Reply To: FSM # 3: The $1000.000 Question: What is good [film] music?
The example of this Quincy Jones piece and Yup-Nub illustrates the issue with originality quite well. I as a listener probably found Yup-Nub more original before I had heard the Jones piece. So, to a large degree the evaluation of originality is a matter of knowledge on the listener side. And that makes originality a very weak criterion for musical quality.