As a continuation of the article Influence of classical music on current music Released last week, we bring new examples of how classical music flies over current music through all kinds of styles and forms.
For example, there are numerous occasions when the British band Muse he has used classical resources in his themes. An example is Plug in Baby, where the influence of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor of Bach. Or the theme I belong to you, which houses references to the aria My heart opens to your voice from the opera Samson and Delilah.
A case from the world of pop that has also repeated references to classical music in its songs is that of the singer Lady Gaga. Bad Romance It starts with the intro of the Leak No. 24 in B minor of Bach, while Alejandro starts with some notes from the score Czardas for violin and piano of the Italian composer Vittorio Monti.
What if we combine metal and classical music? The Finnish band Children of Bodoom use in the theme I Red Light in My Eyes, Part 2 he When of the Requiem of Mozart.
Classical music and jazz
Another reference, more subtle than the previous one, is the one that the queen of jazz Ella Fitzgerald performs in your My Reverie of the work for piano Reverie, of the influential French composer Claude Debussy.
The work is also very well intuited Gymnopédie No.1, composed for piano by the French genius Erik Satie, in the chorus of Someone to Call My Lover of Janet Jackson, which is inspired and takes it to pop in a very original way.
Another example in hip-hop and the R&B we found him with the american singer Kelis and his Like you, which uses the famous aria of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute of Mozart.
We have shown examples from jazz, rock, pop, hip-hop, rhythm and blues and even metal to show that classical music flies over all kinds of styles.
And we could not close this series without remembering the tributes of the incomparable Freddy Mercury to opera and classical music. But besides the immortal Bohemian Rhapsody of Queen that will come to everyone’s mind, we mean the wonderful It’s a hard life, which is inspired by aria “Vesti la giubba” de la ópera Pagliacci of Italian Ruggiero Leoncavallo.
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