Music Similarities

[Legendary Emerald 622]

When you listen to a lot of music, you tend to hear the same tunes and melodies a lot. Whether coincidental or intentional, its fun to find all of the little connections.

 

MLP music is ripe for comparisons. Of course, everyone has heard how the music in the opening of "Secret of My Excess" is a riff on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", but certainly that can't be all there is. What similarities can be found between pony songs and other music?

 

I've only found one other, but it's what made me want to create this topic. The very first time I heard this song, I immediately started thinking of another song.

 

 

Training Montage -Similar to- Get A Weapon (MM3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugEhV8iPfFI

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlDxDjzx7A

 

Don't hear it? Let me make it more obvious. Listen HERE and HERE.

 

Coincidence? Most likely. Awesome? Undoubtedly.

 

See what connections you can find! (And mods, feel free to merge this into a similar topic if one exists; my search came up empty)

[Swordfishtrombone 384]

From what I've heard, At the Gala is intentionally similar, particularly in lyrics, to that one song from Into the Woods. And it shows.

[False Perception 482]

Do independant songs count for ripping an entirely unrelated song?

 

I may not be getting the gist of this.

[FedoraMemes 582]

 

 

Listen to the guitar in Love in Bloom, then listen to the Katy Perry song.

[Pinkie D Pie 1,036]

If you did not know this the song art of the dress is based on steven soundheim's putting it together from the musical Sunday in the Park With George.

[CheeryLee 8]

HASBRO!!!

[Chill Mists (Chilly) 801]

 

 

[media=]http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyXNRrsk4A

 

Listen to the guitar in Love in Bloom, then listen to the Katy Perry song.

 

I'd rather not listen to Katy Perry...

[FedoraMemes 582]

I'd rather not listen to Katy Perry...

 

Same. I hate her music, but somepony pointed this out in a YouTube video, and when I saw this thread, I posted them.

[Magicon 468]

In the Sonic Rainboom, during the competition when Rarity is showing off and Rainbow is performing her stunts, the classical music is a parody of Tchaikovsky's Walt from Swan Lake.

 

Skip to 16:10 to hear the waltz.

 

 

Original:

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But besides long ones like this, there are many other tiny musical allusions in the episodes which make it really entertaining and enjoyable. Not to spoil anything, but if you really want to see the list of allusions you can go here.

http://mlp.wikia.com...st_of_allusions

 

[Myth 46]

Lesson Zero at around 19:45:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mneBVlvu5Y

 

The King's Speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80vveaXhH4

[Nas 2,873]

Art of the Dress was inspired by Stephen Sondheim's song Putting It Together from the musical "Sunday In the Park With George".

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2012 by One Reliable Gamer (NF160)

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

William Anderson does the non-song music, and much of it is either heavily inspired by or riffs-off existing music to copy their emotional or timing leitmotifs.

 

Eventually this sort of practice can be traced back to essentially everyone ripping-off Gustav Holst, Richard Wagner, George F. Handel, Ludwig Van Beethoven and J.S. Bach.

 

Holst in particular for television and movie soundtracks. Observe: Star Wars, 30 years before Star Wars was.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Blue

[cuteycindyhoney 13,309]

In the Sonic Rainboom, during the competition when Rarity is showing off and Rainbow is performing her stunts, the classical music is a parody of Tchaikovsky's Walt from Swan Lake.

 

I wouldn't call it a parody. I'd say it's a variation of a theme.

[letterone 1,204]

I'm pretty sure they were just trying to make references to pop culture with the music. They did it with lots of other stuff on the show, too, i.e. the one scene from The Last Roundup where they were in the factory thingy sorting the berries. That was a reference to this:

[Guest]

I had one... But then I lost it.

 

I'll post here if I can find the sample.

[MaggieXawesomeness 24]

I laughed so much when this happened:

Everyone should know what that song was

[Senn555 242]

William Anderson does the non-song music, and much of it is either heavily inspired by or riffs-off existing music to copy their emotional or timing leitmotifs.

 

Not entirely 100% to blame on Will. He always does spotting sessions with Jayson and Wootie before scoring, and they might suggest revisions for him to do after scoring also.

 

Temp-tracking in film/TV scores has been common since the 90s/2000s anyway.