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Old Feb 14, 2012, 07:57 PM
Xenofan 29A Xenofan 29A is offline
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Originally Posted by Jormungand View Post
For example the Mars stuff--sure the Mario 3 tune is obvious, but the FM2 tracks? Not a chance. You could say that all martial orchestral themes written since 1900 are influenced by Mars, but few are true lifts (might want to ask Hans Zimmer about that).
I wasn't trying to imply that these were plagiarism, per se, just based on that very popular template. There's a big difference between that and outright plagiarism like Gladiator. And I think that distinctive parts of Mars are indeed emulated (but not copied) in those tracks.
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