Ride of the Valkyries

[ouryL]

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[blowero]

@Polycarp

“Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” is the accepted English title – my French is rusty, but “L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune” is I believe the original.

I always call it “Afternoon on the Farm”.

I’m sure everyone on the planet has heard Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, as well as Pachylbel’s Canon.

[ouryL]

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[Dugrik]

Oldsmobile was running ads featuring “Variations on a Shaker Hymn” from Appalacian Spring by Aaron Copeland.

Copeland also wrote Fanfare for the Common Man which you’ll hear on sports programs. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer covered this piece on one of their albums.

[ivylass]

Fur Elise is a famous piano piece by Beethoven.

You’ll hear Verdi’s Four Seasons on The Weather Channel.

[Lamia]

@Israfel

The other famous “falling in love” piece (which I think can be heard whenever two characters in “The Sims” get to smoochin’ ) is from Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

I believe you are thinking of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.

[Estilicon]

@St. Urho

Finlandia

Pretty strange both the country and the composition are called Finlandia in spanish. I simply translated it to english. Why is it called Finlandia? Now I am intrigued.-

[Baker]

Desert Dog, (in post #13) you are right. My mistake.

[ouryL]

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[Dugrik]

Every medieval sword & sorcery flick uses Orff’s Carmina Burana in its trailer.

From opera:

“No More Rice Krispies” is sung to the tune of “Vesti la giubba” from act one of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

The “Toreador Song” is from act two of Carmen by Bizet.

[fighting_ignorant]

@Ukulele Ike

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I hate it so much when you guys call them songs.

So fight some ignorance, already! What are they called if not songs? (For now I’ll use the word thingy). And what is the difference between a “song” and a “thingy”? And are there other categories, or is everything I hear either a “song” or a “thingy”? Fight some ignorance!

[Peter_Morris]

In cartoons, during chases, the music is frequently Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by Strauss. And if you see a cartoon character riding a horse the music is probably The Light Cavalry by Franz Von Suppe.

[Sattua]

Billy Joel’s song “This Night Can Last Forever” is actually a theme from Beethoven’s Pathetique sonata for piano.

[Baker]

@Dugrik

Every medieval sword & sorcery flick uses Orff’s Carmina Burana in its trailer.

From opera:

“No More Rice Krispies” is sung to the tune of “Vesti la giubba” from act one of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

The “Toreador Song” is from act two of Carmen by Bizet.

There was another Rice Krispies commercial with music from Madame Butterfly. Wait! I have a spoon dear!"

[Triviatrix]

@Polycarp

The Dih-dih-dih-DAH of his 5th Symphony, made famous by the BBC using it (it’s also the Morse “V” pulse) during WWII. The setting of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” from the 9th Symphony.

“Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” is the accepted English title – my French is rusty, but “L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune” is I believe the original.

I might also note that anyone who’s a fan of Disney’s older full-length animated features has a strong familiarity with a lot of classical music, particularly Tchaikowsky – the song “Once Upon a Dream” from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is lifted straight from T’s “Sleeping Beauty” ballet, where it’s an instrumental piece. There are several other examples. Peter and the Wolf is a cartoon setting for Tchaikowsky’s tone poem; Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 are strict visual depictions for the named classical pieces featured in them.

And, of course, Saint-Saens’s “Dance of the Hours” (the flamingo dance in Fantasia 2000) is familiar to everybody through the depredations of Allan Sherman (many of whose songs are take-offs on classical pieces, such as Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” which became Sherman’s “Hungarian Goulash.”

Dance of the Hours is not Saint-Saens. It is from Ponchielli’s La Gioconda.

[Ukulele_Ike]

@fighting ignorant

So fight some ignorance, already! What are they called if not songs?

Whoops, sorry, was AFK for a while to make chili con carne, pot some houseplants, and go to a Cyclones game down in Coney Island.

A “song” is a piece of music that has words. To be sung by one person. Generally with piano accompaniment, if it’s an “art song,” like Schubert’s “Der Erlkonig,” already cited by rowrbazzle. Or not, like Bob Dylan’s “Positively Fourth Street” or the Ramones’ “We’re a Happy Family.”

On the other hand, Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B Minor would be…oh…a “symphony.” Or “an orchestral piece written in sonata form.”

Mozart’s Don Giovanni would be an “opera.”

A “song” from an opera would be an “aria.”

This could go on and on, so let’s just say that one safe way to refer to various forms of art music would be “pieces.”

[Julius_Henry]

A Whiter Shade of Pale, I’m told, comes from a Bach piece, though nobody I’ve ever asked – okay, not too many people – have been able to identify it, and my tastes in classical music does not include the Baroque.

[Peter_Morris]

A “song” is a piece of music that has words.

What about Beethoven’s 9th symphony? Or “Song without Words” by Mendelssohn? The Humming Chorus by Puccini? :dubious:

[Antonius_Block]

@Julius Henry

A Whiter Shade of Pale, I’m told, comes from a Bach piece, though nobody I’ve ever asked – okay, not too many people – have been able to identify it, and my tastes in classical music does not include the Baroque.

It’s J.S. Bach’s ‘Air’ from Suite No. 3 in D Major (a.k.a. “Air on a G String”).

[Kizarvexius]

There’s quite a few pieces of classical music that are extremely familiar to non-classically inclined listeners because of their frequent use in cartoons – especially the classic Bugs Bunny reels, or from other forms of popular entertainment. Examples:

• (As mentioned in the OP) Wagner’s Ride of the Valkries from Die Walküre. Better known to generations of kids as Kill da Wabbit.
• The Barber of Seville. Bugs gives Elmer a shave.
• Chopin’s “Funeral March”, which is actually the third movement of his Piano Concerto in Bb Minor. I’d heard that little theme all my life and didn’t know it was from an actual piece of music until I was in college.
• I think the other “morning” piece of music that Polycarp was referring to was probably the third movement of the William Tell Overture – the calm after the storm. Which also brings up the storm itself, the very familiar second movement. Think of Mickey Mouse conducting the band concert that gets sucked up by a tornado.
• A theme from Dvorak’s Symphony No 9: From the New World (I believe it’s from the third movement) was used in dozens of old westerns. It’s typical “HERE COME THE INJUNS” music.
• As mentioned, the Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky has been used over and over again in movies, TV shows and commercials whenever the director wanted syrupy, over-the-top romantic music.
• Gounod’s Funeral March of A Marionette is more familiar to many as the theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
• The Cancan from Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne is instantly recognizable to most people.
• And don’t forget Lizst’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, which figures prominently in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.