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([personal profile] dougo May. 5th, 2008 03:31 pm)
Recently I started listening to the local classical station, WCRB, for no particular reason other than a change of pace from the MIT station, WMBR, where I usually keep my nightstand clock-radio parked. (Well, I suppose it's also because I've been reading Gödel, Escher, Bach and wishing it had come with a soundtrack CD.) Anyway, last night I heard Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and a melody from it sounded familiar. Watch it on YouTube and see if you also recognize it: it first comes in at the 2:18 mark.

Isn't that the same melody as the "from a great height" part of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" (at the 4:20 mark)? Do you think they used it on purpose, or is it just a coincidence?

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Well, there are only so many chord progressions in the world...

But a third option is just as likely: Musicians here something and then years later "find" it again.
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