Dec 152009
I want too know some famous classical or orchestra songs that I would of heard before
Such as ..
Bernard Herrmann – The Murder (Shower Scene from Psycho)
Carl Orff – O Fortuna (Start of Jackass and on Carlton Draught Beer Commercial)
Beethoven – Symphony 6 (Episode of the simpsons where cartoon violence becomes band and the kids stop watching tv and play outside and Disneys Fantasia)
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Funeral March – Chopin
1812 Overture – Tchaikovsky
Flight Of The Bumblebee – Rimsky Korsakov
Pomp And Circumstance – Elgar (the song played at every graduation)
Hallelujah Chorus – Handel
Flower Duet – Delibes
Night On Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky
Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Dukas (also in Disney’s Fantasia)
The Stars And Stripes Forever – Sousa (The Bearstine Bears)
Adagio For Strings – Barber (My favorite song ever!)
The Washington Post – Sousa
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star – Mozart (i think)
The Nutcracker – Tchaikovsky
I’m sure you probably heard at least 90% of these somewhere on tv.
Barber – Adagio for Strings
J.S Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 – Prelude…Toccata and Fugue in d minor (although just the toccata…) Air on the G string, Ave Maria, Brandenburg Concertos
Beethoven: Sym. No. 5 – Mvt. 1 (first 20 sec)…Sym No. 7, Mvt. 2…
Sonata No. 14, 1st Mvt. Sym. No. 9 – Finale (and Scherzo sometimes).
Bizet – Carmen Suite (usually Habanera and Toreador’s Song)
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5, Lullaby (I think it’s Ab)..
Chopin – Nocturne in e minor, Funeral March, Prelude in e minor
Copland – Hoedown, Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man
Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Debussy – Clair de Lune, Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Dvorak – Sym. No. 9, 2nd Mvt.
Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance (graduation piece)
Grieg: ‘Morning’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from his Peer Gynt Suite. Also his PIano Concerto No. 1 – 1st Mvt.
Holst – Jupiter from ‘The Planets Suite’ (and Mars too)
Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Liebestraum
Khachaturian – Sabre Dance, and possibly the 1st Mvt. of his Flute concerto
Mendelssohn – Wedding March, Italien and Scottish Symphonys, and Hebrides Overture
Mozart: Turkish Rondo (esp. in ‘The Truman Show’ good movie), Piano Sonata No. 16 – 1st Mvt. Eine Klien Nachtmusik
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition Suite, Night on Bald Mountain
Offenbach – Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld
Pachelbel – Canon in D
Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf, Sleeping Beauty, Piano Concerto No. 3 – Finale, Sym. No. 5
Puccini – Madame Butterfly, Nessun dorma (from Turandot)
Rachmaninoff – Prelude in g minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 – 2nd Mvt.
Ravel – Bolero
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Rossini – Barber of Seville Overture, Ride of the Valkyries, William Tell Overture
Saint-Saens – Carnival of the Animals Suite (Aquarium and The Swan), Dance Macabre,
Satie – Gymnopedies No. 1 and 3 usually
Shostakovitch – Jazz Suite No. 2 – Waltz
Sousa – Stars and Stripes Forever, and Liberty Bell March, and…I can’t remember it Colonel something ha.
R. Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
J. Strauss II – Blue Danube Waltz
Stravinsky – The Rites of Spring, and the Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite, Romeo and Juliet Love Theme, 1812 Overture
Verdi – The Drinking Song (from La Traviata)
Vivaldi – Four Seasons (mostly Spring)
Wagner – Wedding March
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Beethoven: Fur Elise, Sonata in C# Minor (Pathetique) – 2nd movement
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Minuet in G
Gershwin: An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue
what about the tune in this telly clip? I dont know the tune, but it does sound classical:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in_ZVmckr…
or the classic ‘Together in Electric Dreams’?
Beethoven’s 5th Symphony,Chopin “Funeral March”,Jenkins “Palladio”,Mozart “Rondo Alla Turca”,Bizet “Habanera”,Copland “Hoedown”,Dukas “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”,Mussorgsky “Night On Bald Mountain”, Barber “Adagio For Strings”
Tchaikovsky “Dance Of The Mirlitons (Reed Flutes)” from “The Nutcracker”, Mozart “The Marriage Of Figaro Overture”
Sousa “The Stars And Stripes Forever”,Grieg “Morning”Arnaud “Bugler’s Dream”,Bach “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3″
Prokofiev “Peter And The Wolf: The Story Begins”
Tchaikovsky “Romeo And Juliet Fantasy Overture: Love Theme”
Verdi “La Donna È Mobile” ,Rossini “La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)”Saint-Saëns “Carnival Of The Animals: Aquarium”
Grieg “Piano Concerto In A Minor”, Ricketts “Colonel Bogey March”,Rossini “Barber Of Seville Overture”,Strauss “Tritsch-Tratsch Polka”,Tchaikovsky “Sleeping Beauty Waltz”,Verdi “Dies Irae”,Mozart “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”,Mozart “Piano Concerto No. 21 In C,Delibes “Pizzicato”,Strauss “Vienna Blood”
Waldteufel “Skater’s Waltz”,Mozart “Dies Irae”,Suppé “Light Cavalry Overture”,Beethoven “9th Symphony”,Brahms “Hungarian Dance No. 5″,Mozart “Piano Sonata No. 16 In C”,Bach “Cello Suite No. 1″,Rossini “Largo Al Factotum (Figaro)”,Tchaikovsky “Trepak (Russian Dance)” from “The Nutcracker”,Wagner “Wedding March”
Vivaldi “Spring” from “The Four Seasons”,Bach “Air On A G String”
Offenbach’s “Can Can” or Infernal Galop ,Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra,Johann Strauss II “The Blue Danube”,Rossini “William Tell Overture”,Tchaikovsky “1812 Overture”,Mozart “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”,Bach “Toccata And Fugue”,Handel “Hallelujah Chorus”,Khachaturian “Sabre Dance”,Beethoven “Ode To Joy”,Elgar “Pomp And Circumstance”,Grieg “In The Hall Of The Mountain King”
Ponchielli “Dance Of The Hours”,Liszt “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2″
Mendelssohn “Wedding March”,Rimsky-Korsakov “Flight Of The Bumblebee”,Tchaikovsky “Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy” from “The Nutcracker”,Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata” and Wagner “Ride Of The Valkyries
I hope thats enough please tell me didn’t have to mention where you would have heard them!! Thats another half an hour of work. :] :]