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bobbyb5
Gender: Male
Location: New York 
- #1
- Posted: 09/30/2017 00:39
- Post subject: Rock songs based on classical compositions
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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.
What other ones are there that you know of?
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- #2
- Posted: 09/30/2017 09:40
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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"
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- Posted: 09/30/2017 09:45
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Mika used Rossini's Baber of Seville melody for "Gene Kelly"
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nitomano
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Location: Mexico City 
- #4
- Posted: 09/30/2017 19:26
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- The Barbarian by Emerson, Lake & Palmer is in an arrangement of Béla Bartók's 1911 piano piece Allegro Barbaro
- Knife-Edge by Emerson, Lake & Palmers is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta
- For the Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead is based on Nocturne Op. 55 No.1 by Frédéric 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
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bobbyb5
Gender: Male
Location: New York
- #5
- Posted: 09/30/2017 19:29
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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
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Graeme2
Gender: Male
Location: The Upside Down 
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- Posted: 09/30/2017 20:40
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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.
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bobbyb5
Gender: Male
Location: New York
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- Posted: 09/30/2017 20:49
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| Graeme2 wrote: | 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.
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- Posted: 09/30/2017 20:57
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-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).
just the first two to come from top of my head
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Graeme2
Gender: Male
Location: The Upside Down
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- Posted: 09/30/2017 21:01
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| bobbyb5 wrote: | | Graeme2 wrote: | 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.
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bobbyb5
Gender: Male
Location: New York
- #10
- Posted: 09/30/2017 22:17
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| Graeme2 wrote: | | bobbyb5 wrote: | | Graeme2 wrote: | 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.
This is it.
https://youtu.be/jG0kCHhriNU
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