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Strings - Thematic Index. Best Classical Tunes.
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Adagio for strings, Op 11 (Barber) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Annie Laurie featuring Strings    1 Annie Laurie
Ave Maria (based on Bach's Prelude in C) (Gounod) featuring Strings    1 Ave Maria (based on Bach's Prelude in C)
Begone Dull Care featuring Strings    1 Begone Dull Care
Belle of the Ball (Anderson) featuring Strings    1 Main waltz theme
Bird's theme from Peter and the Wolf (flute) (Prokofiev) featuring Strings    1 Bird's theme on flute.
Blue Tango (Anderson) featuring Strings    1 Hit tango tune of the 50s, with its characteristic 'blue' counter-theme
Charmaine featuring Strings    1 Verse
   2 Chorus - the well-known bit.
Clarinet Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 1st movement (Mozart) featuring Strings    1 First theme, on strings, with intermittent clarinet arpeggio bursts.
   2 Second theme, in E major, on violin at first, then clarinet.
   3 Third theme, and last of the exposition section, shared between first violin and clarinet.
Clarinet Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 2nd movement (Mozart) featuring Strings    1 Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 2nd Movt
Clarinet Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 3rd movement Minuet and Trio (Mozart) featuring Strings    1 Minuet theme, Theme A of ABACA structure. Played on the clarinet.
   2 First Trio, Theme B of ABACA structure. Played by the first violin, in the key of A minor.
   3 Second Trio, theme C of ABACA structure. in A major.
Clarinet Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 4th movement (Mozart) featuring Strings    1 Quintet in A K581 for Clarinet and Strings 4th Movt
Cockles and Mussels featuring Strings    1 Main tune
Coppelia Ballet - Czardas (Delibes) featuring Strings    1 Czardas theme 1
   2 Czardas theme 2
Coppelia ballet, Act I, Prelude (Delibes) featuring Strings    1 Prelude, 1st theme in 4/4 time.
   2 Prelude, 2nd theme - main waltz theme
   3 3rd theme of Prelude - (Mazurka theme)
Coppelia Ballet, Waltz (Delibes) featuring Strings    1 Coppelia Ballet, Waltz
Floating - for piano and strings (Gomersall) featuring Strings    1 piano floating above quiet strings
   2 piano gliding around above strings
   3 strings join piano, bursting out with a lyrical tune
Forgotten Dreams (Anderson) featuring Strings    1 Reflective quaver theme played on the piano
Hey Jude (McCartney) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Hungarian Dance No.3 in F major (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 main theme
Hungarian Dance No.4 in F minor (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 First theme
   2 Second theme
Hungarian Dance No.5 in F# minor (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 First theme, in the minor
   2 Second theme, in tonic major
Hungarian Dance No.6 in Db major (Brahms) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
I Could have Danced all Night - from My Fair Lady (Loewe) featuring Strings    1 Main tune
I'm in the Mood for Love featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Jack And Jill featuring Strings    1 Jack And Jill
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize featuring Strings    1 First theme (verse)
   2 Second theme (chorus), This is the better-known bit.
Londonderry Air (Oh Danny Boy) featuring Strings    1 Londonderry Air (Oh Danny Boy)
My Bonnie lies over the Ocean featuring Strings    1 My Bonnie lies over the Ocean
On the Street where you live (Loewe) featuring Strings    1 main theme
Peter and the Wolf - Cat Theme (clarinet) (Prokofiev) featuring Strings    1 Peter and the Wolf - Cat Theme on clarinet
Peter and the Wolf - Grandfather's Theme (double bass) (Prokofiev) featuring Strings    1 Peter and the Wolf - Grandfather's Theme on double-bass.
Peter's theme from Peter and the Wolf (strings) (Prokofiev) featuring Strings    1 Peter and the Wolf - Peter's Theme by the strings.
Portsmouth featuring Strings    1 A hornpipe tune on flute.
Prometheus Overture Op 43 (Beethoven) featuring Strings    1 Slow introduction
   2 Fast energetic high passage in the dominant key, G.
Que Sera, Sera featuring Strings    1 Verse
   2 Chorus
Rakoczy March (Berlioz) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Roses are Red featuring Strings    1 Roses are Red
Serenade for Strings - 3rd movement Allegretto (Elgar) featuring Strings    1 First theme
Serenade for Strings - Larghetto (Elgar) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 1st movement - Pezzo in forma di Sonatina (Tchaikovsky) featuring Strings    1 Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 1st Movt - Pezzo in forma di Sonatina - 1st theme
Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 2nd movement Waltz themes (Tchaikovsky) featuring Strings    1 Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 2nd Movt - first waltz theme.
   2 Second waltz theme, also on violins.
Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 3rd movement (Tchaikovsky) featuring Strings    1 First theme - Elegie
   2 Second theme
Serenade for Strings in C Op 48 - 4th movement (Tchaikovsky) featuring Strings    1 First theme - 'Russian'.
   2 Second theme
Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 1st movement (Dvořák) featuring Strings    1 Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 1st Movt
Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 2nd movement - Tempo di Valse (Dvořák) featuring Strings    1 Serenade for strings in E Op 22 2nd Movt - Tempo di Valse
   2 Second theme forms a contrast in a distant key
Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 3rd movement (Dvořák) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 4th movement (Dvořák) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 5th movement (Dvořák) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Sleigh Ride (Anderson) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Suite No.2 in B minor for flute and strings, 8th movement 'Badinerie'. (Bach) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
Summer Time (Gershwin) featuring Strings    1 Summer Time
Syncopated Clock (Anderson) featuring Strings    1 Main tune
Theme Slave from Act 1 of Coppelia Ballet (Delibes) featuring Strings    1 Theme Slave - theme 1
There was a Jolly Miller featuring Strings    1 There was a Jolly Miller
These Foolish Things featuring Strings    1 These Foolish Things
Waltzing Matilda featuring Strings    1 Verse
   2 Chorus
Where the bee sucks, there suck I (Arne) featuring Strings    1 Where the bee sucks, there suck I
With a Little Bit of Luck - from My Fair Lady (Loewe) featuring Strings    1 first theme
   2 second theme
Wouldn't it be Loverly - from My Fair Lady (Loewe) featuring Strings    1 Main tune
Yesterday (McCartney) featuring Strings    1 Main theme
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