Classical Music in Cartoons
Aaron Ginn
How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
Here's a starter:
From the classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon "What's Opera Doc?", Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" and the overture from "Tannhauser" to name a couple.
Aaron
josh gendel
von Suppe's overture, "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna."
I don't think that it featured any of the more well known
characters e.g., Bugs Bunny, etc. It takes place at a
construction site with the foreman "conducting" the
construction at a podium as he reads the "score" which is
actually the construction plans for the building going up.
All of the slapstick is wonderfully synchronized to the
music and the result is totally hilarious.
Josh Gendel.
David Cleary
: How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
Here are four off the top of my head:
1. "The Barber of Seville" is used throughout the Warner Bros. cartoon
"The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
2. The "William Tell Overture" is played during the Disney classic short
from the 1930's, "The Band Concert."
3. A snippet from Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" is incorporated into the
background music to Disney's "The Lion King." It's an appropriate snitch,
too, because the "Ave Verum" text deals with death and this snippet
occurs in scenes of death and destruction in the movie.
4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
"Fantasia."
Hope this helps.
Dave
Jill Sorenson
cartoons?
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Disney's Silly Symphonies from the 1930s?
Thanks.
JILL
Donald Phillipson
classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" and the overture from "Tannhauser" to
name a couple.
This important item is not to be confused with Bugs Bunny's appearance at
the Hollywood Bowl disguised as Leopold (Stokowski) and conducting a
baritone with orchestra.
There's so much opera music in Warner Bros. cartoons you can tell their
musical director must have been classically trained (and a Wagner fan.)
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Jacob Vaccaro
Cleary) wrote:
> Aaron Ginn (ag...@chdasic.sps.mot.com) wrote:
>
> : How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in
cartoons?
>
> Here are four off the top of my head:
>
> 1. "The Barber of Seville" is used throughout the Warner Bros. cartoon
> "The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
>
> 2. The "William Tell Overture" is played during the Disney classic short
> from the 1930's, "The Band Concert."
>
> 3. A snippet from Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" is incorporated into the
> background music to Disney's "The Lion King." It's an appropriate snitch,
> too, because the "Ave Verum" text deals with death and this snippet
> occurs in scenes of death and destruction in the movie.
>
> 4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
> Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
> Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
> "Fantasia."
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dave
And of course there are versions of "The Ride of the Valkyries." and the
Pilgrims' Chorus from Tannhauser, although these are hardly examples of
authentic performance practice.
Jake
David Cleary
: Does anybody know where I could find a listing of the music used in
Don't know offhand, but there are disney newsgroups on the net. I think
one of them is
rec.arts.disney.animation
Someone there may know, or could direct you to a web site. Hope this helps.
Dave
be...@mi.rulimburg.nl
>cartoons?
Ren and Stimpy cartoons are chuck full of classical music..
berry.
Gavin Tabor
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> How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
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> From the classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon "What's Opera Doc?", Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" and the overture from "Tannhauser" to name a couple.
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There's a 30 minute cartoon of `The Carnival of the Animals'
with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as the two pianists. Great!
Cat Concerto (Tom and Jerry) and Rapsody Rabbit (Bugs Bunny and
a mouse) both feature (I think) the Hungarian Rapsody - suitably
modified. They also feature most of the same jokes : Cat Concerto
got an Oscar, and I'd like to know which one plagiarised the other.
Gavin Tabor
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ag...@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Aaron Ginn) writes:
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>How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
>
>Here's a starter:
>
>From the classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon "What's Opera Doc?", Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" and the overture from "Tannhauser" to name a
>couple.
>
>Aaron
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since I was little, but I remember the cartoon consisting of him playing the
Liszt piece while he and the piano are being thrown around and falling off
cliffs and such. I guess you could say it was memorable, because I haven't
seen it probably 15 years, but I still remember it very well.
Okello
Ben
> Aaron Ginn (ag...@chdasic.sps.mot.com) wrote:
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> : How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
>
> 4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
> Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
> Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
> "Fantasia."
Don't forget Bach's Tocatta and Fugue (in D minor?), also from Fantasia.
> Hope this helps.
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: >>How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in
: >cartoons?
In Tom And Jerry, Tom played Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in one of his
"concerts".
Corinne Jacqueline Law
Apart from those mentioned.. here are a few more..
1) in the tom and Jerry cartoon ... where Tom is at the piano..
and Jerry is mucking about inside the piano, the music Tom plays is
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody in c# minor (No. 2)
2) in the smurfs, they sometimes use an orchestrated version of
the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Moonlight piano sonata when the
smurfs are being chased...
Schmile guys :)
dcl...@fas.harvard.edu (David Cleary) wrote:
>Aaron Ginn (ag...@chdasic.sps.mot.com) wrote:
>: How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
>Here are four off the top of my head:
>1. "The Barber of Seville" is used throughout the Warner Bros. cartoon
>"The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
>2. The "William Tell Overture" is played during the Disney classic short
>from the 1930's, "The Band Concert."
>3. A snippet from Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" is incorporated into the
>background music to Disney's "The Lion King." It's an appropriate snitch,
>too, because the "Ave Verum" text deals with death and this snippet
>occurs in scenes of death and destruction in the movie.
>4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
>Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
>Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
>"Fantasia."
>Hope this helps.
>Dave
kh...@parcplace.com
>>4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
>>Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
>>Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
>>"Fantasia."
don't forget:
Toccata & Fugue JS Bach
Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Hours Ponchielli
And in "Allegro non Troppo", an Italian parody of/homage to Fantasia:
L'apres Midi d'une Faune Debussy
Slavonic Dance #7 Dvorak
Bolero Ravel
Concerto in C-Minor Vivaldi
Valse Triste Sibelius
Firebird Stravinsky
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Corinne Jacqueline Law
here are a few more..
in the Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom is giving a piano recital, the
2nd of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (in c# minor) is played..
in the smurfs cartoon, where the smurfs are being chased.. sometimes
an orchestrated version of the 3rd movement from Beethoven's Moonlight
piano sonata is used as the background music!
Cori-Jacqui
dcl...@fas.harvard.edu (David Cleary) wrote:
>Aaron Ginn (ag...@chdasic.sps.mot.com) wrote:
>: How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
>Here are four off the top of my head:
>1. "The Barber of Seville" is used throughout the Warner Bros. cartoon
>"The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
>2. The "William Tell Overture" is played during the Disney classic short
>from the 1930's, "The Band Concert."
>3. A snippet from Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus" is incorporated into the
>background music to Disney's "The Lion King." It's an appropriate snitch,
>too, because the "Ave Verum" text deals with death and this snippet
>occurs in scenes of death and destruction in the movie.
>4. Then there's always "Dance of the Hours," Beethoven's "Pastoral
>Symphony," "Rite of Spring," "Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Night on Bald
>Mountain," and Schubert's "Ave Maria" (to name a few) in Disney's
>"Fantasia."
>Hope this helps.
>Dave
Jill Sorenson
>: Does anybody know where I could find a listing of the music used in
>: Disney's Silly Symphonies from the 1930s?
>
>Don't know offhand, but there are disney newsgroups on the net. I think
>one of them is
>
>rec.arts.disney.animation
Thanks Dave, but I tried these a long time ago and nobody even responded.
So far that makes this group a better resource. I suppose I should give
them another try to see if anybody knows now. Thanks for helping out.
JILL
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Samuel Laker
>How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in
>cartoons?
>>
>on it - they were playing it at a fundraising coffee stall last year.
I can think of lots, actually...
An episode of the Simpsons ("Krusty gets Cancelled") used ~3 minutes of
the 1st movement of Beethoven's 6th. In the same episode, Johnny Carson
sings a bit of the "Habanera Song" from Carmen. Also, in a very early
episode, the Simpsons go to see Carmen, which seems to serve the same
function as "The Barber of Seville" in Bugs Bunny cartoons.
I distinctly remember hearing the second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's
Scherezade during a couple of episodes of "Ren and Stimpy". Also Claire
de Lune, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...
The Steven Spielburg cartoons ("Tiny-Toons" and "Animanics") both use
tons of classical stuff as incidental music: Beethoven's 5th, Schubert's
8th, Pictures at an Exhibition, Ride of the Valkyries, Parts of the
Nutcraker, etc. (all pretty recognizable stuff). In fact, there was an
entire Warners cartoon with Beethoven in it ("I'm a pianist!." Didn't
your mother tell you not to say that!" I sure was surprised by that
line). Another oddity are the "GoodFeathers" segments, which each use a
broadway musical as a starting off point (inc. West Side Story, Fiddler
on the Roof), and some of the "Rita and Runt" segments (one in
particular bares a striking resemblance, both in plot and music, to the
musical version of "Les Miserables").
Almost anyone who grew up during the 80s will recognize parts of
"Pictures at an Exhibition" and Schubert's 8th as "Smurf Music"...
That's another show where everything was lifted from a classical source.
I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings on an episode of "Duckman"
once.
Actually, I'm very surprised at how much classical music I hear in
cartoons. It's probably the ONLY exposure most kids get, sadly.
Sam "and I don't even own a TV" Laker
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Arthur E. Cassel Jr.
But no one has mentioned "The Ride of the Valkre's" in another Bugs Bunny
cartoon. It also stared Elmer Fudd who was going to "Kill the rabbit,
Kill the rabbit..."
Belinda
That one is one of my favorites. Did someone mention the Liszt's
Hungarian Rhapsody with Tom and Jerry?
Michael F Gail
: How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in cartoons?
How about Suppe's Poet & Peasant Overture or Herold's Zampa
Overture?
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Gavin Tabor
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> In article <49q4dk$j...@news.connectnet.com>, PB <pee...@connectnet.com> wrote:
> >How many pieces of classical music can you name that have appeared in
> >cartoons?
> >>
About a year ago the BBC screened a series of specially made
cartoons based on operatic arias, under the title `Opera Imaginaire'.
They were absolutely fantastic : music from Carmen, Faust, Aida...
The best was for the toast song from La Traviata, with a setting
of animated deserts and canape's from some dinner party. I just
wish it would come out on video (I didn't have a video recorder at
the time).
Gavin Tabor
Mr. GoGo Dancer
The Tom&Jerry Hungarian Rhapsody cartoon actually took of
its gags from an early, funnier (IMO) Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Michelle C Villarta
How about Bugs Bunny playing Chopin's "Minute Waltz" in 30 seconds?
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Maaike Groenewege
Dvorak's seventh, fourth part (when Tom is tiptoeing in order to get
Jerry)
Erica Schulman
classical into jazz, should check out Raymond Scott's music.
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HEATHER DUNHAM
>> Almost anyone who grew up during the 80s will recognize parts of
>> "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Schubert's 8th as "Smurf Music"...
>> That's another show where everything was lifted from a classical source.
Yes, those, AND what about Gargamel's theme song? Liszt's (1st? 2nd?) Piano
concerto! With the musical idea that Liszt himself put words to: "Dieses
du verstehest nicht" (or something very close to that, meaning basically "
you don't understand this")
I still can't listen to any of those tracks without seeing the litle blue
guys. i still remember when i was first getting aquainted with Pictures...
Hey, I said, that sounds familiar... hmm... that's... The SMURFS! HEY! WOW!
Anwyay..
heather the buzzard
JUSTIN BROWN
Sabre Dance be a great accompaniment to some animated shenanigan?
Rick Teller
jbr...@gramps.clarku.edu says...
>
>I'm not sure if this has been done or not, but wouldn't Khatchaturian's
>Sabre Dance be a great accompaniment to some animated shenanigan?
I can't put my finger on the specific cartoons, but I'm certain that both
Bugs and Daffy have been accompanied by this chestnut. Chuck Jones, or
perhaps Carl Stallings, (both were brilliantly twisted musicians) would
have been the music director.
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