Rarity and Kubrick in Ingram's soundtracks

[Seldon 12]

Daniel Ingram's mlp soundtracks are great and full of musical quotations. Some of them gave me an idea that I want to share with you.

 

Season 1, Episode 14, "Suited for Success": a Rarity episode. In the second fashion show scene (the one with good dresses), at the very beginning, the initial fanfare of "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss is clearly quoted. 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oltUgm3uE at 18:40

 

 

This of course could be seen as a reference to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", which is after all the movie that made the fanfare so famous.

 

But the connection between the fanfare and the white pony seems to be deeper.

In Episode 23, "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", we can find it in Rarity's flashback, more precisely in the "damn rock" scene. 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWcHkid-PE at 10:48

 

 

Of course here the fanfare is more related to the rock itself, which somehow remembers the black monolith shown in Kubrick's movie. In any case we already have two Rarity/Kubrick scenes.

 

The last one is more subtle.

Episode 19, "A Dog and Pony Show", another Rarity episode. When the other ponies think about how she must feel in the dogs' prisons, we hear a harpsichord music. In one of that scenes there is a short quotation of Frideric Handel's "Sarabande" from the Suite in D minor, which was profusely used in Stanley Kubrick's movie "Barry Lyndon"

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afr8WMgQ0bA at 08:40

 

 

That's all. What do you think about these quotations? Are them just coincidences or there is a real connection between Rarity and Kubrick? What do you think of Ingram's musical quotations in general?

 

Here you a few links to the original Kubrick's scenes:

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb3jBVYDtsU