GuentherK wrote:
The March is Walton's the introduction to it is Arnold's...

Here are the parts of the manuscript in Arnold's hand (the rest is in Walton's handwriting)

5M1 "Pilot's Run" 0'59"
12M1 "Interior of Heinkel" 1'15"
13M1 "Battle in the Air" (pages 1-15 in Walton's hand , pages 16-24 in Arnold's)
14M1, 14M2 (no title) 1'31"
14M3 March Introduction 2'14"
14M3A alternative version to 14M3 2'11"

(from Alan Poulton's book)

I agree that at  FSM  they occasionally take film music too seriously. I think there are clear cases of "take the money and run" for every composer in films. From Shostakovich to Rozsa.


Sorry to re-open this one, it's off-topic too, but I was looking at Guenther's breakdown here re something over at FSM.  I'm suddenly interested in the fact that 'pages 16-24' of BitA were in Walton's hand. The piece of course has a considerable REPEAT section, and Guenther says that Walton composed and orchestrated those bits that are in his own hand, and Arnold similarly.

So I wonder if the original scoresheets have 'repeat' bar-signs for that passage (making the manuscript shorter), or not? If not, then Walton's actual contribution is hard to assess in terms of just pages.  It's looking more and more as if Arnold was the big factor in this one.