Horner, James Roy: Musik aus dem Film “Troy / Troja”

The soundtrack includes traditional Eastern Mediterranean music and brass instruments. Drums are conspicuous in the most dramatic scenes: most notably, in the duel between Achilles and Hector. The music critic Alex Ross claims that large portions of the score were essentially plagiarized from works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff (Symphony No. 1 First Movement); one instance cited by Ross, fanfares from the “Sanctus” of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, has been explicitly recognised by another critic as an “exact copy” by Horner.