Classical music
Certain staples of classical music are often used commercially (either in advertising or in movie soundtracks). In television commercials, several passages have become cliched, particularly the opening of Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra (made famous in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the opening section "O Fortuna" of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, often used in the horror genre; other examples include the Dies Irae from the Verdi Requiem, Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt, the opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkure, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, and excerpts of Aaron Copland's Rodeo.
How are staples of classical music often used?
commercially
Certain staples of classical music are often used commercially (either in advertising or in movie soundtracks).
classical music