all great composers have stylistic signitures in their music. Dvorjak, Beethoven, Mozart.....certain composers like certain instruments more than others....horner happens to like minor key french horn solos and ground moving timpani. I know you are not "bashing" horner, or the soundtrack...and i am not "defending it" per say...just pointing out that many composers did the same thing, and very few has as many popular works as horner, so its not likely you'll hear one right after the other.....
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> > I know that most of these are recent, but so am I.
> > I do love just about any movie that James Horner did
> > the soundtrack for. His music makes the movie for me.
> > I'll probably add to this later if I think of anymore.
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> I dunno -- I've always felt like after Glory (one of my very favorite movies, ever), James Horner decided he would just re-use the same score over and over again in every movie he did. If you listen to a lot of his stuff, it's often very, very similar, and not just stylistically either. I think there's a real lack of originality in a lot of Horner's work.
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> Which doesn't mean I think it isn't a _good_ movie soundtrack. It's just the same one.
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> Tom
> tmschm@wm.edu