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Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie
Im not abandoning anything. But really... blast the Doctor Who theme on your sterio then blast the SW theme... Im sorry but the SW theme is just grander.
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Depends which version of the Doctor Who theme, really. One may be grand, but the other is very capable of sending chills down your spine as it did with mine for many years. I have blasted the Doctor Who theme on my stereo and it has achieved that same effect time and time again. Blasting the Star Wars theme would only hurt my ears and receive cries from my family of "ew, turn it off."
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Originally Posted by David Carter
And I'm sure Williams spent more than just weeks lovingly coming up with some of those epic sounds in SW.
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Possibly. But he used traditional, conventional methods, whereas Delia Derbyshire invented new methods and uses for technology because what was needed to create her vision simply did not exist yet.
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Originally Posted by Max Yittreas
Indeed. You can FEEL the emotion in each piece he writes. Sorry, Danny... but in my mind that far outstrips tinkering with some electronic devices to make a new sound.
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You downplay it so much more than it deserves to be played down. You can feel the emotion and organic quality in the Doctor Who theme, all the love and timeless effort that went into creating something new. Star Wars is just orchestral music. Yay for orchestral music. John Williams may be the best composer in the world, but you cannot deny that there are many people that do what he does: write orchestral music. There is only one person of Delia Derbyshire's genius, only one person who is able to say they have done what she has done. Surely that alone has to make you think higher of Delia Derbyshire than of John Williams, simply because hers was a unique art. The Doctor Who theme is a whole new creation, deserving of its own classification in the musical world. It angers me to hear you downplay it as "tinkering to make a new sound." It was so much more than that, and it really upsets me to know that if you actually wanted to understand all the effort that went into it, you could. But I fear that those of you who do not understand right now never will understand.