What are some rock, pop, hip-hop, folk, or country songs with melodies based off of classical music?
Can't Help Falling In Love With You, famously performed by Elvis Pressley and many other pop artists, was originally composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini as Plasir d'amour. It was a pop love song of its time, not exactly classical.The Sweetest Sounds from the 1962 musical No Strings is based on a melody from the final movement of the Piano Concerto No.2 by Brahms.Till the End of Time, a hit song in 1945, is based on the melody of the Polonaise in A-flat by Frédéric Chopin.I'm Always Chasing Rainbows was a popular song for many years of the twentieth century. It used the melody of the Fantaisie-Impromptu in C#minor by Frédéric Chopin.Many bluegrass and country artists perform a 1902 German military march, Under the Double Eagle by Joseph Wagner. Among the performers who have played it were Roy Clark and Chet Atkins. That's somewhat ironic, because many German things were banned in the United States during the World Wars as being unpatriotic. (Sauerkraut was renamed "liberty cabbage.")On the first Emerson, Lake and Palmer album, Keith Emerson recorded a keyboard piece he called The Barbarian and credited it to himself. This was a rendition of a piano piece by Béla Bartok titled Allegro Barbaroso. At that time (1970) Bartók was dead, but his widow phoned Lake (the producer) to complain, but she was ignored. Finally, the Bartók Foundation sued, and won a substantial settlement.ELP later did many more rock arrangements of classical pieces, including Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition suite, the Hoedown from Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland (this time used with permission) and several others.Manfred Mann's Earth Band played the melody from Jupiter from The Planets (1914) by Gustav Holst.The entire Broadway musical Kismet is based on the music of Alexander Borodin. It includes the popular hit, “Stranger in Paradise.”The SRC from Detroit often played In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, and so do bands of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra franchise as well as other bands I've never heard of before.I disagree that A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum is based on the Air (on G-string) from Bach's Suite No. 3. It isn't.
Why do country music artists live longer lives the rock/metal, pop, EDM, rap/hip-hop and R&B artists combined?
I don't really know, and it’s not necessarily true that “Country” artists live longer than artists in the other genres that you mention, as there are also older Rock, Pop (as in “Popular”), R&B & Hip-Hop musicians & there are also country artists who have died relatively “young”. It's just that there's a lot of older country musicians, partially because “Country” is a very old genre that dates back to the 1920s, long before “Pop” (as we know it today; “Jazz” & “Blues” was pretty much the “Pop” music of the 1920s, when “Country” was developed) and the other musical genres mentioned: Rock first started as “"Rock n’ Roll” in the 1940s, ‘50s, and first half of the ‘60s, before more “harder, louder” forms of rock (including “Metal”) started to develop in the Late 1960s into the 1970s. Rap/Hip-Hop was developed in the 1970s, starting to become part of “Pop music” in the 1980s. The R&B genre that we know of today was developed in the 1980s, becoming popular with the rise of the subgenre “New Jack Swing” in the late ’80s & early ‘90s, which pretty much combined elements of the New R&B with Rap/Hip-Hop elements. EDM, which was the “Pop music” of the late-2000s and early-2010s, was first developed in the mid-late 1970s during the “Disco Boom”, when the use of electronic music instruments such as Vocoders (a tool in which the human voice is “synthesized” or otherwise “processed”) & Drum Machines started to become very popular in Songs & became easier for music listeners (especially wealthier ones early on) to buy.
How do I describe country music? As in the musical features?
Country music is over 90 years old as a recorded genre, and the past 20 years are hardly indicative of what country music has traditionally sounded like. In fact, that past 20 years has been more aligned with the sounds of pop and southern rock than with the traditional definition of country music.
How diverse is your musical taste?
My collection consist of , blues, rock, folk, pop, country, bluegrass, hip-hop, rap, big band music, musicals, ***** spirituals, Includes people like, Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, Harry Belafonte, Howlin' Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Roger, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Mama Torton, Herbie Hancock, Tom Scott, Romantic Warrior, Brother Jack McDuff, George Benson, Weather Report, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Al Wilson, Anne Murray, Ed Ames, Don Willians, Maurice Chevalier, Fred Astaire, Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees, Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Lena Hore, Bing Crosby, Dio, Deep Purple, Metallica, Helen Ready, Bee Gees, Jim Reeves, Homer & Jethro, Hank Locklin, John Loudermilk, Pee Wee King, Amorphis, Dream Theater, Queensryche, Twisted Sister, Pantera. Ozzy Osbourne, Frank Zappa, Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Otis Redding, Peter Paul & Mary, Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, Yusuf, Stevie Nicks, Neil Diamond, Bobby Goldsboro, Carole King, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, Booker T. & The MG's, Joe Tex, Kool & The Gang, Jully Black, Great Big Sea, The Commodores, Manfred Mann, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Sly & The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Doors, The Lovin' Spoonful, Guns N Roses, Hollies, Freddy And The Dreamers, Dave Clark Five, Steppenwolf, Lenny Kravitz, Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band, James Taylor, John Popper, Foghat, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Minglewood Band, Luther Allison, Janis Joplin, Long John Baldry, Ram Jam, The Monkees, Greenday, Elliott Smith, Fall Out Boy, R.E.M., Audioslave, 3 Doors Down, Roger Whittaker, War, No Mercy, Nine Inch Nails, Pat Boone, Lawrence Welk, Gale Storm, Billy Vaughn, Edwin Starr, Diana Ross, Blood Sweat & Tears, Kim Carnes, The Carpenters, Jimmy Rodgers, Connie Francis, Dick Hyman, Andy Williams, these are about 10 per cent of the artist and music I have. take care dave
What characteristics define country music?
I was A2A this question so please pardon the liberties I will take in answering this question. Nowadays Country music is defined by other genres in that if something is not hip hop, alternative, dance, pop, R&B, or rock then it might be country."We all have difficulties in defining Country Music. The genre has been expanding to include many different styles from traditional bush ballads right through to something called 'Alternative Country'. At the Country Music College, we approach the definition from a different angle. Rather than trying to define what is Country Music, we keep our minds open while having a general consensus about what is not Country Music. Our staff and students accept that method of definition."--Peter Winkler, Director of the College of Country MusicWhile you could just cop out at saying we know it when we hear it, there are some characteristics that can help. I will try to rephrase some of these in the vein of popular comic Foxworthy's, "You might be a Redneck" routine. In other words, after the following phrases, you should hear Foxworthy saying, "It might be a Country song."If it is sung by a white person and you can understand the lyrics....If it has a simple cord progression, one that you could learn in a given afternoon....If it tells a story that you can follow...If you can remember and sing the chorus after your first listen....If you can make out what the instruments playing are...If the singer has a Southern accent....If the song sticks to simple metaphors about life and nature....If it mentions either Cowboys, horses, or doggies....If you find yourself waiting for the "twang"...If you can't wait for the part with the fiddling...If the lyrics mention a monosyllabic man or woman's name...To me, Country Music is the song of White America. It can rock like Skynyrd did, make us dance like Billy Ray did, or make the whole world stand up and buy their music like Garth Brooks and Carrie Underwood did, but it is the folk music of our nation, telling the story of our earliest immigrants and how they still persevere in this place called America.