List of popular songs based on classical music

1960s
See also: 1960s in music
(1960) "Asia Minor" by James Wisner - based on Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in
A minor.
(1960) "It's Now or Never" by Elvis Presley - based on 'O Sole Mio by Eduardo di
Capua.
(1961) "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" by Elvis Presley - based on Plais
ir d'Amour by Jean Paul Egide Martini.
(1962) "Nut Rocker" by B. Bumble and the Stingers - based on Tchaikovsky's "Marc
h of the Wooden Soldiers" from The Nutcracker .
(1963) "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)" by Allan Sherman - bas
ed on Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda.
(1964) "Rap City" by The Ventures - based on Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No
. 5 in G minor.
(1965) "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on Christian Petzold's Minuet in
G from the Anna Magdalena Notebook of J.S. Bach.
(1966) "Past, Present and Future" by The Shangri-Las - based on Ludwig van Beeth
oven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
(1966) "A Groovy Kind of Love" by The Mindbenders - based on the Rondo section o
f Muzio Clementi's "Sonatina in G major," op. 36 no. 5.
(1967) "Imitation Situation" by Fever Tree (San Francisco Girls) - used opening
passage of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
(1967) "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum - (loosely) based on J.S. Bach's
Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air (commonly known as Air on a G String) and Cantata 1
40 "Sleepers Awake".
(1967) "Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead" by The Fifth Estate - based partly on Mic
hael Praetorius's "Dance Suite Terpsichore"
(1967) "Amnesia Vivace" by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention- based on "The
Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinksy.
(1967) "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Pumpkin" by Frank Zappa & the Mothers o
f Invention- based on the movement "Jupiter" from "The Planets Suite" by Gustav
Holst.
(1968) "Emerald City" by The Seekers - based on Beethoven's Ode to Joy from his
Ninth Symphony.
(1968) "Hall of the Mountain King" by The Who - inspired by Edvard Grieg's "Peer
Gynt Suite".
(1968) "Prelude B - I'm so Glad" by Deep Purple on Shades of Deep Purple - nicel
y lifted from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade: "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship".
(1968) "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie" by Blood Sweat & Tears - based on "
Trois Gymnopdies" by Erik Satie
(1968) "Rain and Tears" by Aphrodite's Child - based on Pachelbel's Canon in D M
ajor
(1968) "Daydream" by the Wallace Collection (band) - based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchai
kovsky's Swan Lake
(1968) "All You Need is Love" by The Beatles contains a snippet from the beginni
ng of J.S. Bach's "2-part Invention no. 8".
(1968) "Blackbird" by The Beatles inspired by the bourree from J.S. Bach's suite
in E minor for lute/guitar Paul learned on guitar. Compare Jethro Tull's, versi
on.
(1968) "Fur Elise/Moonlight Sonata" by Vanilla Fudge based on Ludwig van Beethov
en's bagatelle "Fr Elise" and "Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"".
(1969) "Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor" by The Doors on Boxed Set Disk 1 Without a
Safety Net - based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
(1969) "Because" by The Beatles - inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonat
a No. 14, "Moonlight"
(1969) "Jane B" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on Frdric Chopin's "Pr
elude No. 4"
(1969) "Mars: The Bringer of War" by King Crimson on Epitaph - a progressive roc

k arrangement of Mars, from the The Planets suite by Gustav Holst

(1969) "Sabre Dance" by Love Sculpture - based on Aram Khatchaturian's "Gayane"
(1969) "Bourree" by Jethro Tull, arrangement of bourree from J.S. Bach's suite i
n E minor for lute/guitar.
[edit] 1970s
See also: 1970s in music
(1970) "The Devil's Triangle" by King Crimson - middle section based on Mars, fr
om the The Planets suite by Gustav Holst
(1970) "The Barbarian" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Allegro barbaro, for piano
by Bla Bartk
(1970) "Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Sinfonietta, first mo
vement by Leo Jancek. 2nd part of lead break is lifted from the Allemande from Fre
nch Suite No. 1 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Said piano piece is quoted
note for note up to the repeat sign in the middle.)
(1970) "A Song of Joy" by Waldo De Los Rios for Miguel Rios - based on Beethoven
's Ninth Symphony
(1971) "Baby Alone In Babylone" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - based on t
he 3rd movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3
(1971) "The Only Way" from Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - intro and lead b
reak are quoted from two different compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, namely
Toccata in F major for organ (up to the end of the F pedal point) and Prelude i
n D minor from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
(1972) "American Tune" by Paul Simon - based on the hymn "O Sacred Head" by Joha
nn Sebastian Bach
(1972) "Abaddon's Bolero" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - possibly inspired by Bolr
o by Maurice Ravel, but very different theme, meter (4/4 instead of 3/4), and at
mosphere
(1972) "Also Sprach Zarathustra" [I] by Deodato - a funk arrangement of Richard
Strauss' composition of the same name
(1972) "Cans and Brahms" by Yes - based on Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4, third
movement
(1972) "Hoedown" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Rodeo by Aaron Copland
(1972) "Horizons" by Steve Hackett from Genesis on Foxtrot - (loosely) based on
1st movement of 'Suite For Cello in G major, by J.S. Bach
(1972) "Joy" by Apollo 100 - based on Jesu, joy of man's desiring by J.S. Bach
(1972) Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - entire album base
d on the work by Modest Mussorgsky, with two original pieces ("The Sage" and "Th
e Curse of Baba Yaga")
(1972) "Song Sung Blue" by Neil Diamond - based on Mozart's "Piano Concerto No.
21", second movement
(1973) "Joybringer" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band - based on "Jupiter - bringer o
f jollity" from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
(1973) "Toccata" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Ginastera's First piano
concerto, fourth movement
(1974) "Annie's Song" by John Denver - based on Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, seco
nd movement
(1974) "Beach Baby" by First Class - instrumental section in the second half of
the song based on a part of Symphony No. 5 in E flat major by Jean Sibelius
(1974) "Minuetto Allegretto" by The Wombles - based on Mozart's "Symphony No. 41
"
(1974) "Voices of Syn" by Klaus Schulze on Timewind - incorporates a collage of
Verdi songs sung by an operatic singer.
(1974) "Danse Macabre" by Esperanto, (a multinational Progressive Rock band) - t
heir own version of the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Sans.
(1974) "Cold Is Being" by Renaissance, to the tune of Adagio in G minor by Tomas
o Albinoni
(1975) "Song of Scheherazade" by Renaissance - inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's Sch
eherazade
(1975) "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow - quotes extensively from Chopin's P

relude in C minor
(1975) "Fanfare for the Common Man" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Aaron
Copland's work of the same name.
(1975) "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - based on Li
eutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev (released as a single under th
e name of Greg Lake alone).
(1976) "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Con
certo No. 2
(1976) "A Fifth of Beethoven" [I] by Walter Murphy - disco version of Beethoven'
s Fifth Symphony, featured in Saturday Night Fever
(1976) "Night on Disco Mountain" by David Shire - disco version of Modest Mussor
gsky's Night on Bald Mountain, featured in Saturday Night Fever
(1976) "Ma Lou Marilou" by Serge Gainsbourg - based on the 1st movement of Beeth
oven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata" (opus 57)
(1976) "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen - based on Rachmaninoff's
Second Symphony
(1976) "2112" by Rush - based partially on Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
(1977) "If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley - based on Camille
Saint-Sans' Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony")
(1977) "Rockaria" by The Electric Light Orchestra - based on "Un Bel Di" from Pu
ccini's "Madame Butterfly"
(1977) "Going Home" by Annie Haslam
from second movement of Symphony from the Ne
w World by Antonn Dvork
(1978) "Lady Lynda" by The Beach Boys - based on J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring
(1979) "If I Had You" by The Korgis - based on Variation 18 of Rachmaninov's "Rh
apsody on a Theme of Paganini", based on Paganini's "Caprice No 24 in A minor"
(1979) "Swan Lake" by Madness - based on the main theme of Swan Lake ballet by P
yotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1979) "You Can't Do That on Television" by The National Press Club and Allied W
orkers Jazz Band - based on Rossini's William Tell Overture
[edit] 1980s
See also: 1980s in music
(1980) "Toccata" by Sky - based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
(1980) "Am I Evil" by Diamond Head - Intro borrows heavily from "Mars, the Bring
er of War" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets"
(1981) "Can Can" by Bad Manners - a manic ska version of the Can-Can from Jacque
s Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld"
(1981) "Difficult to Cure" by Rainbow - based on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" (last
movement of the ninth symphony).
(1982) "Midnight Blue" by Louise Tucker - based on the main theme of the second
movement of Beethoven's Pathtique Sonata
(1983) "This Night" by Billy Joel - adapted from Beethoven's Pathtique Sonata
(1984) "Coming Bach" by Alcatrazz - based on Johann Sebastian Bach's "Bourre" fro
m Lute Suite No. 1, BWV 996.
(1984) "Icarus Dream Suite" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Tomaso Albinoni's
Adagio.
(1984) "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.
(1984) "Since Yesterday" by Strawberry Switchblade - based on Jean Sibelius' 5th
Symphony.
(1984) "Rite of Spring" by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - based on Igor Stravinsky'
s work of the same name
(1985) "Lemon Incest" by Serge Gainsbourg for Charlotte Gainsbourg - based on Frdr
ic Chopin's "tude No. 3 in E (Tristesse)" (in opus 10)
(1986) "Russians" by Sting - based on "Romance" theme from Lieutenant Kije Suite
, Opus 60, by Sergei Prokofiev
(1986) "Touch and Go" by Emerson, Lake & Powell - keyboard line uses melody from
Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves

(1986) "Mars" by Emerson, Lake & Powell - arrangement of Mars: Bringer of War fr
om Holst's The Planets
(1987) "Lost Song" by Serge Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin - melody after part of Ed
vard Grieg's "Solveig's song" (in Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2, opus 55)
(1987) "Love in the First Degree" by Bananarama - backing based on Pachelbel's C
anon in D Major
(1989) "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel is based on the hymn Jerusalem by Charles
Hubert Parry.
(1989) "Play With Me" by Extreme - extensively quotes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
"Rondo alla turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11.
(1989) "Black Star (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with Johann Sebastian
Bach's "Air" from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068.
(1989) "Dreaming (Tell Me) (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with Johann Se
bastian Bach's Fugue (the Little), BWV 578.
(1989) "Far Beyond the Sun (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - opens with a theme f
rom Niccol Paganini's "Allegro Maestoso" from Violin Concerto No. 4.
(1989) "Guitar Solo (live)" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - breaks into the opening of
Beethoven's 5th Symphony about halfway through the solo.
(1989) "Leningrad" by Billy Joel - quotes at length the song Waldesnacht, du wun
derkhle by Johannes Brahms
(1989) "Rose of Pain" by X Japan - takes much of its melody from Johann Sebastia
n Bach's "Little Fugue" in G Minor
(1989) "Who Tends The Fire" by Overkill - Intro borrows heavily from "Mars, the
Bringer of War" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets"
[edit] 1990s
See also: 1990s in music
(1990) "Mea Culpa" by Enigma - based on the Gregorian chant "Kyrie Eleison"
(1990) "Operaa House!" by Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - ba
sed on the "Flower Duet" from Lo Delibes' opera Lakm
(1990) "Siempre Amor" by Mireille Mathieu based on Mozart
(1990) "Nostalgia" by Mireille Mathieu based on Gaetano Donizetti's "Elisir d'am
ore" (Una Furtiva Lacrima)
(1990) "Himno de la Alegria" by Mireille Mathieu based on Beethoven's Song of Jo
y
(1990) "Manana" by Mireille Mathieu based on Verdi's "Addio del Passato"
(1991) "World In Union" by Kiri Te Kanawa (official theme song of the Rugby Worl
d Cup) - based on "I Vow to Thee, My Country" from Holst's The Planets Suite, op
us 32, Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity (also covered by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (199
5) and Shirley Bassey/Bryn Terfel (1999))
(1991) "All Together Now" by The Farm based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Maj
or
(1992) "No Mercy" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - breaks into Johann Sebastian Bach's "
Badinerie" from Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067 right before the guitar solo.
(1993) "Go West" by the Pet Shop Boys, emphasised the original 1979 Village Peop
le version's chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
(1994) "Baphomet's Throne" by Swiss metal band Samael samples a recording of Mus
sorgsky's "Baba Yaga (La Cabane sur des pattes de poule)" from his Pictures at a
n Exhibition.
(1994) "Basket Case" by Green Day - uses chords similar to those in Johann Pache
lbel's Canon in D Major
(1994) "Domain" by Future Sound of London on Lifeforms - based on Pachelbel's Ca
non in D Major
(1994) "Hook" by Blues Traveler - uses chords similar to those in Johann Pachelb
el's Canon in D Major
(1994) "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Tangerine Dream on Turn of the Tide - base
d on the "Promenade" section of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky as arran
ged by Maurice Ravel for orchestra.
(1994) "Prisoner of Your Love" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - chorus is based on Johan
n Sebastian Bach's "Air" from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068.

(1995) "Clubbed to Death" [I] by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts inspired b
y Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations
(1995) "Largo (from Xerxes)" by Tangerine Dream on Tyranny of Beauty - based on
Handel's Serse (Xerxes).
(1995) "Hall of the Mountain King" from Stranger in Us All by Rainbow - inspired
by Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt".
(1995) "Memory/Dead Winter Dead Intro" by Savatage - quoting Ludwig van Beethove
n's Ode to Joy
(1995) "Overture 1622" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
's Symphony No. 25.
(1995) "Scatman's World" by Scatman John - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in
D Major
(1996) "Clubbed to Death 2" [I] by Rob Dougan on Furious Angels - parts quoting
Frdric Chopin's "Prelude No. 4 in E minor" (in Preludes, opus 28)
(1996) "Paparazzi" by Xzibit - containing "Pavane" by Gabriel Faur.
(1996) "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis - chorus chord progression borrows fr
om "Canon" by Pachelbel.
(1996) "A Mad Russian's Christmas" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Includes severa
l passages from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
(1996) "I Got To Tell You" by Dr. Octagon - Kool Keith delivering a fake radio a
dvertisement over Pachelbel's Canon.
(1996) "We Rule the School" by Belle and Sebastian from the CD "Tigermilk" - mid
dle segment based on Pachelbel's Canon.
(1997) "Air on a Theme" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - based on Antonio Vivaldi's "Lar
go" from Piccolo Concerto in C.
(1997) "The Opera Song" by Botch - based on Karl Orff's "O Fortuna" from "Carmin
a Burana".
(1997) "Mientras Mi Alma Sienta" by Camilo Sesto based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adag
io
(1997) "C U When U Get There" by Coolio - containing Johann Pachelbel's Canon in
D Major.
(1997) "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba - quotes Jeremiah Clarke's Prince of Denmark
's March.
(1997) "Lacrimosa" by Daddy Roach & Gimme - based on Mozart's Requiem.
(1997) "Dear Mallika" by LL Cool J - based on Lakm by Delibes, featuring in an al
bum called "Rhapsody" also containing Warren G & Sissel Kyrkjeb's take on "Prince
Igor" by Borodin.
(1998) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Sweetbox - based on Johann Sebastian B
ach, Air from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major
(1998 " Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys - quotes Modest Mussorgskys, "Night on Bal
d Mountain" and contains a sample of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor a
s adapted for orchestra by Les Baxter.
(1998) "On & On & On" by Catch 22 (band) - uses chords similar to those in Johan
n Pachelbel's Canon in D Major.
(1999) "Arpeggios From Hell" reworked/renamed "Molto Arpeggiosa" by Yngwie J. Ma
lmsteen - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight", 3rd movement
(1999) "Barber's Adagio for Strings" by William Orbit - a techno/electronic vers
ion of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
(1999) "Adagio" by Lara Fabian based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
(1999) "Love of my Life" from Supernatural by Santana and Dave Matthews - based
on the third movement from Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 3
(1999) "Beethoven's fifth" - Danney Alkana [1]
[edit] 2000s
See also: 2000s in music

(2000) "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C - based on Johann Pachelbel's

Canon in D Major

(2000) "Anytime, Anywhere" by Sarah Brightman based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio

(2000) "La Luna" by Sarah Brightman based on Rusalka
(2000) "Figlio Perduto" by Sarah Brightman based on Beethoven
(2000) "Hall of the Mountain King" [I] by Apocalyptica - cello/metal cover of Ed
vard Grieg's Peer Gynt (Suite No.1, opus 46)
(2000) "Love U Crazay" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Tchaikovsky
's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Nutcracker
(2000) "Those Dogs" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Bizet's "La Ha
banera" from Carmen.
(2000) "Sad But True" by En Vogue from Masterpiece Theatre - set to Beethoven's
"Moonlight Sonata" or Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2
(2000) "Prophet of Doom" by Yngwie J. Malmsteen - quotes themes from Niccol Pagan
ini's "No. 24" of the 24 Caprices.
(2001) "Canon-caon" from 20+ by Baron Rojo based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D
Major.
(2001) "Black, Black Heart" by David Usher from Morning Orbit - containing Lo Del
ibes' "The Flower Duet" from Lakm
(2001) "Coming 2 America" by Ludacris from Word of Mouf - containing Mozart's "R
equiem", 3rd movement (Dies irae) and Antonn Dvork's Symphony No. 9, "From the New
World", 4th movement (Allegro con fuoco)
(2001) "Mgnovenia" by Nikolai Baskov based on Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio
(2001) "Taina" by Nikolai Baskov & Lubov' Kasarnovskaya based on "Lascia Ch'io P
ianga"
(2001) "Love" by Mary J. Blige quote's Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountai
n King.
(2001) "Piano & I" by Alicia Keys - based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "M
oonlight", 1st movement
(2001) "Rock Your Socks" by Tenacious D - Quotes Johann Sebastian Bach's Bouree
from Suite in E Minor BWV 996. ("This is Bach and it rocks...")
(2001) "Someone to Call My Lover" by Janet Jackson - uses Erik Satie's Gymnopedi
e No. 1 (as well as America's "Ventura Highway").
(2001) "Space Dementia" by Muse - the chorus vocal line and chords are an exact
reduction of part of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto 1st Movement.
(2001) "Close Your Eyes" by Petra Berger based on Gabriel Faure's "Pavane"
(2001) "I'm Coming Home" by Petra Berger based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Vocalis
e"
(2001) "Yatta" by Happa-tai - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
(2002) "I Can" by Nas - contains a sample of the classical piece Fr Elise by Beet
hoven.
(2002) "Symphony in X Major" by Xzibit - based on a sample of a minor-key portio
n of Johann Sebastian Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto (BWV 1048) 1st Movement.
The sample is from the Switched-On Brandenburgs recording by Wendy Carlos.
(2002) "Never Say Goodbye" by Hayley Westenra based on Maurice Ravel's "Pavane p
our une infante defunte"
(2002) "Tear" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon i
n D Major
(2003) "When I Get You Alone" by Thicke - based on a sample from Walter Murphy's
"A Fifth of Beethoven" (q.v.) - itself based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
(2003) "If And When We Rise Again" by Streetlight Manifesto - contains a horn so
lo based on Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
(2003) "Air" by Jan Werner Danielsen based on J. S. Bach's "Air on a G String"
(2003) "Solo Amore" by Marcelo Alvarez/Salvatore Licitra based on J. S. Bach's "
Air on a G String"
(2003) "Viaggio" by Marcelo Alvarez/Salvatore Licitra based on Gabriel Faure's "
Pavane"
(2003) "Il Volo" by Marcelo Alvarez/Salvatore Licitra based on Sergei Rachmanino
ff's "Vocalise"
(2003) "Son Gli Occhi Tuoi" by Marcelo Alvarez/Salvatore Licitra based on Gounod
's "Salut"
(2003) "Karma" by Alicia Keys - contains a sample from Johannes Brahms' Violin C

oncerto
(2003) "Eternal Odyssey" by Delerium - Samples: Adagio for Strings (Agnus Dei ch
oral arrangement), composed by Samuel Barber
(2003) "We Shall Become Silhouettes" by the Postal Service contains a sample fro
m I pini della Via Appia (The Pines of the Appian Way), the fourth movement of P
ini di Roma by Ottorino Respighi.
(2004) "Paris" by Delerium - based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major
(2004) "Whisper of Angels" by Amici Forever based on Gabriel Faure's "Pavane"
(2004) "Sometimes I Dream" by Mario Frangoulis based on Giacomo Puccini's "E luc
evan le stelle"
(2004) "Forever Today" and "Adagio for Strings" by DJ Tisto, the first and last t
rack, respectively, of Just Be - both based on "Adagio for Strings"
(2005) "They" by Jem - largely based on Prelude 12 from J. S. Bach's The Well-te
mpered Clavier (Book 2)
(2005) "Isabel" by Il Divo based on Gabriel Faure]]'s Pavane
(2005) "Adagio" by Mario Frangoulis based on Alessandro Marcello "Oboe Concerto"
(commonly known as Love Theme from "Anonimo Veneziano")
(2005) "Terra e Liberta" by Amici Forever based on Beethoven
(2005) "La Mia Nostalgia" by Amici Forever based on Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Conc
erto
(2005) "Oceano Cuore" by Amici Forever based on Aram Khatchaturian's Spartak
(2005) "Road to Joy" by Bright Eyes is based on the melody of Beethoven's Ode to
Joy
(2005) "Crowd Chant" by Joe Satriani uses some of the melody from Pavane by Gabr
iel Faure
(2005) The East Village Opera Company released an entire eponymous album featuri
ng 11 arias, duets, and overtures from various operas, such as Mozart's Le Nozze
di Figaro and Bizet's Carmen
(2006) "On and On and On" by Streetlight Manifesto - uses chords similar to and
plays some melodys similar to Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (Note: this so
ng was originally released by the band Catch 22 (see above) a band that prominen
tly featured Tomas Kalnoky as its songwriter and lead singer, who now holds the
same position in Streelight and who wrote this song. This version was a re-recor
ding released on Streetlight's second album, a re-recording of Catch 22's album
Keasby Nights, released on March 7, 2006 by Victory Records.)
(2006) "Lacrymosa" from The Open Door by Evanescence, from Mozart's Requiem.
[edit] See also
Pachelbel's Canon
Sweetbox - a band performing mostly classical-based covers
List of samples
Lists of songs - List of dozens of other similar lists
[edit] External links
The Marines' Hymn 1919 manuscript
Ostin Allegro's Pop meets the Classics