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Dvořák's Middle Earth
I've never been much of a classical music fan. As a kid, I always thought it was boring, slow and above all just a big piece of old crap. I could never imagine listening to sounds like that when I had my own great sounds of the 90s.
But alas, here we are, twenty-ish years later, after I've discovered a Belgian podcast featuring classical music pieces you must hear at least once. The opening episode advertises the ninth symphony of Antonin Dvořák, named "From the New World".
Besides the fact I'm hooked to the style and flow of this piece, something else that's interesting caught my ear. In the second movement, I couldn't help but hear some notes that are very similar to a piece of music from one of my favorite movies: the Shire theme from The Lord of the Rings:
Play the opening of the above clip for like ten seconds, and then switch to Dvořák's piece below. Start at 1:30 minutes and listen for about twenty seconds:
It seems the great movie scores of our time have borrowed some materials from the past.
What do you think? Or has this knowledge been out there already and am I just new to all of this? It certainly means that there is much for me to discover about what other snippets have been stolen by our modern-day artists.
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