This document provides instructions and information for students presenting on classical music memes for a Music Appreciation class. It explains that students should write a script and cite sources for their 1 minute presentation on an assigned musical piece, which will include playing a 1 minute excerpt and talking about the composer and composition. The document then provides 30 classical music memes with the composer, composition, a link to the full piece, and in some cases a link to an important excerpt.

1. MUSC 1200: Music Appreciation
Classical Memes Slides
Dr. Matthew C. Saunders
Lakeland Community College
C-1078

2. Read me!
• Make sure that you are studying the piece you
have been assigned.
• There is no need to alter your slide. Focus on
writing a good script for your presentation.
• All slides have a link to the complete piece.
• Some slides have a link to one or more
“important excerpts” if a piece is longer or if
the familiar moment happens later in the
piece.

3. And read me!
• Remember, you need to:
– Turn in your script and bibliography to the website
by the beginning of class on Day 12.
– Present your piece on Day 12
• Talk for 1 minute—Time yourself and practice!
• Play 1 minute of music
• 1 minute to change over to the next student

4. Classical Meme
• Composer: Aaron Copland
• Composition: “Hoe-down” from
Rodeo (1942)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt]

5. Classical Meme
• Composer: Aaron Copland
• Composition: Fanfare for the
Common Man (1942)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt]

6. Classical Meme
• Composer: Amilcare
Ponchielli
• Composition: “Dance of the
Hours” from La Gioconda
(1876)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.
• Link to important excerpt.

7. Classical Meme
• Composer: Antonin Dvorak
• Composition: Symphony No. 9,
“From the New World” (1893)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.
• Link to important excerpt.

8. Classical Meme
• Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
• Composition: The Four
Seasons (1725)
• Link to complete piece.
• Many important and notable
excerpts. Pick one.

9. Classical Meme
• Composer: Carl Orff
• Composition: “O Fortuna” from
Carmina Burana (1935-36)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to excerpt]

10. Classical Meme
• Composer: Edward Elgar
• Composition: Pomp and
Circumstance March No. 1 in D
major (1902)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

11. Classical Meme
• Composer: Edward Elgar
• Composition: Variation IX
“Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
(1898-99)
• Link to complete piece.
• No link to important excerpt.

12. Classical Meme
• Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
• Composition: “Wedding March”
from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt.]

13. Classical Meme
• Composer: Francisco Tárrega
• Composition: Gran Vals (1902)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

14. Classical Meme
• Composer: Franz Liszt
• Composition: Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2 (1847)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

15. Classical Meme
• Composer: Franz von Suppé
• Composition: Light Cavalry
Overture (1866)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

16. Classical Meme
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Composition: Rhapsody in
Blue (1924)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

17. Classical Meme
• Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
• Composition: Overture to William Tell
(1829)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.
• Link to important excerpt.

18. Classical Meme
• Composer: Jacques Offenbach
• Composition: Overture to Orpheus
in the Underworld (1858)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

19. Classical Meme
• Composer: Johann Sebastian
Bach
• Composition: Toccata and Fugue
in D Minor (ca. 1710)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt.]

20. Classical Meme
• Composer: Johann Pachelbel
• Composition: Canon in D major
(ca. 1694?)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt.]

21. Classical Meme
• Composer: Johann Strauss
• Composition: By The Beautiful Blue
Danube, Op. 314 (1866)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

22. Classical Meme
• Composer: Johannes Brahms
• Composition: Wiegenlied
(“Lullaby”) (1868)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

23. Classical Meme
• Composer: Johannes Brahms
• Composition: Hungarian Dance No.
5 in G minor
• Link to complete piece.
• [No link to important excerpt.]

24. Classical Meme
• Composer: Leo Arnaud
• Composition: Bugler’s Dream (1958)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

25. Classical Meme
• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
• Composition: Für Elise, WoO 59
(1810?)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

26. Classical Meme
• Composer: Maurice Ravel
• Composition: Bolèro (1928)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

27. Classical Meme
• Composer: Modeste Mussorgsky
• Composition: A Night on Bald
Mountain (1867, rev. 1886)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

28. Classical Meme
• Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Composition: 1812 Overture, Op. 49
(1880)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

29. Classical Meme
• Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Composition: Suite from The
Nutcracker, Op. 71a (1892)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.
• Link to important excerpt.

30. Classical Meme
• Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Composition: Waltz from The
Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

31. Classical Meme
• Composer: Richard Strauss
• Composition: Also sprach Zarathustra,
Op. 30 (1896)
• Link to complete piece.
• No link to important excerpt.

32. Classical Meme
• Composer: Richard Wagner
• Composition: Prelude to Act III and
Wedding March from Lohengrin
(1850)
• Link to complete piece.
• Link to important excerpt.

33. Classical Meme
• Composer: Richard Wagner
• Composition: “Ride of the Valkyrie”
from Die Walkure, (1856)
• Link to complete piece.
• No link to important excerpt.

34. Classical Meme
• Composer: Samuel Barber
• Composition: Adagio for Strings
(1936)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

35. Classical Meme
• Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
• Composition: March from The Love
for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1921)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

36. Classical Meme
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
• Composition: “Dies Irae” from
Requiem Mass (1791)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]

37. Classical Meme
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
• Composition: Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik, K. 525 (1787)
• Link to complete piece.
• [No Link to important excerpt.]