arib: (Default)
arib ([personal profile] arib) wrote2002-07-21 09:53 am

Just saw Minority Report

It was a fun movie, with some plot holes.

John Williams must have scored this around the same time he did Episode II, as there were several similar themes, and a few cases where there were phrases in the music that were identical.

After mentioning this to my folks, Mom suggested I get tested to see if I have perfect pitch, as she didn't catch it, and she has much more musical training than I do. How does one get this done?
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[personal profile] cellio 2002-07-22 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
I recognized some of the music in Minority Report and I haven't seen Episode 2. I think there are phrases he just uses a lot.

Perfect pitch probably isn't what's at work here. What you have is a good memory for phrases -- maybe melodies, maybe the underlying support structures. This is somewhat orthogonal to music training -- training can cause you to improve this skill, but it shows up as raw untrained talent too.