Classical Music (Pro) vs. [Insert Genre of Music Here]

I respect the fact that my opponent is able to admit that film score is essentially a type of classical music while sticking to his original stance, and I will respect the fact that he wishes to keep them separate for the sake of the debate. That being said, I encourage the voters to keep this similarity in mind and for them to decide whether or not they think it matters when they vote. I still believe it to be an important factor, as I believe that film music got to where it is because of classical music; that much is hard to dispute, but the voters should individually determine its import in this context (though it shouldn't necessarily be the deciding factor in either direction). Again, with this all said, I will respect my opponents request to keep them as separate things for the sake of the debate. I want to address something that I believe to be an issue with the way my opponent determines which genre is better. Although he addresses many aspects of the music, there is one that he keeps returning to: the story. The problem here is that it doesn't really focus on the quality of the music itself, rather it focuses on the quality of the stories associated with the music. That's like saying Take It On The Run by REO Speedwagon is about a wonderfully trusting boyfriend who stays by his girl in the face of infidelity and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is about absolutely nothing, so therefore the Speedwagon song is infinitely better...which it's not, in my opinion, and I think most people who like these type of songs would agree. When I listen to the example from Lincoln my opponent used in the previous argument to counter my example of a Copland piece about Lincoln, I don't hear as much that's musically interesting. It follows one common theme, stays in one key, keeps one main tempo, and ultimately contradicts my opponent's claim that film score "grows and expands in different ways" (Round 1) in comparison to classical music. The Copland piece is one where you can tell someone it's about Abraham Lincoln even without the quotes and, through the music, they can be shown his emotional variance and surmise much about what kind of a person he was. I challenge my opponent to find a film score that achieves this. As for the challenge from my opponent, 1:40 into this () is worthy of a vigilante I believe, and the entire thing is worthy of a elegiac send-off to a fallen hero. This (), by extension, is worthy of a fight scene. On the Musicality of Film Music and the Musical Skills Required to Make It: Although I agree with my opponent that film music is becoming more diverse, I do not believe that it has gotten to a point where it has risen higher than classical music (or perhaps other classical music, in many instances). This is mostly because classical has many, many different variants to it, while film score has but a few. One of these main types is the type shown in Batman. Classical has certain periods of music where there are certain common attributes, but this one has a huge amount of common, nearly overused attributes. Pounding bass drum, strings zipping out the melody, first lower and then higher, the brass section in the very bottom of it all, etc. etc. It doesn't take too long to see these common attributes and slap a new piece together. The Interstellar soundtrack does seem divergent from this, but I don't see how my opponent's point of making it more "religious" and using a church organ somehow makes it less based in classical music, a genre that has a very prolific history with both religion and church organs. The fact that Zimmer used both of these factors in Interstellar only sort of backtracks to my original point of them being similar. I would also like to point out again that classical music has a uniquely translatable factor to it, so much so that many of those who want to be good at any music genre, such as (and perhaps especially) film score start out in it. There was a study that I mentioned in Round 1 that spoke of it's influence in modern, non-classical music, which is partially due to this. I bring this up mostly to go back to the point that classical music is so hugely influential, and to point out the fact that film music has not yet reached the influence, variance or skill of classical music.