Classical Music

hlthe2b

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11. Some of those are quite a stretch--they'd surely win the hypothetical copyright suit if that could

Sun May 8, 2022, 05:51 PM

May 2022

have been a "thing."

The Pachelbel Canon in D-- you want to hear music directly inspired by that? Listen to the soundtrack from "Somewhere in Time," not Maroon 5.

And John Denver's "Annie's Song?" Yes, there is a bit that might have been inspired, but it is a pretty minimal bit from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Really minimal, but I do hear it in the second movement with the horns.

I'll have to listen to some of the others.

Eric Carmen acknowledges incorporating. I really can't imagine John Denver knowingly did. The others? Possibly.

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Some of those are quite a stretch--they'd surely win the hypothetical copyright suit if that could hlthe2b May 2022 #11