[Thor Joachim Haga]

I started re-reading that thread on JWFAN about plagiarism after the subject was broached in the Quincy Jones thread, and while reading it, it occured to me how highly people out there in the big world rank the ‘originality’ (or the ‘genetic’) criterion mentioned above. So much so that it completely overshadows the other criteria. A shame, because they are just as important, sometimes even more. In fact, originality – however you want to define that – probably plays a LESSER role in evaluating a film score than, say, the ‘aesthetic’ one for me. Just a thought.