19 Songs Based On Classical Pieces

To date I've made four full videos analyzing rock and pop

songs

based

on

classical

compositions, and yet there are still many more examples for us to look at, so here are 19 more

songs

based

on

classical

pieces

almost 20 years later. Its initial release, the blonde redhead's damaged coda song has recently seen a resurgence in popularity after appearing on the cartoon show Rick and Morty and later becoming a popular meme. What you may not have known is that the damaged encoder relies directly on it. In Chopin's nocturne in F minor number one for the damaged coder he uses a subtly modified version of Chopin's opening melody and accompanies it with exactly the same chord progression for the damaged coda.

Actually, rapper bob self-sampled it in 2018 for his track bow for verse, so this is a rap song based on an old rock song based on a Chopin piece. He didn't have enough money to send a rocket to Spain. Lana del rey's song from 2014. Old money is partially based on Nino Rota. What is a young man who has risen first? two measures into the rota melody, however, after that, she diverged into a similar but different melodic line. She also changed the time signature from the original 3 4 to 4 4. However, this doesn't make much difference since both melodies are sung loosely. free time without a clear pulse now, although what is a youth sounds like a ballad from the renaissance era, it is actually much more modern than the one that was composed for the 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, so, Strictly speaking, what youth is is film music, not classical music. but what i find interesting here is the chain of influences for his romeo and juliet soundtrack, nino rota emulated the style of elizabethan composers like john dowland and then, more than 40 years later, lana del rey, in turn, was inspired in the neo-Elizabethan music of rota. and reworked it into a new modern pop ballad that you're probably familiar with eric city's number one pd genome well, the pd genre tune was used in the chorus of janet jackson's 2001 song, the tune of "someone to call my lover" remains virtually unchanged, although it has been stretched to fit in a time of 4 4 instead of the 3 4 meters of the original piece, the janet jackson song also changes the chord progression so that d move to g instead of g resolving to d supposedly janet jackson had been a fan of city gymnapidi since she was little, but she never knew what the piece was called.

Years later, when she was shopping at Ralph Lauren, she heard it playing in the background. The store gave Jackson the CD they had been playing and she took it. straight to his producer jimmy jam, who incorporated him into his last song a year earlier, satis jim, the pd appeared on a different pop song, flowers for a sweet feminine attitude this time, although instead of rising from the melody as he did janet jackson, flowers, instead rises from the iconic city. The Chord Progression One of the best-known melodies in classical music is Beethoven's Ode to Joy, since the final movement of his Ninth Symphony is so well-known and so simple that it is not surprising that the Ota Joy melody has been reused countless times in 1967.

The Seekers used it as the basis for their song Emerald City and nearly four decades later, the band Bright Eyes reworked the Odor Joy melody for their song Road to Joy Eyes. They have altered the first measure of the Odor Joy melody largely by simply lowering each note one step on the scale. We've also simplified the chord progression to a single drone chord. Some have suggested that the Killer's Bright Side instrumental guitar break is now also based on the Ode to Joy melody, although the first measure of both melodies is identical after that, y'all. share is a similar melodic contour, meaning their melodies rise and fall in the same places, so while perhaps the killers were inspired by motor joy, the melody they came up with is quite different in a previous video.

I looked at how I can't help but fall. Elvis Presley's In Love and Surrender are based on classical

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, however, there are at least four more Elvis tunes that also owe their existence to classical pieces of music, for example Elvis' 1960s song Tonight is So Mature for love, it is indeed an optimistic rock and roll. Offenbach's Buckarole version, Hold Me Tight to the Moon Tonight, Tonight is So Fit for Love, was released on the soundtrack of the film Gi Blues, in which Elvis played the lead role. However, due to copyright restrictions, the European version of the film and soundtrack did not make it. included the song Tonight's So Right for Love and instead featured a replacement song called Tonight's Right for Love and interestingly, just like the song that was written to replace Tonight's Right for Love, is also based on the classic piece of music, this time tales from the vienna woods by johann strauss ii another elvis song based on a classic piece is today tomorrow and forever written by bernie baum florence k and bill giant today tomorrow and forever is based directly into France List's 1850 piano piece Lieberstraam and the final track from Elvis We' What we'll see is his classic hit It's Now or Never It's Now or Never is effectively an English version of the Neapolitan song Osomio Ahora Si Oso Mio It is strictly speaking a piece of classical music is up for debate, it is certainly in the repertoire of many classical singers but perhaps it is better to classify it as a traditional Neapolitan song, but what is clear is that its melody has certainly influenced beyond that of Elvis It's Now or Never Oso Mio was also the basis for the 1949 song There's No Tomorrow sung by Tony Martin and this is supposedly the Tony Martin recording that first introduced Elvis in Oso Mio's classic Catcher Falling Star Perry Komo from 1957 is also based on a classical piece of music.

Composers Paul Vance and Lou Pochrus slowed down the melody taken from Brahms's 1880 Academic Festival Overture and used it as the basis for their song Catch a Falling Star and Put It in Your Pocket Never Let It Fade Another Song Ostensibly Based on a Melody by brahms is the love of my life by carlos santana and dave matthews the love of my life has a melody very similar to the one heard in the third movement of brahms's third symphony in a previous video we saw how billy joel had adapted the pathetic sonata by beethoven for their 1984 theme tonight, but eight years earlier the rock band kiss had already taken the same sonata for their theme high expectations on kiss's use of beethoven's melody is much less extensive although it can only be heard in The song's introduction and instrumental guitar breaks the bossa nova and jazz standard.

How Insensible written by Antonio Carlos Shabim seems to be inspired by Chopin's prelude in E minor number four that both tunes use. this flat 6'5 motif and has very similar chord progressions, both following a descending chromatic line that I must have seen when he told me he loved me, Strawberry's 1984 hit since yesterday Switchblade, taken from the third movement of the fifth symphony of Sibelius since yesterday's opening. The fanfare is taken directly from Sibelius, although they have changed it to one note. The 1979 song If I Had You by the Corgis is based on Rachmaninoff's rhapsody on a theme from Paganini's 18th variation. but as its name suggests, the rhapsody on a theme from paganini's 18th variation is itself based on a piece by paganini's caprice number 24.

Now don't worry if you can't hear a similarity between rachmaninoff's piece and paganini's caprice in which was based while with the corgis song they simply lifted all the melody and harmony of rachmaninoff's piece to form the basis of their own song the form rachmaninoff has taken from paganini is a much more subtle and nuanced rhapsody on the paganini theme variation 18 is a variation of the original paganini melody in classical music a variation is when a melody taken and then transformed into a new melody in the case of variation 18, Rachmaninoff has inverted the Paganini melody, in others In other words, he has turned it upside down, so that instead of ascending a minor third from the first note as the original melody does, Rachmaninoff's melody descends a minor third. and then, instead of descending a semitone for the next note, Rachmaninoff ascends a semitone and so on, this new melody which Rachmaninoff arrived at by adapting the five-note theme of Paganini's original piece forms the basis of the entire variation.

Rachmaninoff's reuse of Paganini's melody. in a new piece of music is far from a unique example in all the videos I've made to date about classical music informing new music. I've almost always been talking about rock and pop music based on classical pieces, but in fact the idea of ​​using excerpts from older pieces to write new music is actually much more common in classical music over the centuries. Composers have often adapted melodies from composers who preceded them, as we saw in the example of Rachmaninoff. Sometimes these borrowed extracts are so transformed and adapted. that if it were not for the title, the resemblance to the original piece would be completely undetectable;

However, sometimes classical composers lift up entire pieces and reuse them much like we see in pop and rock music, for example Charging Node's 1853 Ave Maria setting is constructed. in Bark's famous prelude number one in C major, as you can hear, Bark's original piece is clearly recognizable; gnode only made very minor changes to the original prelude and thanks, as always, to all the wonderful people who support me on Patreon, including the name you see on the screen right now and andrei scientific diagram andrew andrew brown andrew sussman austin barrett austin russell bob mckinstry brittany parker cameron olivaina colin aiken chris Cabell christopher ryan brave chameleon david rios donald howard dr darren wicks elena scorchenko es ben hansen eugene leroy fd hodor yolamo latona hamesh brocklebank hugo miller james ko j.a kokensberger john dye josh sandolin justin figger mark height mark ziegenhagen max o'keefe melody composer squared melanie schonert michael vivian nancy gillard nathan lawrence nathaniel park paul miller paul paisle peter dunphy pioche milovsky richard pride roger clay sam lin scott finley sean kennedy steve daly stephen lazzaro tim beaker toma aharoni tricia adams tim payne toot victor levy vidad flores vladimir kodakov and volte you