Horde King: Most famous classical tunes?

[Mr Self Destruct]

As a favor to someone, I was going to compile a list of the Most famous classical compositions from Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, etc. Unfortunately I couldn't place the names with the songs. All I could remember was "Moonlight Sonata". Any idea where I can find some of the names of these symphonies?

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[ChrisTheCop]

May I recommend the popular 1981 compilation, "Hooked On Classics" performed by the Royal Philharmonic? If you could find a list of the songs within that song, it would be a great start.

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[Gvac]

"Canon" by Johann Pachelbel is the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard in my life. It's used in many commercials and you'd recognize it instantly if you heard it. It literally brings tears to my eyes.

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[Steels]

This web site is all you will ever need for your CD. I would have linked it but the "Help" file cuts off in the middle of the instructions. Copy & Paste.

http://www.timelife.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/BrowseCatalog-Start?CategoryName=1

EDIT: I had to link it because the length of the address was throwing off the format of the board. Go to "Music" on the left side of the page and then click "Classical/Light"

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This message was edited by Gvac on 12-5-02 @ 7:10 AM

[TooCute]

Oh god I am going to vomit.

I used to play chamber
music on the street by
lincoln center. We'd play
good shit, but inevitably
we'd ge the loudest
applause (and most
money) when we played
Mozart's Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik (cant think of
example) or Pachelbel's
cannon (GE lightbulb
commercial). God I hate
that shit. Fucknuts would be
like "Oh I love classical
music, that is my favorite
piece!" Like, if you actually
listened to classical music,
that wouldn't be your favorite
piece, moron.

But anyway, bitching aside,
other "famous" classical
pieces (and I assume you
mean that as any musc
from the baroque, classical
and romantic periods...)

Ravel - Bolero (wasn't even
intended to be a "real" piece
you know it from the movie
"ten")

Mussorgsky - Night on Bald
Mountain (you know it from
fantasia, with the big devil
guy)

Tchaikovsky - The
Nutcracker Suite (no
explanation necessary)

Tchaikovsky - Romeo and
Juliet (you know it from the
Zales commercial)

Vivaldi - the Four Seasons

Beethoven - 5th symphony
(bum bum bum BUM)
9th symphony (the choral,
cant think of example)
3rd symphony ( pastorale -
was the music in the coleco
vision smurfs game, also in
fantasia)

Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen
(its always the sad music in
cartoons)

Bach - Brandenburg #2
(Masterpiece theater)

Rossini - William Tell
overture (its got the timpani
being "Cannons")

Tchaikovsky - Serenade for
strings (on Beastie Boys
check your head - forgot the
song - at beginning of track

Saint-Saens - Organ
symphonie (the guy in Babe
sang his song to its tune)

Debussy - string quartet
(the quartet is playing it in
the bathroom in the
simpsons episode where
Homer gets the KEY (after
growing hair))

Okay I am starting to reach
now I guess. I could go on
and on and on. Everone
knows everytihng from
fantasia. go rent that.




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[TooCute]

by the way, get them
classical music for
dummies (NOT the idiots
guide to classical music) It
is actally a very well written,
informatice, concise book,
and comes with a CD with
lots of music on it,


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[HordeKing1]

Try findmidis.com and search the composer. You can download some songs too.

They have contemporary tunes as well.

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[The Chairman]

by the way, get them
classical music for
dummies (NOT the idiots
guide to classical music) It
is actually a very well written, informative, concise book, and comes with a CD with lots of music on it,

Too Cute, with all due respect, not everyone has the benefit of having studied at Julliard, been Concertmistress at Manhattan School of Music and Brown and has a Guarnerius del Jesu violin. You gotta start somewhere. I agree the Classical Music for Dummies book is excellent; it even comes with a cd. It's written by two summa cum laude music graduates from Yale and very entertaining. I never thought I would find myself buying a "Dummies" Book but it is good.

Too Cute: aren't you also the one who told me "some famous bassist died from some rock group" and I said "Who?" and you said "that's right some guy in a band called "The Who." For every person who likes the GE Lightbulb commercial b/c of the Pachebel Canon music there's a guy like me who can write "Rock Music for Dummies" and prefers the Cadillac commercial cause it has Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."

On that note, forget the famous and accessible stuff, be "Mr. Different" "Mr. Self "Desruct." I recommend Shostakovich's 8th Quartet, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war. Just drop this one on a chick and it will guarantee to get her back to your crib.

Once you're in the sack with her, go popular/accessible again and pop in Ravel's Bolero. After the money shot, pop in Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah.

OK - here's the new sarcastic emoticon:

(;-)

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This message was edited by Chairman_Kaga on 12-4-02 @ 9:37 PM

[ADF]

The most recognizable to me would be Pachelbel's and Vivaldi's [i]Four Seasons. When I was in Hawaii, I remember there was this station that would rank listener (you'd write them in at various cd stores) requests from 1-100 and play them on the weekend. Pachelbel's Canon was number one for a month, followed by some Pearl Jam Xmas song and Dancehall Crashers. I thought it was odd, but that piece seems to have universal appeal.

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[TheMojoPin]

I like the "Beef: It's what's for dinner" song.

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[Steels]

Too Cute, with all due respect, not everyone has the benefit of having studied at Julliard, been Concertmistress at Manhattan School of Music and Brown and has a Guarnerius del Jesu violin.

I haven't seen this kinda name-dropping since "American Psycho"

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This message was edited by Steels on 12-5-02 @ 3:34 AM

[Mr Self Destruct]

Too Cutes list:
beethoven Moonlight Sonata
"Canon" by Johann Pachelbel
Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Ravel - Bolero
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Vivaldi - the Four Seasons
Beethoven - 5th/3rd/9th symphony
Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen
Bach - Brandenburg #2
Rossini - William Tell overture
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for strings
Saint-Saens - Organ symphonie
Debussy - string quartet

The TimeLife.com and findmidis sites have helped greatly. Thanks. I think I've got all I need.

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[blakjeezis]

I like the "Beef: It's what's for dinner" song.
See, I'm a much bigger fan of the Chevy commercial music. I believe it was Chopin's "Like a Rock", or was it Liszt?

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[TheMojoPin]

See, I'm a much bigger fan of the Chevy commercial music. I believe it was Chopin's "Like a Rock", or was it Liszt?

Yeah, but it's the old United Airlines piece that really sent me into wonderland. I think Camper Van Beethoven toiled long and hard over that one.

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[The Chairman]

I haven't seen this kinda name-dropping since "American Psycho"

Bad book.
Good movie.
Very funny response.
Touche.



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[A.J.]

I like the "Beef: It's what's for dinner" song.


Aaron Copeland isn't it?


I like Mozart's Symphony 41 ("Jupiter") and Symphony 40 as well as some Bach guitar pieces (played by Andres Segovia).

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[TooCute]

I haven't seen this kinda
name-dropping since
"American Psycho"


It ain't name-dropping if it's
true ;)


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[Bob Impact]

I dont think anyone has mentioned yet
Wagner's Ride of the Valkaries
Rachmaninov's The Rock
and
Karl Orffs Carmina Burana

They're all relativly famous.

It ain't name-dropping if it's true
In that case, did I mention the time I was hanging out with Glen Danzig and Henry Rollins?


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This message was edited by Bob Impact on 12-10-02 @ 7:22 PM