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Post by sepiatone on Feb 1, 2023 18:09:08 GMT
Nah, not "Classic" rock( just a nice way of saying "oldies") I'm referring to music in the rock'n'roll era(c. 1955-present) that either reworked well known classical music pieces into rock music tunes, or those that "borrowed"  classical melodies or themes and worked them into rock songs. I picked the rock'n'roll era to be able to narrow down things since popular music composers have been "borrowing" classical music themes and melodies since the advent of recorded music. I have several examples of classical rock in mind, but I don't wish to monopolize the thread. So I'll kick it off with a few.... Of course, a prime example is this really popular hit from 1965 that was based on Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G major" And this earlier release by a pianist and his band that called themselves B. Bumble and The Stingers (from 1961) From RIMSKY-KORSAKOV'S "Flight Of The Bumble Bee" And they had to include Tchaikovsky in the mix... And you don't need me to tell what that's from. I haven't heard every classical work ever composed, nor every rock'n'roll record ever recorded, so there's probably plenty out there to find. Sepiatone |
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Post by Unwatchable on Feb 2, 2023 1:10:11 GMT
Good topic. My first thought was an obvious one, ELO's version of Roll Over Beethoven that starts with the classical version before the rock roll riff takes over:
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 2, 2023 16:47:10 GMT
Good one too. Now, another couple of examples come from "Prog-rock". We all(maybe) remember when Emerson Lake and Palmer did their take on Aaron Copeland's piece from "Four Dances From Rodeo".... And that's more an example of having a classical piece "converted". But they also "borrowed" a theme of a classical piece from Leos Janacek. Let's see if you remember what ELP did with .... Do you recall this from ELP's debut LP? Sepiatone |
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Post by Unwatchable on Feb 2, 2023 17:47:18 GMT
Billy Joel based the chorus of "This Night" on the second movement of Beethoven 's Pathétique Sonata. Beethoven is credited as one of the song's writers as "L.v. Beethoven."
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Post by Unwatchable on Feb 3, 2023 13:02:43 GMT
Jeff Beck's Bolero
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 3, 2023 16:31:01 GMT
Uh......"Bolero" is a musical form(or genre) and Beck's offering is an instrumental piece in that form, not "borrowing" from any particular piece. As Ravel's "Bolero" is probably the most well known piece in that form, there are plenty pieces that use a similar bolero rhythm. And composed before Ravel's.
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 5, 2023 17:44:35 GMT
Jethro Tull doing their version of Bach's "Bouree in E minor."....
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 25, 2023 17:54:11 GMT
Emerson, Lake and Palmer also took on Alberto Ginestera......
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 2, 2023 23:24:34 GMT
"A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band (1976); adapted from the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
(Yeah, it's disco. I'm not happy about it either.)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 2, 2023 23:33:01 GMT
.....but we can really talk "classical rock" with Richie Blackmore and Deep Purple with "Smoke on the Water" (1973), their inversion of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 3, 2023 16:29:08 GMT
I can't see the intro to "Smoke On The Water" as an "inversion" of Ludwig's 5th. Beethoven's 5th is introduced with only four notes. two at first, one played three times, the second once. And the second sequence of two with one also played three times and the second once. Play them in reverse it sounds nothing like the intro to "Smoke On The Water". unless my guitar is woefully out of tune. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 6, 2023 22:25:23 GMT
This may not fit in here exactly but it is in the spirit of the thread I hope. Too hilarious for the classical thread for certain I think about this ad often and love to exaggerate the idea in general musical conversations, "You may know this as the Heinz Ketchup commercial, but did you know it is really Chopin...."
One YouTube entry describes it as the longest running commercial in tv history!? Surely that can't be?
Classic 1970 commercial for "120 Music Masterpieces" featuring English actor John Williams. The commercial ran endlessly into the 1980's. This one aired May 26, 1983 on New York's WPIX.
120 Music Masterpieces 1970's Album Commercial
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 7, 2023 18:13:47 GMT
You may(or apparently not) recall in my OP that I mentioned many classical themes have been "borrowed" over the years of recorded music and used in many popular music "hits". This thread was intended to narrow it down to one genre. And yes, I do recall that record offer commercial. In fact, another thread idea could be how without realizing it, many people are familiar with classical music without being aware of it. And through such innocuous influences as cartoon background music and/or television commercials. Like ads for a pain reliever; Or a breakfast cereal... Oddly, I remember Quaker puffed wheat and puffed rice commercials using Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture as a backdrop in showing they were the cereals "shot from guns", but damned if I could find a clip of one!  But I'm sure you get the drift. Sepiatone |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 23, 2023 21:44:37 GMT
Let's flip from rock groups doing rock versions of classical pieces to the flip side of that coin. Sepiatone |
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classical melodies or themes and worked them into rock songs. I picked the rock'n'roll era to be able to narrow down things since popular music composers have been "borrowing" classical music themes and melodies since the advent of recorded music. I have several examples of classical rock in mind, but I don't wish to monopolize the thread. So I'll kick it off with a few....
