These are some good examples of classical music used diegetically:
In The Ladykillers, a British black
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from 1955, a group of thieves pretend to be professional
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rehearsing
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minuet in a room upstairs in a
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so that the landlady can hear them downstairs from the living room. But they are really playing the music on a
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player!
A teacher tries to explain to his
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pupil and girlfriend how beautiful
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music is by using his hands and his body to try do describe the wonderful sounds coming from the record
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. The piece is one of his favourites,
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Double Violin Concerto. The film is called Children of a Lesser
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.
The Shawshank Redemption is a great film about an innocent man in
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. In one scene, he has access to the record player belonging to the director of the prison, and he plays a beautiful piece of opera on the loudspeakers so that all the
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in the jail can hear it. The music is from The Marriage of Figaro by one of the most brilliant
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who ever lived: Wolfgang Amadeus
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And these are some good examples of classical music used non-diegetically:
Director Francis Ford
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uses The Ride of the
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by Richard
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to great effect in his film Apocalypse
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. This film is about the terrible
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American composer George Gershwin wrote
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in Blue and this was used by American director
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Allen for his opening scene in the film called
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, with views of the skyline of New
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. Woody Allen loves living in New York and, apart from being one of the most famous film
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in the world, plays the clarinet in a jazz band every week!
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Strauss (1864-1949) wrote a piece of music -known as a "tone poem"- called Also Sprach Zarathrusta ("So spoke Zarathrusta") of which the
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has become very famous indeed, largely due to the fact that it was used in 2001: A
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Odyssey, made in 1968 by
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Kubrick. I expect you may have seen and loved the film Gladiator : well, Kubrick, who
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many excellent films of different types, made another famous
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about a gladiator many years before this more modern one. It's called Spartacus and we also recommend it.