List of musical medleys

Medley (English medley, mixture ',' mixture ') is a anglicism with the one referred to in the music for a song or a piece of music that is composed of several parts of different independent compositions and in which the individual parts over flow into one another.

Purpose

The artistic compilation is often thematic nature: There are some selected pieces of an individual performer / composer compiled or it is artists across selected stylistic (about the music style ) and content criteria. In addition, a particular subject area to be assigned titles can be interconnected. A combination of these concepts is possible.

Music and copyright issues

Musically, the various songs of the medley in the same key and the same rate may be or there is a modulation of one. In the different key and / or a change of pace Rights processing is usually under § § 3 and § 23 of the Copyright Act before, the composer of the medley combined works have to agree with the publication of the medley. In particular, a processing in those cases will be available, where individual musical works cut and strung together into a single medley. The composers of the assembled in the medley works do not lose by the medley of their rights to their works.

Examples

Well-known examples are Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In by Fifth Dimension in 1969, the most successful medley of pop music. May also be mentioned Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers ( Glen Miller Medley, 1989) or Weird Al Yankovic ( Hot Rocks Polka, 1989). The most successful and popular Medley series was the Dutch project Stars on 45, put together a total of 11 singles newly produced hits in the disco sound as of March, 1981; the first single of the series became world million seller. Also in the hit song medleys are often played; Examples of this are the famous medley of James Last ( Non Stop Dancing from 1965) or The longest single ever by Wolfgang Petry (1996). An example of a medley in the field of Metals is the title of Imaginaerum by Nightwish, which was written from all parts of the album of the same name together.

Demarcation

Medley and potpourri are colloquially often used interchangeably, even under copyright learning. In contrast to the parts of a medleys potpourri have been laid by a single music publisher. The potpourri is a ranking of melodies whose copyrights are managed by different music publishers. Medley and potpourri were joined by transitions to a musical unit. So both involve more or less composed over lines belonging to the arrangement. The musical collage on the other hand is a loose collection of songs, with the missing transitions and the associated sound frictions are deliberately intended by the composers of the collage. The Hitmix or Mega - Mix are compilations of music tracks which can be done either in the form of medleys or as a series in the form of a sample.