SUPPORT FILMTRACKS! WE EARN A
COMMISSION ON WHAT YOU BUY:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
eBay
Amazon.ca
Glisten Effect
Editorial Reviews
Scoreboard Forum
Viewer Ratings
Composers
Awards
   NEWEST MAJOR REVIEWS:
     1. Predator: Badlands
    2. Tron: Ares
   3. Play Dirty
  4. Eden
 5. The Thursday Murder Club
6. Weapons


   CURRENT BEST-SELLING SCORES:
       1. Top Gun (2-CD)
      2. Avatar: The Way of Water
     3. The Wild Robot
    4. Gladiator (3-CD)
   5. Young Woman and the Sea
  6. Spider-Man 2 (3-CD)
 7. Cutthroat Island (2-CD)
8. Willow (2-CD)
   CURRENT MOST POPULAR REVIEWS:
         1. Spider-Man
        2. Alice in Wonderland
       3. The Matrix
      4. Gladiator
     5. Wicked
    6. Batman (1989)
   7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  8. The Wild Robot
 9. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
10. Doctor Strange: Multiverse
Home Page
 
Menu Options ▼
Comments about the soundtrack for Braveheart (James Horner)

Edit | Delete
Re: The Planets. Holst is the real thief!!
• Posted by: roybatty   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Monday, October 9, 2006, at 8:49 p.m.
• IP Address: bb-87-82-29-186.ukonline.co.uk
• In Response to: (Comment Deleted by Poster) (Michael Björk)

> Nice score, but Horner has stolen som notes from Holsts suite The Planets
> - "Jupiter".

Before you get into that, check out the amazing similarity between the "Jupiter" and Hubert Parry's hymn "Jerusalem" composed in 1916, bearing in mind that "The Planets" was in 1919!!!!! So it looks as if 'ol Gustav, THE GREAT COMPOSER, is actually more of a thief than James Horner in this case!!

However, on the other hand it does sound like Horner spent a lot of time listening to traditional Celtic-Scottish music before he did this score as its influence is clear thruought. For example, he seems to have based the William Wallace theme on an old traditional Scottish song called "And I'l get to Scotland afore'ye". It has the same overall shape but he's arranged it differently so that it sounds heroic and triumphant.




Comments in this Thread:     Expand >>



Copyright © 1998-2025, Filmtracks Publications. All rights reserved.
The reviews and other textual content contained on the filmtracks.com site may not be published, broadcast,
rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Christian Clemmensen at Filmtracks Publications. Scoreboard created 7/24/98 and last updated 4/25/15.