Wars doesn't sound a whole lot like Wagner to me. More like Holst. I'm fairly sure he lifted one of the signature rhythms right out of "Mars." And recently I've been hearing shades of
Carmina Burana in his work; he's played around a little with eerie choral stuff in the most recent movies, and it's difficult to do eerie choral stuff
without referencing
Carmina Burana. (A fact that irritates me a little, because the piece has more to it than just the famous "O Fortuna" chorus that everyone knows, but nevermind.)
Come to think of it, he wrote the Harry Potter theme music too, didn't he? The one that sounds just a bit like Prokofiev's
Cinderella?
Thing is, I don't really mind. Heaven knows that
Star Wars isn't an original concept. And it's not like Williams can "spoil"
Carmina Burana for me. There's something to be said for putting old ideas together in new ways. In some ways, I miss the days when movie makers weren't afraid to grab any piece of music that fit and make it their own.
I think that the coolest scifi theme ever would be
The Rite of Spring . . . it's just that no-one's put a scifi movie to it . . .
8-[
Aaaand it would appear that my music geek is showing. Nevermind. The point is, as far as I know,
Star Wars music is a rip off of Holst.
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