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tcom



Joined: 06 Nov 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:19 am    Post subject: plunder? Reply with quote
Hello,

I can't quite catch the meaning of the following sentence. Could you help me?

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Franz Liszt wrote his Christmas Tree Suite between 1874 and 1876. From the original twelve movements the English composer and conductor Anthony Collins published his arrangement of four of them, for strings and celeste, in 1952. The suite had been plundered some years earlier by Constant Lambert for the ballet, after Liszt, Apparitions.


Does this sentence mean Lambert plagiarized Collins's idea, or Lambert's idea was similar to Collins's by accident?

Thanks in advance.
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asterix



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It means Lambert stole the music from Liszt's Christmas Tree Suite.
To plunder means, the violent or dishonest acquisition of property. In this case, intellectual property.
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