List of popular songs based on classical music

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This is a list of examples of popular songs that are arrangements of, or otherwise make use of, works of classical music. Instrumental pieces are tagged with an uppercase "[I]", or a lowercase "[i]" for quasi-instrumental including non-lyrics voice samples.

The practice of adapting classical compositions is associated with various popular genres, including Tin Pan Alley, progressive rock, and heavy metal.

Contents 1 1890s 2 1910s 3 1920s 4 1930s 5 1940s 6 1950s 7 1960s 8 1970s 9 1980s 10 1990s 11 2000s 12 See also 13 External links

[edit] 1890s

See also: Timeline of trends in music (1800-1899)

• (1891) "O Promise Me" by Reginald DeKoven & Smith, from the musical Robin Hood -- based on Musica proibita, the name popularly given to an aria in the 1888 Italian opera Mala Pasqua by Stanislao Gastaldon.

[edit] 1910s

See also: 1910s in music

• (1913) "Hungarian Rag" by Julius Lenzberg - based on the Second Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.
• (1918) "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll - based on the Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin.
• (1919) "The Marine Hymn" by L. Z. Philips - based on the Gendarmes' Duet from Jacques Offenbach's opera Genevieve de Brabant
• (1919) "Peter Gink" by George L. Cobb - based on the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg.

[edit] 1920s

See also: 1920s in music

• (1922) "Goin' Home" popularized by Paul Robeson - based on the "Largo" from Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
• (1928) "Lover, come back to me" in The New Moon by Sigmund Romberg - the middle section is based on "June: Barcarolle" from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, opus 37b.

[edit] 1930s

See also: 1930s in music

• (1930) "In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room" by Raymond Scott - based on Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 545
• (1937) "Song of India", arr. Tommy Dorsey - based on "The Song of the Indian Guest" from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko.
• (1938) "My Reverie" by Larry Clinton - based on Debussy's Rêverie
• (1939) "The Lamp is Low" - Peter DeRose and Bert Shefter - based on Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte

[edit] 1940s

See also: 1940s in music

• (1941) "Tonight We Love", by Freddy Martin, Bobby Worth and Ray Austin - based on Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op.23
• (1945) "Full Moon and Empty Arms", by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
• (1945) "Till the End of Time," words by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, popularized by, among others, Perry Como - based on Frédéric Chopin's "Polonaise In A Flat"
• (1946) "Summer Moon" by Klenner, sung by Lauritz Melchior - based on Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (Ronde des princesses)
• (1949) "There's No Tomorrow," lyrics by Al Hoffman, Leo Corday and Leon Carr, popularized by Tony Martin, based on O Sole Mio by Eduardo di Capua.
• (194?) Gershwin's "Summertime", by Sidney Bechet, - quotes from Verdi's's "Miserere" from Il Trovatore.

[edit] 1950s

See also: 1950s in music

• (1952) "The Bigger The Figure", by Louis Prima - based on Rossini's Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville.
• (1953) "Stranger in Paradise" by George Forrest and Robert Wright, in the Broadway musical Kismet - based on a theme from Alexander Borodin's Polovetsian Dances
• (1956) "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning - based on a theme from Chabrier España, Rhapsody for Orchestra
• (1958) "Catch a Falling Star" by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance - based on a theme from Brahms' Academic Festival Overture
• (1959) "Once Upon a Dream" in the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty - based upon a waltz in Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty.
• (1959) "Don't You Know" by Della Reese - based on "Musetta's Waltz" from Puccini's "La Boheme"

[edit] 1960s

See also: 1960s in music

• (1960) "Asia Minor" by James Wisner - based on Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
• (1960) "It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley - based on 'O Sole Mio by Eduardo di Capua.
• (1961) "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" by Elvis Presley - based on Plaisir d'Amour by Jean Paul Egide Martini.
• (1962) "Nut Rocker" by B. Bumble and the Stingers - based on Tchaikovsky's "March of the Wooden Soldiers" from The Nutcracker .
• (1963) "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)" by Allan Sherman - based on Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda.
• (1964) "Rap City" by The Ventures - based on Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor.
• (1965) "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on Christian Petzold's Minuet in G from the Anna Magdalena Notebook of J.S. Bach.
• (1966) "Past, Present and Future" by The Shangri-Las - based on Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
• (1966) "A Groovy Kind of Love" by The Mindbenders - based on the Rondo section of Muzio Clementi's "Sonatina in G major," op. 36 no. 5.
• (1967) "Imitation Situation" by Fever Tree (San Francisco Girls) - used opening passage of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
• (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) "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead" by The Fifth Estate - based partly on Michael Praetorius's "Dance Suite Terpsichore"
• (1967) "Amnesia Vivace" by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention- based on "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinksy.
• (1967) "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Pumpkin" by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention- based on the movement "Jupiter" from "The Planets Suite" by Gustav Holst.
• (1968) "Emerald City" by The Seekers - based on Beethoven's Ode to Joy from his Ninth Symphony.
• (1968) "Hall of the Mountain King" by The Who - inspired by Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite".
• (1968) "Prelude B - I'm so Glad" by Deep Purple on Shades of Deep Purple - nicely lifted from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade: "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship".
• (1968) "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie" by Blood Sweat & Tears - based on "Trois Gymnopédies" by Erik Satie
• (1968) "Rain and Tears" by Aphrodite's Child - based on Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1968) "Daydream" by the Wallace Collection (band) - based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
• (1968) "All You Need is Love" by The Beatles contains a snippet from the beginning of J.S. Bach's "2-part Invention no. 8".
• (1968) "Blackbird" by The Beatles inspired by the bourree from J.S. Bach's suite in E minor for lute/guitar Paul learned on guitar. Compare Jethro Tull's, version.
• (1968) "Fur Elise/Moonlight Sonata" by Vanilla Fudge based on Ludwig van Beethoven's bagatelle "Für Elise" and "Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"".
• (1969) "Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor" by The Doors on Boxed Set Disk 1 Without a Safety Net - based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
• (1969) "Because" by The Beatles - inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
• (1969) "Jane B" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on Frédéric Chopin's "Prelude No. 4"
• (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) "Sabre Dance" by Love Sculpture - based on Aram Khatchaturian's "Gayane"
• (1969) "Bourree" by Jethro Tull, arrangement of bourree from J.S. Bach's suite in E minor for lute/guitar.

[edit] 1970s

See also: 1970s in music

• (1970) "The Devil's Triangle" by King Crimson - middle section based on Mars, from the The Planets suite by Gustav Holst
• (1970) "The Barbarian" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Allegro barbaro, for piano by Béla Bartók
• (1970) "Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Sinfonietta, first movement by Leoš Janáček. 2nd part of lead break is lifted from the Allemande from French Suite No. 1 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Said piano piece is quoted note for note up to the repeat sign in the middle.)
• (1970) "A Song of Joy" by Waldo De Los Rios for Miguel Rios - based on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
• (1971) "Baby Alone In Babylone" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on the 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3
• (1971) "The Only Way" from Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - intro and lead break are quoted from two different compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, namely Toccata in F major for organ (up to the end of the F pedal point) and Prelude in D minor from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
• (1972) "American Tune" by Paul Simon - based on the hymn "O Sacred Head" by Johann Sebastian Bach
• (1972) "Abaddon's Bolero" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - possibly inspired by Boléro by Maurice Ravel, but very different theme, meter (4/4 instead of 3/4), and atmosphere
• (1972) "Also Sprach Zarathustra" [I] by Deodato - a funk arrangement of Richard Strauss' composition of the same name
• (1972) "Cans and Brahms" by Yes - based on Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4, third movement
• (1972) "Hoedown" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Rodeo by Aaron Copland
• (1972) "Horizons" by Steve Hackett from Genesis on Foxtrot - (loosely) based on 1st movement of 'Suite For Cello in G major, by J.S. Bach
• (1972) "Joy" by Apollo 100 - based on Jesu, joy of man's desiring by J.S. Bach
• (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")
• (1972) "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond - based on Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21", second movement
• (1973) "Joybringer" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band - based on "Jupiter - bringer of jollity" from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
• (1973) "Toccata" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Ginastera's First piano concerto, fourth movement
• (1974) "Annie's Song" by John Denver - based on Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, second movement
• (1974) "Beach Baby" by First Class - instrumental section in the second half of the song based on a part of Symphony No. 5 in E flat major by Jean Sibelius
• (1974) "Minuetto Allegretto" by The Wombles - based on Mozart's "Symphony No. 41"
• (1974) "Voices of Syn" by Klaus Schulze on Timewind - incorporates a collage of Verdi songs sung by an operatic singer.
• (1974) "Danse Macabre" by Esperanto, (a multinational Progressive Rock band) - their own version of the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns.
• (1974) "Cold Is Being" by Renaissance, to the tune of Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni
• (1975) "Song of Scheherazade" by Renaissance - inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
• (1975) "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow - quotes extensively from Chopin's Prelude in C minor
• (1975) "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Aaron Copland's work of the same name.
• (1975) "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Lieutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev (released as a single under the name of Greg Lake alone).
• (1976) "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
• (1976) "A Fifth of Beethoven" [I] 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
• (1976) "Ma Lou Marilou" by Serge Gainsbourg - based on the 1st movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata" (opus 57)
• (1976) "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen - based on Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony
• (1976) "2112" by Rush - based partially on Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
• (1977) "If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley - based on Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony")
• (1977) "Rockaria" by The Electric Light Orchestra - based on "Un Bel Di" from Puccini's "Madame Butterfly"
• (1977) "Going Home" by Annie Haslam – from second movement of Symphony from the New World by Antonín Dvořák
• (1978) "Lady Lynda" by The Beach Boys - based on J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
• (1979) "If I Had You" by The Korgis - based on Variation 18 of Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", based on Paganini's "Caprice No 24 in A minor"
• (1979) "Swan Lake" by Madness - based on the main theme of Swan Lake ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• (1979) "You Can't Do That on Television" by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band - based on Rossini's William Tell Overture

[edit] 1980s

See also: 1980s in music

• (1980) "Toccata" by Sky - based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
• (1980) "Am I Evil" by Diamond Head - Intro borrows heavily from "Mars, the Bringer of War" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets"
• (1981) "Can Can" by Bad Manners - a manic ska version of the Can-Can from Jacques Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld"
• (1981) "Difficult to Cure" by Rainbow - based on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (last movement of the ninth symphony).
• (1982) "Midnight Blue" by Louise Tucker - based on the main theme of the second movement of Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata
• (1983) "This Night" by Billy Joel - adapted from Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata
• (1984) "Coming Bach" by Alcatrazz - based on Johann Sebastian Bach's "Bourrée" from Lute Suite No. 1, BWV 996.
• (1984) "Icarus Dream Suite" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio.
• (1984) "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.
• (1984) "Since Yesterday" by Strawberry Switchblade - based on Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony.
• (1984) "Rite of Spring" by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - based on Igor Stravinsky's work of the same name
• (1985) "Lemon Incest" by Serge Gainsbourg for Charlotte Gainsbourg - based on Frédéric Chopin's "Étude No. 3 in E (Tristesse)" (in opus 10)
• (1986) "Russians" by Sting - based on "Romance" theme from Lieutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev
• (1986) "Touch and Go" by Emerson, Lake & Powell - keyboard line uses melody from Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves
• (1986) "Mars" by Emerson, Lake & Powell - arrangement of Mars: Bringer of War from Holst's The Planets
• (1987) "Lost Song" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - melody after part of Edvard Grieg's "Solveig's song" (in Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, opus 55)
• (1987) "Love in the First Degree" by Bananarama - backing based on Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1989) "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel is based on the hymn Jerusalem by Charles Hubert Parry.
• (1989) "Play With Me" by Extreme - extensively quotes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Rondo alla turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11.
• (1989) "Black Star (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air" from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068.
• (1989) "Dreaming (Tell Me) (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue (the Little), BWV 578.
• (1989) "Far Beyond the Sun (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with a theme from Niccolò Paganini's "Allegro Maestoso" from Violin Concerto No. 4.
• (1989) "Guitar Solo (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - breaks into the opening of Beethoven's 5th Symphony about halfway through the solo.
• (1989) "Leningrad" by Billy Joel - quotes at length the song Waldesnacht, du wunderkühle by Johannes Brahms
• (1989) "Rose of Pain" by X Japan - takes much of its melody from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little Fugue" in G Minor

[edit] 1990s

See also: 1990s in music

• (1990) "Mea Culpa" by Enigma - based on the Gregorian chant "Kyrie Eleison"
• (1990) "Operaa House!" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - based on the "Flower Duet" from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé
• (1990) "Siempre Amor" by Mireille Mathieu based on Mozart
• (1990) "Nostalgia" by Mireille Mathieu based on Gaetano Donizetti's "Elisir d'amore" (Una Furtiva Lacrima)
• (1990) "Himno de la Alegria" by Mireille Mathieu based on Beethoven's Song of Joy
• (1990) "Manana" by Mireille Mathieu based on Verdi's "Addio del Passato"
• (1991) "World In Union" by Kiri Te Kanawa (official theme song of the Rugby World Cup) - based on "I Vow to Thee, My Country" from Holst's The Planets Suite, opus 32, Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity (also covered by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (1995) and Shirley Bassey/Bryn Terfel (1999))
• (1991) "All Together Now" by The Farm based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1992) "No Mercy" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - breaks into Johann Sebastian Bach's "Badinerie" from Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067 right before the guitar solo.
• (1993) "Go West" by the Pet Shop Boys, emphasised the original 1979 Village People version's chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1994) "Baphomet's Throne" by Swiss metal band Samael samples a recording of Mussorgsky's "Baba Yaga (La Cabane sur des pattes de poule)" from his Pictures at an Exhibition.
• (1994) "Basket Case" by Green Day - uses chords similar to those in Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1994) "Domain" by Future Sound of London on Lifeforms - based on Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1994) "Hook" by Blues Traveler - uses chords similar to those in Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1994) "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Tangerine Dream on Turn of the Tide - based on the "Promenade" section of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky as arranged by Maurice Ravel for orchestra.
• (1994) "Prisoner of Your Love" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - chorus is based on Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air" from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068.
• (1995) "Clubbed to Death" [I] by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts inspired by Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations
• (1995) "Largo (from Xerxes)" by Tangerine Dream on Tyranny of Beauty - based on Handel's Serse (Xerxes).
• (1995) "Memory/Dead Winter Dead Intro" by Savatage - quoting Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy
• (1995) "Overture 1622" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 25.
• (1995) "Scatman's World" by Scatman John - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (1996) "Clubbed to Death 2" [I] by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts quoting Frédéric Chopin's "Prelude No. 4 in E minor" (in Preludes, opus 28)
• (1996) "Paparazzi" by Xzibit - containing "Pavane" by Gabriel Fauré.
• (1996) "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis - chorus chord progression borrows from "Canon" by Pachelbel.
• (1996) "A Mad Russian's Christmas" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Includes several passages from the "Swan Lake" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
• (1996) "I Got To Tell You" by Dr. Octagon - Kool Keith delivering a fake radio advertisement over Pachelbel's Canon.
• (1996) "We Rule the School" by Belle and Sebastian from the CD "Tigermilk" - middle segment based on Pachelbel's Canon.
• (1997) "Air on a Theme" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Antonio Vivaldi's "Largo" from Piccolo Concerto in C.
• (1997) "The Opera Song" by Botch - based on Karl Orff's "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana".
• (1997) "Mientras Mi Alma Sienta" by Camilo Sesto based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
• (1997) "C U When U Get There" by Coolio - containing Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
• (1997) "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba - quotes Jeremiah Clarke's Prince of Denmark's March.
• (1997) "Lacrimosa" by Daddy Roach & Gimme - based on Mozart's Requiem.
• (1997) "Dear Mallika" by LL Cool J - based on Lakmé by Delibes, featuring in an album called "Rhapsody" also containing Warren G & Sissel Kyrkjebø's take on "Prince Igor" by Borodin.
• (1998) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Sweetbox - based on Johann Sebastian Bach, Air from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major

• (1998 " Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys - quotes Modest Mussorgsky´s, "Night on Bald Mountain" and contains a sample of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor as adapted for orchestra by Les Baxter.

• (1998) "On & On & On" by Catch 22 (band) - uses chords similar to those in Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
• (1999) "Arpeggios From Hell" reworked/renamed "Molto Arpeggiosa" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight", 3rd movement
• (1999) "Barber's Adagio for Strings" by William Orbit - a techno/electronic version of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
• (1999) "Adagio" by Lara Fabian based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
• (1999) "Love of my Life" from Supernatural by Santana and Dave Matthews - based on the third movement from Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 3
• (1999) "Beethoven's fifth" - Danney Alkana [1]

[edit] 2000s

See also: 2000s in music

• (2000) "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (2000) "Anytime, Anywhere" by Sarah Brightman based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
• (2000) "La Luna" by Sarah Brightman based on Rusalka
• (2000) "Figlio Perduto" by Sarah Brightman based on Beethoven
• (2000) "Hall of the Mountain King" [I] by Apocalyptica - cello/metal cover of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt (Suite No.1, opus 46)
• (2000) "Love U Crazay" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Nutcracker
• (2000) "Those Dogs" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Bizet's "La Habanera" from Carmen.
• (2000) "Sad But True" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2
• (2000) "Prophet of Doom" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - quotes themes from Niccolò Paganini's "No. 24" of the 24 Caprices.
• (2001) "Black, Black Heart" by David Usher from Morning Orbit - containing Léo Delibes' "The Flower Duet" from Lakmé
• (2001) "Coming 2 America" by Ludacris from Word of Mouf - containing Mozart's "Requiem", 3rd movement (Dies irae) and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", 4th movement (Allegro con fuoco)
• (2001) "Mgnovenia" by Nikolai Baskov based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
• (2001) "Taina" by Nikolai Baskov & Lubov' Kasarnovskaya based on "Lascia Ch'io Pianga"
• (2001) "Love" by Mary J. Blige quote's Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
• (2001) "Piano & I" by Alicia Keys - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight", 1st movement
• (2001) "Rock Your Socks" by Tenacious D - Quotes Johann Sebastian Bach's Bouree from Suite in E Minor BWV 996. ("This is Bach and it rocks...")
• (2001) "Someone to Call My Lover" by Janet Jackson - uses Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 (as well as America's "Ventura Highway").
• (2001) "Space Dementia" by Muse - the chorus vocal line and chords are an exact reduction of part of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto 1st Movement.
• (2001) "Yatta" by Happa-tai - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (2002) "I Can" by Nas - contains a sample of the classical piece Für Elise by Beethoven.
• (2002) "Symphony in X Major" by Xzibit - based on a sample of a minor-key portion of Johann Sebastian Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto (BWV 1048) 1st Movement. The sample is from the Switched-On Brandenburgs recording by Wendy Carlos.
• (2002) "Never Say Goodbye" by Hayley Westenra based on Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte"
• (2002) "Tear" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (2003) "When I Get You Alone" by Thicke - based on a sample from Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven" (q.v.) - itself based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
• (2003) "If And When We Rise Again" by Streetlight Manifesto - contains a horn solo based on Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
• (2003) "Air" by Jan Werner Danielsen based on J. S. Bach's "Air on a G String"
• (2003) "Viaggio" by Marcelo Alvarez/Salvatore Licitra based on Gabriel Faure's "Pavane"
• (2003) "Karma" by Alicia Keys - contains a sample from Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto
• (2003) "Eternal Odyssey" by Delerium - Samples: Adagio for Strings (Agnus Dei choral arrangement), composed by Samuel Barber
• (2003) "We Shall Become Silhouettes" by the Postal Service contains a sample from I pini della Via Appia (The Pines of the Appian Way), the fourth movement of Pini di Roma by Ottorino Respighi.
• (2004) "Paris" by Delerium - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
• (2004) "Whisper of Angels" by Amici Forever based on Gabriel Faure's "Pavane"
• (2004) "Sometimes I Dream" by Mario Frangoulis based on Giacomo Puccini's "E lucevan le stelle"
• (2004) "Forever Today" and "Adagio for Strings" by DJ Tiësto, the first and last track, respectively, of Just Be - both based on "Adagio for Strings"
• (2005) "They" by Jem - largely based on Prelude 12 from J. S. Bach's The Well-tempered Clavier (Book 2)
• (2005) "Isabel" by Il Divo based on Gabriel Faure]]'s Pavane
• (2005) "Adagio" by Mario Frangoulis based on Alessandro Marcello "Oboe Concerto" (commonly known as Love Theme from "Anonimo Veneziano")
• (2005) "Terra e Liberta" by Amici Forever based on Beethoven
• (2005) "La Mia Nostalgia" by Amici Forever based on Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto
• (2005) "Oceano Cuore" by Amici Forever based on Aram Khatchaturian's Spartak
• (2005) "Road to Joy" by Bright Eyes is based on the melody of Beethoven's Ode to Joy
• (2005) "Crowd Chant" by Joe Satriani uses some of the melody from Pavane by Gabriel Faure
• (2005) The East Village Opera Company released an entire eponymous album featuring 11 arias, duets, and overtures from various operas, such as Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Bizet's Carmen
• (2006) "On and On and On" by Streetlight Manifesto - uses chords similar to and plays some melodys similar to Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (Note: this song was originally released by the band Catch 22 (see above) a band that prominently featured Tomas Kalnoky as its songwriter and lead singer, who now holds the same position in Streelight and who wrote this song. This version was a re-recording released on Streetlight's second album, a re-recording of Catch 22's album Keasby Nights, released on March 7, 2006 by Victory Records.)
• (2006) "Lacrymosa" from The Open Door by Evanescence, from Mozart's Requiem.

[edit] See also

• Pachelbel's Canon
• Sweetbox - a band performing mostly classical-based covers
• List of samples
• Lists of songs - List of dozens of other similar lists

[edit] External links

• The Marines' Hymn 1919 manuscript
• Ostin Allegro's Pop meets the Classics