Comments on: Ernest Gold: Theme music to EXODUS http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:59:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/comment-page-1/#comment-80147 Roger Bourland Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:55 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/#comment-80147 I keep an eye out for the Porter piece. Interesting news. THx. I keep an eye out for the Porter piece. Interesting news. THx.

]]> By: Don DG http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/comment-page-1/#comment-80144 Don DG Thu, 15 May 2008 01:11:39 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/#comment-80144 The theme is an almost perfect match with one in a fairly obscure work from 1958, just three years before the movie came out: Quincy Porter's "New England Episodes." It's interesting that ramasaig hears something similar in the Op. 18 Brahms Sextet; it leads me to wonder if perhaps both composers, Porter and Gold, had that melody rattling around in their subconscious and happened to draw upon it at about the same time. On the other hand, the match is so much closer between Porter's and Gold's themes than between either of theirs and Brahms's, I suspect that Porter is indeed the true source. As Porter was still alive when Gold published the theme from Exodus, I am surprised that Porter let Gold get away with it. The theme is an almost perfect match with one in a fairly obscure work from 1958, just three years before the movie came out: Quincy Porter’s “New England Episodes.” It’s interesting that ramasaig hears something similar in the Op. 18 Brahms Sextet; it leads me to wonder if perhaps both composers, Porter and Gold, had that melody rattling around in their subconscious and happened to draw upon it at about the same time. On the other hand, the match is so much closer between Porter’s and Gold’s themes than between either of theirs and Brahms’s, I suspect that Porter is indeed the true source. As Porter was still alive when Gold published the theme from Exodus, I am surprised that Porter let Gold get away with it.

]]> By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/comment-page-1/#comment-21392 Roger Bourland Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:40:25 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/#comment-21392 PK: I don't know any REALLY SERIOUS Rota music. It always has a peasant or folksy feel. ramasaig: I don't know that piece, I 'll look for it and get back to you. PK: I don’t know any REALLY SERIOUS Rota music. It always has a peasant or folksy feel.

ramasaig: I don’t know that piece, I ‘ll look for it and get back to you.

]]> By: ramasaig http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/comment-page-1/#comment-21190 ramasaig Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:08:14 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/#comment-21190 I haven't heard the Exodus theme played for years, but it's always stuck in my mind. Then I heard Brahms Sextet in B flat major, op 18, second movement. Could that have been the source ? I haven’t heard the Exodus theme played for years, but it’s always stuck in my mind. Then I heard Brahms Sextet in B flat major, op 18, second movement. Could that have been the source ?

]]> By: PK http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/comment-page-1/#comment-20755 PK Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:56:27 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/04/08/ernest-gold-theme-music-to-exodus/#comment-20755 This melody haunted me as well (love the Eddie Harris version). I always associate the slippery major/minor business as eastern European, also used very effectively by Nina Rota. It creates a bittersweet that easily morphs as the on screen emotions call for. This melody haunted me as well (love the Eddie Harris version). I always associate the slippery major/minor business as eastern European, also used very effectively by Nina Rota. It creates a bittersweet that easily morphs as the on screen emotions call for.

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