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It would be harder to cite this as flat-out plagiarism than, say, Yoko Ono's blatant ripoff of "Makin' Whoopee" or George Harrison's of "He's So Fine." Let's just say it very strongly suggests
Doctor Zhivago
, which is how I picked up on the composer's identity. On the other hand, Bernard Herrmann (whose work, like Max Steiner's, is almost immediately identifiable) lifted entire sections of what he wrote for
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
for use in his opera
Wuthering Heights
. And it seems to me he borrowed heavily from, as I recall, Ravel for
Vertigo
.

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sigh
First, I meant it humorously. Second, one legally CAN plagiarize oneself (although it's not to that I referred):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy
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