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I've been researching crossover music because I want to understand it better, and see how crossover is basically responsible for many of the various genres today.
I found an interesting list (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-popular-songs-based-on-classical-music) of popular songs that are directly based on classical music compisitions.
I find the more modern music interesting because I'm not really aware of some of the earlier music on this list (1910s, 1920s, etc.).
I'm posting this list here because I hope someone here can find it interesting and beneficial as I have in understanding the evolution of popular music better.
I found an interesting list (http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-popular-songs-based-on-classical-music) of popular songs that are directly based on classical music compisitions.
1910s
* (1913) "Hungarian Rag" by Julius Lenzberg - based on the Second Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.
* (1918) "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll - based on the Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor by Frederic Chopin.
* (1919) "The Marine Hymn" by L. Z. Philips - based on an air from Jacques Offenbach's Genevieve de Brabant
* (1919) "Peter Gink" by George L. Cobb - based on the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg.
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1920s
* (1922) "Goin' Home" popularized by Paul Robeson - based on the "Largo" from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
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1930s
* (1930) "In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room" by Raymond Scott - based on Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 545
* (1937) "Song of India", arr. Tommy Dorsey - based on a theme from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
* (1938) "My Reverie" by Larry Clinton - based on Debussy's Rêverie
* (1939) "The Lamp is Low" - Peter DeRose and Bert Shefter - based on Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte
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1940s
* (1945) "Full Moon and Empty Arms", by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
* (1946) "Summer Moon" by Klenner, sung by Lauritz Melchior - based on Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (Berceuse)
1950s
* (1952) "The Bigger The Figure", by Louis Prima - based on Rossini's Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville.
* (1953) "Stranger in Paradise" by George Forrest and Robert Wright, in the Broadway musical Kismet - based on a theme from Alexander Borodin's Polovetsian Dances
* (1956) "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning - based on a theme from Chabrier España, Rhapsody for Orchestra
* (1958) "Catch a Falling Star" by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance - based on a theme from Brahms' Academic Festival Overture
* (1959) "Once Upon a Dream" in the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty - based upon a waltz in Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty.
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1960s
* (1960) "Asia Minor" by James Wisner - based on Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor
* (1960) "It's Now Or Never" by Elvis Presley - based on O Sole Mio by di Capua.
* (1962) "Nut Rocker" by B. Bumble and the Stingers - based on Tchaikovsky's "March of the Wooden Soldiers" from the Nutcracker Suite
* (1963) "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)" by Allan Sherman - based on Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda
* (1964) "Rap City" by The Ventures - based on Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
* (1965) "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on J.S. Bach's Minuet in G from the Anna Magdalena Notebook.
* (1966) "Past, Present and Future" by The Shangri-Las - based on Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
* (1967) "Imitation Situation" by Fever Tree (San Francisco Girls) - used opening passage of J.S. Bach's Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_Minor
* (1967) "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum - (loosely) based on J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air (commonly known as Air on a G String) and Cantata 140 "Sleepers Awake".
* (1968) "Because" by John Lennon - inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
* (1968) "Hall of the Mountain King" by The Who - inspired by Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite
* (1968) "Prelude B - I'm so Glad" by Deep Purple on Shades of Deep Purple - nicely lifted from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship,
* (1968) "Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie" by Blood Sweat & Tears - based on Trois Gymnopédies by Eric Satie
* (1969) "Albinoni's Adigio in G Minor" by The Doors on Boxed Set Disk 1 Without A Safety Net - based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
* (1969) "Jane B" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on Frederic Chopin's "Prelude No. 4"
* (1969) "Sabre Dance" by Love Sculpture - based on Aram Khatchaturian's "Gayane"
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1970s
* (1970) "Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Sinfonietta, first movement by Leos Janacek
* (1970) "A Song of Joy" by Waldo De Los Rios for Miguel Rios - based on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
* (1971) "Baby Alone In Babylone" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on the 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3
* (1972) "Abaddon's Bolero" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Boléro by Maurice Ravel
* (1972) "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Deodato - a funk arrangement of Richard Strauss' composition of the same name
* (1972) "Cans and Brahms" by Yes - based on Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4, third movement
* (1972) "Hoedown" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Rodeo by Aaron Copland
* (1972) "Horizons" by Steve Hackett from Genesis on Foxtrot - (loosely) based on Suite For Cello, by J.S. Bach
* (1972) "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - entire album based on the work by Modest Mussorgsky
* (1972) "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond - based on Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21", second movement
* (1973) "Joybringer" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band - based on "Jupiter - bringer of jollity" from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
* (1973) "Toccata" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Ginastera's First piano concerto, fourth movement
* (1974) "Annie's Song" by John Denver - based on Peter Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, second movement
* (1974) "Minuetto Allegretto" by The Wombles - based on Mozart's "Symphony No. 41"
* (1974) "Voices of Syn" by Klaus Schulze on Timewind - incorporates a collage of Verdi songs sung by an operatic singer.
* (1975) "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow - quotes extensively from Chopin's Prelude in C minor
* (1975) "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Aaron Copland's work of the same name.
* (1975) "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Lieutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev (released as a single under the name of Greg Lake alone).
* (1976) "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
* (1976) "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy - disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, featured in Saturday Night Fever
* (1976) "Ma Lou Marilou" by Serge Gainsbourg - based on the 1st movement of Beethoven's
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* (1976) "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen - based on Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony
* (1977) "If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley - based on Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony")
* (1977) "Rockaria" by The Electric Light Orchestra - based on "Un Bel Di" from Puccini's "Madame Butterfly"
* (1978) "Lady Linda" by The Beach Boys - based on J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
* (1979) "If I Had You" by The Korgis - based on Rachmaninov's "Variations on a theme by Paganini" Variation 18, based on Paganini's "Caprice No 24 in A minor"
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1980s
* (1980) "Swan Lake" by Madness - based on Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"
* (1980) "Toccata" by Sky - based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
* (1981) "Can Can" by Bad Manners - a manic ska version of the Can-Can from Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld"
* (1981) "Difficult to Cure" by Rainbow - based on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (last movement of the ninth symphony).
* (1983) "This Night" by Billy Joel - adapted from Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata
* (1984) "Icarus Dream Suite" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Tomaso Albinoni's, Adagio.
* (1984) "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.
* (1984) "Rite of Spring" by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - based on Igor Stravinsky's work of the same name
* (1985) "Lemon Incest" by Serge Gainsbourg for Charlotte Gainsbourg - based on Frederic Chopin's "Étude No. 3 in E (Tristesse)" (in opus 10)
* (1986) "Russians" by Sting - based on "Romance" theme from Lieutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev
* (1987) "Lost Song" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - melody after part of Edvard Grieg's "Solveig's song" (in Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, opus 55)
* (1989) "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel is based on the hymn Jerusalem by Charles Hubert Parry.
* (1989) "Leningrad" by Billy Joel - quotes at length the song Waldesnacht, du wunderkühle by Johannes Brahms
* (1989) "Rose of Pain" by X Japan - takes much of its melody from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little Fugue" in G Minor
1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Album cover of One Step Beyond Madness were a British ska band of the 1980s. ... Swan Lake (Russian: Ðебединое ÐзеÑо) is one of the most famous and critically-acclaimed ballets, with music by Tchaikovsky. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Sky was an English based progressive rock band, formed in 1978 when classical guitarist John Williams decided to team up with Herbie Flowers, Francis Monkman, Tristan Fry and Kevin Peek. ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 (O.S.) â 28 July 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the baroque period, and is widely acknowledged[2] as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. ... Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is the name of two different pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 538 and BWV 565. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bad Manners were a second wave or Two Tone English Beat ska band. ... This page is about ska, the musical style. ... Offenbach holds many meanings. ... Orphée aux enfers is an operetta in two acts by Jacques Offenbach. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1982 lineup of rainbow Rainbow was a British power metal band that formed in 1974. ... The ode To Joy (Ode »An die Freude« in German) is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet and historian Friedrich Schiller, and known especially for its musical setting by Beethoven in the fourth and final movement of his Ninth Symphony, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra. ... The Symphony No. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billy Joel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. ... Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... Ludwig van Beethovens Piano Sonata No. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yngwie J. Malmsteen Yngwie J. Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a guitarist from Sweden who achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and fusion of classical music elements with heavy rock guitar. ... Tomaso Albinoni (June 14, 1671, Venice, Italy January 17, 1751, Venice) was an Italian baroque composer. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Malcolm McLaren (born January 22, 1946) is an impresario and self-publicist who was the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ... Madama Butterfly (or sometimes Madame Butterfly in English) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Japan. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ... Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky (Russian: ) (June 17, 1882 â April 6, 1971) was a Russian-American composer of modern classical music. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginzburg, (April 2, 1928 â March 2, 1991) was a poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ... Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of French poet and singer, Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin, was born on July 22, 1971 in London. ... This article is about Frédéric Chopin, the composer. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sting circa 1987 Gordon Matthew Sumner, OBE (born October 2, 1951), best known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician and formerly bassist and lead singer of The Police. ... Lieutenant Kije is a film so poor that it is remembered only because of its music, which was the first instance of Sergei Prokofievs new simplicity. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: ) (April 271, 1891 â March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginzburg, (April 2, 1928 â March 2, 1991) was a poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ... Jane Birkin (b. ... Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843âSeptember 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. ... Peer Gynt is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billy Joel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. ... And did those feet in ancient time is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his work Milton: a Poem (1804). ... Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (February 27, 1848 October 7, 1918) was an English composer, probably best known for his setting of William Blakes poem, Jerusalem. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Billy Joel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. ... Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 â April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... X Japan, or X which was their initial name, was a Japanese Visual kei band, the brainchild of Yoshiki (Yoshiki Hayashi). ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 (O.S.) â 28 July 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the baroque period, and is widely acknowledged[2] as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. ...
1990s
* (1990) "Mea Culpa" by Enigma - based on the Gregorian chant "Kyrie Eleison"
* (1990) "Operaa House!" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - based on the "Flower Duet" from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé
* (1991) "World In Union" by Kiri Te Kanawa (official theme song of the Rugby Union World Cup) - based on "I Vow to Thee, My Country" from Holst's The Planets Suite, opus 32, Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity (also covered by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (1995) and Shirley Bassey/Bryn Terfel (1999))
* (1994) "Basket Case" by Green Day - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
* (1995) "Clubbed to Death" by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts inspired by Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations
* (1996) "Clubbed to Death 2" by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts quoting Frederic Chopin's "Prelude No. 4 in E minor" (in Preludes, opus 28)
* (1997) "Tubthumper" by Chumbawamba - quotes Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary.
* (1998) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Sweetbox - based on Johann Sebastian Bach, Air from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major
* (1999) "Arpeggios From Hell" reworked/renamed "Molto Arpeggiosa" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight", 3rd movement
* (1999) "Barber's Adagio for Strings" by William Orbit - a techno/electronic version of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
* (1999) "Love of my Life" from Supernatural by Santana and Dave Matthews - based on the third movement from Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 3
1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Cretu and his wife Sandra Enigma is a musical project started by Michael Cretu and his wife Sandra Cretu in 1990. ... Kyrie is a Greek word that means Lord or Oh, Lord. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Malcolm McLaren (born January 22, 1946) is an impresario and self-publicist who was the manager of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. ... (Clément Philibert) Léo Delibes (February 21, 1836 â January 16, 1891) was a French composer of Romantic music. ... Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, based on the novel Rarahu ou Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ DBE AO (March 6, 1944), is a well-known New Zealand opera singer of Maori ancestry. ... The Rugby World Cup is the premier international Rugby Union contest in the world, first held jointly in Australia and New Zealand in 1987 and now held every four years. ... I Vow to Thee, My Country is an English patriotic song and Anglican hymn. ... Gustav Holst Gustavus Theodore von Holst (September 21, 1874 â May 25, 1934) was an English composer with Latvian (and some Spanish) roots. ... Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a chorus from South Africa that is noted for singing a cappella mbube music. ... Shirley Bassey in 2000 Dame Shirley Bassey (born January 8, 1937), is a Welsh singer, perhaps best known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). ... The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel (born November 9, 1965) is one of the best-known contemporary opera and concert singers. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Green Day is a pop punk band consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals, born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tré Cool (drummer, born Frank Edwin Wright III). ... Johann Pachelbel (päkhÉlbÄl) (August 1653 â March 3, 1706) was a German baroque composer and organist, best remembered for his Canon in D. Pachelbel was organist at Erfurt, in the Thuringian region of Germany. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Furious Angels, released in 2003, is the first album by Rob Dougan. ... Rob Dougan in 2003 for the promotion of his debut album Furious Angels Rob Dougan, who started as Rob D, is a genre-blending music composer mixing the sound of orchestral film music, the beat of club Trip Hop, and bluesy vocals, only tangentially relatable to electronic music. ... Furious Angels, released in 2003, is the first album by Rob Dougan. ... Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt OM GCVO (June 2, 1857 February 23, 1934) was a British composer, born in the small village of Lower Broadheath outside Worcester, Worcestershire, to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann. ... Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, op. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Furious Angels, released in 2003, is the first album by Rob Dougan. ... Rob Dougan in 2003 for the promotion of his debut album Furious Angels Rob Dougan, who started as Rob D, is a genre-blending music composer mixing the sound of orchestral film music, the beat of club Trip Hop, and bluesy vocals, only tangentially relatable to electronic music. ... Furious Angels, released in 2003, is the first album by Rob Dougan. ... This article is about Frédéric Chopin, the composer. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chumbawamba performing at Guildford Live 2001 Chumbawamba are a band from the UK who use their music to promote anarchist ideas. ... Jeremiah Clarke (1674 - July 16, 1707) was an English composer, now best remembered for the popular keyboard piece attributed to him, the Prince of Denmarks March, commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary and attributed for a long time to Henry Purcell. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Jade Villalon from Sweetbox Sweetbox, a German pop group, was formed in 1995, by producer Geo. ... Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748 portrait by Elias Gottlob Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 (O.S.) â 28 July 1750 (N.S.))[1] was a German composer and organist of the baroque period, and is widely acknowledged[2] as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Yngwie J. Malmsteen Yngwie J. Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a guitarist from Sweden who achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and fusion of classical music elements with heavy rock guitar. ... Ludwig van Beethovens opus 27 no. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... William Orbit 1999 William Orbit (born 1956 as William Wainwright) is a British musician and record producer, best known to the public for producing Madonnas album Ray of Light. ... Techno- is a prefix relating to technology. ... Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 â January 23, 1981) was an American composer of classical music best known for his Adagio for Strings. ... Adagio for Strings is a piece of classical music for string orchestra by Samuel Barber. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Supernatural is a 1999 concept album by Santana. ... Santana during concert in Barcelona 2003 Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a famous Mexican rock and roll guitarist, originally from Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco. ... Dave Matthews, 2003 Dave Matthews (born January 9, 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is the vocalist and guitarist from Dave Matthews Band. ... Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 â April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... Johannes Brahms Symphony No. ...
2000s
* (2000) "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
* (2000) "Hall of the Mountain King" by Apocalyptica - cello/metal cover of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt (Suite No.1, opus 46)
* (2000) "Love U Crazay" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Nutcracker
* (2000) "Those Dogs" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
* (2001) "Black, Black Heart" by David Usher from Morning Orbit - containing Léo Delibes' "The Flower Duet" from Lakmé
* (2001) "Piano & I" by Alicia Keys - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight", 1st movement
* (2001) "Someone to Call My Lover" by Janet Jackson - uses Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 (as well as America's "Ventura Highway").
* (2001) "Yatta" by Happa-tai - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
* (2002) "I Can" by Nas - contains a sample of the classical piece Fur Elise by Beethoven.
* (2002) "Symphony in X Major" by Xzibit - based largely on a (minor key) section Johann Sebastian Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto
* (2003) "When I Get You Alone" by Thicke - based on a sample from Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven" (q.v.) - itself based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
* (2003) "Karma" by Alicia Keys - contains a sample from Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto
* (2004) "Paris" by Delerium - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
* (2005) "They" by Jem - largely based on Prelude 12 from J. S. Bach's The Well-tempered Clavier (Book 2)
I find the more modern music interesting because I'm not really aware of some of the earlier music on this list (1910s, 1920s, etc.).
I'm posting this list here because I hope someone here can find it interesting and beneficial as I have in understanding the evolution of popular music better.
