HandwovenConsensusWhat's a piece of classical music that everyone knows but most people don't know they know?
squirrelThe Nokia ringtone is a musical phrase from a piece of solo guitar music by Francisco Tárrega, called Gran Vals from 1902.
DeconceptualistNight on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky), The Planets (Holst), and Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) are all pretty badass but often get used in movies, game trailers, even ads without being named.
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Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
pumafred09Don’t forget Flight of the Bumblebee too!
Ill add Pachelbel’s Cannon in D as well.
Love it, but I feel like most people actually do know that one by name.
God, the planets inspired pretty much every goddamn sci fi soundtrack. Everyone gets the imperial march, but i’m talking right back before even Haskin’s War of the Worlds and Journey to the centre of the earth, past SW and wrath of khan and into Foundation.
Toes♀O Fortuna, youtube.com/watch?v=GXFSK0ogeg4
Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana
That's from the 1930s. The original was just a poem, not music.
agent_flounderOmg laugh coughing and ded now🪦
That’s wild
That’s remarkable. With the subtitles you can really hear it!
Everybody should recognise Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Maybe Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (picturing Skinner composing it as always funny).
Lacrimosa “by Mozart” as well.
“LA Donna è mobile” from Verdi’s Rigoletto. Have you seen a pasta sauce commercial? Then you’ve heard this aria.
Another Verdi piece that comes up often is Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatori
Mornin’ Ralph, mornin’ Sam
I read the last word wrong.
Also Sprach Zarathustra. (Thus Spake Zarathustra) very overused, but one of the greatest pieces of music in all of history.
Features heavily in the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
That movie has some other greats like Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D. Well, most people probably know it, but it’s also a hugely overused melody in pop that turns up way more than most people realise. See Rob Paravonian’s Pachelbel Rant.
Pachelbel Rant
👍Maximum Derek👍Came here for this, surprised how far I had to scroll to ba dududa duda dudada
wjriiOne, dude just played an instrument in the lower register. He fucked up. I quit trombone after a year in (small) part because what's the fun in setting the bass line?
Two, it seems like Canon was sort of "rediscovered" in the late 1960s and the people just absolutely fucking loved that chord progression and pop musicians and their producers were no exception.
On a personal level, I first ran across it as a kid when I found a MIDI file of it on my Tandy PC, which was known for having above average samples for the sequencer, and I thought it was lovely too.
That’s amazing. I feel for the cellists now. I started on Violin, but I wasn’t big enough for a full sized violin till I was 9 or 10 years old. I was very happy to get rid of my 3/4 sized violin.
netburnrFur Elise.
Always makes me think of the Commodore 64, but surely that isn’t the hy we know it these days?
TheGreenGolemIt was the tone the buzzer played in a lot of apartment buildings around the 00s.
Für. It’s German, For Elise. She’s not furry 😉
A lot of mobile keyboards will let you pick the umlaut version if you long-press a letter.
Will you Fürgive me?
JaymesRSHow do you know Elise wasn’t a Fürry?
Also: who the fuck is Elise?
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber.
Usually the “The Hero Dies Tragically” theme.
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Used in Platoon at Elias’ death for example.
Vienna Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (SNC 2019)
“Kharak is burning…”
Homeworld OST - Adagio for Strings
Barber of Seville if you’ve seen Looney Tunes:
https://youtu.be/OloXRhesab0?si=AJ8fNilF8gVtpqsq
Canopyflyer
15 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. I love 19th century Russian composers.
1812 overture is quite popular.
William tell overture is the theme to the lone ranger.
Queen of night aria, from the magic flute. Clair de lune by Debussy.
Probably 20 different works by Chopin.
William tell overture is the theme to the lone ranger.
Queen of night aria, from the magic flute. Clair de lune by Debussy.
Probably 20 different works by Chopin.
With the 1812 overture, most people only know the past 2-3 minutes.
youtu.be/VbxgYlcNxE8?si=Iy6idnutjFT-oH2V
The entire piece is amazing, and I hope Tchaikovsky got to hear it performed with some soon to be WWI era artillery before he died
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full with Cannons)
William Tell Overture
An entire generation of people came up knowing a portion of the song as the Lone Ranger Theme.
This was gonna be my addition and you beat me to it.
Bits and pieces of it have been used in all sorts of places. The story behind it is fascinating.
The TLDR, the guy putting on the concert asked Gershwin to write a jazz fusion piece, Gershwin declined. Then the guy put out promotional material anyway saying that Gershwin was premiering a new piece.
Some back and forth, and Gershwin wrote a masterpiece in less than 5 weeks.
Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin
HubertManneis that considered classical?
1920s orchestral jazz fusion. I'd say it counts. Especially since it's classic jazz, not the more modern jazz that people are familiar with.
It hits all those classical notes and takes them a step further. It's also a true masterpiece. Which gives it even more leeway.
yeah this sent me down a wikipedia rabbit hole and I found that classical music has a classical period but like the period right before most people would definately think of classical. I think with my head I saw classical and thought old classical was what was meant. Like behtoven and bach and such.
Purists would tell you Bach is baroque, not classical, which while technically true doesn’t really cover the modern use of the term classical music.
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL)
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (FULL) - Piano Sonata No. 14Copyright Andrea RomanoThe Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", op. 27, No. 2 has ...
Whatever the song is on Samsung washer/dryers now. Saw a clip of a German guy singing the actual song once and got a chuckle
Die Forelle (The Trout) by Franz Schubert.
Schubert, Die Forelle op. 32 (score)
FullOfBallooonsYou know Entry of the Gladiators, but you might not think of gladiators when you hear the song.
Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators
"Entrance of the Gladiators" op. 68 or "Entry of the Gladiators" is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík.
Everyone recognizes Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie no 1.
I feel like it was just used all over the place, subtly, all our lives. People can rarely name it. Everyone knows it.
Gymnopédie No. 1 on Guitar!
Not everyone. Where am I supposed to have heard this before?
I’ve also never heard this song before.
Yeah… it’s not even that good, imo.
It’s in Minecraft?
But it’s been in indie films since forever, and big films too.
Gymnopédies, No. 1, Erik Satie
So yeah, I’ve never actually played Minecraft before, it’s a few generations after I would have been the prime age to play it.
Well the you’re of a generation that heard it in films.
Royal Tenenbaums, man on a wire…
So it’s not quite the version you played and it seems to be from older films. If I’ve heard it, I don’t recognize it and wouldn’t be able to point it out but I also didn’t play Minecraft that much.
bfg9kI’ve heard it in random YT videos since at least 2013. Down The Rabbit Hole used it as a background track.
I was looking for someone to mention this. It’s used so often in movies. I’m not surprised that people are saying they’ve never heard it. It’s always just some background music played in a scene, it’s never the focal point.