Similarities in various pieces of music

[teamsaint]

"Forget about you" by The Motors and the old "Grandstand" Theme.

Ok, not classical really, or at all in fact, but a striking similarity nonetheless.

[Chris Newman]

Grandstand reminds me of the gradual morphing of the big tune from Schumann's Symphony No 1 finale to the 1960s song "He's Football Crazy" with Rolf Harris and a few other covers. Then it got shaken around with strong hints nevertheless in two versions of theme tunes for "Match of the Day".

[Petrushka]

The very end of the slow movement of Mahler 6 has for years reminded me of a piece by Leroy Anderson called 'Forgotten Dreams'. It's so similar that it can't possibly be a coincidence can it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDMSQWgBQ0

[Norfolk Born]

The opening of Frank Bridge's 'The Sea' sounds, to my untrained ear, very similar to Charlie Chaplin's theme from 'Limelight'.

[cloughie]

The opening of Frank Bridge's 'The Sea' sounds, to my untrained ear, very similar to Charlie Chaplin's theme from 'Limelight'.

Hearing Academic Festival Ov last week got me singing 'Catch a falling star' and Stravinsky's Fairy's Kiss always reminds me of 'Wooden Heart'.

[kernelbogey]

Does anyone know a French pop song recorded pre-1999, which uses the first movement theme of the JS Bach G minor keyboard concerto? I heard this on a holiday in Greece some time in the nineties, and couldn't figure out what was familiar about it. Once I recognised it, it became a sort of brainworm - wanting to hear the pop song again.

Obscure, or what? - I know. Put me out of my misery someone...

[Panjandrum]

Had to resurrect this thread upon hearing again Britten's Playful Pizzicato from his Simple Symphony and noting how much it owes a debt to the nursery rhyme, Pop Goes the Weasel.

[3rd Viennese School]

Is there a book of tunes that composers are allowed to nick if they get stuck?


How about E D C A? ( in various keys)


Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no.1 opening

Tchaikovsky Symphony no.3 mvt 1 2nd subject

Dvorak Symphony no.5 mvt 2

Beethoven Symphony no.9 mvt 2 end of trio

Mahler symphony no. 5 mvt 2 end

Mendlesohn Symphony no. 4 end (sort of- rearranged!)

Shostakovich Jazz Suite waltz

etc

etc

3VS

[teamsaint]

Think I have picked up on a striking similarity
"I would rather go Blind" (the tune for those specific words) and the opening theme from the Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suite no 3.
Anybody fancy verifying, please?

[Serial_Apologist]

Think I have picked up on a striking similarity
"I would rather go Blind" (the tune for those specific words) and the opening theme from the Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suite no 3.
Anybody fancy verifying, please?

I don't know either teamy, but funnily enough I was thinking about this thread last night when Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony was on TTN, and that final broad tune having strong resemblances to Here Comes The Galloping Major!

[teamsaint]

I don't know either teamy, but funnily enough I was thinking about this thread last night when Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony was on TTN, and that final broad tune having strong resemblances to Here Comes The Galloping Major!

here are a couple of treats then, SA !both magic. and i was right about the similarity !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohx9Ve7-GS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHHt0wgiuzg

I need to check out the galloping major, clearly, not something I know !

[Stanfordian]

I am always surprised, even though I shouldn't be, just how much one of the motifs (a brass laden outburst) from Vaughan Williams's Symphpny No. 2 'London' sounds like the cockney ditty 'Let's all go down the Strand - have a banana'.

[Flay]

I am always surprised, even though I shouldn't be, just how much one of the motifs (a brass laden outburst) from Vaughan Williams's Symphpny No. 2 'London' sounds like the cockney ditty 'Let's all go down the Strand - have a banana'.

And the first movement ends with the question: Can you tap dance?

[Pabmusic]

I am always surprised, even though I shouldn't be, just how much one of the motifs (a brass laden outburst) from Vaughan Williams's Symphpny No. 2 'London' sounds like the cockney ditty 'Let's all go down the Strand - have a banana'.

Yes, it does. When RVW wrote the symphony in 1912-13, the music-hall song was only a few years old. It was by Harry Casting and C. W. Murphy, and was written in 1909.

[Richard Tarleton]

Had to resurrect this thread upon hearing again Britten's Playful Pizzicato from his Simple Symphony and noting how much it owes a debt to the nursery rhyme, Pop Goes the Weasel.

According to this Britten used eight of his own themes composed in childhood - and in HC's biog Britten refers to Frank Bridge looking over some of his "Kid's pieces"...but what I chiefly remember from the Simple Symphony is "Boys and girls come out to play".