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Songs that work together
More multi-song juxtapositions that spring to mind:
Leonard Bernstein: "A boy like that/I have a love" - from WEST SIDE STORY
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxfOncYiag)
Irving Berlin: "Play a Simple Melody" - used in the movie GIVE MY REGARDS
TO BROADWAY (start watching at 2:05 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQGUW1OTE4M)
Stephen Schwartz: "All for the Best" - from GODSPELL
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZY_4a3PnQ)
Joe Brooks: "It's Only Love/Bring on the Night" - from METROPOLIS (This is a
truly beautiful two-song juxtaposition from an otherwise dire musical.)
Boublil and Schoenberg: "One Day More" - from LES MISERABLES
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odrZ6NtPR2M)
Sondheim: "Now/Later/Soon" - from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGpIDMdHi8Y)
Sondheim: "Johanna" (reprise/quartet) - from SWEENEY TODD
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFbsWZyoEm4)
Vocal/Instrumental Juxtapositions
J.S. Bach/Gounod: "Ave Maria" (juxtaposes Prelude No. 1 from Bach's
Well-Tempered Clavier juxtaposed against Gounod's original "Ave Maria" setting
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0o9ku8yw4U)
Beethoven/Gesner: "Schroeder" - from YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE
BROWN (juxtaposes the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
against an original song by Gesner -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLMId4-1I_0)