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**Angry White American** · 11-22-2011, 06:49 AM

See, I don't quite agree there. There are plenty of decent atmospheric scores, but those scores just don't play well without the film footage.

I think the mark of a truly great Score is that it can stand on its own as a musical piece without the film for which it was wrote.

No, a score is music which is purposefully written or chosen for the film. Whether it is any good on it's own is quite irrelevant.

I'm not saying that there aren't any scores that don't stand well on their own but standing on their own is not a measure of their greatness as a film score.

11-22-2011, 06:49 AM	#33
Angry White American Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 369 Senior Member	See, I don't quite agree there. There are plenty of decent atmospheric scores, but those scores just don't play well without the film footage. I think the mark of a truly great Score is that it can stand on its own as a musical piece without the film for which it was wrote. No, a score is music which is purposefully written or chosen for the film. Whether it is any good on it's own is quite irrelevant. I'm not saying that there aren't any scores that don't stand well on their own but standing on their own is not a measure of their greatness as a film score.
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