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Did James Horner plagiarize the Troy soundtrack?

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The opening of the example you gave is actually passage-work built on a short cadence from Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia. The Shostakovich-derived riff is about 4 minutes in, and there is a bunch of generic, heavily reverbed, imitation 'middle eastern' vocalization in the mix. read more

When done well, as Dead Zone was, they are perhaps less outright plagiarism tham creative adaptation, but by the time Horner got around to Troy he was already extremely rich from working a pop hit into Titanic and it sounds like he was probably just ‘phoning it in’ as they say. read more

Please keep Horner's own self-plagiarism totally out of this. ALERT for both Horner-bashers and Horner-worshippers: this thread is NOT aimed to childish finger-pointing at this gifted composer, nor to spit on his brilliant oeuvre. read more

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores, writing over 100. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. read more