dand@tekigm.UUCP (02/28/84)
This music is not incidental music, but is by Claude Debussy and is called "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun". This music was also used in the movie "Nijinski". Dan C Duval ISI Engineering Tektronix, Inc. tektronix!tekigm!dand
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (03/02/84)
-------------------- This music is not incidental music, but is by Claude Debussy and is called "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun". This music was also used in the movie "Nijinski". Dan C Duval ISI Engineering Tektronix, Inc. tektronix!tekigm!dand -------------------- I know that piece, and it is not the same as the "Star Trek Love Theme". -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (03/05/84)
> This music is not incidental music, but is by Claude Debussy and is > called "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun". This music was also used > in the movie "Nijinski". This statement is blatantly false. The music in question was indeed incidental music for the Star Trek series. One could probably find out who wrote it by examining the credits for the earliest episode in which it appears. The credits probably said: "Music by Gerald Fried. Star Trek Theme by Alexander Courage." If memory serves, Courage actually wrote the ST theme, and for at least one of the three years of the series, Gerald Fried wrote the other music for the show. The piece in question is definitely one of my favorite film/TV music pieces. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", which also begins with a flute solo (very chromatic), is a truly exquisite piece of music, but it was not used in Star Trek, at least not in the episodes mentioned (Shore Leave and This Side of Paradise). -- Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway oh, god, I'm so depressed... Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
dand@tekigm.UUCP (Dan C. Duval) (03/06/84)
Beg to differ with you, Barry. To be sure, I borrowed a bootleg copy of THE SHORE LEAVE for my VCR, and played over the disputed pieces (both involving Ruth) for comparison to my copy of Prelude... by Debussy (Vienna Symphony; Sergiu Comissions, Cond; VOX,1976,1979). They are the same melody, up to and including the pauses made by the flutist to breathe (though the Vienna Symphony flutist is a very heavy breather), excluding only the symphony score. In other words, the flute melody is the same, and the Star Trek version lacks only the symphonic harmony score. If this is indeed incidental music written by Gerald Fried, then there is a very suspicious similarity to the piece by Debussy, since the first six bars are the same, note for note. I have played classical organ for 16 years, and I'm not tone deaf enough to make a mistake this major. I do not believe this was written specifically for Star Trek, though it is probably an arrangement for solo flute, since the Star Trek version picks up some of the clarinet melody from the symphonic version I have. Probably the only way to settle this to anyone's satisfaction is to write to the people responsible for the music on this episode. Anybody out there have the proper addresses for any of the proper people? Dan C Duval ISI Engineering Tektronix, Inc tektronix!tekigm!dand