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The 1977 film The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training uses a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Also, the movie's theme song, James Rolleston's "Life is Lookin' Good," uses a variation of the music. Canadian progressive rock band Rush adopted the famous brass theme of 1812 Overture in their suite 2112, from their album of the same name ...
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
In his early work, such as Piano Phase (1967) and Clapping Music (1972), Steve Reich used a process he calls phasing which is a "continually adjusting" canon with variable distance between the voices, in which melodic and harmonic elements are not important, but rely simply on the time intervals of imitation.
In 2012, the UK-based Co-Operative Funeralcare compiled a list of the most popular, classical, contemporary and religious music across 30,000 funerals. Canon in D placed second on the Classical chart, behind Edward Elgar's "Nimrod". [4] The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 1998 song "Christmas Canon" is a "take" on Pachelbel's Canon. [31]
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad; The Song and The Slogan; Song cycles (Waterhouse) A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table; Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra; Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Songs from the Chinese; Songs of a Wayfarer; Songs of the Fleet; Songs of the Sea (Stanford) Songs of Travel; Songs Sacred ...
Absolutely Fabulous ("This Wheel's on Fire") – Bob Dylan and Rick Danko (performed by Julie Driscoll, Ade Edmondson and Debbie Harry) Ace of Wands ("Tarot") – Andrew Bown; Adam-12 – Frank Comstock; Accidental Family – Earle Hagen; Action ("Even a Dog Can Shake Hands") – Warren Zevon; Adam's Rib ("Two People") – Perry Botkin Jr. and ...
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In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied , or in the French language , a Mélodie . A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle .