[Milsurplus] RE: Victory at Sea OT OT OT

[jfor at quik.com]

> All: Not to belabor this, but the Victory at Sea musical score repeats
> 12 musical themes throughout the entire production.  According to
> Wikipedia, Richard Rodgers composed the original themes, while Bennett
> actually scored the production.  I'd love to know what each of the 12
> themes were (I found a program that identified 9 of them, but no score
> so I could look for them throughout the production).  A more modern
> example of the same thing is the score from the original STAR WARS
> movie.  John Williams identified what each of the themes he introduced
> in the score represented; it was pretty fascinating to read and listen.

The recurrent use of themes is hardly 20th century. Richard Wagner used it
in the Ring of the Nieblung over 100 years ago, and it likely goes further
back than that.

-John