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Ode to Joy
PERFECT AUTHENTIC
Beethoven: Symphony No.1: I excerpt 1
Beethoven: Symphony No.1: I excerpt 2
Verdi: Aida: Introduction to "La Fatal Pietra"
with score
Smetana: Moldau
~Thanks, Jeremy Marino for this excerpt.
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Schubert: Introduction to "Erlkonig"
with score
Schumann: "Soldiers' March" from
Children's Pieces
with score
Handel: "Hallelujah" from
Messiah
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante
Geza Anda, piano
Original Example 11: Sad Vibes
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IMPERFECT AUTHENTIC
Beethoven Symphony No. 1: II
with score
Beethoven Symphony No. 2: II
with score
Vivaldi: Winter: II from
The Four Seasons
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2, K. 314, II
with score
Boccherini: Minuet
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, III
with score
Bach: Air from
Orchestral Suite in D
Original Example 05: Pedal Steel to the Metal
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Original Example 06: A Simple Country Life
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Original Example 14: Intensity
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HALF
Handel: Hornpipe from
Water Music
Vivaldi: Winter: II from
The Four Seasons
Offenbach: from
Orpheus in Hades
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Swan Lake
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E: II
Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Phrygian half
Mouret: Rondeau
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Kjell Baekkelund, piano
Dvorak: New World Symphony: II
Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Spring
with score
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: IV
Handel: "Hallelujah" from
Messiah
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Berlioz: Damnation of Faust
Original Example 2: Space-Time Continuum
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Original Example 3: Happy Pop Accomp
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Original Example 4: Happy Pop Plus Piano
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Original Example 13: Slow Vibes
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DECEPTIVE
Beethoven, Symphony No. 1: I
with score
Schubert: Ave Maria
Beethoven Sonata Op.13 "Pathetique"
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 7
with score
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: I
with score
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: IV
DeBenedetti: "The Olympic Downhill" from
A Dozen Italian Diversions
James Ferla, guitar
Chopin: Prelude in E minor
Original Example 1: Happy Pop
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Original Example 10: Earnest Country
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Original Example 12: Mediterranean Mandolins
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PLAGAL
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: I
with score
Puccini: "Nessun Dorma" from
Turandot
Handel: "Hallulujah" from
Messiah
with score
Schumann:"Ich Will Meine Seele Tauchen" from Dichterliebe
with score
Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 11 "Winter Wind"
with score
Original Example 7: The Way it Is
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Original Example 8: Jumpin' Accompin'
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Original Example 9: Jumpin' Piano
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Original Example 15: Soprano Saxy
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Original pop examples were composed with the help of
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