Classical 'borrowing'!

[skido85]

Another one:
I believe the main song from the talking pig movie Babe (released during the talking pig movie craze of the late nineties), "If I Had Words To Make A Day For You" is the theme Saint Saens' third symphony in C minor.

I tried to do an entire album this way. It's not easy and it has to be either really subtle or completely blatant or it just sounds clumsy. I only got one song I'm really proud of out of that attempted "album", when I used Beethoven's 9th ("Ode To Joy") in a pessimistic pop-rock song for a bit of irony.

[grandsoul]

Part of the first second movement of Phillip Glass's "The Photographer" was noted for taking an excerpt from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

For note: He claims part of the song had a slight borrowing from the song, "96 Tears", which for as a safty precaution, he got permission from the composer(s) of the song to use it in this recording.

(That was nice).


www.reverbnation.com/luciusaustin

[grandsoul]

Part of the first second movement of Phillip Glass's "The Photographer" was noted for taking an excerpt from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

For note: He claims part of the song had a slight borrowing from the song, "96 Tears", which for as a safty precaution, he got permission from the composer(s) of that song to use it in this recording.

(That was nice).


http://www.reverbnation.com/luciusaustin

[rfrey]

Yes, if I am not mistaken I think Procol Harem's "Whiter Shade of Pale" is pretty much from a Bach piece? I don't remember which one.

[mojobone]

Phil Collin's "Groovy Kind of Love" was taken note-by-note from Clementi's Sonatina Opus 36, No. 5 Rondo (written in the late 1700s)!

And it was a cover of a sixties hit by the Mindbenders. I think it's time for a re-post of this classical classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

[ernstinen]

Yea, it's been done since the first film scores. There's so many examples, I can't count em'!

But it's mostly style, not exact melodic ripoffs. Maybe there are some, here and there.

One of the most creative is Lennon's "Because" off of Abbey Road. Yoko was playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on piano, and John was (as usual) lying in his bed and smoking something. He said, "Yoko, can you play that backwards?" After a little experimentation, she did, and thus the chords to "Because" were born! Of course, the vocal harmonies were pure genius (as well as the backward chords).

Ern