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While listening to War Horse a bit ago something occurred to me: John Willliams really loves using suspended (apparently sometimes called quartal) chords. They have driven so much of his music since at least the 1970's (where those chords were pretty common) that sometimes it makes my mind stagger like an inebriated ostrich on stilts. There are so many examples to choose from, the trick is deciding which ones to leave out (these are from memory): All of the Elegy and Seven for Luck At least the first movement of the Bassoon concerto Jaws (the Shark Cage Fugue most obviously) The Empire Strikes Back (especially those strings starting at about 7:40 or so in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ3v2swJBg) Star Wars (especially the Yavin music) Rosewood A.I. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Earthquake (that really nifty piano line that bobs through the whole opening) As aforementioned, there are probably a whole slew of other examples but it would take the duration of all the above examples to list them all. I don't have any legitimate philosophical analyses on his use of them (it sure makes his music sound groovy!), and I'm not even sure if it is worthy of a thread, but I thought it was interesting enough an observation for at least a strand. Has anyone else noticed this?