Canzoni su base di musica classica

Prendendo spunto da quella “famosa” canzone basata su “Tchaikovsky”, vi voglio proporre una lista di canzoni che sono arrangiamenti o che comunque si basano su opere di musica classica.

Copio-incollo pari pari, la lista che ho trovato sulla wiki-inglese, partendo dalla metà anni 60, fino alla fine dei 70.

(1965) Diane and Annita’s “A Groovy Kind of Love” is heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op. 36 no. 5 by Muzio Clementi.

(1966) “The Shangri-Las” ((Past, Present and Future)) based on (Ludwig Van Beethoven) moonlight sonata.

(1966) The Move “Night of Fear” based on Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture

(1966) Fabrizio De André “Canzone dell’amore perduto” is heavily based on “Trumpet Concert in D” by George Philip Telemann

(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“.

(1967) “Schroeder” in the stage musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown – based on Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata“.

(1967) “Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin” by Frank Zappa on Side 1 of his album Absolutely Free quotes from “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” by Gustav Holst from his suite “The Planets”.

(1968) “Rain and Tears” by Aphrodite’s Child based on Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major.

(1968) “Please Don’t Go” by Donald Peers based on the Barcarolle from “The Tales of Hoffman” by Offenbach.

(1969) “Jane B.” by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg based on Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 in E minor.

(1969) “Mars: The Bringer of War” by King Crimson on Epitaph – a progressive rock arrangement of Mars, from the The Planets suite by Gustav Holst

(1969) “Bourée” by Jethro Tull (band), a progressive rock arrangement of Bourrée in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

(1969) “Day Dream” by The Wallace Collection (band), chorus based on Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

(1972) “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Deodato – a funk arrangement of Richard Strauss composition of the same name

(1972) “Joy” by Apollo 100 – based on J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

(1972) “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer – entire album based on the work by Modest Mussorgsky, with two original pieces (“The Sage” and “The Curse of Baba Yaga“), and a live cover of “Nut Rocker” featuring Clavinet

(1973) Joybringer by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – based on Gustav Holst’s Jupiter

(1973) “American Tune” by Paul Simon – based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

(1974) “I Believe in Father Christmas” by Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield – The instrumental riff between verses comes from the “Troika” portion of Sergei Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé Suite written for a 1934 Soviet film, Poruchik Kizhe.

(1975) “Take my heart” by Jacky James – romantic pop, huge success in Brazil, based on “In a Persian Market” by Albert Ketelbey.

(1975) “All by Myself” by Eric Carmen – borrows heavily from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.

Same year, Carmen’s “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again” borrows from the Adagio of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2

(1975) “Could It Be Magic” by Barry Manilow – inspired by Chopin’s Prelude In C Minor (Prelude #20: Largo)

(1976) “Great Expectations” by Kiss – uses Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata

(1976) “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy – disco version of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, featured in Saturday Night Fever

(1976) “Night on Disco Mountain” by David Shire – disco version of Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, featured in Saturday Night Fever

(1977) “The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer an excerpt of the 2nd movement of “The Scythian Suite” by Sergei Prokofiev

(1977) “If I Had Words” by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley – based on Saint-Saens Symphony No.3 in C minor (Organ Symphony)

(1979) “Lady Lynda” by Alan Jardine and Ron Altbach for The Beach Boys – based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

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