Topic: a thread within which to post familiar musical classics of the broader category of classical music
boof started this discussion 2 months ago #133,031
In the broader sense of the term, that includes medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and romantic periods, with some of the more modern.
I keep a text file for reference and add to it from time to time when I find another piece that sounds familiar.
I'll begin with Émile Waldteufel - "The Skater's Waltz, Op. 183"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5mks_3-oA
"Les Patineurs, Opus 183, is one of the most famous and beloved waltzes by Émile Waldteufel, a French composer renowned for his lively and elegant waltzes . Composed in 1882, this work evokes the joyful and graceful atmosphere of Parisian ice rinks at the end of the 19th century."
https://jeanmichelserres.com/2025/07/18/notes-on-the-skaters-waltz-op-183-by-emile-waldteufel-information-analysis-and-performance-tutorial/#gsc.tab=0
I keep a text file for reference and add to it from time to time when I find another piece that sounds familiar.
I'll begin with Émile Waldteufel - "The Skater's Waltz, Op. 183"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5mks_3-oA
"Les Patineurs, Opus 183, is one of the most famous and beloved waltzes by Émile Waldteufel, a French composer renowned for his lively and elegant waltzes . Composed in 1882, this work evokes the joyful and graceful atmosphere of Parisian ice rinks at the end of the 19th century."
https://jeanmichelserres.com/2025/07/18/notes-on-the-skaters-waltz-op-183-by-emile-waldteufel-information-analysis-and-performance-tutorial/#gsc.tab=0
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Spooky song;starts with 12 notes denoting midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns)
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@previous (B)
formally put, Camille Saint-Saëns - "Danse Macabre, Op. 40"
and a tuber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM
OK, Georges Bizet - "Les Toreadors" from "Carmen Suite No. 1"
"Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the restless Carmen takes pleasure in desire. Attracting the attention of Don José, she warns him not to fall in love with her. But José is willing to risk everything for Carmen – and will do so at whatever cost." https://www.rbo.org.uk/opera-essentials-carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnbnXp38-Q
formally put, Camille Saint-Saëns - "Danse Macabre, Op. 40"
and a tuber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM
OK, Georges Bizet - "Les Toreadors" from "Carmen Suite No. 1"
"Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the restless Carmen takes pleasure in desire. Attracting the attention of Don José, she warns him not to fall in love with her. But José is willing to risk everything for Carmen – and will do so at whatever cost." https://www.rbo.org.uk/opera-essentials-carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnbnXp38-Q
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Niccolò Paganini - "Caprice 24"
"Caprice 24 is like a musical rollercoaster! It starts with a catchy, unforgettable theme and then takes you through 11 wild variations. Each variation is faster or trickier than the last, giving the violinist a real workout."
https://www.squiltmusic.com/blogs/news/paganini-s-caprice-24-the-devil-s-violinist-and-the-magic-of-music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLoBXgPil8
"Caprice 24 is like a musical rollercoaster! It starts with a catchy, unforgettable theme and then takes you through 11 wild variations. Each variation is faster or trickier than the last, giving the violinist a real workout."
https://www.squiltmusic.com/blogs/news/paganini-s-caprice-24-the-devil-s-violinist-and-the-magic-of-music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMLoBXgPil8
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Well Mr. Bach has one heck of lot of familiar tunes. I've only added this one very recently.
Johann Sebastian Bach - "Badinerie" from "Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067"
wiki says that the term badinerie is also called a scherzo. "The Italian word scherzo means "joke" or "jest." More rarely, the similar-meaning word badinerie (also spelled battinerie; from French, "jesting") has been used." As a musical term: "a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFUuHIdV1o
Johann Sebastian Bach - "Badinerie" from "Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067"
wiki says that the term badinerie is also called a scherzo. "The Italian word scherzo means "joke" or "jest." More rarely, the similar-meaning word badinerie (also spelled battinerie; from French, "jesting") has been used." As a musical term: "a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet. The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFUuHIdV1o
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Samuel Barber - "Adagio for Strings", second movement of String Quartet, Op. 11.
You almost certainly have heard this if you have watched many movies or much television, as wiki says: Adagio for Strings can also be heard on many film and television soundtracks, including The Elephant Man (1980), Platoon (1986), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), and Outlander (2019). More comedic or lighthearted uses of it have appeared in the film Amélie (2001) and on episodes of the sitcoms Seinfeld, The Simpsons, American Dad!, and South Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLR7s8Rq7Dw
You almost certainly have heard this if you have watched many movies or much television, as wiki says: Adagio for Strings can also be heard on many film and television soundtracks, including The Elephant Man (1980), Platoon (1986), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), and Outlander (2019). More comedic or lighthearted uses of it have appeared in the film Amélie (2001) and on episodes of the sitcoms Seinfeld, The Simpsons, American Dad!, and South Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLR7s8Rq7Dw
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "II. Andante" from "Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467"
This Mozart fella made plenty of familiar tunes. Wiki says that Neil Diamond's 1972 song "Song Sung Blue" was based on a theme this movement of this concerto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p37mStO2aeM
This Mozart fella made plenty of familiar tunes. Wiki says that Neil Diamond's 1972 song "Song Sung Blue" was based on a theme this movement of this concerto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p37mStO2aeM
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Gustav Holst: The Planets - Uranus, the Magician // Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETF_uEgACuo
Hehe
Gustav Holst: The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity // Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AcPrzTvto
Lightspeed was first speculated when observing the moons of Jupiter https://youtu.be/b9F8Wn4vf5Y?t=188
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETF_uEgACuo
Hehe
Gustav Holst: The Planets - Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity // Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AcPrzTvto
Lightspeed was first speculated when observing the moons of Jupiter https://youtu.be/b9F8Wn4vf5Y?t=188
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Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Orchestra version) (familiarity at 6:50 in)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hungarian-Rhapsody-No-2
Originally composed in 1851 for solo piano, the work was soon converted into orchestral form by Liszt’s colleague, Franz Doppler, who also added a piano duet version more than two decades after the original solo work.
Born in what is now Austria of Hungarian heritage, Liszt spent most of his life abroad; although his grasp of the Hungarian language was highly limited, this did not prevent him from loving his native land. On visits to Hungary in the 1840s, he compiled a collection of folk melodies, drawn from both the Magyar and the Romany (Gypsy) traditions. These pieces served as source material for Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yON0G0HLmIU
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hungarian-Rhapsody-No-2
Originally composed in 1851 for solo piano, the work was soon converted into orchestral form by Liszt’s colleague, Franz Doppler, who also added a piano duet version more than two decades after the original solo work.
Born in what is now Austria of Hungarian heritage, Liszt spent most of his life abroad; although his grasp of the Hungarian language was highly limited, this did not prevent him from loving his native land. On visits to Hungary in the 1840s, he compiled a collection of folk melodies, drawn from both the Magyar and the Romany (Gypsy) traditions. These pieces served as source material for Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yON0G0HLmIU
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"Entrance of the Gladiators," Op. 68 is widely known as The Clown Theme Song; however, the piece was originally composed in 1897 by Czech composer Julius Fučík as a Military March for the Austro-Hungarian Army. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ayD0Jc_mb4
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Luigi Boccherini - "Minuetto" ("Minuet") from "The String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275)"
"In the beginning of the movement, the first violin plays a simple, elegant melody, while the viola and cello have eighth note pizzicato. The second violin, on the other hand, has quick sixteenth note slurs which contain many string crossings. As Elisabeth Le Guin puts it in Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology, "The second violinist has no time for galanterie; he must concentrate on keeping the constant string crossings reasonable even through the length of the bow."" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quintet_in_E_major,_Op._11,_No._5_(Boccherini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwNs6P6bug
"In the beginning of the movement, the first violin plays a simple, elegant melody, while the viola and cello have eighth note pizzicato. The second violin, on the other hand, has quick sixteenth note slurs which contain many string crossings. As Elisabeth Le Guin puts it in Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology, "The second violinist has no time for galanterie; he must concentrate on keeping the constant string crossings reasonable even through the length of the bow."" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quintet_in_E_major,_Op._11,_No._5_(Boccherini)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwNs6P6bug
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George Gershwin - "Rhapsody in Blue"
“It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer ... I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise. And there I suddenly heard – and even saw on paper – the complete construction of the rhapsody, from beginning to end."
https://www.winspearcentre.com/extra/blog/the-legendary-story-behind-gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVh5cZ_ZvM
“It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer ... I frequently hear music in the very heart of the noise. And there I suddenly heard – and even saw on paper – the complete construction of the rhapsody, from beginning to end."
https://www.winspearcentre.com/extra/blog/the-legendary-story-behind-gershwins-rhapsody-in-blue/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jVh5cZ_ZvM
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Pete Hegseth is the only hoe you know and you don’t even know how deep he’s gonna go.
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Felix Mendelssohn - "Allegretto grazioso: Frühlingslied" (A major), MWV U 161 aka "Spring Song" from "Song Without Words Book 5, Opus 62"
The works were part of the Romantic tradition of writing short lyrical pieces for the piano, although the specific concept of "Songs Without Words" was new.
Mendelssohn himself resisted attempts to interpret the songs too literally, and objected when his friend Marc-André Souchay sought to put words to them to make them literal: "What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite".
Song No. 6 "Spring Song" was also sometimes known in England as "Camberwell Green", being the place in London where Mendelssohn composed it while staying with the Benneckes, relatives of his wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEAPM4ZxGE
The works were part of the Romantic tradition of writing short lyrical pieces for the piano, although the specific concept of "Songs Without Words" was new.
Mendelssohn himself resisted attempts to interpret the songs too literally, and objected when his friend Marc-André Souchay sought to put words to them to make them literal: "What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite".
Song No. 6 "Spring Song" was also sometimes known in England as "Camberwell Green", being the place in London where Mendelssohn composed it while staying with the Benneckes, relatives of his wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_Without_Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEAPM4ZxGE
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Franz von Suppé - "Light Cavalry Overture" (gets familiar at 2:24 and 5:14 in)
Light Cavalry Overture is the overture to Franz von Suppé’s operetta Light Cavalry (German: Leichte Kavallerie), premiered in Vienna in 1866. Although the whole operetta is rarely performed or recorded, the overture is one of Suppé's most popular compositions, and has achieved a quite distinct life of its own, divorced from the opera of which it originally formed a part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Cavalry_Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5nhMIyeqI
Light Cavalry Overture is the overture to Franz von Suppé’s operetta Light Cavalry (German: Leichte Kavallerie), premiered in Vienna in 1866. Although the whole operetta is rarely performed or recorded, the overture is one of Suppé's most popular compositions, and has achieved a quite distinct life of its own, divorced from the opera of which it originally formed a part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Cavalry_Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5nhMIyeqI
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Léo Delibes - "Pizzicato" from "Sylvia"
Sylvia is one of the first modern ballets. The prelude to the first act and the pizzicati in the third are the significantly more famous sections of this already notable score. The latter, the more famous, is a well-known example of pizzicato style. This section is, according to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "traditionally played in a halting, hesitant style that appears to have been no part of Delibes's conception." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_(ballet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8X21sB_kck
Sylvia is one of the first modern ballets. The prelude to the first act and the pizzicati in the third are the significantly more famous sections of this already notable score. The latter, the more famous, is a well-known example of pizzicato style. This section is, according to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "traditionally played in a halting, hesitant style that appears to have been no part of Delibes's conception." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_(ballet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8X21sB_kck
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Joseph Haydn - "III. Allegro (rondo)" from "Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Hob. VIIe/1"
Anton Weidinger developed a keyed trumpet which could play chromatically throughout its entire range. Haydn, fascinated by the invention, was inspired to write the concerto. It includes melodies in the middle and lower register, exploiting the capabilities of the new instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZmXMQoGQM
Anton Weidinger developed a keyed trumpet which could play chromatically throughout its entire range. Haydn, fascinated by the invention, was inspired to write the concerto. It includes melodies in the middle and lower register, exploiting the capabilities of the new instrument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Concerto_(Haydn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZmXMQoGQM
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Ludwig van Beethoven - "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor" aka "Für Elise"
Well that's a big name there, the famously deaf Beethoven.
According to one story, Beethoven wrote the bagatelle [a short piece in light style] as a birthday present for Therese Malfatti, piano student. This origin story includes the detail that Beethoven was plastered when he signed the dedication, which rendered his handwriting even worse than usual. https://www.quora.com/Who-did-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-write-the-piece-Fur-Elise-for-Who-was-Elise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_7LMrtUNY
Well that's a big name there, the famously deaf Beethoven.
According to one story, Beethoven wrote the bagatelle [a short piece in light style] as a birthday present for Therese Malfatti, piano student. This origin story includes the detail that Beethoven was plastered when he signed the dedication, which rendered his handwriting even worse than usual. https://www.quora.com/Who-did-Ludwig-van-Beethoven-write-the-piece-Fur-Elise-for-Who-was-Elise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_7LMrtUNY
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Aaron Copland - "Fanfare for the Common Man"
In late August 1942, Eugene Goossens, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, wrote to Copland requesting a patriotic fanfare to help with the war effort. Goossens suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and length of about two minutes. A large group of American composers were given similar requests, and Goossens hoped to perform Copland's fanfare in October at his first concert of the season. Since Copland did not deliver the Fanfare until November, Goossens suggested another date: March 12, 1943, as it would then be income tax time, an ideal opportunity for honoring the common man. https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/fanfare-for-the-common-man/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UiNBnBsQY
In late August 1942, Eugene Goossens, the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, wrote to Copland requesting a patriotic fanfare to help with the war effort. Goossens suggested the instrumentation of brass and percussion and length of about two minutes. A large group of American composers were given similar requests, and Goossens hoped to perform Copland's fanfare in October at his first concert of the season. Since Copland did not deliver the Fanfare until November, Goossens suggested another date: March 12, 1943, as it would then be income tax time, an ideal opportunity for honoring the common man. https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/fanfare-for-the-common-man/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_UiNBnBsQY
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Erik Satie - "Gymnopédie No.1"
There are three piano compositions Gymnopédie -- the first is very well known. The work's unusual title comes from the French form of gymnopaedia, the ancient Greek word for an annual festival where young men danced either naked or, perhaps figuratively, simply unarmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMnxjdGTK4w
orchestra version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTapZtu9kU
There are three piano compositions Gymnopédie -- the first is very well known. The work's unusual title comes from the French form of gymnopaedia, the ancient Greek word for an annual festival where young men danced either naked or, perhaps figuratively, simply unarmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMnxjdGTK4w
orchestra version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTapZtu9kU
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Gioachino Rossini - "Overture" from "La gazza ladra" [The Thieving Magpie] (familiar at 4:29 in)
The Thieving Magpie's overture uses snare drums to evoke the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie.
Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that the conductor of the premiere performance locked him in a room at the top of La Scala the day before the premiere with orders to complete the opera's still unfinished overture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_gazza_ladra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxoIpaD8XdE
The Thieving Magpie's overture uses snare drums to evoke the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie.
Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that the conductor of the premiere performance locked him in a room at the top of La Scala the day before the premiere with orders to complete the opera's still unfinished overture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_gazza_ladra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxoIpaD8XdE
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Giuseppe Verdi - "La Donna e Mobile" [Woman is fickle] from "Rigoletto"
... is the Duke of Mantua's canzone ['song' in Italian] from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). The canzone is famous as a showcase for tenors.
The lyrics are based on a phrase by King Francis I of France, Souvent femme varie, bien fol qui s'y fie. [Women are fickle, and who trusts them is a fool.], that he, deceived by one of his numerous mistresses, reputedly engraved on a window pane. Victor Hugo used this phrase verbatim in his play, Le roi s'amuse, on which Rigoletto is based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_donna_%c3%a8_mobile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt2OUKrudo
orchestral version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ3bNOyY2E0
... is the Duke of Mantua's canzone ['song' in Italian] from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851). The canzone is famous as a showcase for tenors.
The lyrics are based on a phrase by King Francis I of France, Souvent femme varie, bien fol qui s'y fie. [Women are fickle, and who trusts them is a fool.], that he, deceived by one of his numerous mistresses, reputedly engraved on a window pane. Victor Hugo used this phrase verbatim in his play, Le roi s'amuse, on which Rigoletto is based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_donna_%c3%a8_mobile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt2OUKrudo
orchestral version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ3bNOyY2E0
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Henry Purcell - "March" from "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary"
The March, in C minor, was written for a quartet of flatt trumpets, which, as slide trumpets, could play notes outside of the harmonic series and thus in a minor key.
Music from the March was adapted by Wendy Carlos for the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Robin Beanland would later adapt the music for the opening cut-scene of Rare Ltd.'s 2001 videogame, Conker's Bad Fur Day, as the scene homages Kubrick's film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_Sentences_and_Music_for_the_Funeral_of_Queen_Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpejz-eS20
The March, in C minor, was written for a quartet of flatt trumpets, which, as slide trumpets, could play notes outside of the harmonic series and thus in a minor key.
Music from the March was adapted by Wendy Carlos for the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Robin Beanland would later adapt the music for the opening cut-scene of Rare Ltd.'s 2001 videogame, Conker's Bad Fur Day, as the scene homages Kubrick's film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_Sentences_and_Music_for_the_Funeral_of_Queen_Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpejz-eS20
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Gregorio Allegri - "Miserere mei, Deus" (familiar at 1:34 in)
Miserere (full title: Miserere mei, Deus, Latin for "Have mercy on me, O God") is a setting of Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in Septuagint numbering) by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri. It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII, probably during the 1630s, for the exclusive use of the Sistine Chapel. The Miserere is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of late Renaissance music. Allegri's setting is based upon the tonus peregrinus -- also known as the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, it is a psalm tone used in Gregorian chant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0
Miserere (full title: Miserere mei, Deus, Latin for "Have mercy on me, O God") is a setting of Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in Septuagint numbering) by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri. It was composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII, probably during the 1630s, for the exclusive use of the Sistine Chapel. The Miserere is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of late Renaissance music. Allegri's setting is based upon the tonus peregrinus -- also known as the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, it is a psalm tone used in Gregorian chant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0
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Frederic Chopin - "Polonaise, Op. 53" aka "Heroic"
The polonaise originated in Poland at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and those written by Chopin are masterpieces that have come to define the genre. Most of Chopin’s polonaises were intended for solo piano, and this one is no exception. Composed in 1842, the piece remains one of his most admired and, due to its high level of difficulty, has long been a favourite of classical pianists looking to display their own virtuosity.
The work was dedicated to Auguste Léo, a patron of the arts, but far more interesting is its connection to the French writer George Sand, Chopin’s most infamous amour. Composed at Sand’s estate in Nohant-Vic, France, Sand immediately took up the polonaise for her revolutionary cause, declaring that “no doubt such a spirit must be present in the French Revolution. From now on this polonaise should be a symbol, a symbol of heroicness!” It was this, George Sand’s strongly held conviction that the piece be memorialised in this way, that has led Op. 53 to be remembered with the sobriquet “Heroic,” despite Chopin’s reluctance to add descriptive titles to his work. https://blog.paperblanks.com/2015/11/behind-the-cover-chopin-polonaise-in-a-flat-major/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJuuthbFvc
The polonaise originated in Poland at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and those written by Chopin are masterpieces that have come to define the genre. Most of Chopin’s polonaises were intended for solo piano, and this one is no exception. Composed in 1842, the piece remains one of his most admired and, due to its high level of difficulty, has long been a favourite of classical pianists looking to display their own virtuosity.
The work was dedicated to Auguste Léo, a patron of the arts, but far more interesting is its connection to the French writer George Sand, Chopin’s most infamous amour. Composed at Sand’s estate in Nohant-Vic, France, Sand immediately took up the polonaise for her revolutionary cause, declaring that “no doubt such a spirit must be present in the French Revolution. From now on this polonaise should be a symbol, a symbol of heroicness!” It was this, George Sand’s strongly held conviction that the piece be memorialised in this way, that has led Op. 53 to be remembered with the sobriquet “Heroic,” despite Chopin’s reluctance to add descriptive titles to his work. https://blog.paperblanks.com/2015/11/behind-the-cover-chopin-polonaise-in-a-flat-major/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJuuthbFvc
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Radetzky March // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
DR Koncerthuset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjB1L87eYGY
Girls und Panzer version ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1QKrspzBJU
DR Koncerthuset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjB1L87eYGY
Girls und Panzer version ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1QKrspzBJU
(Edited 51 seconds later.)
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aha! I have that one listed as Johann Baptist Strauss I - "Radetzky March, Op. 228"
Wiki says it was first performed on 31 August 1848 in Vienna to celebrate the victory of the Austrian Empire under Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (the piece's namesake) over the Italian forces at the Battle of Custoza, during the First Italian War of Independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radetzky_March
aha! I have that one listed as Johann Baptist Strauss I - "Radetzky March, Op. 228"
Wiki says it was first performed on 31 August 1848 in Vienna to celebrate the victory of the Austrian Empire under Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (the piece's namesake) over the Italian forces at the Battle of Custoza, during the First Italian War of Independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radetzky_March
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Jacques Offenbach - "Orpheus in the Underworld Overture" (familiar at 7:43 in)
The opera is a lampoon of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. In this version Orpheus is not the son of Apollo but a rustic violin teacher. He is glad to be rid of his wife, Eurydice, when she is abducted by the god of the underworld, Pluto.
The best-known and much-recorded overture is not by Offenbach, and is not part of either the 1858 or the 1874 scores. It was arranged by the Austrian musician Carl Binder for the first production of the opera in Vienna, in 1860.
In the last decade of the 19th century the Paris cabarets the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère adopted the music of the "Galop infernal" from the culminating scene of the opera to accompany the can-can, and ever since then the tune has been popularly associated with the dance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_in_the_Underworld
Binder arrangement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX82dXZ1K98
original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6suPyI6rJg
The opera is a lampoon of the ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. In this version Orpheus is not the son of Apollo but a rustic violin teacher. He is glad to be rid of his wife, Eurydice, when she is abducted by the god of the underworld, Pluto.
The best-known and much-recorded overture is not by Offenbach, and is not part of either the 1858 or the 1874 scores. It was arranged by the Austrian musician Carl Binder for the first production of the opera in Vienna, in 1860.
In the last decade of the 19th century the Paris cabarets the Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère adopted the music of the "Galop infernal" from the culminating scene of the opera to accompany the can-can, and ever since then the tune has been popularly associated with the dance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_in_the_Underworld
Binder arrangement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX82dXZ1K98
original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6suPyI6rJg
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oh, and the 1874 version which has the non-Binder Galop infernal (original had no Galop infernal at all)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsmcBCTy4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsmcBCTy4U
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Edvard Grieg - "In the Hall of the Mountain King" IV. from "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46"
The piece is played as the title character of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters "Dovregubbens (the troll Mountain King's) hall". The scene's introduction continues: "There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children and relatives.
Grieg himself wrote, "For the Hall of the Mountain King, I have written something that so reeks of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and 'to-thyself-be-enough-ness' that I cannot bear to hear it, though I hope that the irony will make itself felt."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdNilhpO0jY
The piece is played as the title character of Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play, Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters "Dovregubbens (the troll Mountain King's) hall". The scene's introduction continues: "There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children and relatives.
Grieg himself wrote, "For the Hall of the Mountain King, I have written something that so reeks of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and 'to-thyself-be-enough-ness' that I cannot bear to hear it, though I hope that the irony will make itself felt."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdNilhpO0jY
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Edward Elgar - "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D"
In England, the first, and best-known, of the marches is an established feature at the Last Night of the Proms every year, and in the US and elsewhere its slow middle section is traditionally played as the processional tune at most high school and college graduation ceremonies.
Elgar took the phrase "Pomp and Circumstance" from Act 3, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Othello:
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spx4kmY67Wc
In England, the first, and best-known, of the marches is an established feature at the Last Night of the Proms every year, and in the US and elsewhere its slow middle section is traditionally played as the processional tune at most high school and college graduation ceremonies.
Elgar took the phrase "Pomp and Circumstance" from Act 3, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Othello:
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spx4kmY67Wc
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - "Flight Of The Bumblebee" from "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"
The piece is recognizable for its frantic pace when played up to tempo, with nearly uninterrupted runs of chromatic sixteenth notes. This rapidity, measured at 144 beats per minute, evokes the skittish and frenetic activity of a bumblebee. The piece closes act 3, tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father, the tsar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW8asBxO4oI
The piece is recognizable for its frantic pace when played up to tempo, with nearly uninterrupted runs of chromatic sixteenth notes. This rapidity, measured at 144 beats per minute, evokes the skittish and frenetic activity of a bumblebee. The piece closes act 3, tableau 1, during which the magic Swan-Bird changes Prince Gvidon Saltanovich into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father, the tsar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Bumblebee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW8asBxO4oI
(Edited 2 minutes later.)
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Antonio Vivaldi - "Allegro (in E major)" I. from "Spring" in "The Four Seasons"
The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concerti each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying sonnets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nSvIiBNFo
The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concerti each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying sonnets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nSvIiBNFo
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Emmanuel Chabrier - "España, rhapsody for orchestra"
Written in 1883 after a trip to Spain, it was dedicated to the conductor Charles Lamoureux. A later letter to Lamoureux has Chabrier writing that on his return to Paris he would compose an 'extraordinary fantasia' which would incite the audience to a pitch of excitement, and that even Lamoureux would be obliged to hug the orchestral leader in his arms, so voluptuous would be his melodies.
It is the basis of the melody of the 1956 American popular song "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" performed by Perry Como.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iHFZX9xD3M
Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplN7j4Eck0
Written in 1883 after a trip to Spain, it was dedicated to the conductor Charles Lamoureux. A later letter to Lamoureux has Chabrier writing that on his return to Paris he would compose an 'extraordinary fantasia' which would incite the audience to a pitch of excitement, and that even Lamoureux would be obliged to hug the orchestral leader in his arms, so voluptuous would be his melodies.
It is the basis of the melody of the 1956 American popular song "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" performed by Perry Como.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iHFZX9xD3M
Perry Como
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xplN7j4Eck0