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Separate categories for "Best Score" and "Best Soundtrack"
20 (64.5%)
A single, combined category for "Best Music"
11 (35.5%)

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Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« on: February 23, 2009, 08:13:11 PM »
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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 08:15:30 PM »
There might be a future poll regarding a possible Best Song category.

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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2009, 08:16:35 PM »
I like Best Music (FYC:Two Lovers!).
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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2009, 08:17:01 PM »
I favor the less precise but simpler single category. Split votes and confusion on which category for which movie seemed to be problems this year.

Best song would be fine as an additional category.

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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2009, 08:21:10 PM »
I favor the less precise but simpler single category. Split votes and confusion on which category for which movie seemed to be problems this year.

Best song would be fine as an additional category.

Score really should be honoured separately from songs, but I'd be all for a Best (single) Song category.
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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2009, 08:22:55 PM »
If I remember the katebo definition of score and soundtrack correctly, Slumdog Millionaire had only Paper Planes on the Soundtrack side (though there might have been some songs that I didn't recognize that were used in the film) and everything else on the Score side. I think.
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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2009, 08:27:01 PM »
My definition was always that Score was just original music while Soundtrack was ALL music (including original).

The main reason I'm voting for a single Best Music category is because I had no idea which music in Man on Wire was the work of film composer J. Ralph and which was the work of Erik Satie.  And I suspect that other voters were similarly unsure.

Also I don't know that Music really needs two separate categories — certainly not if it's at the expense of other categories I'm more interested in.

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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2009, 08:27:53 PM »
My definition was always that Score was just original music while Soundtrack was ALL music (including original).

The main reason I'm voting for a single Best Music category is because I had no idea which music in Man on Wire was the work of film composer J. Ralph and which was the work of Erik Satie.  And I suspect that other voters were similarly unsure.

Also I don't know that Music really needs two separate categories — certainly not if it's at the expense of other categories I'm more interested in.

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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2009, 10:16:45 PM »
I may have changed my mind on this. I definitely think it's worth distinguishing an original score from existing music, it might just be the categories I have a problem with. If instead of "Best Soundtrack" it were something like "Best Use of Non-Original Music", the separation is clearer and there's no overlap.

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Re: Filmspots 2009: Music Categories
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2009, 10:19:41 PM »
but i think original music is fine on the soundtrack as well.

Soundtrack - songs
Score - pieces of music

Neither has to be original as far as I'm concerned... Thus Spake Zarathustra for example was a brilliant piece of scoring.