# "classical" music I like but don't know it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504 "2012-11-01T00:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/41 "2012-11-06T03:39:57Z")
Don’t believe the hype about Beethoven’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies. His greatest is actually the [Seventh](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqrBauptrE). 🙂 The sublime 1st movement alone is worth the price of admission, as they say. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/42 "2012-11-06T07:34:28Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > 1st movement . . . You misspelled “2nd movement.” ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/43 "2012-11-09T19:20:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > You misspelled “2nd movement.” Then I also misspelled “sublime” and should have written “haunting and serene.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/44 "2012-11-09T20:08:39Z")
Ones you may know via Allan Sherman: Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance Number 5” = “Hungarian Goulash No 5” Grieg’s “Norwegian Dance Number 2” = “I Can’t Dance” Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” = “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/45 "2012-11-10T04:51:11Z")
Borodin, [from Polovtsian Dances](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfTqVqngO8) in his opera _Prince Igor_: [Stranger in Paradise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0s3p7Bu4w&feature=fvwrel) from the musical _Kismet_. Other numbers in the musical were also based on Borodin’s music. [Kismet (musical) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(musical)#Borodin_source_material) [Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto #2, 2nd movement](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAK2J05Vmhc#t=1m37s), used in the bridge of [All By Myself](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoazPPC7b8#t=27). ---
**Author:** ![Kasper1014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c89c15/32.png) [@Kasper1014](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kasper1014)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/46 "2012-11-10T05:03:49Z")
Not sure if its considered classical…but a bit more modern, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/47 "2012-11-10T20:58:34Z")
Certainly you’ve heard [the 3rd movement of Chopin’s Funeral Sonata](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFyAqLtHq8). ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/48 "2012-11-10T21:13:40Z")
I love sharing this list of [Standard Snippets](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardSnippet) – classical pieces everyone knows from films and movies, many of them so routinely used that it had just never occurred to me that someone wrote them at some point. Many of the pieces in it have been named already in this thread, but you might enjoy seeing them compiled. ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/49 "2012-11-11T01:19:49Z")
From Mozart’s Requiem - [Lacrimosa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs) It’s lovely and I hear it a lot. The Flower Duet from [Lakmé](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qx2lMaMsl8) by Léo Delibes has been used in commercials and movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/50 "2012-11-11T03:44:53Z")
Check out Disney’s _Fantasia_ and _Fantasia 2000_ How no one has mentioned the [Fire Bird Suite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGA6bpscj8) yet is a travesty. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpMMeetFIk) [are](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtk4ETAx8g) [some](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3geejD5Dksk) [slightly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRs-Yrbo_w) [lesser](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztlCR2ieQ8o) [known](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAPf_ccobc) [but](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTaiDHqs5s) [universally](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbC5zhFX7Kw) [popular](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJ0SaLUTeA&feature=related) [works.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422-yb8TXj8) ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/51 "2012-11-11T04:21:31Z")
I think this thread may also be missing [Bach’s Cello Suites](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZn_VBgkPNY), anything from [Verdi’s Il Trovatore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jR9P1v6zos), the entirety of [Carmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvhEUyVfX0) and [Nussun Dorma](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usg2GAVK1uI). ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/52 "2012-11-12T05:33:00Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I love sharing this list of [Standard Snippets](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardSnippet) – classical pieces everyone knows from films and movies, many of them so routinely used that it had just never occurred to me that someone wrote them at some point. > > Many of the pieces in it have been named already in this thread, but you might enjoy seeing them compiled. Nice link. I’ve been wondering what the _‘snobby rich people’_ music was that they play on Adam Carolla’s podcast whenever he mentions something that pegs him to being pretty well off financially. I thought it was Vivaldi’s _ **Spring** _, but I think it’s actually \*\*\*Minuet \*\*\*by Luigi Boccherini. Is that site a wiki? IOW is it user editable? I’d like to suggest Gary Glitter’s _ **Rock & Roll Part II** _ as ‘generic sports anthem’ and James Horner’s _ **Bishop’s Countdown** _ as ‘ubiquitous climaxing movie trailer music’… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/53 "2012-11-12T10:17:27Z")
If you like the works of Alfred Hitchcock, you will have heard Charles Gounod’s [Funeral March for a Marionette](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKi01rPexBI) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/54 "2012-11-12T11:00:20Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Bach’s **Toccata & Fugue - Rollerball** (the 70s original) The other piece which features heavily in that film is the [COLOR=“black”] **Adagio in G minor** [/COLOR], usually attributed to Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni but actually written in 1958 by musicologist Remo Giazotto based on a small fragment by Albinoni. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/55 "2012-11-12T12:46:29Z")
I’d second _Carmen_, and If you’ve ever seen old reruns of _Gilligan’s Island_ you’ve heard snippets (the episode where Phil Silvers guests as Harold Hecuba, film producer, uses cuts from Carmen as some of the background music for the Musical version of Hamlet the castaways put on. They also used parts of the opera _Tales of Hoffman_). ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/56 "2012-11-12T18:41:43Z")
Wait, did anyone mention Samuel Barber’s [Adagio for Strings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM) yet? Because that piece is all over the place. ETA: See: [Platoon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/57 "2012-11-13T03:42:31Z")
Rather surprised that t[he "Largo al Factotum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_0wPYFp9A)" from the Barber of Seville hasn’t been mentioned yet. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/58 "2012-11-13T05:10:36Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Rather surprised that t[he "Largo al Factotum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_0wPYFp9A)" from the Barber of Seville hasn’t been mentioned yet. See post #4 ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504/59 "2012-11-13T05:14:29Z")
Apologies–searched for the proper name. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-i-like-but-dont-know-it/639504.md?page=2)