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7. What is that music in [insert TV show/movie here] ? (Classical music)
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This article is from the Classical music FAQ, by Gabe M. Wiener gabe@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.
7. What is that music in [insert TV show/movie here] ? (Classical music)
We have a little joke in the newsgroup that no matter what movie or TV
show, it's probably either Pachelbel's Canon or Carmina Burana.
Anyway, here is a list of some movies and TV shows and the music they
contain.
2001, A Space Odyssey Also sprach Zarathustra R. Strauss
2001, A Space Odyssey Blue Danube Waltz J. Strauss
2001, A Space Odyssey Lux Eterna Ligeti
2001, A Space Odyssey Gayne Ballet Suite Khatchaturian
Acura commercial Romeo & Juliet Prokofeiv
All That Jazz Spring from The Four Seasons Vivaldi
Apocalypse Now Die Walkure Wagner
Babette's Feast Don Giovanni Mozart
Breaking Away Barber of Seville Rossini
Breaking Away Italian Symphony Mendelssohn
Children of a Lesser God Concerto for 2 violins Bach
A Clockwork Orange Symphony #9 Beethoven
A Clockwork Orange William Tell Overture Rossini
A Clockwork Orange Barber of Seville overture Rossini
A Clockwork Orange La Gazza Ladra overture Rossini
Dark Eyes Barber of Seville Rossini
Death in Venice Symphony #5 Mahler
Die Hard Symphony #9 Beethoven
Diva La Wally Catalani
Elvira Madigan Piano Cto. #21 Mozart
Empire of The Sun Suo Gan (Welsh folksong...circumflex on the a)
Excalibur Carmina Burana Carl Orff
Fatal Attraction Madama Butterfly Puccini
Foul Play The Mikado Sullivan
Forbidden Games Romance Yepes
A Fish Called Wanda Barber of Seville Rossini
Gallipoli Les Pecheurs de Perles Bizet
Glory Original music James Horner
Grey Fox Martha Flotow
Heaven Help Us Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) Handel
Hannah and Her Sisters Manon Lescaut Puccini
Henry V Original music Patrick Doyle
Horse's Mouth Lt. Kije Suite Prokofiev
Huntley/Brinkley Report Symphony #9 Beethoven
Hopscotch Barber of Seville Rossini
Hopscotch Eine kleine Nachtmusik Mozart
Jean de Florette Forza del Destino Verdi
Kramer vs. Kramer Concerto for 2 Mandolins Vivaldi
Lone Ranger theme William Tell Overture finale Rossini
Love and Death Lt. Kije Suite Prokofiev
Masterpiece Theater theme Symphonie de Fanfare Mouret
Moderns Marriage of Figaro Mozart
Moonstruck La Boheme Puccini
Much Ado About Nothing Original music Patric Doyle
My Brilliant Career "Of Foreign Land and Peoples"
from Kinderszenen Schumann
Olympic Music ('84) Olympic Fanfare John Williams
Olympic Music (Every year) Bugler's Dream Leo Arnaud
Ordinary people/GE lightbulb Canon in D Pachelbel
Platoon Adagio for Strings Barber
Pretty Woman La Traviata Verdi
Prizzi's Honor L'Elisir d'Amore Donizetti
Prizzi's Honor Barber of Seville Rossini
Raging Bull Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni
Room with a View Gianni Schicchi Puccini
Room with a View La Rondine Puccini
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Der Erlkonig Schubert
The Shining Music for Strings Bartok
Scent of a Woman (tango) Par una cabeza Carlos Gardel
Schindler's List (first scene) Par una cabeza Carlos Gardel
Schindler's List (entire movie) Original music John Williams
Slam Dance Samson et Delilah Saint-Saens
Someone To Watch Over Me Lakme Delibes
Someone To Watch Over Me Gloria Vivaldi
Somewhere in Time Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini Rachmaninoff
Sophie's Choice Kinderszenen Schumann
The Four Seasons The Four Seasons Vivaldi
Trading Places The Marriage of Figaro Mozart
True Lies (tango) Par una cabeza Carlos Gardel
Traffik String Quartet #8 Shostakovich
Untouchables Pagliacci Leoncavallo
Wall Street Rigoletto Verdi
Witches of Eastwick Turandot Puccini
Year of Living Dangerously Four Last Songs Strauss, R.
Many of opera cuts can be found on one of the following recordings by Angel:
Opera Goes to the Movies
Son of Opera Goes to the Movies
The tango used in Schindler's List, Scent of a Woman, and True Lies,
entitled "Por una cabeza" by Carlos Gardel, has been recorded by The
Tango Project, available on Nonesuch 9 79030-2.
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