music just out there in life

[coffee]

You're not at a concert, not listening to your music, not listening to the classical music radio station.

Maybe you're watching tv and there's music in the commercial. You're watching a movie and there's music in the background. You're at a restaurant or coffee shop and they're playing music. Someone's cell phone rings and it plays classical music.

What are you most likely to hear?

I did a similar but less specific/descriptive thread a few weeks back, and the most common answers were, roughly in order of # of mentions:

Vivaldi Four Seasons
Beethoven 5
Beethoven 9
Pachelbel Canon
Bach Toccata Fugue D minor
Beethoven Fur Elise
Orff Carmina Burana / O Fortuna
Handel Messiah / Hallelujah
Mendelssohn Midsummer / Wedding
Strass Zarathustra / Dawn
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
Wagner Ring / Valkyries
Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Barber Adagio
Brahms Lullaby
Debussy Clair de Lune
Grieg Peer Gynt
Mozart Little Night Music
Satie Gymnopedie
Wagner Lohengrin / Bridal Chorus
Widor 5 / Toccata

Feel free to add others, to affirm or question those choices, etc.

For instance, I think I would add -

Rossini William Tell
Beethoven Moonlight
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2
Dvorak 9 / Adagio
Chopin Funeral March
Petzold (att. Bach) Minuet in G
Ravel Bolero
Strauss Radetzky March
Tchaikovsky 1812

I am very, very anxious not to miss any of these. I will very much appreciate your help in identifying more of them.

[springrite]

You're not at a concert, not listening to your music, not listening to the classical music radio station.

Maybe you're watching tv and there's music in the commercial. You're watching a movie and there's music in the background. You're at a restaurant or coffee shop and they're playing music. Someone's cell phone rings and it plays classical music.

What are you most likely to hear?

I did a similar but less specific/descriptive thread a few weeks back, and the most common answers were, roughly in order of # of mentions:

Vivaldi Four Seasons
Beethoven 5
Beethoven 9
Pachelbel Canon
Bach Toccata Fugue D minor
Beethoven Fur Elise
Orff Carmina Burana / O Fortuna
Handel Messiah / Hallelujah
Mendelssohn Midsummer / Wedding
Strass Zarathustra / Dawn
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
Wagner Ring / Valkyries
Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Barber Adagio
Brahms Lullaby
Debussy Clair de Lune
Grieg Peer Gynt
Mozart Little Night Music
Satie Gymnopedie
Wagner Lohengrin / Bridal Chorus
Widor 5 / Toccata

Feel free to add others, to affirm or question those choices, etc.

For instance, I think I would add -

Rossini William Tell
Beethoven Moonlight
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2
Dvorak 9 / Adagio
Chopin Funeral March
Petzold (att. Bach) Minuet in G
Ravel Bolero
Strauss Radetzky March
Tchaikovsky 1812

I am very, very anxious not to miss any of these. I will very much appreciate your help in identifying more of them.

At least 2/3 of these are on my "music to avoid at all cost" list...

[coffee]

At least 2/3 of these are on my "music to avoid at all cost" list...

What else is on that list?

[springrite]

What else is on that list?

Well, in truth the list is not bad. They are remarkably similar to the top 30 (or 50, or 100) from classical radios stations as voted on by their listeners. That list usually also contain Rachmaninov (IT) Prelude (voted on by people who has somewhat seriously learned to play the piano), Rachmaninov PC #2 (and sometimes Paganini Variations), Carmen (if one opera is selected), and on rare occasions, a remarkable 20th century masterpieces gets on the list, often Rite of Spring.

My little unfunny humor was not meant to belittle the list.

[Gurn Blanston]

Maybe because I'm a Mozartian I'm more sensitive to his music being used and degraded, but the Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro is one of the most commonly used bits and pieces out there.

[Karl Henning]

I've got mixed feelings about the Adagio from the K.622 having been used in the closer for M*A*S*H.

[springrite]

I've got mixed feelings about the Adagio from the K.622 having been used in the closer for M*A*S*H.

Not crazy about the Chinese instrumentation? They should have added a zither instrument like Guqin.

[Karl Henning]

Whoa, Major Winchester walks on the wild side!

[springrite]

I remember Finlandia being used in Die Hard. Sounded strange to me but I can see how for the novice it is cool.

But the Gianni Schichi aria in Moonstruck seemed a brilliant stroke!

[springrite]

Whoa, Major Winchester walks on the wild side!

"To hell with your Snubble!"

"It's Schnabel! ARTHUR SCHNABEL! And it's BEETHOVEN!"


... or was it Mozart, I forgot...

[The new erato]

I remember Finlandia being used in Die Hard. Sounded strange to me but I can see how for the novice it is cool.

It was Die Hard 2, and not so strange since the director Renny Harlin is Finnish - and the scene was very cold.

[Conor71]

Yes I really like these ubiquitous tunes too - im not sure why? I figure if a piece of music has worked its way into my sub-concious I must like it on some level..
Good list! - I would add Bach's Air On The G-String to it as well, cant think of any others at the moment but I will give it some thought!.

[The new erato]

Rachmaninov's Vocalise. A sickly sweet piece if ever there was one.

[Karl Henning]

It was Die Hard 2, and not so strange since the director Renny Harlin is Finnish - and the scene was very cold.

Aye, it was bits from the LvB Op.125 in the first Die Hard.

I was a little disappointed that they dropped that motif for the 3rd & 4th movies ....

[Opus106]

In the past year, one of the ring tones which I've come across with some frequency is that theme from Die Forelle.

[Jem]

How about the nokia tune? That annoying little cadence is actually from Grand Vals, a lovely guitar piece by Francisco Tarrega.

[Mountain Goat]

The opening of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and the Badinerie from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 were popualar ring tones a few years ago. Then there's the slow movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, which has been frequently massacred since it appeared in THAT film. I remember hearing a particularly awful synthesised version of it in a cafe once - for several years afterwards I couldn't listen to that concerto at all as it reminded me of that aberration!

[Scarpia]

Music needs silence.  The assumption that it is unthinkable to be without some music tinkling in the background, lest you'll be left to the horror of your own thoughts, is a problem.

[Karl Henning]

Music needs silence.  The assumption that it is unthinkable to be without some music tinkling in the background, lest you'll be left to the horror of your own thoughts, is a problem.

Plain good sense.

[bhodges]

Music needs silence.  The assumption that it is unthinkable to be without some music tinkling in the background, lest you'll be left to the horror of your own thoughts, is a problem.

Totally, completely agree with this.

--Bruce