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Post by whitefang on Jan 21, 2020 11:14:07 GMT -5
Did you ever notice, or recognize how much classical music you've been unwittingly exposed to throughout your life? Like... How many times has THIS played through your head while slowly marching off to the principal's office, or to some kind of punishment? Or made this connection more with breakfast cereal than an historical war? (gotta go about a minute or so in... Yup, you know...... Quaker puffed rice and puffed wheat. No clip of TV ad found... Nor old VANQUISH pain relief commercials featuring: So it looks as if YouTube isn't always as useful as led to believe. Anyway.... heard any classical music in a TV commercial lately? If so, then what? Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 15:09:06 GMT -5
Maybe a little of topic amigo; I do not listen to music that much anymore truthfully Fangster. But I can recall hearing some classical hints in popular music a few times in the past. I can't recall any by name right now.
I was never a fan of classical works truthfully. I preferred jam band music, and the old Motown groups, some a-Capella stuff, and of course the late 60's and 70's hippy based music which is my all time favorite. I have a Classical based PBS channel on PBS that I can listen to if I wish, but never bonded with it.
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Post by earleg on Jan 21, 2020 19:23:38 GMT -5
ELO, Electric Light Orchestra tapped into classical parts on some of their songs. Think the "Beethoven 4" were used at the beginning and in parts of one hit.
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Post by earleg on Jan 21, 2020 19:27:19 GMT -5
This one >
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Post by whitefang on Jan 22, 2020 11:07:18 GMT -5
Ear, it was Beethoven's 5th's well known opening bars used as an intro to ELO's "cover" of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven", which I always thought was a bit clever But I was really trying to point out that we've been exposed to "seeds" of classical music through the most innocuous of exposures. From radio and TV ads, cartoons and such. There's these examples: and...... And more subtly.............. Rossini's WILLIAM TELL overture, from his opera... And let's not forget the CAPTAIN, using E.B. White's "Puffin' Billy" as his theme! Those SMURFS cartoons in the early '80's(and probably still) used a lot of "snippets" of classical works as background music in their 'toons. Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Jan 23, 2020 10:57:12 GMT -5
And it's long gone on.... A lot of subsequent generations take to the Christmas movie classic A CHRISTMAS STORY, made in 1983. But there's a lot of excerpts of Prokoviev's "Peter and The Wolf", and Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" to be heard as background score in it.
Like, when SCUT FARKUS first shows up in A CHRISTMAS STORY, you hear this from "Peter And The Wolf".
Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Jan 23, 2020 20:50:27 GMT -5
Are the famous ones liked named here considered public domain now? I think so at least for many of them.
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Post by whitefang on Jan 24, 2020 10:41:00 GMT -5
Quite possibly. Many of their elements get used with no publicly reported complaints from the composers. Or, at least any descendants. This whole idea came to me years ago when I started getting deeper into finding out more about classical works. I heard many symphonies, concertos, and other works that had what were familiar "runs" to me, some from rock tunes, some from commercials(like the Puffed Wheat ad) and background music in cartoons and some movies. And made me realized that we'd been exposed to classical music without realizing it for most of our lives. Like too..... Have you ever(if you're old enough) watched THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR and remember hearing THIS?------ Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Jan 30, 2020 10:45:21 GMT -5
And if you FF to the 4:57 mark here, you'll notice a tune you've heard for many years....
Not sure which came first though. Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 4, 2020 11:10:48 GMT -5
No guesses? Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 12, 2020 10:40:02 GMT -5
OK. Guess y'all had deprived childhoods, or you'd of recognized that well known "Brahm's Lullaby" melody in that 2nd symphony's first movement.
The whole idea of this thread was to point out that despite many people claiming not to like, or know any classical music, they've been familiar with many classical pieces without realizing it. Just didn't know which classical pieces they were and by which composer. Just somehow worked into the mundane every day activity of their lives. Like, how many times as a kid did you or some of your friends sing the little ditty: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"? But didn't realize it came from----- (and you also sang the alphabet to this melody---)
Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 14, 2020 10:46:22 GMT -5
And..... I KNOW y'all heard this many times in cartoons, movies or such----- (ff to the 1:01 mark....
Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 25, 2020 10:43:43 GMT -5
This is really off topic, but I like when imaginative people come up with off-beat unique ways of doing things. First, the old, oft done version of "Hoedown" from Aaron Copeland's "Four Dances From Rodeo" and second, a new twist I came across recently---- As MONTY PYTHON would say... "And now for something completely different!" Whitefang
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