I always want to hear exactly what people who complain about originality do THEMSELVES. Let's just hear YOUR originality (1). They sit on the sidelines and ridicule film composers for having no originality. So what do they do?
I have heard this kind of stuff many times. For example, people who were not composers started saying this about John Williams as soon as he was successful. (2) They said he stole everything and would give examples, like a section from Stars Wars sounds like Rite of Spring, etc. But if you write tonal music it is inevitable that you will sound like something else at some time. Also, inspiration will lead to similarities that are not necessarily plagiarism. But in the end, despite all that, his own style is unmistakeable. One knows it is John Williams within about four or five bars. People copy John Williams now. So if he is so unoriginal, how could you copy him? (3) THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO COPY. (4)
The reason is that "originality" is contained within the overall piece of music that is the composer's style, not in simply contradicting everything previously done which would be idiotic (and has been done many, many times). J. S. Bach was considered old-fashioned - IN HIS OWN TIME. He was not new and "ORIGINAL." Of course the new and original people of that time are LONG GONE. Whereas Bach is played all over the world, every day, centuries after his death.
1. Definitely no! I don't wanna hear my music in a few week in a dumb Hollywood flick.
2. Nobody can say anything about anyboby before anybody is known. Simple logic.
3. I have no clue who is copying John Willaims. I thought you are John Williams until you told me you are not.
4. Exactly! That would be the solution. Karl Lagerfeld said that with next spring collection being yourself will be en vogue.
- You Williams and aural have the unique original talent to read things in my comments I never said (see under "assumtion is the mother of fuckuption" on the internet), and then bring examples of composer who are indeed not very original. Forget that Hollywood nonsense, most movies have music under each scene, and the movie can not be watched without this constant underscoring, the whole nonsense would be even obvious to the dumbest recipient, and the music itself without the picture is usually anyway unenjoyable.
Btw... just saw a cinema release without any music, that was highly enjoyable, but the picture was good.
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
- John Stuart Mill