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The PIPER songs/Their GRIEG counterparts

posted 15 years ago by zigfried-2
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Has anyone ever aligned the songs from the film to their GRIEG titles?
I know the music for the rats is IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING. And WHERE'S MY BOY is the DEATH OF ASIES. ANITRA'S DANCE is used for the song when the Piper is bragging of his talents to the villagers. But what about the other songs? What about the music played by the Piper when he lures the children into the mountain? PRESTIGE? The lover's love song? The song the Piper sings with the children in the schoolhouse?
It would be interesting for someone familiar with the music of GRIEG to match the film's song titles to the works of Grieg.

[–] zuiderzee 14 years ago

The 'How can I tell you?' number is a sloooooed down version of something
in Peer Gynt (maybe) sped up, it more or less sounds like a lively dance.
I heard a snippet of it in "Hooked on Classics" da da dee dat da...

[–] mckinnb-bruce 13 years ago

Look on the soundtrack link. It gives all the songs and their Grieg originals.

[–] critic-2 13 years ago

The love song is the first movement of Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A Minor". The song outside the schoolhouse is one of the Norwegian Dances.

The song titles ARE matched if you look in the "Soundtrack" section for this film, on the left hand side of the page for it.

[–] niels-4 12 years ago

Some of the melodies, not the lyrics, is featured in another film musical, Song of Norway (1970). Song of Norway is based on the music by Edvard Grieg and was also a popular Broadway musical. Worth a look :)