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@@chmendez It depends mainly on the print and photo quality. If the photo is sharp and of decent resolution (8MPx or more) or 300 DPI in greyscale in the case of scans/PDFs, you will get good results, i.e. it should recognize everything. It might struggle with faded prints (blurred contours, missing bits of symbols, interrupted lines) or unusual fonts (in some older prints); this will be the case with most optical resolution software to some extent. The app gets tested with thousands of scores and I use examples from user feedback to improve the app in the next releases.
@@sheetmusicscanner Your app is awesome and incredibly lowly priced. I couldn't begin to transcribe all the old classical guitar pieces I have in books, hear the proper timing, and whether it is even worth me learning before I start, without your app. Have a great day, and thanks :)
me too! "never gonna fall in love again" is another eric carmen song that draws from the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 Op. 27, and i adore both
Wow. I’ve recently been getting into classical music and I fell in love with this piece. It immediately became my favourite ever classical piece; I was struck by how quickly the melody connected with me, it almost sounded familiar... Now I know why 😂
Billie eilish had said in “a love letter to Los Angeles”, that she was inspired to write goldwing from when she sang the song in a choir. She also had those girls that she was on the choir with sing the intro in the film. Not sure if they were on the original recording though.
ye she said that when she was in choir, she thought the song was really beautiful and she took the song and used it as a metaphor. the metaphor is goldwing being a young woman in the industry who hasnt been exploited and used yet, the epitome of innocence. also its just billie in the original recording, she learnt every part
These sampling videos are something else! I think it’s cool that musicians take from other artists because it can introduce the listeners to other works. I discovered the Samson and Delilah opera from Muse!
"Softly awakes my heart" from "Samson and Delilah" has t be one of the most erotically charged pieces of music of all time -perhaps only second to the "Love Death"(Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde"I believe Saint Saens spent years in Algeria to get the flavor of Arab music which he thought ancient Philistine music sounded like.
I like mutations in music. For example: “Apache”, written by Jerry Lordan in the mid 50s was recorded in 1960 by Bert Weedon. He showed it to The Shadows, that recorded their versions (there are other versions, there’s also a version by Hot Butter from 1972, for example). Then, in 1973, The Incredible Bongo Band made their version. The IBB version got sampled, and in 1981 The Sugarhill Gang released their version, made popular by the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Really interesting road, the one of this song.
Shoutouts to The Shadows and Jørgen Ingemann for sure... but Tommy Seebach's (another Dane) 1979 disco recording of Apache has a special place in my heart. Probably because it was the first one I heard.
Serge Gainsbourg used a lot of classical music in his songs : - Initiales BB : Dvorak, symphony n°9 - Charlotte Forever : Khachaturian, andantino - Baby alone in Babylon : Brahms, symphony n°3 I could add : - Donna Summer, Could it be magic : Chopin, prelude in C minor - Tino Rossi, Tristesse : Chopin, etude op.10 n°3 - Muse, Space Dementia : Rachmaninov, piano concerto n°2 - Maurane, Sur un prélude de Bach : Bach, prelude in C major from WTC1
Serge also "borrowed" the main melody of My Lady Heroine from "In a Persian Market" by Albert Ketèlbey. And one of the melodies of "Lemon Incest" was from Frédéric Chopin piece Etude Op.10, No. 3 in E Major.
Billy Joel actually credited Beethoven for his chorus in "This Night," but I've always wondered if the opening verse of "Through the Long Night" wasn't lifted from some classical piece. BTW, I think the fabulous bridge in that song is all Billy's.
@@jacobevanoski1221 I know Joel has a background in classical, so it wouldn't surprise me. And speaking of "This Night" (Pathetique Sonata 2nd m.) it was actually the theme song for Karl Hass's Adventures In Fine Music radio show.
Not to mention the fact that Uptown Girl is basically straight-up Bolero. And Billy Joel has written some really good classical stuff in the last 25 years or so. “Elegy: The Great Peconic” is my favorite of the pieces I’ve heard.
@@Mare416 You've got me laughing, but when I listen to it in my head, well, you're pretty much right on for the first eight bars or so! I'd have to say Joel's improved on the arrangement with his up-tempo take.
After including Minecraft, I think it would be awesome to see your style of musical analysis done with video game music, particularly the 8/16-bit era. There are a lot of really incredible compositions that were pulled off on pretty simple hardware. A few less well known examples I can think of include Rocket Knight Adventures (Genesis), Bucky O'Hare (NES), and Solstice/Pictionary (NES, both by Tim Follin).
Thanks! I assume you've seen my Minecraft analysis video: ua-cam.com/video/ZiM3RUTrvn4/v-deo.html I would love to anaylse some of that earlier NES music (although 8-bit Music Theory has already done an amazing job!)
@@DavidBennettPiano I've seen the Minecraft video before, and I definitely think there are plenty more games out there that would scratch similar itches. 8BMT is terrific, but a lot of it tends to go over my head as someone without the training/vocabulary to follow the extremely thorough breakdown that they do. I really appreciate your approach to discussing music and composition, as it makes me feel juuuuust smart enough to get it. XD
@@DavidBennettPiano If you want a piece of game music that quotes both the Funeral March and the Bridal March hidden within a version of "Ten Green Bottles" look no further than "Lemmings" ua-cam.com/video/-b8EzCd9w54/v-deo.html Given the nature of the game it's sort of appropriate. The Amiga's musical capability seemed less crude when I was fourteen...
Thanks! I love Queen and Floyd too. I certainly need to do some more videos on Floyd! Here's a video I did recently on Queen in case you missed it: ua-cam.com/video/Tq2z5hlXiCs/v-deo.html
@@marianacaffaro No one, apart from the Beatles, has had a growth of creativity similar to theirs. From "Love me do" to "Abbey road" and everything in between in 7/8 years made them not a band but a miracle.
I made my little cello player (she started playing it in 4th grade) learn that Bach #1 cello piece "That Cello Song" because I liked it despite knowing how huge a cliche it is for cello players. It was wonderful having her learn it, and hearing her practice it and perfect it over time. She's now a cello performance and music education major at a small school, and hopes to teach more kids how to play strings.
Another excellent video, thank you. Well done for including Genesis. We need more of that! There was of course Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry, also based on his fifth symphony, later successfully covered by ELO.
Wow so Outkast wanted to portray their visions of being together with someone but then that all changed. the music and words really do have the same theme and work so well together
"American Tune" by Paul Simon - based on Bach's St. Matthew Passion. "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on the minuet in G from Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
Hi David, I'm not sure if you've already covered The Killers' 'Mr Brightside' in one of you previous videos, but the instrumental parts right after each chorus are too strikingly similar to Beethoven's 9th symphony to be accidental. The same is true for 'Handwritten' by The Gaslight Anthem, which - whether consciously or not - borrows from Haydn's 'God Save Emperor Francis', now mostly known for its use as the German national hymn.
What? No mention of the most famous example, Eric Carmen, who borrowed from Rachmaninoff and Chopin? To the point where he had to reach a settlement with the Rachmaninoff estate for back-end points on two of his biggest hits.
"Wuhld" is almost worse than a Bostonian. Honestly this sounds better to me than a Bostonian because my parents liked britcoms late at night on the local PBS station. I got adapted to this accent pretty fast when I got a pubescent liking to Penelope Keith's hipbones. Y'all Brits probably think I say "world" as "wuhrrrl(d)".
I'm a Brit and I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce world like David. Sounds like "werruhwd" to me. But in the UK you only need to travel a few miles and the accent can be very different. Up here in the North East we say "wuurld" with very little emphasis on the r.
Hey David, just wanted to say that the recording you used for Beethoven 5 plays it wrong (which is very very common). Most orchestra’s play the main motif like triplets despite being eighth notes. It would be interesting to see a video of similar occurrences of incorrectly played passages (like a musical Mandela effect)
I don't hear it played wrongly on this video: it sounds like three normal quavers to me and not a triplet. It would be quite difficult for a conductor/orchestra to perform the opening with triplets as the entire movement is based on this rhythm which could never be played as a triplet anywhere else. I know a lot of people not well acquainted with this piece *imagine* that it begins with triplets (mainly because they do not know how it continues).
In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, when you enter Stan's Previously Used Coffins, you hear a tone played in the same rhythm as Chopin's Funeral March. This of course only lasts 4 bars before the Stan theme takes over.
Soundtracks for games/movies/cartoons/etc. usually lift popular themes from classical music or folk tunes, because of how strongly we associate them with very specific ideas or feelings. Watch a Tom and Jerry or a Looney Tunes episode and you'll see what I mean. Its not just in English speaking countries either. Japanese and Russian cartoons also lift from their folk tunes.
@Weeping Scorpion But then later in the track, it references Wagner's Bridal Chorus too! There's definitely another piece from that game that references The Funeral March but I can't remember which one, likely the graveyard or the swamp.
@@MisterM2402 You're probably right. I just remember those first notes, since it's been a while since I played the game/listened to the songs. I can't think of the other piece right here and now but I'll try to remember it.
There's a few videos on this already, and you may have mentioned it before, but it would be awesome to see your take on the use of the dies irae in popular/classical music. Great video as well
Apologies if you’ve covered this, but there’s the story of John Lennon hearing Yoko Ono playing “Moonlight Sonata” on piano and asking her to play it backwards, and thats the origins of “Because” (then again, I’m not sure it’s exactly “Moonlight Sonata” played backwards in the final recording.)
"Somewhere" by Sondheim and Bernstein. Bernstein ,who wrote the music, used several measures of pieces from Beethoven, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky in the verses of the song. The bridge, however, is all Bernstein. The motifs he pocketed are from Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5, Strauss's Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, "Song of the Swan."
I think if you were to honestly pick a music genre that pays the most homage to classical it would actually be metal not pop or rock. There is quite a bit of influence there.
How the hell did you forget Muse? I don’t usually get angry, but you are British! You should know better than to completely forget an entire band from YOUR home country. Are you planning to make an entire video dedicated to muse? I hope so!
10:24 I actually remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" very well from LittleBigPlanet 2 of all things, haha xD I think it was only used on one or two levels, but it's so well imprinted in my memory, lol Awesome video as usual, David ;)
11:28 - “The Classics” are also … well, “classic,” so borrowing from them evokes a sense of “classiness.” The risk, however, is that doing so can also evoke a sense of “I’m out of original ideas”!
The music may have entered the public domain 70 years after the composer’s death. But how about the performance of the music. I suppose it is also protected by some copyright law and people cannot just reuse it by themselves just because the music was composed by someone who has long been dead?
Love these videos! One of my favourites is Joybringer by Manfred Mann, based on Jupiter by Holst. (One I always think of when you do these videos, apologies if I've missed it!)
You talked about the chopin funeral March but how didn't you talk about Garry Mulligan jazz spin of Chopin's famous prelude? In my eyes it's the best modernization of a classical piece there is
And don't forget "Lover's Concerto". "A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, based on the 18th century composition by Christian Petzold, "Minuet in G major", and recorded in 1965 by the Toys. This is mentioned in the Film "Mr. Holland's Opus" When Richard Dretfuss' character is teaching a high school music class.
I have been binge watching your videos over the past week (BOO COVID!) and I have found every single one of your videos informative, fun, and educational. I have a musical background but watching your stuff has helped me understand things I couldn't get back when I was playing Horn or Trumpet. This video didn't disappoint either, and I love seeing artists interpret others works. Also, I loved the 2112 reference (I'm a huge Rush fan) and I'm sure you could pull more into your videos. I also am a huge Pink Floyd and Beatles fan, so I always enjoy your stuff. Your Music Theory video was awesome. Please don't stop what you're doing! You're teaching old dogs new tricks. Also, last shout out to the 7/4 video. Freres Jacques was a winner! Thank you for what you do!
I don't think Rush ever did so clear a reference to an earlier riff as they did in 2112. The only time they ran into copyright trouble was with "La Villa Strangiato" which used a line borrowed from a 1930's jazz piece called Powerhouse. This song was licensed to Warner Bros in the 1940s and was heard in lots of cartoons Geddy and Alex saw on TV. The Powerhouse riff also appears in Megalovania from Undertale.
@@Bacopa68 Right after Neil Peart died I read somewhere Geddy Lee saying they caught some grief when they did that. So copyright strikes were an issue in the 70s and 80s too.
When artists (eg Billie E) are invited to write a 007 theme song-- they must have permission to use all the famous James-Bond-y bits, but I guess not just anyone can use them?
When that happens, the composer(s) write the theme song, but the movie company secures the licensing to make it legal. Once a piece is recorded, anyone can cover or use "the bits" but they have to pay for use.
I love this! Another one to take into consideration is Evanescence's Lacrymosa, which uses the Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem. I used to teach various music appreciation classes and one of the ones I taught I based the whole class around classical pieces that had made their way into popular music. It was a fun and challenging class to come up with all the examples.
Plagiarism made "legitimate" by the passage of time. At the very least artists should give credit to the composers and music that inspired them. Maybe money from perpetual copyrights could be used to support the musical arts?
Copyright and having to pay royalties, etc. is from what I gather mostly to protect the artist themselves, but I don’t think it matters very much if they’re no longer around like classical composers
Simon and Garfunkel's 'Old Friends' is built on the two notes that end Ravel's opera, 'L'Enfant et les Sortileges' (when the child wakens from his dream and calls for his mother, "Ma-man!")
Hi David, one melody that seems to pop up occasionally is the Troika from Prokoviev's Lt Kijé Suite. For example (if I remember correctly) Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas", from the 70s. Interestingly, Prokoviev died in 1953, so would his estate been entitled to royalties? My apologies if you've already covered this as I haven't seen all your videos.
Sting did the song called Russians, and when Kije Suite came up in class I looked it up again. I ended up finding a gabber tune that uses prokofiev called "I will have that power" by Hard Creation, iirc. Bonkers
Another Billy, Billy Joel was very fond of incorporating Ludwig van into his songs e.g., This Night, Prelude/Angry Young Man But the Classical Composers were all very open about the sampling and borrowing from previous greats. That was the way music progressed in those days and indicated a knowledgable and reverential composer.
8:46 where Chopin’s funeral march begins reminds me a lot of a consistent theme of the soundtrack for the most recent adaptation of Batman. The theme can be heard beginning at 1:37 of the main trailer (ua-cam.com/video/mqqft2x_Aa4/v-deo.html) and through the remainder, but shows up in various songs of The Batman’s soundtrack. Does this count as an example of Chopin’s Funeral March with some modification? Or am I mishearing the two?
Which is funny because I keep hearing the Imperial March in that song, but a few comments up a few people mentioned that Imperial March itself has some similarities to Chopin so perhaps it all comes full circle.
Billie also has I love you from WWAFAWDWG,and she added that part into gold wing because she was in the los Angeles choir and they'd perform/practice with that
Surely “Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond, inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 and “All by myself” by Eric Carmen inspired by Rachmaninoff’s Piano concerto No 2 in C minor Opus 18 are worthy of notable mentions ?
you're freaking me out here, i was just trying to find out what chords she was harmonizing in the intro based on that piece, i mean really right now in this moment, i opened youtube and found your video as well. are you reading minds? i'd ask you to leave my head please, if you don't mind
The Australian group The Seekers used Beethoven's Ode to Joy from his 9th symphony and just added different words to the original tune and called it Emerald City based on Frank L Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
I like how modern music takes from classical music as that’s what a lot of composers back then did. They tended to take someone else’s melody and make variations to it, and it was ok to do.
My understanding is that it was considered flattering if another composer borrowed from your work. But credit was always given, usually by saying it was based on a theme or a variation as you stated by so and so.
8:59 just a helpful tip, it’s a piano sonata, therefore the opus number would be “Chopin Piano Sonata op 35 No 1, Movement 3 - Funeral March”. it wouldn’t be op 35 no 2.
even when some of them don't directly borrow from the classical music it's fairly obvious that most artists are still heavily influenced by classical music whether they realize it or not. Queen's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been described countless times as a rock-opera, and the album it debuted on was called "A Night at The Opera". modern piano-based sheet music can trace it's origins all the way back to the time when these classical composers actually wrote their famous pieces while behind a piano.
Correct, Freddie Elton may be modern day Bach's Think about it, reaaaaaly good on the piano, very eccentric, signs of geniuses, if it hasn't been said before im saying it
Surprised to see 2112 and Ward I know "Streets of Cairo" from Ke$ha also learning about "Hearts of Iron" by Sabaton from "Air on the G String" (It was used in an Anime that really messed me up before I got into the band) and "Christmas Truth" also by Sabaton using "Carol of the Bells"
Another wonderful video, thanks. Using excerpts from well-known classical pieces works well in comedy. I use part of the wedding march and funeral march in my own songs. Those songs have also been used in countless cartoons and comedy bits. Maybe comedy could be a theme for a future video? Or how classical music is used in cartoons?
Is it weird that i immediately thought of a funeral at 8:40? Also i think the breakdown of Freezing Moon by Mayhem also quotes Funeral March, i'm actually not sure if it's intentional but the rythm for the first 8 bars is basically the same until it changes to the same pattern but changing the half note in the start of every other bar for two quarters, and it also does the same thing as Funeral March where the melody is just two notes, except it's E and F instead
Walter Murphy wrote the themes for "Family Guy" and "American Dad" and does all the orchestration and conducts the music for both those shows with a real orchestra (though probably not a full one). It's probably why, despite your opinion of the humour in those shows, the music is always fantastic and Seth MacFarlane's albums always sound amazingly arranged. He can definitely sing, and when Walter Murphy does the arranging/conducting, it makes it even better.
The Wallace Collection's song Daydream uses the melody of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet. And that song was of course famously sampled by I Monster in their song Daydream In Blue.
me, a classical musician, watching this video and smirking cause i know i’m going to use this video to my advantage when proving to ppl that classical music is underrated
Blackbird was also inspired by a Bach piece Paul used to play when the Beatles auditioned for gigs. Check out McCartney's interview where he talks about this.
You certainly have a great ear (intonation too, ha ) and a great repetoir with which to refer. Sometimes, those who were trained in classical standards, subconsciously come up with "copied " melodies. Most writers today take pride in their originality...but I, myself caught myself basing a love song on the same three notes, utilized by Willie Nelson. He had a song I'd never heard before, titled " She's Gone." Mine is titled " Don't Let me be Lonely Tonight" (as a solo as well as a duo with Fred Gold.) I found later that Willie, had "apparently" taken the same Dminor and first three chords from the classical also. SO, BOTH Willie and I are apparently to blame for "hearing and writing" those in our songs! BTW MY " Don't Let me be Lonely Tonight' is NOTHING like James Taylor's and was written two years prior to his. UNINTENTIONAL sometimes, INTENTIONAL...NOT me. I'd always admit if I "rearranged" something, and don't ever consider it "copying." Sincerely, LyndaFayeSmusic@Yahoo&Bandcamp "One Enchanted Evening, I Found an Old Friend." in French & Italian by Ana Marie Ceuca. Google doesn't have an ear, so they first zeroed in on the first three words, and never considered the rest of the title.) ORIGINAL
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@@chmendez I was wondering that too
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I've often wondered if the Moody Blues' "Blue Guitar" borrowed its descending phrase from Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad?
One of my favorite examples of this is "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen, based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
This was mentioned in one of davids previous videos on this topic! Great song
me too! "never gonna fall in love again" is another eric carmen song that draws from the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 Op. 27, and i adore both
Why did I see Eric Cartman?
Wow. I’ve recently been getting into classical music and I fell in love with this piece. It immediately became my favourite ever classical piece; I was struck by how quickly the melody connected with me, it almost sounded familiar...
Now I know why 😂
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Billie eilish had said in “a love letter to Los Angeles”, that she was inspired to write goldwing from when she sang the song in a choir. She also had those girls that she was on the choir with sing the intro in the film. Not sure if they were on the original recording though.
ye she said that when she was in choir, she thought the song was really beautiful and she took the song and used it as a metaphor. the metaphor is goldwing being a young woman in the industry who hasnt been exploited and used yet, the epitome of innocence.
also its just billie in the original recording, she learnt every part
@@Gabriel_Domingues Idk sounds pretty high to me
These sampling videos are something else! I think it’s cool that musicians take from other artists because it can introduce the listeners to other works. I discovered the Samson and Delilah opera from Muse!
I agree! Everything is derivative. People are inspired by those who came before and inspire those who come after. As it should be.
"Softly awakes my heart" from "Samson and Delilah" has t be one of the most erotically charged pieces of music of all time -perhaps only second to the "Love Death"(Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde"I believe Saint Saens spent years in Algeria to get the flavor of Arab music which he thought ancient Philistine music sounded like.
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ngl these classical pieces are nothing if it weren't for these artists
I like mutations in music. For example: “Apache”, written by Jerry Lordan in the mid 50s was recorded in 1960 by Bert Weedon. He showed it to The Shadows, that recorded their versions (there are other versions, there’s also a version by Hot Butter from 1972, for example). Then, in 1973, The Incredible Bongo Band made their version. The IBB version got sampled, and in 1981 The Sugarhill Gang released their version, made popular by the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Really interesting road, the one of this song.
I thought Apache was originally by The Shadows!!
Jorgen Ingemann, a Danish guitarist also did a version of this song.
@@joermnyc Yes! And it’s one of the popular versions of this song.
Shoutouts to The Shadows and Jørgen Ingemann for sure... but Tommy Seebach's (another Dane) 1979 disco recording of Apache has a special place in my heart. Probably because it was the first one I heard.
by the time you type fresh prince of Bel-Air, you sumonned this
will : "how come he dont want me man 🥺"
Serge Gainsbourg used a lot of classical music in his songs :
- Initiales BB : Dvorak, symphony n°9
- Charlotte Forever : Khachaturian, andantino
- Baby alone in Babylon : Brahms, symphony n°3
I could add :
- Donna Summer, Could it be magic : Chopin, prelude in C minor
- Tino Rossi, Tristesse : Chopin, etude op.10 n°3
- Muse, Space Dementia : Rachmaninov, piano concerto n°2
- Maurane, Sur un prélude de Bach : Bach, prelude in C major from WTC1
Yes, to Serge Gainsbourg. Could It Be Magic was originally by Barry Manilow.
@@joemcginty7 You're right !
Serge also "borrowed" the main melody of My Lady Heroine from "In a Persian Market" by Albert Ketèlbey. And one of the melodies of "Lemon Incest" was from Frédéric Chopin piece Etude Op.10, No. 3 in E Major.
Pour Gainsbourg, I completely agree! Les autres je connais moins... mais pour J.s. Bach, sa musique a été complètement inspirante ! ❤
Pour Gainsbourg ,I completely agree! Après pour les autres je connais moins. Je sais que la musique de J S Bach a toujours été inspirante ❤
Billy Joel actually credited Beethoven for his chorus in "This Night," but I've always wondered if the opening verse of "Through the Long Night" wasn't lifted from some classical piece. BTW, I think the fabulous bridge in that song is all Billy's.
I agree. The verse to Through the Long Night sounds like a piece by Handel to me.
@@jacobevanoski1221 I know Joel has a background in classical, so it wouldn't surprise me. And speaking of "This Night" (Pathetique Sonata 2nd m.) it was actually the theme song for Karl Hass's Adventures In Fine Music radio show.
Not to mention the fact that Uptown Girl is basically straight-up Bolero.
And Billy Joel has written some really good classical stuff in the last 25 years or so. “Elegy: The Great Peconic” is my favorite of the pieces I’ve heard.
@@Mare416 You've got me laughing, but when I listen to it in my head, well, you're pretty much right on for the first eight bars or so! I'd have to say Joel's improved on the arrangement with his up-tempo take.
@@TheRealDrJoey “Hello everyone!”
After including Minecraft, I think it would be awesome to see your style of musical analysis done with video game music, particularly the 8/16-bit era. There are a lot of really incredible compositions that were pulled off on pretty simple hardware. A few less well known examples I can think of include Rocket Knight Adventures (Genesis), Bucky O'Hare (NES), and Solstice/Pictionary (NES, both by Tim Follin).
Thanks! I assume you've seen my Minecraft analysis video: ua-cam.com/video/ZiM3RUTrvn4/v-deo.html I would love to anaylse some of that earlier NES music (although 8-bit Music Theory has already done an amazing job!)
@@DavidBennettPiano I've seen the Minecraft video before, and I definitely think there are plenty more games out there that would scratch similar itches. 8BMT is terrific, but a lot of it tends to go over my head as someone without the training/vocabulary to follow the extremely thorough breakdown that they do. I really appreciate your approach to discussing music and composition, as it makes me feel juuuuust smart enough to get it. XD
@@DavidBennettPiano If you want a piece of game music that quotes both the Funeral March and the Bridal March hidden within a version of "Ten Green Bottles" look no further than "Lemmings" ua-cam.com/video/-b8EzCd9w54/v-deo.html Given the nature of the game it's sort of appropriate.
The Amiga's musical capability seemed less crude when I was fourteen...
How about touhou? XD it has nice music, quite iconic in meme scene
My absolute favourite example from Lemmings is when they mix O Little Town of Bethlehem with the theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
I know that you mainly have a Love for The Beatles or Radiohead but Bands like Queen or Pink Floyd have some amazing songs in their Discography.
I'm a Beatle fan and I love Pink Floyd (I have all their discography) and Queen too
Thanks! I love Queen and Floyd too. I certainly need to do some more videos on Floyd! Here's a video I did recently on Queen in case you missed it: ua-cam.com/video/Tq2z5hlXiCs/v-deo.html
@@marianacaffaro No one, apart from the Beatles, has had a growth of creativity similar to theirs. From "Love me do" to "Abbey road" and everything in between in 7/8 years made them not a band but a miracle.
I made my little cello player (she started playing it in 4th grade) learn that Bach #1 cello piece "That Cello Song" because I liked it despite knowing how huge a cliche it is for cello players. It was wonderful having her learn it, and hearing her practice it and perfect it over time. She's now a cello performance and music education major at a small school, and hopes to teach more kids how to play strings.
Prelude to Cello Suite No. 1?
Who the hell cares?
Rina Sawayama’s “Snakeskin” samples Beethoven and it adds so much to the song, you should include it in your next video
Another excellent video, thank you.
Well done for including Genesis. We need more of that!
There was of course Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry, also based on his fifth symphony, later successfully covered by ELO.
Good call!
check out on youtube the Dutch band Ekseption, they always use classical music in there recordings.
There's also "Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles!
@@Herby701Indeed, several covers of classical pieces can be found on this album: ua-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_kV7qRwlki_fBqO8epsup4vUSfrPnaa8Kw.html
And also covered by The Beatles
Wow so Outkast wanted to portray their visions of being together with someone but then that all changed. the music and words really do have the same theme and work so well together
That record is amazing
I think Beethoven always envisioned a disco beat for his symphony:)
Beethoven anticipated jazz/boogie-woogie a century ahead of its time: ua-cam.com/video/uQMCfqFr4XA/v-deo.html ;)
The song by Procol Harum ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ is based on JS Bach’s ‘Air on G String.’ It has an awesome keyboard intro and bridge.
"American Tune" by Paul Simon - based on Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
"A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on the minuet in G from Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
"American Tune" was actually my first exposure to the Passion Chorale! (Which I love.)
Probably heard Ms Jackson a couple of hundred times in my life and never noticed the interpolation of the Wagner, amazing
Hi David, I'm not sure if you've already covered The Killers' 'Mr Brightside' in one of you previous videos, but the instrumental parts right after each chorus are too strikingly similar to Beethoven's 9th symphony to be accidental.
The same is true for 'Handwritten' by The Gaslight Anthem, which - whether consciously or not - borrows from Haydn's 'God Save Emperor Francis', now mostly known for its use as the German national hymn.
Thanks 😃 I actually covered Mr Brightside vs Beethoven in this video: ua-cam.com/video/JE5Vb2xR06k/v-deo.html
My takeaway is something I already knew: Bach is the GOAT!
He is the boss of music
He is the big music daddy that all musicians pray to before going to sleep
What? No mention of the most famous example, Eric Carmen, who borrowed from Rachmaninoff and Chopin? To the point where he had to reach a settlement with the Rachmaninoff estate for back-end points on two of his biggest hits.
I’d watch a 5-minute video of just David pronouncing the word “world.”
"Wuhld" is almost worse than a Bostonian. Honestly this sounds better to me than a Bostonian because my parents liked britcoms late at night on the local PBS station. I got adapted to this accent pretty fast when I got a pubescent liking to Penelope Keith's hipbones.
Y'all Brits probably think I say "world" as "wuhrrrl(d)".
I'm a Brit and I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce world like David. Sounds like "werruhwd" to me. But in the UK you only need to travel a few miles and the accent can be very different. Up here in the North East we say "wuurld" with very little emphasis on the r.
Oh, what? A weld?…
your pronouncation of Leoš Janáček's name is a way too cute haha. It should be more like Léosh. Greetings from Czechia
The funeral march was used in early 1980s video games (8 bit stuff) to denote when you died. I guess it's been carried on ever since.
Ah!!! George Martin was a tricky bastard, I always thought "In My Life" was a harpsicord. Cheater!
Hey David, just wanted to say that the recording you used for Beethoven 5 plays it wrong (which is very very common). Most orchestra’s play the main motif like triplets despite being eighth notes. It would be interesting to see a video of similar occurrences of incorrectly played passages (like a musical Mandela effect)
I don't hear it played wrongly on this video: it sounds like three normal quavers to me and not a triplet. It would be quite difficult for a conductor/orchestra to perform the opening with triplets as the entire movement is based on this rhythm which could never be played as a triplet anywhere else. I know a lot of people not well acquainted with this piece *imagine* that it begins with triplets (mainly because they do not know how it continues).
In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, when you enter Stan's Previously Used Coffins, you hear a tone played in the same rhythm as Chopin's Funeral March. This of course only lasts 4 bars before the Stan theme takes over.
Soundtracks for games/movies/cartoons/etc. usually lift popular themes from classical music or folk tunes, because of how strongly we associate them with very specific ideas or feelings. Watch a Tom and Jerry or a Looney Tunes episode and you'll see what I mean. Its not just in English speaking countries either. Japanese and Russian cartoons also lift from their folk tunes.
@Weeping Scorpion But then later in the track, it references Wagner's Bridal Chorus too! There's definitely another piece from that game that references The Funeral March but I can't remember which one, likely the graveyard or the swamp.
@@MisterM2402 You're probably right. I just remember those first notes, since it's been a while since I played the game/listened to the songs. I can't think of the other piece right here and now but I'll try to remember it.
@@weepingscorpion8739 I just looked it up and it's definitely The Cemetery theme, which obviously would make sense! Quite subtle but certainly there.
@@MisterM2402 I thought of that one the first but I couldn't remember where in the song that passage is. I'll go listen again, thanks.
There's a few videos on this already, and you may have mentioned it before, but it would be awesome to see your take on the use of the dies irae in popular/classical music. Great video as well
The Augurs of Spring from the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky directly inspired King Crimson's Lark's Tongues in Aspic pt 2
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Muse’s “Collateral Damage” is Nocturne Op 9 No 2 by Chopin 😄
Apologies if you’ve covered this, but there’s the story of John Lennon hearing Yoko Ono playing “Moonlight Sonata” on piano and asking her to play it backwards, and thats the origins of “Because” (then again, I’m not sure it’s exactly “Moonlight Sonata” played backwards in the final recording.)
"Somewhere" by Sondheim and Bernstein. Bernstein ,who wrote the music, used several measures of pieces from Beethoven, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky in the verses of the song. The bridge, however, is all Bernstein.
The motifs he pocketed are from Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5, Strauss's Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, "Song of the Swan."
I think if you were to honestly pick a music genre that pays the most homage to classical it would actually be metal not pop or rock. There is quite a bit of influence there.
How the hell did you forget Muse? I don’t usually get angry, but you are British! You should know better than to completely forget an entire band from YOUR home country. Are you planning to make an entire video dedicated to muse? I hope so!
Great video; a little correction about Robin Thicke's When I Get You Alone which was released in 2002, not 2012.
I think as soon as an artist gets inspired by classical music you can hear it because its just different hahaha.
Those copy-paste examples of Chopin Death March are quite obvious. I like more subtle exercises as Nirvana Something in the Way..
10:24 I actually remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" very well from LittleBigPlanet 2 of all things, haha xD
I think it was only used on one or two levels, but it's so well imprinted in my memory, lol
Awesome video as usual, David ;)
11:28 - “The Classics” are also … well, “classic,” so borrowing from them evokes a sense of “classiness.” The risk, however, is that doing so can also evoke a sense of “I’m out of original ideas”!
The music may have entered the public domain 70 years after the composer’s death. But how about the performance of the music. I suppose it is also protected by some copyright law and people cannot just reuse it by themselves just because the music was composed by someone who has long been dead?
Love these videos! One of my favourites is Joybringer by Manfred Mann, based on Jupiter by Holst. (One I always think of when you do these videos, apologies if I've missed it!)
I only now noticed that there is one piece from Star Wars that sounds almost exactly like Chopins funeral march I just forgot the name of it
Also billy joel used beethovens pathetique to make his song that i dont remeber now, and smoke on the water was based of beethovens 5th, right?
I once found a melody from a piece of debussy in a song of Adele. Forgot which parts though.
Chopin's Funeral March also left a trace in Star Wars' soundtrack...
Human Sadness by The Voidz is a great example! It samples Mozart’s Requiem in D minor
One of the best songs of the 21st century!... also samples Rumi's poem 'The Great Wagon'. I think the 70 year patent could be up on that one too!
A non-obvious one: the intro to the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd is closely similar to the first bars of "Jerusalem" by Sir Hubert Parry.
I think Batman 2022's theme by Michael Giacchino is also inspired by The Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata
You talked about the chopin funeral March but how didn't you talk about Garry Mulligan jazz spin of Chopin's famous prelude? In my eyes it's the best modernization of a classical piece there is
Sonata no.5 by Muzio Clementi inspired the song “A Groovy Kind of Love”! Thank me later ☺️
AJR did this when they sampled Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air on the G String From Suite No. 3" on their song "The Good Part".
And don't forget "Lover's Concerto".
"A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, based on the 18th century composition by Christian Petzold, "Minuet in G major", and recorded in 1965 by the Toys.
This is mentioned in the Film "Mr. Holland's Opus" When Richard Dretfuss' character is teaching a high school music class.
My favorite example of this is Love of My Life by Santana from the supernatural album. The melody is from Brahms 3rd
I have been binge watching your videos over the past week (BOO COVID!) and I have found every single one of your videos informative, fun, and educational. I have a musical background but watching your stuff has helped me understand things I couldn't get back when I was playing Horn or Trumpet. This video didn't disappoint either, and I love seeing artists interpret others works. Also, I loved the 2112 reference (I'm a huge Rush fan) and I'm sure you could pull more into your videos. I also am a huge Pink Floyd and Beatles fan, so I always enjoy your stuff. Your Music Theory video was awesome. Please don't stop what you're doing! You're teaching old dogs new tricks. Also, last shout out to the 7/4 video. Freres Jacques was a winner! Thank you for what you do!
I don't think Rush ever did so clear a reference to an earlier riff as they did in 2112. The only time they ran into copyright trouble was with "La Villa Strangiato" which used a line borrowed from a 1930's jazz piece called Powerhouse. This song was licensed to Warner Bros in the 1940s and was heard in lots of cartoons Geddy and Alex saw on TV.
The Powerhouse riff also appears in Megalovania from Undertale.
@@Bacopa68 Right after Neil Peart died I read somewhere Geddy Lee saying they caught some grief when they did that. So copyright strikes were an issue in the 70s and 80s too.
It is interesting to see how pop songs using clasical music create a kind of bridge between two very diffent kinds of music🎶
When artists (eg Billie E) are invited to write a 007 theme song-- they must have permission to use all the famous James-Bond-y bits, but I guess not just anyone can use them?
When that happens, the composer(s) write the theme song, but the movie company secures the licensing to make it legal. Once a piece is recorded, anyone can cover or use "the bits" but they have to pay for use.
Star Wars' Imperial March is also based on Chopin's Funeral March
I hate when ignorant people say that the composer stole it from the modern artist though😂
I love this! Another one to take into consideration is Evanescence's Lacrymosa, which uses the Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem.
I used to teach various music appreciation classes and one of the ones I taught I based the whole class around classical pieces that had made their way into popular music. It was a fun and challenging class to come up with all the examples.
I love "A Fifth of Beethoven" ! and I love these videos: thank you David... all the best in 2022
Thank you! And happy new year to you too!
Wait a sec, Gonna Fly Now (the Rocky song) samples The Wedding March too! At least that horn intro sounds a lot like it
Adagio from Lara Fabian based on Albinoni’s Adagio. Later covered by Dimash and Floot Jansen.
Plagiarism made "legitimate" by the passage of time. At the very least artists should give credit to the composers and music that inspired them. Maybe money from perpetual copyrights could be used to support the musical arts?
Copyright and having to pay royalties, etc. is from what I gather mostly to protect the artist themselves, but I don’t think it matters very much if they’re no longer around like classical composers
Simon and Garfunkel's 'Old Friends' is built on the two notes that end Ravel's opera, 'L'Enfant et les Sortileges' (when the child wakens from his dream and calls for his mother, "Ma-man!")
Hi David, one melody that seems to pop up occasionally is the Troika from Prokoviev's Lt Kijé Suite. For example (if I remember correctly) Greg Lake's "I believe in Father Christmas", from the 70s. Interestingly, Prokoviev died in 1953, so would his estate been entitled to royalties?
My apologies if you've already covered this as I haven't seen all your videos.
Sting did the song called Russians, and when Kije Suite came up in class I looked it up again. I ended up finding a gabber tune that uses prokofiev called "I will have that power" by Hard Creation, iirc. Bonkers
Another Billy, Billy Joel was very fond of incorporating Ludwig van into his songs e.g., This Night, Prelude/Angry Young Man
But the Classical Composers were all very open about the sampling and borrowing from previous greats. That was the way music progressed in those days and indicated a knowledgable and reverential composer.
8:46 where Chopin’s funeral march begins reminds me a lot of a consistent theme of the soundtrack for the most recent adaptation of Batman. The theme can be heard beginning at 1:37 of the main trailer (ua-cam.com/video/mqqft2x_Aa4/v-deo.html) and through the remainder, but shows up in various songs of The Batman’s soundtrack. Does this count as an example of Chopin’s Funeral March with some modification? Or am I mishearing the two?
You're not. It's very much inspired by Chopin :)
@@tomekdarda That's pretty cool! :)
Which is funny because I keep hearing the Imperial March in that song, but a few comments up a few people mentioned that Imperial March itself has some similarities to Chopin so perhaps it all comes full circle.
You can add Busted’s “Crashed The Wedding” to your Bridal March list. Could probably spin the wedding/funeral march samples into a stand alone video!
When i hear the funeral song the first two words that come to mind is Darth Vader
Most of Muse's discography could be used in this video
Melissa Manchester: "Come in from the Rain" inspired by Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto, second movement.
Billie also has I love you from WWAFAWDWG,and she added that part into gold wing because she was in the los Angeles choir and they'd perform/practice with that
Surely “Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond, inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 and “All by myself” by Eric Carmen inspired by Rachmaninoff’s Piano concerto No 2 in C minor Opus 18 are worthy of notable mentions ?
I’m first! Stealing from other music in my opinion is completely morally alright in my opinion - all good artist steal
You've got some f*cked up "morals" in my opinion and all _great_ artists create their own original work
@@misterflibble6601 there are no original melodies, do you think the artist above like Billie is morally in the wrong for using the classical song?
Fascinating and eye-opening, as usual. Many thanks.
you're freaking me out here, i was just trying to find out what chords she was harmonizing in the intro based on that piece, i mean really right now in this moment, i opened youtube and found your video as well. are you reading minds? i'd ask you to leave my head please, if you don't mind
😂😁
Gymnopedie 1 by Erik Satie was sampled in Flowers by Sweet Attitude and then by Pink Pantheress in Pain
The lyrics of OutKast’s in that clip are pretty off color lol
The Australian group The Seekers used Beethoven's Ode to Joy from his 9th symphony and just added different words to the original tune and called it Emerald City based on Frank L Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
I like how modern music takes from classical music as that’s what a lot of composers back then did. They tended to take someone else’s melody and make variations to it, and it was ok to do.
My understanding is that it was considered flattering if another composer borrowed from your work. But credit was always given, usually by saying it was based on a theme or a variation as you stated by so and so.
8:59 just a helpful tip, it’s a piano sonata, therefore the opus number would be “Chopin Piano Sonata op 35 No 1, Movement 3 - Funeral March”. it wouldn’t be op 35 no 2.
even when some of them don't directly borrow from the classical music it's fairly obvious that most artists are still heavily influenced by classical music whether they realize it or not. Queen's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been described countless times as a rock-opera, and the album it debuted on was called "A Night at The Opera". modern piano-based sheet music can trace it's origins all the way back to the time when these classical composers actually wrote their famous pieces while behind a piano.
Correct, Freddie Elton may be modern day Bach's
Think about it, reaaaaaly good on the piano, very eccentric, signs of geniuses, if it hasn't been said before im saying it
Very inspiring, as usual. Thanks for the great examples. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
If I was a singer I’d be inspired by Handel, Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert, Debussy or one of that crowd 😊
Surprised to see 2112 and Ward
I know "Streets of Cairo" from Ke$ha also learning about "Hearts of Iron" by Sabaton from "Air on the G String" (It was used in an Anime that really messed me up before I got into the band) and "Christmas Truth" also by Sabaton using "Carol of the Bells"
Another wonderful video, thanks. Using excerpts from well-known classical pieces works well in comedy. I use part of the wedding march and funeral march in my own songs. Those songs have also been used in countless cartoons and comedy bits. Maybe comedy could be a theme for a future video? Or how classical music is used in cartoons?
Is it weird that i immediately thought of a funeral at 8:40?
Also i think the breakdown of Freezing Moon by Mayhem also quotes Funeral March, i'm actually not sure if it's intentional but the rythm for the first 8 bars is basically the same until it changes to the same pattern but changing the half note in the start of every other bar for two quarters, and it also does the same thing as Funeral March where the melody is just two notes, except it's E and F instead
Hah! Fellow black metalhead!
Bathory's "call from the grave" solo at the end is built around the funeral march as well
Beethoven's Fifth got a hilarious appearence in none other than Roll Over Beethoven in the ELO's version. I just love it ❤
Walter Murphy wrote the themes for "Family Guy" and "American Dad" and does all the orchestration and conducts the music for both those shows with a real orchestra (though probably not a full one). It's probably why, despite your opinion of the humour in those shows, the music is always fantastic and Seth MacFarlane's albums always sound amazingly arranged. He can definitely sing, and when Walter Murphy does the arranging/conducting, it makes it even better.
Chopin's Funeral March also sounds a bit like the Imperial March.
Do not confuse hits based on classical music and classical music quotes in hits!
The whole idea isnt which is a hit but to give credit to those sources
Rina Sawayama sampled Sonata No. 8 by Beethoven for her song, Snakeskin! Bonus: she also sampled the Fanfare from Final Fantasy
The Wallace Collection's song Daydream uses the melody of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet.
And that song was of course famously sampled by I Monster in their song Daydream In Blue.
The solo in Rat bat blue by Deep Purple was inspired by Bach’s prelude in E minor from WTK 1. Great example.
me, a classical musician, watching this video and smirking cause i know i’m going to use this video to my advantage when proving to ppl that classical music is underrated
Can you upload songs that slow down the tempo at the end?
Interesting idea! I'll keep it in mind! Thank you
Blackbird was also inspired by a Bach piece Paul used to play when the Beatles auditioned for gigs. Check out McCartney's interview where he talks about this.
You certainly have a great ear (intonation too, ha ) and a great repetoir with which to refer. Sometimes, those who were trained in classical standards, subconsciously come up with "copied " melodies. Most writers today take pride in their originality...but I, myself caught myself basing a love song on the same three notes, utilized by Willie Nelson. He had a song I'd never heard before, titled " She's Gone." Mine is titled " Don't Let me be Lonely Tonight" (as a solo as well as a duo with Fred Gold.) I found later that Willie, had "apparently" taken the same Dminor and first three chords from the classical also. SO, BOTH Willie and I are apparently to blame for "hearing and writing" those in our songs! BTW MY " Don't Let me be Lonely Tonight' is NOTHING like James Taylor's and was written two years prior to his.
UNINTENTIONAL sometimes, INTENTIONAL...NOT me. I'd always admit if I "rearranged" something, and don't ever consider it "copying."
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"One Enchanted Evening, I Found an Old Friend." in French & Italian by Ana Marie Ceuca.
Google doesn't have an ear, so they first zeroed in on the first three words, and never considered the rest of the title.) ORIGINAL
Allegro Barbaro - the barbarian
"Interlude" by Muse, heavily borrows from "O bone Jesús" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
I think "Rain and Tears" by Aphrodite's Child was based on a classical piece. I just looked it up - it's "Canon and Gigue in D" by Johann Pachelbel.