What songs are there that are based on classical music compositions?
I knew that these two are, but I had to go Google which exact pieces that they're based on. I couldn't remember which ones they were.
A Lover's Concerto. by the Toys (1965).....based on "Minuet in G Major" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Pictures At An Exhibition. by Emerson Lake and Palmer (1971).... based on "Pictures From an Exhibition- A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann" by Modest Mussorgsky.
Peter Waterman said I Should Be So Lucky was inspired by Pachelbel's Canon: "Anyone who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is easy should try to play it. It's in four keys, all of them really awkward, and you can't even strum it unless you're a really good musician"
- The Barbarian by Emerson, Lake & Palmer is in an arrangement of Bรฉla Bartรณk's 1911 piano piece Allegro Barbaro
- Knife-Edge by Emerson, Lake & Palmers is based on the first movement of Leoลก Janรกฤek's Sinfonietta
- For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead is based on Nocturne Op. 55 No.1 by Frรฉdรฉric Chopin
- Road to Joy by Bright Eyes has an interpolation of the melody of Beethoven's Ode to Joy
- Nutrocker by Emerson, Lake & Palmer based on the nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
- The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" by Queen is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.
- And of course A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy and Roll Over Beethoven by Electric Light Orchestra
Man, you guys are awesome. I can't believe you came up with all these ones. That is so cool.
The only ones I knew were A Fifth of Beethoven and ELO,, both of which somehow slipped my mind
Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.
Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.
Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.
-Jethro Tull's Bouree from the album Stand Up -terryfic album by the way- is an adaptation of famous JSBach's e minor bouree from the lute suite Nr 1 (bwv 996)
-Kiss's intro to the song Great Expectations from the album Destroyer takes its melody from the second movement of Beethoven's "pathetic" c minor piano sonata (op 13).
Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.
Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.
I should check that out, only know that one track.
Clubbed to death I loved when it came out on mo wax, been overdone a bit since but still good. Has bits of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
You can't beat a bit of The Farm can you? Well you can but I still have a soft spot for All Together Now, based on a piece by johann pachelbel, apparently.
Rob Dougan is awesome. I love that album Furious angels.
I should check that out, only know that one track.
Even better is "22nd Sunday in Ordinary Tme Sessions". After Furious Angels he didn't do anything for like 14 years until this. It's like an improved clubbed to death with a huge Orchestra and better beats. Or maybe its just better technology. but it sounds fantastic.
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