The Borrowers
From medieval masses to sampling, doing new things with other people's music is where true originality is to be found, says Tom Service.
Taking other people's music and using it for your own purposes might look like the very opposite of creative originality. But down the centuries, from the parody masses of the middle ages and the habitual borrowings of the Baroque, through to 21st-century digital sampling, the greatest musical minds have done just that.
Tom Service looks into the hows, whys and copyright pitfalls of musical borrowing with the help of legal expert and historian Olufunmilayo Arewa and composer and sound designer Pascal Wyse.
David Papp (producer)
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Guillaume Dufay
Missa L'homme arme for 4 voices
Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 9029 652686.
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Mac Miller
Mac Miller: Diablo
Performer: Mac Miller.- Larry's Record Shop.
- unknown.
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Igor Stravinsky
Circus polka for orchestra
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- RCA.
- G010000267924N.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major Op.20 for strings
Performer: Seattle Chamber Music Octet. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- ONYX.
- ONYX-4060.
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Oxford Camerata
L'homme arme for unaccompanied voices
Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.- NAXOS.
- 8.554297.
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Tallis Scholars
Missa L'homme arme super voces musicales for 4 voices
Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Gimell.
- CDGIM 019.
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Tallis Scholars
Missa L'homme arme sexti toni for 4 voices
Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Gimell.
- CDGIM 019.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
7 Variations on 'God save the King' in C major WoO.78 for piano
Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMC 901775.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in A minor RV.522, Op.3`8 for 2 violins and orchestra
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Brecon Baroque.- Channel Classics.
- CCSSA-36515.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in A minor BWV.593 for organ, arr. from Vivaldi's Op.3`8 (RV.522) [orig. 2 vn & orch]
Performer: Ton Koopman.- NOVALIS.
- 1500202.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto a due cori no. 1 in B flat major HWV.332
Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans.- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMM 905272.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah
Conductor: Justin Doyle. Performer: Julia Doyle. Performer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Thomas Hobbs. Performer: Timothy Meade. Performer: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Performer: RIAS Chamber Choir.- PENTATONE.
- PTC 5186853.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor K.626, compl. Sussmayr
Performer: Johannes Weisser. Performer: Marie鈥怌laude Chappuis. Performer: Maximilian Schmitt. Performer: Sophie Karth盲user. Performer: RIAS Chamber Choir. Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMM 902291.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht bei Vittoria Op.91 (Battle symphony)
Performer: Cappella Aquileia. Conductor: Marcus Bosch.- CPO.
- 555302-2.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony no. 9 in C major D.944 (Great)
Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
- CCSSA-31111.
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Franz Liszt
Fantasia on themes from 'Le nozze de Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' S.697 for piano, compl. various
Performer: Chiyan Wong.- LINN.
- CKD 561.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Le Carnaval des animaux
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Lilya Zilberstein. Performer: Andrey Baranov. Performer: Enrico Fagone. Performer: Corrado Giuffredi. Performer: Lyda Chen. Performer: Gregorio Di Trapani. Performer: Alfred Rutz. Performer: Michael Guttman. Performer: Alexandre Debrus.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 2564 631220.
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Claude Debussy
En blanc et noir for 2 pianos
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- Philips.
- 478-4804.
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Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen AV.142 for 23 solo strings
Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 447-422 2.
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Igor Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la fee [The fairy's kiss] - ballet
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 449-205-2.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
6 Songs Op.6
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Performer: Ivari Ilja.- DELOS.
- DE-3393.
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Igor Stravinsky
Le Baiser de la fee [The fairy's kiss] - ballet
Performer: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- 449-205-2.
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Igor Stravinsky
Agon - ballet
Performer: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.- PENTATONE.
- PTC 5186 650.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird - ballet
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Josef Krips.- TESTAMENT.
- SBT 1122.
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Afrika Bambaattaa & Soulsonic Force
PLANET ROCK
- Tommy Boy Music.
- TBLP 1007.
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Madonna/Shep Pettibone
VOGUE
- Sire.
- W-9851CD.
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Britney Spears
Lucky
- Jive.
- 9251022.
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Bruno Mars
Finesse
Composer: Christopher Brody Brown. Composer: James Fauntleroy. Composer: Jeremy Reeves. Composer: Jonathan Yip. Composer: Philip Lawrence. Composer: Ray McCullough. Composer: Ray Romulus. Performer: Bruno Mars. Performer: Cardi B.- Atlantic.
- USAT21602944.
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Duran Duran
A VIEW TO A KILL
- Parlophone.
- EJ-2403491.
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Shadow
MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD
Performer: DJ Shadow.- MO WAX.
- MWCD-059.
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David Axelrod
The Human Abstract
Performer: David Axelrod.- CAPITOL RECORDS.
- SKAO-338.
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Pascal Wyse
tic-tac-toe
Performer: Pascal Wyse.- Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd.
- unknown.
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Luciano Berio
Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
Performer: Electric Phoenix. Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
- 425 8322.
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