Big Book Of TV Theme Songs Big Book Of TV Theme Songs Detailed Description Piano/Vocal/Guitar - Difficulty: medium Composed by Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. TV. Songbook (softcover). With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 264 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.310504).

Item Number: HL.310504 Solid Gold Composed by Dean Pitchford, Michael Miller, Bb Minor Theme From 'Frasier' Composed by Darryl Phinnessee, Bruce Miller, Bb Major Come On Get Happy From 'The Partridge Family', Composed by Wes Farrell, Danny Janssen, Bb Major The Addams Family Theme Composed by Vic Mizzy, Bb Major Saved By The Bell Composed by Scott Gale, A Major I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together From 'The Carol Burnett Show', Composed by Joe Hamilton, C Major McHale's Navy March Composed by Axel Stordahl, G Major Courtship Of Eddie's Father Composed by Harry Nilsson, A Major Star Trek - Voyager(R) Composed by Jerry Goldsmith, G Major Alfred Hitchcock Presents Composed by D. Kahn, M.

Lenard, D Minor Closer To Free From 'Party Of Five', Composed by Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann, G Major I Don't Want To Wait From 'Dawson's Creek', Composed by Paula Cole, G Major Melrose Place Theme Composed by Tim Truman, C Major Cleveland Rocks From 'The Drew Carey Show', Composed by Ian Hunter, Ab Major The Ballad Of Davy Crockett Composed by Tom Blackburn, George Bruns, F Major Ballad Of Jed Clampett From 'The Beverly Hillbillies', Composed by Paul Henning, F Major Bandstand Boogie From 'American Bandstand', Composed by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, A Major Beverly Hills 90210 (Main Theme) Composed by John E.

Davis, Bb Major Bonanza Composed by Jay Livingston,Ray Evans, G Major The Brady Bunch Composed by Sherwood Schwartz, Frank Devol, G Major Bubbles In The Wine From 'The Lawrence Welk Show', Composed by Frank Loesser, Bob Calame, C Major Casper the Friendly Ghost Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, C Major Dynasty Theme Composed by Bill Conti, Bb Major Entertainment Tonight Composed by Michael Mark, Eb Major Fraggle Rock Theme Composed by Philip Balsam, Dennis Lee, C Major Georgia on My Mind From 'Designing Women', Composed by Stuart Gorrell, Hoagy Carmichael, F Major Get Smart Composed by Irving Szathmary, F Minor Theme From 'The Greatest American Hero' Composed by Stephen Geyer, Mike Post, D Major Happy Days Composed by Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox, F Major Happy Trails From 'The Roy Rogers Show', Composed by Dale Evans, Eb Major Harlem Nocturne From 'Mike Hammer', Composed by Dick Rogers, Earle Hagen, Bb Major Hogan's Heroes March Composed by Jerry Fielding, F Major Home Improvement Composed by Dan Foliart, E Major I Love Lucy Com

posed by Harold Adamson, Eliot Daniel, C Major I'm Popeye the Sailor Man Composed by Sammy Lerner, Eb Major The Toy Parade From 'Leave It To Beaver', Composed by D.

Kahn, M.

Lenard, F Major The Little House (On The Prairie) Composed by Cyrille Rose,David Rose, F Major Love American Style Composed by Arnold Margolin, Charles Fox, F Major Love Boat Theme Composed by Charles Fox, Paul Williams, Bb Major Major Dad Composed by Roger Steinman, F Major Making Our Dreams Come True From 'Laverne And Shirley', Composed by Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox, F Major Mannix Composed by Lalo Schifrin, F Major The Masterpiece From 'Masterpiece Theatre', Composed by Jean-Joseph Mouret,Paul Parnes, C Major Miami Vice Composed by Jan Hammer, C Major Mickey Mouse March Composed by Jimmie Dodd, F Major Mission: Impossible Theme Composed by Lalo Schifrin, G Minor Mister Ed Composed by Jay Livingston,Ray Evans, C Major Mork And Mindy Composed by Perry Botkin, Bb Major The Muppet Show Theme Composed by Jim Henson, Sam Pottle, C Major The Munsters Theme Composed by Jack Marshall, E Minor Murder, She Wrote Composed by John Addison, C Major Mystery Composed by Normand Roger, G Minor Nadia's Theme From 'The Young

 & The Restless', Composed by Barry DeVorzon, Perry Botkin, G Minor National Geographic Theme Composed by Elmer Bernstein, C Major Northern Exposure (Main Title) Composed by David Schwartz, C Major The Odd Couple Composed by Sammy Cahn, Neal Hefti, D Minor Perry Mason Theme Composed by Fred Steiner, Bb Major Rocky & Bullwinkle Composed by Frank Comstock, F Major The Rockford Files Composed by Mike Post, Pete Carpenter, G Major Secret Agent Man Composed by P.F.

Sloan, Steve Barri, E Minor 77 Sunset Strip Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, C Major Theme From 'Star Trek(R)' Composed by Gene Roddenberry, Alexander Courage, C Major Theme From 'Coach' Composed by John Morris, F Major Where Everybody Knows Your Name From 'Cheers', Composed by Gary Portnoy, Judy Hart Angelo, Bb Major Theme From 'Magnum, P.I.' Composed by Mike Post, Pete Carpenter, A Minor Theme From 'The Monkees' (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees) Composed by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, C Major Thirtysomething (Main Title Theme) Composed by W.G.

Snuffy Walden, Stewart Levin, Eb Major This Is It From 'The Bugs Bunny Show', Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, G Major Twin Peaks Theme Composed by Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, F Major Theme From 'The Untouchables' Composed by Nelson Riddle, F Minor With A Little Help From My Friends From 'The Wonder Years', Composed by John Lennon,Paul McCartney, E Major Without Us From 'Family Ties', Composed by Jeff Barry, Tom Scott, F Major Won't You Be My Neighbor?

(It's a Beautiful Day In This Neighborhood) From 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood', Composed by Fred Rogers, F Major Woody Woodpecker Composed by George Tibbles, Ramey Idriss, F Major Theme From 'Bewitched' Composed by Jack Keller, Howard Greenfield, C Major Simon And Simon Composed by Barry DeVorzon, Michael Towers, D Major Jeannie From 'I Dream Of Jeannie', Composed by Hugh Montenegro, Buddy Kaye, C Major The Liberty Bell From 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', Composed by John Philip Sousa, F Major Song List (78) Piano/Vocal/Guitar - Difficulty: medium Composed by Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. TV. Songbook (softcover). With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 264 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.310504). Item Number: HL.310504 78 favorite tunes from the tube.

Solid Gold Composed by Dean Pitchford, Michael Miller, Bb Minor Theme From 'Frasier' Composed by Darryl Phinnessee, Bruce Miller, Bb Major Come On Get Happy From 'The Partridge Family', Composed by Wes Farrell, Danny Janssen, Bb Major The Addams Family Theme Composed by Vic Mizzy, Bb Major Saved By The Bell Composed by Scott Gale, A Major I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together From 'The Carol Burnett Show', Composed by Joe Hamilton, C Major McHale's Navy March Composed by Axel Stordahl, G Major Courtship Of Eddie's Father Composed by Harry Nilsson, A Major Star Trek - Voyager(R) Composed by Jerry Goldsmith, G Major Alfred Hitchcock Presents Composed by D. Kahn, M.

Lenard, D Minor Closer To Free From 'Party Of Five', Composed by Sam Llanas, Kurt Neumann, G Major I Don't Want To Wait From 'Dawson's Creek', Composed by Paula Cole, G Major Melrose Place Theme Composed by Tim Truman, C Major Cleveland Rocks From 'The Drew Carey Show', Composed by Ian Hunter, Ab Major The Ballad Of Davy Crockett Composed by Tom Blackburn, George Bruns, F Major Ballad Of Jed Clampett From 'The Beverly Hillbillies', Composed by Paul Henning, F Major Bandstand Boogie From 'American Bandstand', Composed by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, A Major Beverly Hills 90210 (Main Theme) Composed by John E.

Davis, Bb Major Bonanza Composed by Jay Livingston,Ray Evans, G Major The Brady Bunch Composed by Sherwood Schwartz, Frank Devol, G Major Bubbles In The Wine From 'The Lawrence Welk Show', Composed by Frank Loesser, Bob Calame, C Major Casper the Friendly Ghost Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, C Major Dynasty Theme Composed by Bill Conti, Bb Major Entertainment Tonight Composed by Michael Mark, Eb Major Fraggle Rock Theme Composed by Philip Balsam, Dennis Lee, C Major Georgia on My Mind From 'Designing Women', Composed by Stuart Gorrell, Hoagy Carmichael, F Major Get Smart Composed by Irving Szathmary, F Minor Theme From 'The Greatest American Hero' Composed by Stephen Geyer, Mike Post, D Major Happy Days Composed by Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox, F Major Happy Trails From 'The Roy Rogers Show', Composed by Dale Evans, Eb Major Harlem Nocturne From 'Mike Hammer', Composed by Dick Rogers, Earle Hagen, Bb Major Hogan's Heroes March Composed by Jerry Fielding, F Major Home Improvement Composed by Dan Foliart, E Major I Love Lucy Com

posed by Harold Adamson, Eliot Daniel, C Major I'm Popeye the Sailor Man Composed by Sammy Lerner, Eb Major The Toy Parade From 'Leave It To Beaver', Composed by D.

Kahn, M.

Lenard, F Major The Little House (On The Prairie) Composed by Cyrille Rose,David Rose, F Major Love American Style Composed by Arnold Margolin, Charles Fox, F Major Love Boat Theme Composed by Charles Fox, Paul Williams, Bb Major Major Dad Composed by Roger Steinman, F Major Making Our Dreams Come True From 'Laverne And Shirley', Composed by Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox, F Major Mannix Composed by Lalo Schifrin, F Major The Masterpiece From 'Masterpiece Theatre', Composed by Jean-Joseph Mouret,Paul Parnes, C Major Miami Vice Composed by Jan Hammer, C Major Mickey Mouse March Composed by Jimmie Dodd, F Major Mission: Impossible Theme Composed by Lalo Schifrin, G Minor Mister Ed Composed by Jay Livingston,Ray Evans, C Major Mork And Mindy Composed by Perry Botkin, Bb Major The Muppet Show Theme Composed by Jim Henson, Sam Pottle, C Major The Munsters Theme Composed by Jack Marshall, E Minor Murder, She Wrote Composed by John Addison, C Major Mystery Composed by Normand Roger, G Minor Nadia's Theme From 'The Young

 & The Restless', Composed by Barry DeVorzon, Perry Botkin, G Minor National Geographic Theme Composed by Elmer Bernstein, C Major Northern Exposure (Main Title) Composed by David Schwartz, C Major The Odd Couple Composed by Sammy Cahn, Neal Hefti, D Minor Perry Mason Theme Composed by Fred Steiner, Bb Major Rocky & Bullwinkle Composed by Frank Comstock, F Major The Rockford Files Composed by Mike Post, Pete Carpenter, G Major Secret Agent Man Composed by P.F.

Sloan, Steve Barri, E Minor 77 Sunset Strip Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, C Major Theme From 'Star Trek(R)' Composed by Gene Roddenberry, Alexander Courage, C Major Theme From 'Coach' Composed by John Morris, F Major Where Everybody Knows Your Name From 'Cheers', Composed by Gary Portnoy, Judy Hart Angelo, Bb Major Theme From 'Magnum, P.I.' Composed by Mike Post, Pete Carpenter, A Minor Theme From 'The Monkees' (Hey, Hey We're The Monkees) Composed by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, C Major Thirtysomething (Main Title Theme) Composed by W.G.

Snuffy Walden, Stewart Levin, Eb Major This Is It From 'The Bugs Bunny Show', Composed by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, G Major Twin Peaks Theme Composed by Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, F Major Theme From 'The Untouchables' Composed by Nelson Riddle, F Minor With A Little Help From My Friends From 'The Wonder Years', Composed by John Lennon,Paul McCartney, E Major Without Us From 'Family Ties', Composed by Jeff Barry, Tom Scott, F Major Won't You Be My Neighbor?

(It's a Beautiful Day In This Neighborhood) From 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood', Composed by Fred Rogers, F Major Woody Woodpecker Composed by George Tibbles, Ramey Idriss, F Major Theme From 'Bewitched' Composed by Jack Keller, Howard Greenfield, C Major Simon And Simon Composed by Barry DeVorzon, Michael Towers, D Major Jeannie From 'I Dream Of Jeannie', Composed by Hugh Montenegro, Buddy Kaye, C Major The Liberty Bell From 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', Composed by John Philip Sousa, F Major Customers Who Bought Big Book Of TV Theme Songs Also Bought: Monty Python's Flying Circus - Main Theme - YouTube Monty Python's Flying Circus - Main Theme Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Dec 16, 2006 Monty Python's Flying Circus - Public Domain Soundtrack - TV Tropes Public Domain Soundtrack You need to login to do this.

Get Known if you don't have an account Share "American movie makers have always held a deep reverence for composers whose works lie in the public domain." — Cecil Adams Classical music and folk songs seem to show up an awful lot as background music. Sometimes it conveys culture or time period. Sometimes they just sound cool or appropriate. Sometimes the answer lies in legalities. There's just less red tape in the public domain. Music in the public domain has no need to license the melody or a Suspiciously Similar Song . There has also been an emergence of free music , some of which even has a free license for commercial use. For those pieces with well-entrenched meanings, see Standard Snippet . Rock Me, Amadeus! is a related trope where classical music (public domain or otherwise) gets sampled or remixed. Examples: open/close all folders Anime The founder of anime as we know it, Osamu Tezuka , based two animated works on this trope. His 1966 Pictures at an Exhibition is an animated interpretation of Musorgsky's suite of the same name.

And his last (and unfinished) animated work, "Legend of the forest'', is a Tear Jerker story (coupled with a history of animation itself) set to Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony (Tezuka apparently intended to animate the entire symphony, but only the First and Fourth Movements were completed before Author Existence Failure ). The final episode of Irresponsible Captain Tylor makes epic use of Suppe's "Light Cavalry Overture" for one of the greatest Bait and Switch of all time. It has to seen to be believed. The ending theme to Dragon Half is a medley of Beethoven symphonies... with newly written lyrics about omelettes. (No, seriously.) Digimon Adventure featured Ravel's "Bolero". Fate/stay night uses the "Lacrimosa" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Requiem in a flashback in the fourth episode.

(You'll hear his name a lot on this page.) Neon Genesis Evangelion uses the Hallelujah Chorus from George Frederic Handel 's "Messiah" in its 22nd episode, and "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven's Ninth, Fourth Movement) in its 24th. There's a fair amount of Lyrical Dissonance : Asuka's Mind Rape by an Angel is set to "Hallelujah," ", only the name was used for a more cheerful and much more morbid pop song . Most of the classical music in Evangelion is used ironically, but surprisingly enough, "Cello Suite No. 1" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach are played relatively straight. The R1 DVD menus fix that. Not wanting Evangelion's reputation for Soundtrack Dissonance to come into question, the second Rebuild of Evangelion film is sure to make soul-searing use of not one , but two Japanese folk songs.

Episode 6 of Azumanga Daioh , the field day episode, has a field day with this trope: "Csikos Post," "Camptown Races," Offenbach's "Infernal Gallop" (" The Cancan Song "), "Clarinet Polka," Kabalevsky's Comedians, and "Turkey in the Straw" are all featured as background music. Aren't they typical tunes played at Japanese school athletic festivals? Turkey in the Straw is anyway. Mahou Shoujo -Tai Arusu (Tweeny Witches) has a peppy J-Pop ending theme based on "The Beautiful Blue Danube". The Area 88 TV series used a techno remix of Bach's "Little Fugue in G Minor" for its opening theme song. As did the series Nazca. Other than the opening and ending themes, Legend of Galactic Heroes uses classical music for the entirety of its soundtrack. Mahler's 6th and 3rd are associated with the Empire. The theme of Iketeru Futari is a J Pop song called "Fall in YOU" — which suddenly takes up the tune of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for ten seconds in the middle.

Seriously! One of the episodes of Sailor Moon has Sailor Uranus searching for Sailor Neptune and ending up getting damaged, and to the tune of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor , no less. The song "Journey to the Sun" from Endless Waltz uses the familiar ten-note refrain from "Jingle Bells"; appropriate, since the movie's events center on Christmas. Princess Tutu , being themed around ballet, uses plenty of classical themes. The same counts for Nodame Cantabile , which makes sense for a series about classical musicians. Kemeko Deluxe! used Beethoven's "Ode To Joy"note or "Friedrich Schillers Ode To Joy sang to the the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony", for you classical music buffoons when Izumi's bikini top falls off and she lands an Armor-Piercing Slap on Sanpeita. The Big O utilizes Chopin's Prelude No. 15, aka "The Raindrop Prelude". Giant Robo: The Animation has "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.

It also has an original composition based on "Dies Irae" that briefly features the melody of the original hymn . Black Butler uses the "Queen of the Night's Revenge" aria from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute at the start of Episode 5. The OST of .hack//Roots features a song based on this aria as well. Ghost Stories : Episode 4 prominently features Beethoven's famous piano composition, "Fur Elise". FLCL used Kabalevsky's "Comedians" for a hectic chase scene. In Black Cat , main villain Creed Disketh played the Third Movement to Giovanni Battista Pescetti's "Sonata in C Minor" for piano several times. The final episode of the 2003 anime version of Fullmetal Alchemist contains two arrangements of Chopin's Etude #3 as background music. The First Movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony can be heard in Episodes 49 and 50 as well. In the English dub, Zolf J. Kimblee can be heard humming Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" in Episode 39.

RideBack features "The Great Gate of Kiev" from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition as a recurring motif. Excel Saga uses Beethoven's Ode to Joy in Episode 2 where Menchi tries to escape. She's surrounded by a rainbow and cherubs while the track plays. Skip to 5:00 and 6:20 to see. " Ode to Joy " is played in one episode, making that moment work much better than just reading the words did in the manga. One episode of the second season features an arrangement of " Scarborough Fair ". Obscure anime Fighting Foodons used the tune of Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld Overture" for its dub theme song. Gankutsuou likes this trope, too. Tchaikovsky's "Manfred Symphony" is used a lot—the First Movement is the Count's own theme and excerpts from latter movements are also used here and there. Eugénie plays the First Movement (edited, though) of Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No.

2" and Schumann's "Traumerei" during her performance in the Opera, on Luna Albert and Franz meet the Count during a performance of "Lucia di Lammermoor", later in Paris the Count invites Albert to a performance of "Robert le Diable"... and the opening theme song is based partly on Chopin's "Etude Op.10 No.3." Done wonderfully in the R-18 rated Shoujo Sect, in which Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", Debussy's "Clair de Lune", Bach's "Little Fugue in G Minor" were used. The "Moonlight Sonata" also features on Detective Conan , as part of a mystery. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya uses Tchaikovsky's Fourth, Shostakovich's Seventh, and music from Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé in "The Day of Sagittarius" and Mahler's Eighth in the finale. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya features Satie's Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes along with "Je te veux".

The Naruto OST features a piece based on the fugue from Johann Sebastian Bach's " Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ". Bleach 's soundtrack also has two pieces that use segments of the above piece. One Piece Episode 86 very appropriately uses Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria". In Episode 126, Antonín Dvořák's "From the New World" is played when Luffy and Crocodile launch their final attacks on each other. Episode 6 of Ouran High School Host Club used Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major". Not quite background music, but still: The use of Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" in the fourth Ranma 1/2 opening. Tegami Bachi frequently features Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air in D Major" from Orchestral Suite No. 3 as background music, as well as his Sonata for "Solo Violin No. 1 in G Minor". Romeox Juliet uses the aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" from George Frederic Handel 's opera "Rinaldo".

The score of Puella Magi Madoka Magica features arrangements of a few classical pieces, including the Bach/Gounod "Ave Maria", Claude Debussy's "La Fille aux Chevaux de Lin", and Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14". The OVA of Kaze to Ki no Uta has a lot of classical pieces, fittingly enough. The most notable is Chopin's "Étude Op. 25 No. 11". Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine uses an arrangement of J. S. Bach's "Invention 13 in A minor". The Familiar of Zero Season 2 Episode 6 uses the "Largo" from Handel's opera "Xerxes". Blood+ features Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude", Brahms' "Lullaby", the Second Movement of Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21", and Haydn's "Emperor" string quartet and "Surprise" symphony. Hyouka uses Bach's "Air on the G String" and Gabriel Fauré's "Sicilienne" frequently.

Minami-ke uses the first movement of Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings in C Major Op. 48" whenever Hosaka gets a little over the top. Fairy Tail has some rather frequent public domain tracks: "Habanera" from Carmen is most frequently used as the leitmotif of the Magic Council. The Cancan Song typically plays whenever there's a Bar Brawl . One of the official soundtracks has a track titled "Ifuu Doudou". Its meaning? "Pomp and Circumstance", aka the "Graduation Song". "Air on the G String" plays during Juvia's first appearance in Episode 21. Expect to hear " Also Sprach Zarathustra " when Juvia starts Chewing the Scenery , such as when she mistakes Lucy for her rival for Gray's affections in Episode 25. Another official track, "Rakuen no Tou", is actually a shortened version of Sergei Rachmaninoff 's "Piano Concerto No. 2". Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" plays during one of Juvia's Imagine Spots on Sirius Island.

The spring suite from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons plays while Kain has an Imagine Spot of his own where he imagines that Levy, Lisanna, and Cana are all fawning over him. After The Reveal in Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu , the 4th movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony is used as Proist's Leitmotif , introduced as the only thing she finds redeeming about human culture. Yu-Gi-Oh! uses " Ride of the Valkyries " as the theme for the character of Siegfried von Scrhader who fittingly uses as a Valkrie themed deck. During the hotel infiltration arc in Assassination Classroom , Irina plays Chopin 's "Fantaisie-Impromptu" to distract the security guards so that her students can get past. Kill la Kill : "Dawn of a Miserable Morning" has alot of classical music in it for some reason. More generally, whenever Mako makes a dramatic speech, it's accompanied by a wacky version of Handel's Messiah.

Fan Works The lyrics and (optional) music in Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan are those of, well, Gilbert and Sullivan , whose works entered the public domain in the 1950s. Films — Live-Action 2001: A Space Odyssey was renowned for its use of classical music in its soundtrack, and most people will automatically identify the song " Also Sprach Zarathustra " with the movie — with one exception (see below). Though it wasn't all public domain — Györgi Ligeti's music was altered and used without his permission, and Ligeti threatened to sue Kubrick and MGM. Originally the classical pieces were merely used to set the general pace for an original score by Alex North, but Kubrick obviously knew awesome when he heard it. Kubrick, a lover of classical music, used this trope frequently and masterfully. The entirety of the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange comprises classical pieces (fittingly, since the protagonist is expressly stated to be a classical music buff, which even becomes a plot point), some of them arranged for a Moog synthesizer to lend them a surreal, nightmarish quality. The Shining did the same. In Dr.

Strangelove , every scene of the bomber crew is accompanied by an orchestral arrangement of When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again/Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya, two folksongs which share a tune, but very different tones. Spielberg imitated Kubrick in Minority Report , using "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony. Both The Hudsucker Proxy and Ice Age 2 use Adagio from Spartacus . The song "Classico" in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is a medley of numerous classical tunes, with very profane lyrics. The Japanese film Tampopo uses excerpts of Mahler symphonies and Liszt's "Les Preludes". Kramer vs. Kramer used Vivaldi's Concerto in C major for mandolin and strings. Partial example: While The Wizard of Oz contains many original songs, the background music also includes arrangements of Felix Mendelssohn 's "Scherzo in E minor" and Mussorgsky's '' Night on Bald Mountain ". Gattaca used a modified version of Franz Schubert's Impromptu in G-flat major, Op. 90, No.

3 with extra notes added for a concert scene involving a pianist genetically engineered with 12 fingers. The above examples are only a very small sample: the use of classical music in Hollywood films is VERY frequent. Here is a more comprehensive (though not exhaustive) list. Trailers for films (though mostly for TV Spots) use "Hall of the Mountain King" A LOT. Although in the UK the music is heavily associated with the Alton Towers theme park, so it always seems odd when it turns up anywhere else- for example the recent Windows Phone 7 advert, which has confused a lot of people (especially as it includes a clip of people on a rollercoaster). Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " is very heavily used in trailers, particularly after a movie had debuted in theaters and is a box-office and/or critical success. Hopscotch stars actor Walter Matthau and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Puccini and Rossini make cameo appearances as well. The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) features mostly library tracks for music. The Italian cut features additional original music by the band Goblin.

The King's Speech utilizes several pieces of classical music, including the Overture to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and the allegretto from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. The Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet uses Mozart's 25th Symphony for the scene where the Capulets are preparing for their ball, though most of the rest of the music is original. The entire soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is based off of "Swan Lake". The 2010 remake of True Grit uses "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" as the theme for Mattie Ross, the main character, among other hymns. Unfortunately, because they were all pre-composed music, Mr. Carter Burwell was denied an Academy Award nomination. The original Rollerball is notable for its use of classic music such as " Toccata and Fugue in D minor " and the "Adagio in G minor." Help!

was a showcase for a lot of Beatles songs, and much of the soundtrack was their tunes done in a James Bond style—but then they also used Wagner's 'Lohengrin', Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture', Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy', and Rossini's 'Barber of Seville'. The Flash Gordon (serial) used Franz Liszt 's Les Preludes as its theme, eliciting the Cecil Adams page quote. Most of Bloodbeat's soundtrack is made of public domain music, culminating in a climax with "Carmina Burana" blastig in the background. Most of the background music of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is arrangements of "Poor Wandering One" from The Pirates of Penzance , including a Scare Chord moment when a radio alarm clock goes off. The father and daughter also sing from H.M.S. Pinafore while dad is shaving in the morning. Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations plays at the end of Australia . Zardoz gets a lot of mileage out of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. The entire soundtrack to The Boondock Saints was public domain music because the producers couldn't afford any music licenses.

Babe 's score cribs heavily from classical music; the main theme (which doubles as the tune to "If I Had Words") comes from Camille Saint-Saiëns' third symphony, just for starters. Birdman 's score is a combination of drum solos and classical music, including the slow movements of Tchaikovsky's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5, the opening of Mahler's Symphony No. 9, Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte" and Piano Trio, and the first two movements of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2. The movie of Slaughterhouse-Five used J.S. Bach pieces for its soundtrack, along with some period-specific popular music. for it's villain's theme. Live-Action TV The main theme of Mark Six (The Hong Kong equivalent of a Lottery) is the instrumental version of Shocking Blue - Inkpot. Sousa's "Liberty Bell March" became the Monty Python's Flying Circus theme. Even the (ancient) recording they used must have been in the public domain. Doctor Who : Ravel's "Bolero" was used in "The Impossible Planet".

In the commentary for "The Christmas Invasion," Russell T Davies noted how happy composer Murray Gold was that "Jingle Bells" was out of copyright, and so could be rescored as incidental music in that episode. Strauss's "Emperor Waltz" is the "soothing music" played in the Tardis in "Vincent and the Doctor." Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was used in the Scrubs episode "My Female Trouble". Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette is more commonly known as the theme song to Alfred Hitchcock Presents . The restrictiveness of the scope of public domain music is parodied in Mystery Science Theater 3000 with the Mads' karaoke machine that plays only public domain songs, such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", the immortal "Baa Baa Black Sheep", the turgid and bittersweet Gregorian Chant #5, the impish "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and Mozart's The Magic Flute . The soundtrack to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is primarily public-domain easy listening music. Originally done because the show had a low budget, it's usually in contrast with the show's subject matter .

Additionally, Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" From The Nutcracker is the theme of any nefarious scheming or plotting by the Gang. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was used in Forever Knight . Strains of it can be heard in the music used when Baltar is looking around the Cylon baseship in "Torn". It is also used in the final moments of a biography of Tupac Shakur. Unusual example: Lexx 's Musical Episode wove a tragedy of love and loss out of German nursery rhyme tunes unfamiliar to English-speaking audiences. Other episodes had comedic versions of "Greensleeves" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". Lampshaded on iCarly , when Spencer is trapped in a heating vent and trying to amuse himself, "And now, a medley of your favorite songs from the public domain!" And before that in iSpy a Mean Teacher, when Carly, Freddie, and Sam get caught in Ms.

Briggs house they act like they were there to surprise her for her birthday, "Let's sing our public domain birthday song!" An odd version occurred in Kamen Rider Decade , where fans were disappointed to discover that several awesome tracks weren't included on the official soundtrack (particularly from the World of Black RX arc). Eventually it was discovered that they were part of a public domain library...when someone heard one of the songs on Minute to Win It . Mentioned on 30 Rock , when Jack states that it's "public domain week" on America's Kidz Got Singing: Jack: This week, America's kids sing really old songs that everyone knows and NBC doesn't have to pay for. It's brilliant! The theme song of Barney & Friends is "Yankee Doodle". "I Love You" is "This Old Man". Despite decades of wonderful original music composed for Sesame Street , what tune is used (with altered lyrics) to end every Elmo's World segment? "Jingle Bells." Many preschool series (animated or live-action) will more often than not feature a number of, if not many traditional nursery rhymes, etc, including the above two shows.

Wings ' Theme Tune was Franz Shubert's "Piano Sonata Number 20." JAG : "Anchors Aweigh" and "The Marines Hymn" are played several times. In "Boot", "The Marines Hymn" is sung by female Marines during an exercise. In "Heroes", both Harm and Mac get to whistle their respective service song. Win Ben Stein's Money used classical music throughout each episode with Ludwig van Beethoven 's "Ode to Joy" as the show's central piece (played two to three times each episode). Pinballs Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" is used in The Champion Pub . "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" is used in Gottlieb 's Haunted House as well as another game of theirs, Genesis. A rock remix of The Wedding March is used in Monster Bash during the Bride of Frankenstein's "Ball and Chain" mode. are used in Cirqus Voltaire . F-14 Tomcat uses the U.S. Navy's "Anchors Aweigh" as the high-score music.

Pro Wrestling Whereas film lovers will identify "Also sprach Zarathustra" with 2001, in the mind of the wrestling fan, the song is synonymous with Ric Flair . Jerry "The King" Lawler has long used Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Great Gate of Kiev Movement) as his entrance theme. WWE wrestler The Undertaker 's most common and well-known theme is a variation of Chopin's funeral march. BITE YOUR TONGUE, CHURL! For a brief period at the height of his "American blueblood" gimmick, the WWF's Hunter Hearst Helmsley (better known today as Triple H ) made his entrance to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". Don't forget Randy Savage coming out to Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" (otherwise known as "the graduation song"). AKA "Land of Hope and Glory". Much in the same line of Ric Flair , Daniel Bryan is now the definitive example of " Ride of the Valkyries " in the wrestling community. Radio The Lone Ranger on both radio and television used the finale of Rossini's William Tell overture ("March of the Swiss Soldiers") as its opening theme.

To this day, one tongue-in-cheek definition of a "highbrow" is, "someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger." And the radio series The Green Hornet used Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Flight of the Bumblebee'' for its opening theme, and a number of classical works as regular soundtrack bits. Both series were created by WXYZ's George W. Trendle, a notorious cheapskate, who was well known in the radio broadcast business for pinching his pennies in the production of his radio dramas. The film serials also used a classical soundtrack, unless the action on-screen demanded something else. It worked beautifully, though, especially in The Lone Ranger . Who can forget Liszt's "Prelude to a Silver Bullet", and Mendelssohn's "Rustler's Cave Overture"? The damn thing was perfect. Few people can listen to "March of the Swiss Soldiers" without at least thinking "Hi-yo Silver!" The opening music to You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal is a pipe version of the Rondo from Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto.

Video Games Let's get the BEMANI examples out of the way first, because there's going to be a lot of them. beatmania / IIDX / III: "V" (Winter from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons") "革命" (Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, and a damn good translation pun - "kakumei" means "revolution(ary)", and that it's the One-Hit-Point Wonder boss on a Dance Dance Revolution game too).

"END OF THE CENTURY" (Beethoven's "Ode to Joy") "SPEED OVER BEETHOVEN" ("Für Elise") "Fishing Frenzy" from DDR Mario Mix ("Csikós Post") CSIKOS POST -SEISHUN SKA-PUNK MIX!- ("Csikós Post") Gymnopédie -kors k mix- (Satie's "Gymnopédie No.1") The "Rb.Conductor" series (Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March #1", Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No.5", Strauss' "Radetzky March, Op.228") And then you have songs that subvert this by actually being original works , like "A" and "Piano Concerto No. 1 'Anti-Ares'". The latter's supposed composer, Virkato Wakhmaninov (an alias of Jun Wakita, one of Konami's current in-house music artists), even has a brief fictional biography about him.

Offenbach's "Infernal Gallop" (perhaps better known as " The Cancan Song "), from Orpheus in the Underworld, shows up a lot: Lemmings , which also uses, among others, "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window,"(actually more of a Suspiciously Similar Song ) "She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain," Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, Pachelbel's Canon, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Swan Lake ... you get the idea. Oh No! More Lemmings had an original soundtrack in its Amiga/PC release.

Its Acorn Archimedes port, however, had a rewritten soundtrack with an absolute crapload of public domain songs, even more than in the original game: "The Trumpet Hornpipe" (better known as the Captain Pugwash theme), "K-K-K-Katy", "Camptown Races", "Three Blind Mice", the Finale from the William Tell overture, "Greensleeves", "Old McDonald", "Waltzing Matilda", "The British Grenadiers", "On Ilka Moor Baht 'at", "Trepak", " Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ", "Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way" (also used in the Sega Master System and Game Gear ports of the first game), "Rule, Britannia!", "Sobre las Olas" (also used in Lemmings 2), "Yakety Sax", "Country Gardens" (also appearing in the SNES port of Lemmings 2), and finally "Portsmouth". Parodius (for the Hot Lips boss), which uses even more than Lemmings, if that's even believable. The boss music in Tiny Toon Adventures : Montana's Movie Madness.

A minor-key variation is used for the between-stage interludes. O2Jam, where it was one of the most popular songs. Jubeat features a Eurobeat rendition titled "Heaven or Hell". A remixed version plays during the credits roll of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (unless you win as Roll). Although the Ninja Hattori-Kun Famicom game's main theme is mostly an original tune, it quotes a few bars of "Orpheus in the Underworld". The Japanese version of Crash Bash (retitled Crash Bandicoot Carnival) used a techno remix in the Dot Dash and Splash Dash minigames (the Western versions use a remix of Dingodile's theme from Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped ). Zero Wing uses this in its ending. The DSiWare downloadable Soul Of Darkness, Gameloft's Castlevania clone, uses the "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem Mass for its credits music. Space shooter ''Phoenix'' should be counted as one of the earliest examples, with its short excerpts of Romance de Amor and Beethoven's Für Elise.

Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance is another one that shows up pretty often, showing up in, among other places, the SNES Bonk game. And Parodius . Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King shows up quite often as well, including Manic Miner for ZX Spectrum , Hunt the Wumpus for TI-99/4A , and... you guessed it... Parodius . and of course, in the video game called, you guessed it, Mountain King. Also in the old space-sim-trader Elite . ...Y'know what? Just check out The Other Wiki's entry on the music in Parodius . Word of God is that, for the original MSX Parodius, the use of public domain music was due to the composer given a very strict deadline. This carried over to Parodius da! , and before long it was a series staple. In La-Mulana , the PR3 Mini-Game parodies many elements of the original Parodius, right down to remixing classical songs; "Pomp and Circumstance" for the pre-stage area, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" for the stage itself, and "Sabre Dance" for the boss.

Another TI-99/4A game, Alpiner , featured as its main music another song from Grieg's Peer Gynt soundtrack, "Anitra's Dance". Did anyone know that iconic Spanish guitar solo in the beginning cutscene in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies , titled "Prelude", is actually Agustin Barrios Mangore's "La Catedral, 1st Movement" (hence "Prelude")? Some of his works are also featured in the cutscenes, such as "Una Limosnita Por (el) Amor de Dios" ("An Alm for the Love of God"). Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik starts off the arcade Mario Bros. game. Frogger plays a snippet of Camptown Races whenever the title character dies, while levels are introduced by a variety of classical themes. The "game start" jingle is "Inu no Omawari-san" ("The Dog Policeman"), which is a traditional Japanese nursery rhyme. The line the game plays is the first one, which goes "Maigo no maigo no koneko-chan.

Anata no ouchi wa doko desu ka?" ("Lost, lost kitten, where is your address?") The Commodore 64 version employs a sort of mash-up/medley theme that very notably includes Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle also appears in the arcade version. In Earthworm Jim , the background music in the second level, "What the Heck?", starts off with Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain before switching suddenly to elevator music. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata provides two backing tracks in Earthworm Jim 2; another level uses a medley of "Funiculi, Funicula" and "Tarantella". Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (First Movement) also shows up in the title screen and ending of Thexder (and its more fully-scored sequel Fire Hawk), as well as Jet Set Willy . The NES version of Tetris used Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"... and, on the victory screen, the Soldiers' Chorus from Bizet's Carmen.

The Game Boy version, on the other hand, used the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki" (and another Tchiakovsky piece, "Trepak" from The Nutcracker as victory music). In fact, the Tetris Company has trademarked the use of "Korobeiniki." Also, Type C in the Game Boy version is a Minuet in B Minor from one of J.S. Bach's French Suites. Yoshi's Cookie, in the spirit of puzzle games, uses "Csikós Post" as background music in all three versions (it's Action Music B in the SNES version and 2P Music C in the NES and Game Boy versions). The Super Solvers Edutainment Games ' soundtracks consisted entirely of classical music: Midnight Rescue used "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "In The Halls of the Mountain King". OutNumbered used two movements of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and the first two variations of Paganini's 24th Caprice. Treasure Mountain plays C.P.E. Bach's "Solfeggietto" on the title screen and upon reaching the top of the mountain.

One of Beethoven's country dances was used as a level theme. Frontier: Elite uses a variety of classical themes, including Johann Strauss' "Beautiful Blue Danube" and Wagner's " Ride of the Valkyries ". The original Elite also used "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" on the opening screen, and (on some platforms) when the player's ship is performing auto-docking. This latter use is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey . Gyruss uses a rocked-out arrangement of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor . With power chords. Compared to the "beep boop BIP beep" soundtrack many other video games of the era had, it's actually pretty amazing. Army Men II's soundtrack almost entirely uses well known songs excluding the main menu and boot camp . Almost delves into Soundtrack Dissonance when you have to defend a tank depot while listening to Spring Song, of all things. The LucasArts adventure Loom uses melodies from Swan Lake . Justified Trope : The character's mother and several other characters were turned into swans.

Nushi Tsuri Adventure: Kite no Bouken (part of the Legend of the River King series) appears to have Auld Lang Syne as the main title theme. It also contains another Standard Snippet when the main characters discover a bottle with a paper inside it. Wolfgang Krauser's music from Fatal Fury 2 (and its update Fatal Fury Special) is an arrangement of Mozart's Dies Irae, even with an orchestra playing the song in the background. Said music was recycled in The King of Fighters '96 , and an 8-bit rendition played in SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium on the Germany stage (a recreation of Krauser's original stage). Likewise, Lacrimosa acts as his theme song in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2. Krauser himself is a tribute to Mozart, sharing his first name, and his favourite music is listed as Opera and classical music. It surely shows in the games. The Mystic Cave Zone theme in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is based on Julius Fučík's " Entrance of the Gladiators " (also known as "that circus theme").

Also present in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 , in the Carnival Night Zone, which also sampled Michael Jackson 's "Jam," which makes sense since Jackson's songwriters and those who worked with him composed the soundtrack for this game. Star Fox used various folk melodies in the Out of this Dimension level. The PlayStation game Wild9 using "Amazing Grace" on its Game Over screen. The somber mood is soon broken up by the laughter of the little green aliens you spend most of the game fighting... , a German game for Atari 8-Bit Computers , played "Greensleeves" when the player collected all the letters in the word EXTRA. "Greensleeves" is also played throughout Black Lamp, a British game for Atari 8-bit computers. In Zool 2 for Amiga and DOS, the first level is named "Swan Lake". Guess what the background music's a remix of... Hudson Soft's Famicom game Binary Land uses Erik Satie's "Je Te Veux" as its background music, and Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as the victory music. The arcade and NES game City Connection uses Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 as its background music... but in a rock arrangement.

Even better, though, when one runs over a cat in the game, a little polka plays; the Japanese name of that tune translates as, appropriately enough, "I stepped on the cat" . Richard Wellington, the primary witness for the first case of the second Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game, has Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor as his cell phone ringtone. Before that, in the same case, it's used for major effect in Phoenix Wright's nightmare, and later, when the witness is found as the definitive culprit of the murder. For Metal Gear Solid , composer Tappi Iwadere tried to do this to "The Winter Road" by Georgey Syridov, using it as the games' main theme. After ten years of Metal Gear Solid games, the song turned out to be not as public domain as the composer thought... Along the years, the Taiko no Tatsujin games have featured a lot of music from the Classic music genre repertoire, ranging from accurate renditions to original remixes as well. So much songs, in fact, that are all grouped into a dedicated 'Classic' music genre folder in the games!

Return Fire uses "Dies Irae" by Verdi, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Grieg, "Mars" (from the Planets) by Holst, and " Ride of the Valkyries " by Wagner for its soundtrack. Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak has "Moonlight Sonata" and "Waltz of the Flowers" as unlockable Ham-Jam themes. Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! dabbled in this moreso, using Ravel's "Bolero", "Csikós Post" (referred to as "Postman's Rush"), a jazzy remix of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as Ham-Jam music. During the last two levels of Call of Duty World at War, one can hear a German military march (the Königgrätzer Marsch, to be exact) playing in the background in specific areas. Considering that it's been around since 1866, it's almost certainly in the public domain by now.

The game's original soundtrack also incorporates some real music; the song played at the very end of the Soviet campaign's last mission incorporates a snippet of the Hymn of the Soviet Union. The popular Dies Irae also pops up briefly in the mission "Eviction". Call of Duty 4 has a portion of the Soviet anthem play when you win a match as the Spetsnaz. Most Paradox Interactive games up to and including Victoria had soundtrack consisting mostly of classical music. Hearts of Iron's intro theme is " Ride of the Valkyries ", while EU2's soundtrack is filled by somewhat bizarre period music. (including one involving whips, and the infamous falalalalan ) In Banjo-Kazooie , Grunty's theme (and thus, the music heard everywhere through her lair, the Hub Level ) is actually a minor-key version of "Teddy Bears' Picnic". Since both The Hero , Banjo, and the Damsel in Distress , Tootie, are bears, it's actually fitting... if not rather odd. The Konami game Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times /Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry takes this almost to the point of abuse.

Almost all of the overworld and event music is based on existing classical pieces, ranging from the well-known (like "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and "Beautiful Dreamer"), there are also some lesser-known oddballs thrown in (such as the "Love" theme being Debussy's "Petite Suite"). However, the game also provides a large assortment of original compositions for you to play on your in-game instruments, so, there you go. Wii Music had a soundtrack composed almost entirely of public domain songs. Samurai Shodown 6 uses Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" as a background theme for the USA stage, rearranged as a military march. The arranged version adds the national anthem ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] in the beginning, then goes into a rock version of "Stars and Stripes Forever". The Halo 3 Believe ad campaign (at least the 90-second one that had no live action) used Chopin's Prelude No. 15 in D-Flat Major, though all other music from the game and ads were original compositions The original 1980s version of Sid Meier's Pirates! featured short snippets of classical music to accompany certain events.

Many came from Handel's Water Music. For the 1990s version, Pirates! Gold, music was taken from the works of J.S. Bach (and credited to him). The 2004 remake features loads of classical music, with several "cover" versions for each tune. Firaxis Games were developing Civilization IV at the same time, and so several tunes ended up in both games. borrows from "Night on Bald Mountain" in places. Mega Man Legends The music played for Megaman Juno's final form in the first Mega Man Legends is a rather chilling remix of Johann Bach's ''Little Fugue The music played while in the Sulfur Bottom in the sequel is Vivaldi's Spring. The Famicom/NES game Tetrastar: The Fighter uses several classical music pieces, including Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" and Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance". The boss music in Castle of Deceit is the fugue movement of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue". The main action themes also sound like Bach pieces.

The game Jigsaw on the Action 52 cartridge uses "Long Long Ago" for its theme. In the "Waterloo World" level of Psychonauts , the "1812 Overture" can be heard. The Sachen game Pyramid (a Tetris knockoff) uses "The Streets of Cairo" (aka "There's a Place in France"). The DOS first-person wireframe Pac-Man clone 3-Demon uses several Scott Joplin songs, including "The Entertainer", for its soundtrack. Speaking of Scott Joplin, the arcade game Domino Man uses Maple Leaf Rag as its main gameplay theme. The entire soundtrack of Little King's Story is classical music. Most of the soundtrack to The Oregon Trail games is country folk songs. The Midway Arcade Game Satan's Hollow incorporates Wagner's " Ride of the Valkyries " in various places. Tapper /Root Beer Tapper features "Oh! Susanna" in the first level. "Oh! Susanna" also plays in the arcade game Pooyan , when Mama rescues her piglets for the second time. The NES version of Punch-Out!! uses "Sakura, Sakura", a traditional Japanese folk song for Piston Honda's ring entrance.

This is referenced in the Wii game (where he was renamed "Piston Hondo"). "Ride of the Valkyries" was used as the themes to Von Kaiser and a couple other boxers. Glass Joe's entrance theme is La Marsellaise, the French National Anthem. Don Flamenco's theme is an excerpt from the Georges Bizet's opera Carmen . Soda Popinski's theme is "Song of the Volga Boatman". The arcade game Battlezone plays a snippet of the "1812 Overture" when you make the high score list. Crystal Castles plays two different parts of the "Nutcracker March". The one that plays depends on whether or not Bentley Bear or the enemies get the last gem. Depending on high the player gets, Beethoven's Fifth (specifically the famous four-note opening) is one of the themes plays when you make the high score list in Stargate (AKA: Defender II). The NES game Might and Magic : Secret of the Inner Sanctum uses a surprisingly-long arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D on its title screen. The Battle of Olympus plays Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor inside the Temple.

Super Famicom game Violinist of Hameln's soundtrack consists mostly (if not entirely) of classical music — most immediately apparent, Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the town theme. The Space tribe's theme in Lemmings 2 is J. Strauss's Blue Danube, a Shout-Out to 2001: A Space Odyssey . Most of the soundtrack to Flower, Sun and Rain consists of pop/techno remixes of classical and jazz pieces; most of the chapters in the game are even named after the music that appears in them. Successful completion of each level in Peggle is met with a rousing rendition of "Ode to Joy". Renfield's theme is " Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ", and "Morning Mood" plays when the game is launched. The NES version of The Adventures of Captain Comic has a soundtrack consisting of badly mixed classical music. Megablast, an arcade Shoot 'em Up from Taito , has an FM synth arrangement of Chopin's piano piece, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor. It doesn't show up during the game itself, but in the attract mode.

Beethoven's Ode to Joy accompanies the ending cast roll. plays during the boss battle against Augus in Asura's Wrath . Antarctic Adventure uses the "Skater's Waltz" as its in-game music. Miner 2049er during its intro plays a version of "Clementine," a song alluded to by the game's title. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance , while hailing from a series known for having its very own share of awesome tracks in the first place, has three pieces of classic music in its soundtrack because of one of its worlds representing Fantasia note (for those curious, the name of the world is "Symphony of Sorcery"). note The tracks are Night On Bald Mountain, returning from Kingdom Hearts I as well as the boss associated with said song, Chernabog, L'apprenti Sorcier, the well-known theme used for the famous sequence featuring the army of brooms used as BGM for Sora's playthrough of the world, and finally, The Nutcracker Suite, which does the same for Riku.

In order to avoid abrupt changes in the BGM, there are no dinstinctions between "Field BGM" and "Battle BGM", and to keep the feeling of a "musical experience", in that world, musical, silly sound effect replace the usual ones, including the characters' in-battle Voice Grunting . Catherine features lots of classical music for its puzzle segments, including "Jupiter" from Gustav Holst 's "Planets Suite", Bach's "Tocatta en Fugue", and Dvořák's "From the New World". Most of the bosses use "Baba Yaga's Hut" from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (except Doom's Bride and Shadow Vincent, which use a piece by Atlus composer Shoji Meguro, and the final boss, which uses Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude"). Combine that with Soundtrack Dissonance in Brain Dead 13 : In the Conservatory Room, as Lance tries to avoid getting strangled by Mongo the Marionette or pounced upon by Fritz, the music played here from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .

Also combined with Soundtrack Dissonance in Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp: The soundtrack that plays entirely in the background of Level 5 while you avoid getting eaten by a fire-breathing cat is the first part of Symphony No. 5 in C minor (Allegro con brio) by Ludwig van Beethoven . This also counts as a Genius Bonus when you notice that the song number is the same as the level number. Here's another trope also combined with Soundtrack Dissonance and Standard Snippet : In Batman: Arkham Origins , The Joker 's more theatrical moments of cruelty are often underscored by classical music typical of cartoons - his "Sleigh Ride" in the Royal Hotel ballroom plays a warped organ version of Julius FučÃ­k's "Entry of the Gladiators", he fussily selects the detonator for one of his bombs to Gioachino Rossini 's "The Barber of Seville", and his hallucinatory fight in the comedy club has an arranged section of the overture from Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie". The trailer for the DLC Cold, Cold Heart features Aude Lang Syne. It's set on New Years.

In addition to The Cancan Song used during the actual levels, Mr. Do! also features Beethoven's Turkish March (Also known as the Theme from El Chavo del ocho , and not to be confused with Mozart's Turkish March) in the results screen that appears after clear three " scenes ". Mr. Passion, a mid-boss in Chapter 2 of MOTHER 3 , is a ghostly composer, so, naturally, his battle theme comprises a medley of various classical music excerpts.note starting with the First Movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, moving into Etude for Ghosts (a battle theme in the game which seems to be based on the Third Movement of Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns), then into Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, and finally into Mozart's Symphony No.

40 in G Minor before looping If you know when to come back and challenge him again as Lord Passion , he'll have a brand new battle theme with different classical pieces.note starting again with Beethoven's 5th, it'll then move into Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach, then into Handel's Messiah, and finally the First Movement of Antonio Vivaldi 's Four Seasons: Spring In addition to that, there's also "Leder's Gymnopédie", which is actually Erik Satie 's Gymnopédie N*1, used to great effect when Leder tells Lucas and his friends about the true history of the world. Final Fantasy The dancing girls in Final Fantasy IV perform their routine to Khatchaturian's "Sabre Dance". The chocobo minigame music in Final Fantasy IX , Vamo Alla Flamenco is a very upbeat remix of Greensleeves. The main theme of EV Nova is "Mars, the Bringer of War" from Gustav Holst 's The Planets Suite. "Mars, the Bringer of War" also happens to be the theme of Space T.V.

Fortress While less blatant, the theme of Living Failure from Bloodborne is a Boss Remix of "Mars, the Bringer of War". Some of the background music in Thwaite appears at first to be Suspiciously Similar Songs to parts of the Animal Crossing soundtrack. A listen with a classically trained ear reveals that it's actually pieced together from Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique. Eternal Sonata features several Chopin pieces for the segments detailing his life. A remix of "Revolutionary Etude" serves as the game's final boss theme. The Artdink game Arctic uses the Rondo from Mozart's Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 570 (at least in the Famicom version). The trailer for the Cthulhu Mythos / World War I themed Turn-Based Tactics game Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land begins with the chorus of "It's A Long Way To Tipperary", a song from this era which was very famous in British ranks. The main menu's theme is a loop of this chorus; both version are accompanied by some subtle creepy sound effects in background. The ending credits are also set to this chorus, but without the creepy sound effects.

The game's official soundtrack included a cover of the full song. Kerbal Space Program 's main theme -heard on the start screen and in most official trailer videos- was composed especially for the game, but all the other background tracks are royalty-free library music. Dwarf Fortress is a slightly strange case; the official background music is not an example, being composed and performed by the developer himself, but a popular third-party sound engine called SoundSense uses this trope rather extensively. In the old Hudson Soft game Challenger, the Stop The Express stage uses an upbeat take on Franz Schubert's "Military March" for its background music, mixed with train whistle sound effects. (Some may know it better as the theme for Drill Man's stage in Rockman 4 Minus Infinity .) In the GameCube Animal Crossing , "Auld Lang Syne" plays on your way home from the New Year's celebration. Bioshock Infinite 's menu theme is the Blues standard After You've Gone , composed in 1918. In BioShock , the circus standard "Sobre las Olas(Over The Waves)" is played by the Gene Banks.

Both Five Nights at Freddy's and its sequel use public domain music played diagetically as the only actual music in the soundtrack—"Habanera (Les Toreadors)" from Carmen in the first, while the sequel adds "My Grandfather's Clock" (and "Pop Goes the Weasel"). The Ren & Stimpy Show frequently used Romantic Era music in the background; Tchiakovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Antonï¿½n Dvořï¿½k 's Symphony #9 "From the New World" were particularly popular. The yodeling song used in the title card for "The Boy Who Cried Rat" was later used in The Mighty B! episode "Bee Afraid" and SpongeBob SquarePants ' "Truth or Square". Pretty much every music cue/background song from Ren and Stimpy has been used in many other cartoons, SpongeBob SquarePants being the most notable. The Road Runner's theme in Looney Tunes is from Smetana's Bartered Bride. A great deal of Looney Tunes music are actually classical tunes. Examples include tunes from Rossini's Barber of Seville and Liszt's second Hungarian Rhapsody, and Felix Mendelssohn 's "Spring Song".

Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was always played when the Mynah Bird showed up in Chuck Jones ' "Inki" series. Franz Liszt 's second Hungarian Rhapsody just might be the most used work in Western Animation . Looney Tunes used it in " Rhapsody Rabbit ", Tom and Jerry used it in "Cat Concerto" (these two were so similar, each studio accused the other of plagiarism), Woody Woodpecker used it, and it was used in the Donald Duck /Daffy Dueling Pianos skit at the Ink & Paint Club in Who Framed Roger Rabbit . Disney's Mickey Mouse Symphony Hour (1942) is about Mickey conducting an orchestra that plays Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture. The rehearsal suits the trope fully. while for the main concert, the instruments become a problem and the soundtrack is a bit... strange. The made for video Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers had songs with music from various classical pieces, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Offenbach's The Cancan Song , and Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Reed Flutes.

The finale took place during an opera made up of selections of operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan . Disney's version of Sleeping Beauty uses music from Tchaikovsky's ballet version of the same story. Fantasia . (The movie wasn't a success when first released in 1940; this was acknowledged in one edition of The Man Who Came to Dinner which had Sheridan Whiteside consoling Walt Disney over the phone: "Don't worry about Fantasia. It wasn't your fault... Beethoven hasn't had a hit for years.") Also Fantasia 2000 , though several of the pieces are actually still under copyright. The Spectacular Spider-Man has made great use of public domain music, mostly in ending credits, to play with a theme (holidays were the most frequent). One episode had Spidey beat up bad guys to Mozart. Yes, it was awesome! Spongebob Squarepants uses a portion of Vivaldi's Spring from the Four Seasons suite, a version of Johann Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz, Jacques Offenbach's Infernal Galop ( The Cancan Song ) and a number of others.

Also, the NFL song "The Lineman" is probably better known as the theme of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy than its original use. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog incorporates both "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and "Flight of the Bumblebee" in the opening theme. Incidentally, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is used as Robotnik's theme song in the show and plays in segments set in his lair. One of the songs on the Street Fighter cartoon's soundtrack is a rendition of " Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ", which notably plays over M. Bison's infamous " YES! YES! " scene. While they did a few original songs (most notably, "Witch Doctor"), the 1960s-era Chipmunks otherwise did mostly public domain songs, albeit their own personal takes on them (e.g., "Old Macdonald Cha-Cha-Cha"). Invoked/parodied in an episode of American Dad! when Roger joins Steve's band and plays rock n roll version of "Jimmy Cracked Corn" and "Ba Ba Black Sheep". He even goes on to say they have over a hundred hits already.

My Little Pony Friendshipis Magic : In episode 33, "May The Best Pet Win!", " Ride of the Valkyries " plays when Rainbow Dash races the candidates for her pet in Ghastly Gorge. In "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", the song sung by the cutesy flowers in Rainbow Dash's nightmare is "This Old Man" with different lyrics. Considering the point of this scene was to mock Tastes Like Diabetes , the song choice is probably more of a Take That at Barney & Friends than anything. Animaniacs : Wakko's Wish has a musical number sung to the tune of the second "Hungarian Rhapsody". Being a nod to the classic shorts (as was Tiny Toon Adventures in a way), a lot of the background music in Animaniacs had nods to popular pieces of the Romantic Era, and a huge portion of the songs were based on classical pieces too. Making a full list would take too way, way too long. Danger Mouse was known to use public domain music for its background score. A piece composed by Charles Williams for BBC radio, "The Devil's Gallop" was used in two episodes' chase scenes (as well as two episodes of Monty Python).

When Wufgang Bach makes his appearance in "Play It Again, Wufgang," he is performing Toccata And Fugue In D Minor on the organ. In the most memorable part of A Boy Named Charlie Brown , Schroeder plays most of the Second Movement (Adagio cantabile) of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (Sonata Pathétique), and during that time, many Disney Acid Sequences occur, which is pretty creepy. Ducktales used " Ride of the Valkyries " in a couple episodes, including "Maid of the Myth," which appropriately featured vikings as part of the plot, and Part 2 of "Super Ducktales." The animated short Shhhhhh has a retroactive example with " The Okeh Laughing Record " which had to be licensed when the short was first produced in 1955, also the opening credits feature Chopin's Nocturne op. 15 no. 2. Sonic Boom usually uses Suspiciously Similar Songs , but goes this route for the sake of a gag:

Question: For which TV programme was the Liberty Bell March the theme tune?
Answer: Monty Python's Flying Circus