How Did John Towner Williams Influence Music

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John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, Williams has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including the Star Wars series, the first two Jaws films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, the first two Home Alone films, Hook, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, the first three Harry Potter films, Catch Me If You Can, Memoirs of a Geisha, War Horse, and Lincoln.

John Towner Williams genre of music consists of film score, contemporary classical music, post-romanticism, and jazz. He started his career in music in 1952, and his music is still widely popular to this day. His music was an inspiration to artists of all variations.
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John Williams music did not influence any other piece of music.

John Towner Williams music has shaped music for movie sound tracks. Without John Williams sounds tracks to movies would not be the same. John Williams is the god of movie sound tracks.

In my opinion, without John Williams, movies would still be movies. We do not necessarily need music for movies, though it does add a nice affect to them. I do not like John Williams music, I don't like the Star Wars song, or the fact that we are playing them. We should not be playing these songs. The band doesn't want to. They can play the notes before class, but magically when class starts they cannot. This year in band has ruined John Towner Williams music for me. Not just the music, but also any movie with his music in them. I used to watch any movie with his music in it three times a week. As of right now I no longer can listen to the horrid music of John

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