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Fantasia
(1940)
In Disney's experimental film with eight animated
sequences beautifully integrating classical music and abstract images
- and the first film to introduce 'stereo-like' Fantasound:
- Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - live-action
of the orchestra playing, segueing into abstract animation, and
then returning back to the orchestra
- Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite including
tiny fairies sprinkling dew in the "Dance of the Sugar Plum
Fairy," six
red-topped mushrooms in "Chinese Dance," ballerina-shaped
blossoms in "Dance of the Flutes," underwater goldfish
in "Arab
Dance," high-kicking and jumping Cossack-dressed thistles
in "Russian
Dance,"
and the approach of autumn and frost in "Waltz of the Flowers"
- Paul Dukas' classical The Sorcerer's Apprentice with
apprentice Mickey Mouse in his master's wizard hat and the march
of the relentless brooms carrying endless buckets of water - and
his conducting of the stars in the sky
- Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring depicting the
beginnings of the cosmos, solar system, and the planet Earth and
then life itself - with the Age of the Dinosaurs
- Beethoven's 6th Symphony (Pastoral Symphony),
depicting various legendary creatures and characters from the ancient
mythical Greek world including a scene by the Brook with Centaurs
and Centaurettes
- Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours - including
ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators, and most memorably
the hippos in tutus (Hippo Ballet)
- Moussorgsky's dramatic Night on Bald Mountain -
a celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath,
featuring the demonic creature Chernobog
- the final dawn of light segment of Schubert's Ave
Maria
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
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"The Rite of Spring" (Age of Dinosaurs)
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"Pastoral Symphony"
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"Dance of the Hours"
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"Night
on Bald Mountain"
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"Ave Maria"
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"Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"
Nutcracker Suite: "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
Nutcracker Suite: "Chinese Dance"
Nutcracker Suite: "Dance of the Flutes"
Nutcracker Suite: "Arab Dance"
Nutcracker Suite: "Russian Dance"
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