"Despite the probable temptation, Silvestri refused to resurrect any of the material he wrote for Pirates of the Caribbean (which is something of a rule for him)."

Ummm.... he resuses plenty of material, just like any composer. He wrote a rejected partial score for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and much of that popped up in ERASER and The Long Kiss Goodnight... and in TOMB RAIDER 2. He copies himself just as much as any composer.

Yeah, but there's a difference. Like Jerry Goldsmith who used a rejected theme and used it for another film. Of course you get influenced by a lot of things, even your own work, when you write music.

PA