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1->''For Franz music was the art that comes closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication. No one can get really drunk on a novel or a {{painting|s}}, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's Ninth, Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Beatles' White Album? Franz made no distinction between "classical" music and "pop." He found the distinction old-fashioned and hypocritical. He loved rock as much as Mozart.''
2-->-- '''Creator/MilanKundera''', ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing''
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4Where an artist takes a StandardSnippet or other piece of classical music and incorporates it into their song. Could be small snippet of the piece or much longer. Might result in Crowning Music of Awesome when done properly.
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6Speculatively, the motivations for classical sampling are:
7* Importing a sense of gravitas and substance.
8* A way of highlighting the qualities of classical and pop music by contrasting them.
9* Simply as a useful gimmick to make a song stand out.
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11A SubTrope of {{Sampling}} that normally gets around pesky legal issues by virtue of most classical music falling into the public domain. Named after the song by Music/{{Falco}}, [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample which, contrary to the title, does not use this trope]].
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13Not to be confused with RockMeAsmodeus. Nor with Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, although his music is likely to show up. GenreMashup occurs when multiple genres, not just melodies, are combined. See also PublicDomainSoundtrack. Compare ClassicalMusicIsCool, and contrast ClassicalMusicIsBoring.
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16!!Examples:
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18* Music/{{Accept}} has several of these:
19** "Sodom & Gomorrah" has an excerpt from the "Sabre Dance" from "Gayane" by Music/AramKhachaturian.
20** "Metal Heart" has an excerpt of [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky's]] "Marche Slave" in the intro and one of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "Für Elise" in the guitar solo.
21** The standalone guitar solo from the live album ''Staying a Life'' has an excerpt of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg.
22** The live version of "Balls to the Wall" from the same album has an introductory section based on the "fate" {{leitmotif}} from ''Carmen'' by Georges Bizet.
23** They also did an arrangement of the Trio section of Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 by ''Music/EdwardElgar'' (a.k.a. "Land of Hope and Glory"), titled simply "Pomp and Circumstance".
24* "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Edvard Grieg's incidental music to ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' is a popular choice:
25** Used in Music/{{Helloween}}'s "Pinball/{{Gorgar}}".
26** Also in {{Music/Savatage}}'s "Prelude to Madness" and the track that immediately follows, "[[TitleDrop In The Hall of the Mountain King]]".
27** Worked into "Hall of the Mountain King" by Music/{{Rainbow}}.
28** And "Hall of the Mountain King" by Music/TheWho.
29** M - Razzia 2 (This Club is Closed Forever)
30** Captain Jack - Dream a Dream
31** Music/{{Zedd}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQu6_Iv_-H0 Dovregubben]] is an electronic mix.
32** Listen carefully to the Music/BlueOysterCult's "Burnin' for You" and Grieg is in there too, briefly.
33** Music/RickWakeman uses the melody near the end of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth".
34** Music/{{Egg}}'s début album includes it in "Symphony No. 2".
35** ''Music/SkaP''[='=]s main riff for "Simpático Holgazán" is taken from it.
36** The Eerie Piper's theme in ''VideoGame/CaptainSilver'', whose Stage 1 BGM also interpolates "Anitra's Dance" from the same play.
37* [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven's]] Ninth in Music/{{Rainbow}}'s "Difficult to Cure".
38* Strangely enough, "Rock Me Amadeus" by Music/{{Falco}} contains no music by Mozart, although it has a snippet from Beethoven's 5th at the very end, and one version begins with the intro of Bach's ''StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor''.
39** Falco's "Vienna Calling" begins with a few bars of ''The Blue Danube'' by Strauss.
40* Similarly, Gazebo's "I Like Chopin" contains no music by Chopin.
41* Christian Petzold's Minuet in G (often erroneously attribed to Music/JohannSebastianBach) in the Toys' "A Lover's Concerto".
42* Muzio Clementi's Sonatina No. 5 in G Major in the Mindbenders' "A Groovy Kind of Love".
43* Beethoven's ''Pathétique'' Sonata:
44** A movement from is used in Music/BillyJoel's "This Night".
45** And the theme from ''Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles''.
46** "Island" by Music/{{Renaissance}} incorporates a section.
47** Music/JethroTull's "By Kind Permission Of" also includes the same section.
48* Music/JohannSebastianBach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring":
49** Apollo 100's song "Joy" is a rock version.
50** Music/TheBeachBoys' "Lady Lynda" is a soft-rock version.
51** "She Don't Care About Time" by Music/TheByrds has a guitar solo based on it.
52** Briefly quoted in a bass fill on Music/TheKinks' "Wicked Annabella".
53* A sample of the "Flower Duet" from Léo Delibes opera ''Lakmé'' occurs in in David Usher's "Black Black Heart".
54* A full adaption of ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' by Richard Strauss in Deodato's funky song of the same name.
55* "Play with Me" by Music/{{Extreme}} features riffs from various classical pieces including [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart's]] Rondo alla turca and Vivaldi's ''The Four Seasons''.
56* Jazz pianists, especially from around the bebop era, tend to have a couple of classical measures in their improvs. As an earlier example, Fats Waller was apparently a fan of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King", as he occasionally mixed pieces of the melody into his tunes, most notably in "Viper's Drag".
57* The guitar solo in [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap's]] ''Heavy Duty'' is [[StandardSnippet the Boccherini minuet]]. According to the DVD commentary, that was actually the finale to a very intricate and inventive ten-minute solo, but Marty cut it down for a time, and made Nigel look like a hack. To make matters worse, the short version made it onto the soundtrack and is the only one most people have ever heard.
58* The Music/{{Enigma}} album ''The Screen Behind The Mirror'' samples "O Fortuna" to such an extent that you could say it's "O Fortuna" with samples of ambient 1990's electronica.
59* Special mention goes to Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has a doggedly negative reputation for copying Puccini. The similarities are real but not as slavish as commonly reported e.g. commonalities in the central theme from Puccini's ''La fanciulla del West'' and ALW's "Music of the Night". It is interesting that a little bit of copying followed by denial caused an uproar whereas other artists copy big chunks of classical music wholesale with apparent acceptability. It doesn't help that ALW's work tends to repeat.
60* Music/AntoninDvorak's Symphony No. 9:
61** Forms the basis of Music/BlindGuardian's "By the Gates of Moria".
62** Also the Music/RhapsodyOfFire song "The Wizard's Last Rhymes".
63** And quoted in the bridge of the cover of "America" by Music/TheNice.
64** Used at the start of Creator/{{Pinkfong}}'s rendition of "Baby Shark".
65** Was loosely adapted by Ferdinand J. Smith into the "Feature Presentation" theme for Creator/{{HBO}}.
66** The third movement was adapted for Geoff Gill and Cliff Wade into "Heartbreaker", first recorded by Jenny Darren, but better known as being CoveredUp by Music/PatBenatar.
67** It also forms the basis of Music/OliviaRodrigo's "Vampire".
68* Indie darkwave/new wave band Thou Shalt Not borrows from the ''From The New World'' symphony as well, for their single unsurprisingly titled "New World".
69* Music/TheKillers had "Mr. Brightside" turn into "Ode To Joy".
70* Music/BrightEyes' "Road to Joy" incorporates an interpolated version of "Ode to Joy," with fittingly twisted lyrics that subvert the classical piece's triumphant and hopeful tone.
71* [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach's]] Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor:
72** "Plug-in Baby" by Music/{{Muse}} starts with the opening.
73** The basis for the ''VideoGame/{{Gyruss}}'' theme song. To be exact, it's a direct adaptation of the arrangement performed by Sky, which predates the game by three years (although some parts are left out since it was made for an early-mid 1980s arcade game).
74** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OFZ9Mh7GA Bach onto This]]" could even count as a {{Homage}}.
75** A ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfvo-xyq_zQ music arrange]] for Kanako Yasaka's theme, "Suwa Foughten Field", begins with the opening.
76** The intro of "Music/BadApple" from ''VideoGame/TouhouGensokyoLotusLandStory'' is based on the Fugue part.
77** Eurobeat Brony's "Discord" uses the Fugue for its intro.
78** "Fly Me to the Moon", popularised by Music/FrankSinatra, can be heard almost note-for-note near the beginning of the fugue.
79** It's sampled throughout "Twenty First Century Boy" by Music/SigueSigueSputnik.
80** The subject of the fugue appears briefly in "The Greatest Show On Earth" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}.
81** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npmnjoDYpiQ "Back on the Rocks"]] from ''Manga/InitialD'' uses the opening as the intro.
82** The intro of the Euromach song "[[https://youtu.be/94zWFE9S80o Love Rhapsody]]" by Victoria (Elena Ferretti) interpolates the Fugue.
83* The first bars of Bach's Prelude & Fugue No. 2 are done as an appropriately trite intro on harpsichord on Music/TheKinks' "Session Man".
84* Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" begins with the famous "Da-Da-Da-DUN!" opening from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and has been covered by everybody from ELO to The Beatles. The Music/ElectricLightOrchestra version deserves special mention, for taking the song and building an entire suite around it - based on the Fifth Symphony, of course.
85* In the 1980s, ELO's former conductor Louis Clark worked with British Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on a series of albums ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooked_on_Classics Hooked on Classics]]''.
86* Speaking of ELO, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan's previous band Music/TheMove had their first hit with 1966's "Night of Fear," derived partly from Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture.'' The origins of ELO's classical leanings can be found here.
87* Adagio in G Minor by Remo Giazotto (often misattributed to Tomaso Albinoni):
88** "Albinoni vs. Star Wars" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik opens with a quotation.
89** "Cold is Being" by the band Renaissance is essentially Adagio in G Minor set to lyrics.
90** "Albinoni" by Rollerball (Above & Beyond). Music/{{Tiesto}} also did a remix titled "Athena", on ''Parade of the Athletes''.
91* Renaissance is pretty much built on this trope, actually.
92* Sting's "Russians" uses the melody from Sergei Prokofiev's "Romance", part of his ''Lieutenant Kije Suite''.
93** The "Troika" part of ''Lieutenant Kije'' was adapted into "Midnight Sleighride", an {{Instrumental}} by the BigBand[=/=]{{Jazz}} combo Sauter-Finegan in 1952, then in 1975 it was used as the EpicRiff of "I Believe in Father Christmas" by [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Greg Lake]].
94* Speaking of Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer, they did this to an excessive degree, with at least one classical-to-rock full conversion on every album, like, for instance ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition''. As did Keith Emerson's previous band the Nice (later reformed for nostalgic reunion concerts). This was also a staple of Sky, the soft-rock group whose members included John Williams (the guitarist, not the movie composer).
95* William Orbit's album ''Pieces In A Modern Style'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. However, the most widely recognized track from the album, Barbers "Adagio For Strings" was a remix by Music/FerryCorsten from the famous Samuel Barber piece, misleading people into thinking the whole album was dance music. Corsten also remixed Orbit's interpretation of Music/MauriceRavel's "Pavane For a Dead Princess".
96** Music/{{Tiesto}} and Music/ArminVanBuuren have also done remixes. Some [=DJs=] have also sampled or remixed from other remixes.
97* Bomani D'Mite Armah's "Read a Book" turns Beethoven's 5th Symphony into a Lil' Jon-style rap song. It's a parody advising its target audience to take up good habits such as reading books and drinking water instead of beer.
98* Johann Pachelbel's [[Music/PachelbelsCanon Canon in D]] has inspired a great many songs with its [[PachelbelsCanonProgression chord progression]]. Jerry C even played the entire tune [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8oyJztzwo rock & roll style]].
99** Also pointed out in Rob Paravonian's brilliant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM Pachelbel Rant]].
100** The opening of Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" directly quotes the piece, although a step lower in pitch.
101** Music/Maroon5's [[https://youtu.be/SlPhMPnQ58k "Memories"]] also shifts the melody a step lower.
102** From [[VideoGame/MySingingMonsters My Singing Monsters,]] we have [[https://youtu.be/VcsdQGOMu3w Gold Island]] which has this as it's first chord progression.
103* Music/PetShopBoys, "All Over The World" opens with a synthesised StandardSnippet of a Tchaikovsky piece.
104* Nas' "I Can" uses the beginning of Beethoven's ''Für Elise''.
105* David Usher's 2001 Canadian hit Black Black Heart samples The Flower Duet (Sous le dôme épais) from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé, as a hook.
106* Classical composers liked quoting too:
107** Tchaikovsky famously copied the "Marseillaise" and the then-Russian national anthem for the ''1812 Overture'' and a number of Italian songs for the ''Capriccio Italien.''
108** Beethoven took 'Rule, Britannia' and 'God Save the King' for his ''Wellington's Victory'' (Op. 91) along with the French 'Malbrough s'en va-t en guerre' (identical to 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow'), reputedly Napoleon's favourite tune.
109** [[Music/JohannesBrahms Brahms]]' "Academic Festival Overture" is made up of quotations from [[UsefulNotes/TheStudentenverbindung traditional collegiate songs]] such as "Gaudeamus Igitur."
110** Aaron Copland made an art form out of reworking and rephrasing American folk tunes, the best known of which is his use of the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" in ''Appalachian Spring''.
111* Japanese Symphonic Power Metal/Neo-Classical Metal Band Galneryus incorporates several bits of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Opus 35 in their song, "Angel Of Salvation". The first part of the intro is literally the same, note for note, played by a complete symphonic orchestra, and at several other points in the song, they draw so heavily on the Violin Concerto that "Angel Of Salvation" has been referred to as "basically an original arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D".
112* Music/{{Evanescence}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgun4FjrRV8 Lacrymosa]] samples the opening of the "Lacrimosa" from Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's "Requiem" throughout the whole song.
113** The choir from the piece was previously sampled on the pre-chorus of the [[ContentLeak unreleased]] demo "Anything For You".
114* Hollenthon does this all the time. "Lords of Bedlam" samples Prokofiev's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' tune to great effect.
115* Apotheosis has done [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8xOez_CLw O Fortuna]] but it only really becomes Crowning Music of Awesome in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaEjVu7d_QY Excalibur remix]].
116* Music/{{Chumbawamba}}'s "Tubthumping" includes the "Prince of Denmark's March" at the end.
117* Sweetbox's "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" is based around the Air from Music/JohannSebastianBach's Orchestral Suite No.3.
118* Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band's "A Fifth of Beethoven" quotes Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor. It was most famously used in the film ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''. Also in the film was David Shire's funky reworking of Mussorgsky's ''Music/NightOnBaldMountain'', which was called ''Night on Disco Mountain''.
119** Following Murphy's hit a group called The Philarmonics gave similar treatment to ''Für Elise''. "For Elise" ''peaked'' at #100 on Billboard's Hot 100.
120* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra's ''Requiem'' samples the famous intro to Beethoven's 5th. "Requiem" is part of a rock opera titled ''Music/BeethovensLastNight''. It also includes snippets of Mozart and "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
121** Indeed, pretty much the entirety of the TSO's output that isn't Christmas stuff is this. ''Beethoven's Last Night'' contains at least the "Moonlight Sonata", the "Pathetique", "Für Elise" and the 5th (and a lot more Beethoven, of course), Mozart's overture to ''The Marriage of Figaro'', and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee". Nightcastle contains an actual "Hall of the Mountain King", Verdi's Requiem, Orff's ''Carmina Burana'', and a cover of the "Nutrocker" (which of course is itself B. Bumble and the Stingers' cover of Tchaikovsky's ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'').
122** Some of their Christmas music is this as well. Excluding original tracks and arrangements based on traditional Christmas carols, "Christmas Canon" is based on Pachabel's Canon in D, "Mad Russian's Christmas" is based on the Nutcracker Suite, and "Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness)" is based on Liszt's Hungarian Dances.
123* Savatage has also dipped into this trope. Their song "Hall of the Mountain King" didn't actually sample any of Edvard Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King", but their "Prelude to Madness", an extended intro to "Hall...", did.
124* Music/EricCarmen's self-pitying hit "All By Myself" is based on the main theme from the slow movement of Music/SergeiRachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto. Another one of his hits, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", is based on the main melody of the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.
125* Malice Mizer made incredibly liberal use of this, to the point where you didn't even to know about classical to spot it. The main source seemed to be guitarist and bandleader Mana, because his new project, Moi Dix Mois, does the same thing.
126* Finnish Thrash Metal band Stone open their album ''No Anaesthesia!'' with a metal rendition of Jean Sibelius' ''Finlandia''.
127* The Music/BrianSetzer Orchestra album ''Wolfgang's Big Night Out'' contains swing versions of several recognizable classical works. Notably, "Plead the Fifth" has the overture to Beethoven's 5th Symphony, "For Lisa" quotes ''Für Elise'', the title track quotes Mozart's ''StandardSnippet/EineKleineNachtmusik'', "One More Night With You" references Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" and "Some River In Europe" samples Strauss' ''Blue Danube''. In their first Christmas album, they also did their version of ''The Nutcracker Suite'', which was based on an arrangement originally performed in the '40s by Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
128* Music/{{Nile}}'s "Ramses, Bringer of War" is based on "Mars, Bringer of War" from Music/GustavHolst's ''The Planets''.
129* "End of the Century" from ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution 3rd Mix'' samples Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
130* "Speed Over Beethoven" from ''DDR Extreme'' samples Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Für Elise''. "Can't You Feel My Love" by the same artist (although not featured in ''DDR'') samples the third movement of the Moonlight Sonata.
131* "Beethoven Virus" from ''VideoGame/PumpItUp'' samples Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique (Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13). "Canon D", is of course, Pachelbel's Canon. In fact, at least 70% of [=BanYa=]'s catalog for the series is this. To name a few: "Sorceress Elise" to Beethoven's ''Für Elise'', "Turkey March" to Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, and "Winter" to Vivaldi's ''L'inverno''.
132* "V" and "V2" from ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX'' samples Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, ''L'inverno'' (Winter) from Vivaldi's ''The Four Seasons''.
133* "Kakumei" from ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX 7th Style'' and ''[[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution DDRMAX2]]'' is a dance remix of Chopin's Etude #12, also known as the Revolutionary Etude. (Hence the name, which is Japanese for "revolution".)
134* About a third of the soundtrack of ''Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix'' consists of remixes of classical music.
135* Instrumental track "Fuck You" by Music/{{Satan}} has a part of Mozart's ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' in it.
136* The ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' opening theme song "Zettai! Part 2" uses the intro to Mozart's ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' to open and end the song.
137* The intro for ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' is also used in the ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' soundtrack, from the level where Raz helps Sasha Nein defeat the censors.
138* The [[Music/TwentyOneTwelve 2112 Overture]] by Music/{{Rush|Band}} includes a snippet of the 1812 Overture by Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky. Get it?
139* The outro of Necrophagist's "Only Ash Remains" is part of Sergei Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet'' suite.
140* Live versions of "Heartbreaker" by Music/LedZeppelin often include a snippet of Bach's Bourrée in E minor.
141* The Vintersorg song "For Kung Och Fosterland", from the album ''Till Fjalls'', features the signature melody from Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" from ''Theatre/PeerGynt''. He is thanked in the credits.
142* Thicke's "When I get you alone" has Beethoven's Fifth as the main riff.
143* "Earth, the Circle Part 1" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band includes some melodic phrases from both the left-hand and right-hand parts of "Jimbo's Lullaby" (from ''Children's Corner'') by Music/ClaudeDebussy, the right-hand part becoming a vocal melody with lyrics.
144* Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Symphony Of Destruction" has a piece of the Offertorium ("Domine Jesu Christe") from Mozart's ''Requiem'' at the start. Also "Last Rites", based on Music/JohannSebastianBach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565).
145* "Repent Walpurgis" by Music/ProcolHarum contains an excerpt of Music/JohannSebastianBach's Prelude No. 1 in C major (BWV 846).
146** Music/ProcolHarum's greatest hit was "A Whiter Shade of Pale", based on the Air from Bach's Orchestral Suite No.3.
147* Music/RhapsodyOfFire's 10-minute epic "The Wizard's Last Rhymes" borrows heavily from the 4th movement of Dvorak's ''New World'' Symphony. On their album ''From Chaos To Eternity'', the songs "Tempesta di Fuoco" and "Heroes of the Waterfalls' Kingdom" both borrow from Beethoven's Piano Sonata #1 in F Minor.
148* German punk band Music/DieTotenHosen has an album called ''Ein Kleines Bisschen Horrorshow'' -- "A Little bit of Horrorshow" -- which has quite a few bits and pieces of Beethoven's Ninth in it. The songs reference ''A Clockwork Orange'' a lot, so this makes sense when you think about it. The first song is even called "Here Comes Alex".
149* Sol Bloom's 1893 song "The Streets of Cairo, or The Poor Little Country Maid" is popular as a comically stereotypical StandardSnippet for vaguely Middle Eastern settings, so there's no surprise it's been referenced quite a lot.
150** It pops up, drastically slowed down and made to sound menacing, as the main riff of [[Music/GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]]'s "You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me".
151** David Bromberg's "Sharon" has the instrumental introduction (which was SampledUp by Music/BeastieBoys for "Johnny Ryall" from ''Music/PaulsBoutique'') include a violin solo which begins by quoting "The Streets of Cairo".
152** Patrick Cowley's "Menergy" has a synth solo that also begins with the snippet before veering into another place entirely.
153** It is quoted in Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/TheGrandWazoo''.
154** It's reused in Music/{{Can}}'s "Hoolah Hoolah" from "Rite Time".
155** Perhaps not surprisingly, it's also interpolated into "IstanbulNotConstantinople" by The Four Lads[=/=]Music/TheyMightBeGiants.
156** Pam Tillis' "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" uses it as one half of a guitar duet.
157** {{Music/Kesha}}'s "Take It Off" uses "The Streets of Cairo" for its entire chorus.
158--->"There's a place downtown where the freaks all come around \
159It's a hole in the wall it's a dirty free for all"
160** A riff in "Egypt Egypt" by Egyptian Lover.
161** The coda of "Maria" by TKA.
162** The chorus of Music/{{Grimes}}' "We Appreciate Power".
163* "God Diva" from the Japanese Duo Music/AliProject samples the "Queen of the Night" aria from ''The Magic Flute'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
164* A sample from Tchaikovsky's ''Nutcracker Suite'' is used as the "Game Start" tune for the Japan-only NES game ''Devil World''. A longer sample would be used in the ''Devil World'' level on ''Art Style: PICTOBITS'' in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrgIyztOIw short, but awesome remix]].
165** As almost every fan knows, "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" from Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' appears in the licensed NES version of ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''. The UsefulNotes/GameBoy version uses the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki" instead.
166* Music/WendyCarlos' album ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' is a CoverAlbum with compositions by Music/JohannSebastianBach played on a Moog synthesizer. Her follow-up album "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" adds Montiverdi, Scarlatti, and Handel to more Bach. Her soundtrack of ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' does the same with music by Music/LudwigVanBeethoven and Music/HenryPurcell and her one contribution to the soundtrack of ''Film/TheShining'' is "Dies Irae" from Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" in a similar eerie electronical arrangement.
167* Music/FrankZappa's guitar solo in "Status Back Baby" from ''Music/AbsolutelyFree'' is Music/IgorStravinsky's "Petrushka". On the same album he also quotes from Music/IgorStravinsky's ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' and ''Theatre/TheFirebird'', along with "Jupiter, Bringer Of Jollity" from Music/GustavHolst's ''The Planets''. His album ''Music/FrancescoZappa'' is a complete CoverAlbum with music by the 18th century composer Francesco Zappa, yet played on a Synclavier computer.
168** Zappa also inverted it by working in "Louie Louie" in orchestral piece "Welcome To The United States" from ''Music/TheYellowShark'', a collaboration with a huge classical orchestra.
169* Music/TheBeatles start "All You Need Is Love" with the first few bars of the "Marseillaise". In the cacophony towards the end, you can also hear a saxophone playing the first line from Glenn Miller's "In the Mood", and Bach's Two Part Invention No.8 in F Major, and "Greensleeves".
170* Music/ModestMussorgsky:
171** The chorus of Music/{{ABBA}}'s "Lay All Your Love On Me" is based on ''Music/NightOnBaldMountain''.
172** Music/{{Animusic}}: "Cathedral Pictures" contains excerpts from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", specifically "Promenade", "The Hut on Fowls Legs", and "The Great Gate of Kiev", all arranged for an organ, an electric bass, and drums.
173* Music/PinkMartini often quotes classical music and popular melodies. Their song "The Gardens of Sampson and Beasley" manages to quote Delibes' "Flower Duet" and "Oh My Darling Clementine" in quick succession.
174* "When I Get You Alone" by Robin Thicke features a heavy sample of Beethovens Symphony number 5.
175* Music/TheBeatles' "Because" from ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' is based off Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Moonlight'' Sonata; John asked Yoko to play the chords of "Sonata" backwards while writing it, but it still sounds like the original.
176* Music/EmilieAutumn, being a classically trained violinist and harpsichordist, provides a few examples:
177** "Juliet" has the chorus of "Greensleeves" around the end. It's at 4:47 in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HknxMtFdw this video.]]
178** "Save You" ends with a few bars of Music/PachelbelsCanon.
179** Her cover of Music/CyndiLauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" interpolates Fucik's "Entrance of the Gladiators", better known as the StandardSnippet for circus music, played on the cello.
180* Music/PDQBach usually produces pieces which are nothing but quotations from classical music ... and popular music, and jazz music, and nursery tunes, and ... and ... and...
181* "Tell" from ''VideoGame/InTheGroove 2'' is a techno remix of Rossini's ''William Tell Overture''. "Vorsprung Durch Techno" and "Summer in Belize" are based on the Spring and Summer movements, respectively, of Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons''.
182* Music/SoundHorizon's "Yoiyami no Uta" includes snippets of classical pieces in rapid succession: Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu", and Mussorgsky's ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition''.
183* As the title implies, electronica group Lamb's song "Górecki" is built around a sample from Górecki's Third Symphony.
184* Deborah Sasson's "Carmen (Danger in Her Eyes)" uses a snippet of "Habanera" from George Bizet's ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}''.
185* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLdYSGYJzw0 "Dido"]](no relation to the singer) by Aria is based on "Dido's Lament" from the opera ''Dido & Aeneas''.
186* Brazilian band Ultraje a Rigor has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu35Or5OqKQ "Eu Gosto de Mulher"]], whose solo incorporates "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI Sabre Dance]]" (a StandardSnippet on WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, among others)
187* Several examples from Music/SymphonyX:
188** "Divine Wings of Tragedy" samples both Bach's ''Mass in B Minor'' and Music/GustavHolst's "Mars, Bringer of War" from the ''Planets Suite''.
189** Interspersed within the album ''V-The New Mythology Suite'' are excerpts of both Verdi's and Mozart's Requiems, Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor (BWV 1052) and the {{cantata}} ''Ich habe meine Zuversicht'' (BWV 188), and Music/BelaBartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
190* Music/{{Candlemass}}'s "Marche Funebre" is an arrangement of Music/FryderykChopin's Funeral March.
191** As well, the solo riff for "Waterwitch" is extremely reminiscent "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy".
192* The song that Roger composes in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' is a rock version of "Musetta's Waltz" from ''Theatre/LaBoheme'', the opera that the musical is based on.
193* Greg Lake's seasonal hit "I Believed In Father Christmas" uses the Troika sleigh-ride theme from Prokofiev's ''Lieutenant Kije''.
194* KMFDM's "Liebeslied" samples Karl Orff's "O Fortuna." Unfortunately for them, "O Fortuna" is not in the public domain and they were forced to re-edit the song to remove the sample (although it's still used when they play it live).
195* Love {{Sculpture|s}} had a 1968 UK hit with their rocked-up version of the Sabre Dance from ''Gayane'' by Aram Khachaturian (who was still alive at the time, though there seems to be no public record of his reaction).
196* "Strange Skies" by The Cruxshadows, the B-side of the single "Valkyrie", quotes Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries". Ironically, "Valkyrie" itself is not an example of this trope.
197* Another comic version appears in the album, "Music/SpikeJones is Murdering the Classics!"
198* Rudebrat's "[[Theatre/{{Amadeus}} Amadeus]] (Mozart {{Dubstep}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PQXddD3uYU Remix]])" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
199* Music/{{Rednex}}'s "Wild and Free" is built on the melody of Offenbach's "Infernal Galop" from ''Orpheus in the Underworld''. Most people know it best as "Music/TheCancanSong."
200* [[Music/DeepPurple Deep Purple's]] "Under the Gun" features the first four measures of "Pomp and Circumstance" as a bridge.
201* Music/TimMinchin: during one of the epic solos in Dark Side, he sneaks in a bit of Beethoven's ''Für Elise''.
202* A trademark of Music/ThePianoGuys, who combine classical motifs with the contemporary. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDsfou6UfjU Their version of "Mission Impossible"]] with Music/LindseyStirling features a bit of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 ([[UncommonTime performed in 5/4 time]] in a minor [[{{Tonality}} key]]), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_fkw5j-t0 "Beethoven's Five Secrets"]] mixes elements of Beethoven's Symphony 5 into One Republic's "Secrets", and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCaH-qqTWpk "Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends"]] combines Chopin's Prelude Opus 28 with "Oogway Ascends" from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''.
203* ''VideoGame/{{Cytus}}'' has an entire chapter dedicated to modern arranges of classical songs.
204* Fitting the subject of the song, {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s "Bach no Senritsu o Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu" ("Because Of Listening To Bach Melodies At Night") includes a short Bach snippet played on the piano.
205* [[GodIsLoveSongs Contemporary Christian music]] veteran David Meece recorded several songs that used classical songs as part of the basis or used snippets as an introduction; such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUMcEeNUr4 "This Time"]] (which used Music/FryderykChopin's "Revolutionary Etude" in C Minor for the introduction, bridge and ending), "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdcFFBKjGs You Can Go]]" (using [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach's]] "Invention 13 in A Minor" in the same manner as "This Time") and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isc7rCK7QW4 "Falling Down"]] (based on a Mozart sonata). In Meece's case, it owed somewhat due to his classical training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
206* Inverted by Creator/BillBailey, who jokes that classical composers sneaked [[MinskyPickup motifs from Cockney music]] into their works.
207* Machine Messiah by Music/{{Yes}} quotes the toccata of Widor's Symphony For Organ no. 5.
208* Former Music/{{Styx}} frontman Dennis [=DeYoung=] includes part of Ravel's "Bolero" when he performs the song "Lady" live. It fits ''perfectly''.
209* {{Synthpop}} pioneer Music/JeanJacquesPerrey did this a lot. For instance, "The Elephant Never Forgets" is [[Music/LudwigvanBeethoven Beethoven's]] "Turkish Dance", and "18th Century Puppet" quotes the slow movement of Mozart's ''Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik''.
210* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQ5HsXlPTo "Septette for the Dead Princess"]], the FinalBoss theme from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', was based on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpSqC86vaw third movement]] of Beethoven's ''Pathetique''.
211* The first few bars of [[Music/{{Hospice}} "Bear"]] by Music/TheAntlers are taken almost exactly from "Twelve Variation on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman'" by Mozart (aka, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star").
212* Music/{{Sigh}}'s "Requiem - Nostalgia" ends with a StandardSnippet of Music/FryderykChopin's Minute Waltz (overlaid with [[MindScrew hundreds of samples of giggling babies]]). Similarly, "Hangman's Hymn" quotes liberally from Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's Requiem in D Minor.
213* Music/DeadKennedys' "Chemical Warfare" contains an excerpt of "Sobre las Olas" by Mexican composer Juventino Rosas in its bridge.
214* Music/{{Bathory}}'s "Hammerheart" (the song, not the album) is based on a melody from Music/GustavHolst's ''The Planets'' (specifically, "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity").
215* Another case of ''Für Elise'' usage comes from the Filipino band The Youth. The song? "Basura" (Garbage), which is a song that reminds people to properly throw their trash.
216* [[KoreanPopMusic K-pop]] group Music/{{VIXX}} use part of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" in their track ''Fantasy''.
217* Music/RobbieWilliams samples Prokofiev's ''Montagues and Capulets'' in ''Party Like a Russian''.
218* Italian death metal band Music/FleshgodApocalypse uses part of Mozart's ''Symphony No. 40'' as the main theme to their track "The Violation".
219* 2Cellos frequently have classical music introductions and interludes in their versions of modern rock songs, such as having the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVH1Y15omgE William Tell Overture segue into Iron Maiden's "The Trooper"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk Vivaldi's "Cello Sonata #5" become AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"]].
220* Japanese alt-rock band Music/{{BIGMAMA}} have a trilogy of EP's (appropriately titled ''Roclassick'') specifically devoted to doing this, totaling ''twenty songs''. The pieces sampled include:
221** Vivaldi's "Spring" from ''The Four Seasons'' ("Hashire Eros")
222** Beethoven's ''Symphony no. 5'' ("Niji o Tabeta Iris"), ''Für Elise'' ("Therese no Tameiki"), and ''Symphony no. 9'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "No. 9"]])
223** Bach's ''Toccata and Fugue in D Minor'' ("Eiyuu o Daite Maria wa Nemuru")
224** Dvořák's ''Symphony no. 9'' (''Symphony from the New World'') ("Koukyoukyoku 'Shinsekai'")
225** Pachelbel's "Canon in D" ("Keisandakai Cinderella")
226** Brahms's ''Hungarian Dances'' no. 5 ("Animanimus")
227** Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' overture ("Swan Song") and "Waltz of the Flowers" from ''The Nutcracker'' ("Takane no Hana no Waltz")
228** Satie's "Gymnopédie no. 1" ("Royalize")
229** Grieg's "In The Hall of the Mountain King" ("Perfect Gray")
230** Elgar's ''Pomp and Circumstance'' March no. 1 ("bambino bambina")
231** Debussy's "Clair de Lune" ("Moonlight")
232** Verdi's "Dies Irae" from ''Messa da Requiem'' ("Ta ga Tame no Requiem")
233** Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachmusik" ("Lemonade") and "Turkish March" ("Turkey Outsider")
234** Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from ''Die Valküre'' ("Valkyrie no Hikou")
235** Petzold's "Minuet in G Major" ("Anata no Koe de Boku no Na o Yonde")
236** Chopin's Op. 10 No. 3 ("The Last Song").
237* Portuguese gothic metal band Music/{{Moonspell}}'s "Tired" from ''The Butterfly Effect'' contains a sample of Mozart's Requiem at the beginning of the track.
238* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s "The Red Baron" uses Music/JohannSebastianBach's "Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578" as its intro.
239* The intro to Music/DreamTheater's song "Illumination Theory" closely resembles the theme from the first movement of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, albeit somewhat simplified.
240* Gerard Joling's "Love is In Your Eyes" begins and ends with a snippet of Edvard Grieg's "Morning Mood" from ''Theatre/PeerGynt''. Likewise, "No More Boleros" quotes Maurice Ravel's "Bolero".
241* "There Isn't Just One Route for the Maiden!", the opening theme for the first season of ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''[='=] AnimatedAdaptation uses Beethoven's ''Symphony no. 5''.
242* Mako from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's ''Messiah'' as part of her {{Leitmotif}}, which plays whenever she's going off on one of her bizarre motivational speeches. It was also remixed into her battle themes for ''VideoGame/KillLaKillIF''.
243* Music/LionelRichie adapted the fourth movement of Beethoven's ''Symphony no. 9'' into "Endless Love" for the 1981 feature film of the same name based on the [[Literature/EndlessLove bestselling novel]].
244* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 2'', the music for [[https://youtu.be/EKjcGF60hNU Paris]] is a heavy metal medley of "Frère Jacques" and Music/TheCanCanSong.
245* Apoptygma Berserk essentially spliced the fun bit of ''Oh Fortuna'' from Carl Orff into "Love Never Dies" along with a bit of Bach fugue as well.
246* "[[https://youtu.be/aOzaxgn_xNY Vodka Fisa]]" by Italian hard dance [[OneBookAuthor one-track wonders]] Lesi Ortestral derives its vocal melody from the aforementioned "Korobeiniki", while it's accordion riff is based on "Katyusha", another Russian standard.
247* (DJ) Music/{{Tiesto}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/V9HKtPVms_Y Elements of Life]]" and Laserdance's "[[https://youtu.be/dx_r48-0DRY Point of No Return]]" are based on Music/GeorgeFredericHandel's "[[https://youtu.be/klPZIGQcrHA Sarabande]]".
248* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj54ojb-SXo Moonlight]]" by Brazilian metal band Viper is largely based on Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".
249* Laaerdance's "Space Opera" is a spacesynth take on Mozart's "Lacrimosa".
250* Art of Trance reinterpreted Music/ErikSatie's "Gymnopedie No. 1" as "Panorama". Music/JanetJackson also interpolated it in "Someone To Call My Lover".
251* The main synthesizer riff of the "Seth" suite from Music/KlausSchulze's ''Deus Arrakis'' echoes Bach's "Prelude in C minor" from the ''Cello Suites''.
252* Music/KingCrimson: [[Music/InTheWakeOfPoseidon "The Devil's Triangle"]] is directly based on "Mars, Bringer of War" by Music/GustavHolst, while being different enough to avoid any copyright infringement.
253* Mauro Picotto and Steven Z. remixed Mozart's aforementioned "Lacrimosa" as "Tearful".
254* "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," [[CoveredUp made popular by]] Music/CyndiLauper, was adapted from the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
255* Music/JeanMichelJarre's "Rendez-Vous '98" incorporates a sample of "La Marseillaise".
256* Television music composer Frank Gari did this trope a lot:
257** "Catch 5" was adapted from the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
258** "Hello" was adapted from Music/FranzLiszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
259** "News Channel" was adapted from "Largo al factotum" from Music/GioachinoRossini's ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville''.
260** "Turn to" was adapted from "Dance of the Knights" from Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet''.
261** "Good News" was adapted from the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
262** "It's All Right Here" took inspiration from Bedrich Smetana's "Die Moldau".
263** "News Series 2000" is an {{Aversion}}, as it was based on Music/LaloSchifrin's "Tar Sequence" from ''Film/CoolHandLuke'' rather than a public-domain melody.
264* Jenny ROM's "[[https://youtu.be/0A-yWB16ljQ Happy Toyboys]]" interpolates "Ode To Joy" with its synth riff.
265* Melody & Mezzo's "[[https://youtu.be/Nu8bG0Bzvfc Nightshade]]" uses the melody of Johannes Brahms'. ''Hungarian Dance No. 5'', which is also interpolated in the {{Eurobeat}} song "[[https://youtu.be/UJVq4UwOMLQ Glory]]" by Wonder Girl.
266* The music for the ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' level "What The Heck" interpolates Mussorgsky's ''Music/NightOnBaldMountain'' before switching styles to cheesy elevator muzak.
267* ''VideoGame/MementoMoriAFKRPG'' has characters designated as "Witches of Qlipha" have their [[ImageSong Laments]] derived from classical music or folk songs. Specific to this trope are Natasha's "X: THE FLOWER" deriving from Bach's "Minuet in G Major", Lunalynn's "Ⅸ. THE ICE" ending with Tchaikovsky's "[[Theatre/SwanLake Dance of the Swans]]", Valeriede's "Ⅷ. THE FIRE" starting with a snippet of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", Cerberus's "Ⅳ. THE THUNDER" ([[ShockAndAwe appropriately]]) beginning with Gustav Holst's "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity" and Armstrong's "II. THE SOUL" sharing the same melody as Maurice Ravel's "Bolero".
268* "Ten out of Ten" by Louchie Lou and Michie One uses the tune of Mozart's ''Symphony No. 40: Molto allegro'' note for note during its verses and pre-chorus.
269* The chorus of "Up" by Music/{{Inna}} and Music/SeanPaul interpolates a melodic line from the aforementioned ''Symphony no. 40''.
270* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestVIRogerWilcoInTheSpinalFrontier'', as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', interpolates J. Strauss's "On The Beautiful Blue Danube" in "[[https://youtu.be/7s4PneXmwQ0?si=NvXiKesA8X4qVDwV Hero's Waltz]]".
271* Olivia Rodrigo's "Lacy" quotes Impromptu No. 2 “Allegretto” in A-flat major, Op. 142, D. 935 by Music/FranzSchubert and "Farandole" from Georges Bizet's ''L'Arlésienne''.

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