The Next 100

[looseonthestreet]

The problem with cutting it off at 100, is there's probably another good <insert arbitrary number here> (37?) classical songs that have transcended the genre. And there's no reason why people shouldn't be able to find those through your site. I'm sure you've got 10 songs you wished you could have fit in the 100.

I think transcending the genre really means:
"This song will be SOMEWHERE in every persons memory."
Whether or not that specifically means it had to have been used in popular media such as movie soundtracks, is questionable. There's just certain songs everybody has heard, and you can't quite place just where or how. I think those should all make your list.

For example, missing from your list:
Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet - Dance of The Knights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFCiMDovQc

I'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard this, somewhere. And yet your list is full with no room for it.

How about another 100?
Or a secondary, "most likely have heard" list?
Or perhaps expanding top 100 to top 150...

Oh, thanks for the cool site.

- z

[kickassclassical]

We're open to expanding the list. More importantly, we're excited about stimulating further exploration into Classical Music's Greatest Hits. Let's start the list here in this forum, and eventually, if there are enough qualified submissions, we'll publish The Next 100!

A few things up front: If you can, paste a YouTube link so we can become familiar with the piece you suggest. We reserve the right to edit this list mercilessly (even our own ideas), and to include (or not include) your contribution in our compilation. And let's remember the mission – to include classical music pieces that we've heard featured prominently in pop culture.

(If you're new here, check out our original Top 100 List.)

Here are our ideas, in alphabetical order of the composer's last name. Looseonthestreet was close - we came up with 33!

Hugo Alfven, "Swedish Rhapsody No. l, Midsummer Vigil"
Johann Bach, "Prelude" from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"
Johann Bach, "Sleepers, Wake" from "Cantata No. 140"
Johann Bach, "Sheep May Safely Graze" from "Cantata No. 208"
Georges Bizet, "Farandole" from "L'Arlesienne Suite Number Two"
Frederic Chopin, "Polonaise In A"
Antonin Dvorak, "Symphony No. 9 In E Minor (From The New World)," 4th Movement
Jacob Gade, "Jalousie"
Charles Gounod, "Funeral March Of A Marionette"
Gustav Holst, "Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity" from "The Planets"
Gustav Holst, "Mars, The Bringer of War" from "The Planets"
Stephen Foster, "Beautiful Dreamer"
Felix Mendelssohn, "Symphony No. 4 (Italian)," 1st Movement
Felix Mendelssohn, "The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)"
Wolfgang Mozart, "Papagena" from "The Magic Flute"
Wolfgang Mozart, "Canzonetta Sull'aria" from "The Marriage Of Figaro"
Jacques Offenbach, "Gendarmes' Duet" from "Genevieve De Brabant"
Giacomo Puccini, "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot"
Sergei Rachmaninov, "Prelude In C Sharp Minor"
Camille Saint-Saëns, "Symphony No. 3 In C Minor (Organ)"
Erik Satie, "Gymnopèdies No.1"
Franz Schubert, "Ellens Dritter Gesang (Ave Maria)"
Jean Sibelius, "Intermezzo" from "Karelia Suite"
Igor Stravinsky, "The Rite Of Spring"
Peter Tchaikovsky, "Pas De Deux (Dance Of The Prince & The Sugar-Plum Fairy)" from "The Nutcracker"
Peter Tchaikovsky, "Swan Theme" from "Swan Lake"
Peter Tchaikovsky, "Dance Of The Little Swans" from "Swan Lake"
Peter Tchaikovsky, "Waltz" from "Swan Lake"
Antonio Vivaldi, "Winter" from "The Four Seasons"
Antonio Vivaldi, "Summer" from "The Four Seasons"
Richard Wagner, "Prelude To Act 3" from "Lohengrin"
Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Phantom Of The Opera Overture"
John Williams, "Raiders March" from "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"

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[Kylara]

I agree to a second 100 list. I adore your first one. And although some of these are quite modern, they are still popular and heard in a variety of places, these would be my suggestions:

Randy Edleman - To The Stars (Dragonheart theme) -- you hear this in so many movie trailers and at the Academy Award film montages http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sE9h7cAwU8

Camille Saint-Sanse - Danse Macabre - popular spook-ish music used very often

Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly -- so popular it gets parodied during any stand-off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct6p0sP_KSk


The Last of the Mohicans theme as seen in the Nike Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX_5tzwVz3I


As you mentioned it in your own forum, Mansell's Requiem for a Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ma4BvMUwU

Mancini's:
Elephant Walk - heard in cartoons and sports stadiums (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfUnjTlbrQ)
Peter Gunn Theme - Put on your shades and look cool... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcflCzZlLcQ)


And whoever wants to take credit for it (Max Steiner or Percy Faith) --Theme from a Summer Place -- parodied in films and cartoons for anything romantic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykpbKOnN93w)

[kickassclassical]

Kylara's first suggestion reminds us of another often-used piece of film music by Randy Edelman. The recurring theme from "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story." (Listen at 1:35 for the part you'll recognize.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHthbtSbGLM

[Dreamer]

smetana - Vltava (Moldau)
Webber - Memory (from cats)
Beethoven Violin Romance No.2 op Nr 50
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No 1
Bartholdy, F.Mendelssohn - Songs without words
Shostakovich - Waltz No 2

And I have two wannabefamous:

Wagner - Tannhäuser - Entry of the Guests
I know this from a german commercial. Watch at 5:50
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=QDD4dZp-8Qs

"Food, Glorious Food" from Musical "Oliver!" by Lionel Bart
This song you can see in a famous computer animated film. Well most people do not remember this song in the film, if they don't know the musical. Maybe that's why it's very hard to find it on youtube. But otherwise if you know the musical, and than watch the film its a very good joke. Here is the song in the movie. Watch at 7:38
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs0s6Jshf2s

[kickassclassical]

Johann Bach, "Badinerie" from "Orchestral Suite No. 2 In B Minor For Flute And Strings"

[johnson]

one very popular song that should been included in the first 100 and should be included in the next 100 is Zadok the Priest (HWV 258) composed by George Frideric Handel, which is a coronation anthem, used as the official song of the Uefa Champions League and it is listened by millions of people every year.

[kickassclassical]

It's Christmas time, so we can't forget:

Mykola Leontovych "Carol Of The Bells"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TFrO8c_kVQ

[Mocker]

Here are a few more for the next 100--

-Vesti La Giubba (from Pagliacci, by Ruggiero Leoncavallo) - Exemplifies the entire notion of the 'tragic clown': smiling on the outside but crying on the inside.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky271W94VHA

-O Sole Mio (Neapolitan song written in 1898, lyrics by Giovanni Capurro, music by Eduardo di Capua. Basis for Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now Or Never”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW3zHEtL0T4

-Storm from William Tell Overture (Rossini) - About three minutes in, before the "Call to the Cows." Used in many cartoons for a storm, especially at sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2hGSL345I

-Surprise Symphony (Symphony No. 94 in G major - Haydn) - second mvmnt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLjwkamp3lI

-Movement 2 of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 - Heard in the movies "Mr. Holland's Opus" and "Immortal Beloved".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5pH4GKYkI

-Movement 2 of Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique” – Melody for the chorus of Billy Joel’s song “This Night”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nG1bt7IBM

-O Haupt Voll Blut Und Wunden from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion – Besides providing the melody for several hymns, it was also the basis for the Paul Simon song, “American Tune”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLRp2zU3x0

-Strauss Waltzes:
Tales From the Vienna Woods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vea3ne0UN0
Voices of Spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqm9jaM5UPA
Anniversary Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwxYxQg2gcY
Morning Papers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR9bIsbO2NA
You and You (from Die Fledermaus - familiar part starts about 1:20 into it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgM8fUFcE-A

[Mocker]

Here are some more suggestions for the second 100:

- Dvorak: Humoresque No. 7
- Grieg: Anitra’s Dance from “Peer Gynt”
- Grofe: “On the Trail” from Grand Canyon Suite
- Kabalevsky: Comedians’ Gallop
- Sousa: El Capitan
- Greensleeves
- Lehar: “The Merry Widow” Waltz
- Schubert: Marche Militaire
- Herbert: March of the Toys from “Babes in Toyland”
- Schubert: Moment Musical No. 3
- Chopin: Minute Waltz