Saturday, May 31, 2008

Classical music lists

Classical Music Everyone Can Enjoy

Track 1: Sprach Zarathustra - Strauss
Famous for: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Track 2: William Tell Overture - Rossini
Famous for: The Lone Ranger, William Tell Opera

Track 3: Hungarian Rhapsody - Liszt
Famous for: Bugs Bunny cartoon, Rhapsody Rabbit(1946), and other animated works

Track 4: Symphony no. 5, mvmt. 1 - Beethoven
Famous for: Extremely popular and widely played

Track 5: Hungarian Dance no. 5 - Brahms
Famous for: Used widely in movie soundtracks including The Cat in the Hat (2003) and Sixteen Candles

Track 6: Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin
Famous for: Extremely popular jazz/classical work

Track 7: Fanfare for the Common Man - Copland
Famous for: Movie soundtracks, easily recognizable

Track 8: Hoedown - Copland
Famous for: Beef commercials

Track 9: Sabre Dance - Khatchaturian
Famous for: Scrubbing Bubbles commercials, plate spinner acts on the Ed Sullivan show, and other television shows

Track 10: Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
Famous for: Used extensively in movies and cartoons

Road trip music list from About

Classical Music for Halloween

  • Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
  • Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
  • Brahms - Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 25
  • Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio)
  • Mozart - Requiem "Dies Irae"
  • Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna
  • Ives - Robert Browning Overture
  • Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.
  • George Crumb - Vox balaenae
  • Bela Bartok - Out of Doors, BB 89: No. 3 Musette
  • Modest Mussorgsky - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaba)
  • Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No.10, mvmt. 2
  • Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 2, mvmt. 2
  • Camille Saint-SaĆ«ns - Dance Macabre
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three Farewlls - All will be Well
  • Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 6
  • Krzysztof Penderecki's Symphony No. 1
List from About


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