Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

While Herrmann was not the King of the Volcanoes, he was definitely the King of Self-Borrowings. Steiner was no slouch in this area either, but Herrmann was the King. And itappears (unless Herrmann had perfect memory) that he leafed thru his old Early Worksand found what he wanted for this cue (or first vaguely remembered what it was and thengot it from his collection). After all he utilized the precisely same notes--although"creatively" altered the time signature.Now: Here is a more complete view of that Body Beautiful visual:{Image http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1919/r10a0001.jpgHerrmann develops that fanfare whereas it is not developed in SINBAD (nor "Egypt"after the first three bars that I recall).Specifically the cue Bill Stromberg is referring to inThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad is called "The Trumpets" (R2/4), Bars 2-4. Unfortunately I donot have a visual for it. However, while the time signature is 4/4 in the Early Worksversions of this theme, Herrmann applied the 3/4 time signature to it, so it doesn't havethe same "look" initially. But it will virtually "sound" the same, and indeed, the notes orpitches are exactly the same in the SINBAD version as Body Beautiful. So instead of thelatter's D up to A quarter notes to same D half note, we have D up at A 8ths to A quarternote, and so forth.I am trying to determine from my notes that Early Work of the two came first....Immediately below is Section E (page 8) of BODY BEAUTIFUL, "Danse Lento"tempo-marking:{Image http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/558/r11a0001.jpgImmediately below is the image of pages 4-5 (especially page 5) of BODYBEAUTIFUL:{Image http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8036/r13a0001.jpg_______________________________________________talkingherrmann mailing list***********************************Tuesday, 10-20-09:Talking Herrmann: Box 68 UCSB 'Joy in the Morning'Reply by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________Notice the famous or oft-used tritone of F# up to C (dim 5 version) or C up to F# (aug 4thversion) is used in the Prelude of TMWKTM, played prominently by the timp, seen in the133