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In Reply to: Jury clears Led Zeppelin posted by slapshot on June 23, 2016 at 10:53:04:
I just listened to the CNN article and heard the excerpts of the music.My background: I'm a 95% classical listener with strong opinions on compositional quality.
My opinion on the case: HTF did this ever remotely get to trial? A total waste of society's resources. There is nothing remotely like any copyright infringement.
The central difference: one sucks musically and the other doesn't. The "real" one has a clear combination of an interesting melody and more complex figuration and a harmonic logic driving to a phrasal cadence, a classic and successful pattern in tonal music. Both the lowest and highest notes independently present interesting sequences which resolve together.
The plaintiff's junk is a simple plucked sequence with less variation and a descending low note that has a jarring and crude final "modulation" (if it were to go anywhere further in that key, but it doesn't, it just dissolves bizzarely without a cadence)
Both are conventional 4 beat but the LZ has on the downbeat a bass anchors and then the melody on the highest note. The other starts the downbeat again with the low note, so you only really hear one thing happening: the low note descending sequentially and simplistically.
It's (almost) like comparing arpeggiated student noodling while warming up with the transcendent genius of the justifiably famous and ubiquitous Bach Prelude #1. Which has some similarity to the composition in question by demonstrating how to project a singable long melodic via a rising figure outlining nothing but a simple (or not so simple!) tonal chord in a combination of familiar and surprising progressions. The downbeats each 4/4 are the most important lowest and highest anchors and determine the harmony and melody. OK, in fact the Bach is literally the archetype for this.
The similarities lie only really in the lead instrumentation: an acoustic guitar being plucked, but this is only something which is physically idiomatic on the instrument. It would be like suing a symphonist for having a slow introduction to an allegro with a horn melody over tremelo strings or something generic like that.In fact, the melody & harmony of the Led Zeppelin is very close to the Catholic "Dies Irae", referring to the day of judgement and reappearance of Christ, far more than "Taurus".
Sviatoslav Richter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZdbzreNcs
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