work about forbidden zone’s “love theme”

[Anonymous]

Hi everybody !
Sorry for my bad english, i’m a frenchie
I have an exam tuesday, and for that i’ve to make a work about a music (it’s a music course) that has a relationship with our course.

I’ve chosen the music “love theme – king and queen” from the Forbidden Zone Soundtrack.
I’ve read from Elfman himself that it is an homage to Erik Satie, that we have study at school.
Could someone explain me why it is a homage and not a simple plagiarism;
I would also like to make a parrallelism between resemblances and differences between Satie and Elfman.
What is caracteristic from Elfman in this music, what is the influence of Satie…

In a technical aspect,
-someone told me that it seems to have been written in a pentatonic way.
-elfman also often play 2 notes in a very closer way, i think it is called an arpeggio and whas introduced in music by DEBUSSY.
-i’m asking myself why Elfman uses an harp, when all the music is just piano.

So, everything you’ve to say about this (wonderful) music interests me.
Thanks again !

Benoît

[Ryan Keaveney]

Benoit — isn’t that your job to analyze the piece?

Good luck on your exam.

Ryan

[Anonymous]

mhh.
you seems to be a really funny guy.
thanks for the answer, i think it will be usefull to me.

[Anonymous]

> Could someone explain me why it is a homage and not a simple plagiarism

I’m no musicologist, but I’d say the answer to this is that it’s a new melody arranged in the style of Satie’s Gymnopedie pieces (or, more accurately, Debussy’s orchestrations of those pieces). If he had simply lifted the entire melody wholesale, that would have been plagiarism!

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