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===With ELP=== * "The Barbarian", based on ''[[Allegro barbaro (Bartók)|Allegro barbaro]]'', Sz. 49, BB 63 by [[Béla Bartók]], uncredited on US release of ''[[Emerson Lake & Palmer (album)|Emerson Lake & Palmer]]'' (credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP).<ref name="Donohoe">{{cite news |last=Donohoe |first=Peter |date=12 March 2016 |title=How Keith Emerson's Inventiveness Influenced My Musical Career |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/12/how-keith-emersons-inventiveness-influenced-my-musical-career |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312173344/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/12/how-keith-emersons-inventiveness-influenced-my-musical-career |archive-date=12 March 2016 |access-date=27 March 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> * "[[Knife-Edge (Emerson, Lake & Palmer song)|Knife-Edge]]", based on the [[Sinfonietta (Janáček)|Sinfonietta]] by [[Leoš Janáček]], uncredited on US release (credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP); middle section based on the Allemande from ''[[French Suites]]'' No. 1 in D minor, by [[J. S. Bach]], uncredited.<ref name="Donohoe"/> * "The Only Way (Hymn)", incorporating (in the song's introduction and bridge) J. S. Bach's '[[Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540|Organ Toccata in F]] and Prelude VI from Book I of the [[Well-Tempered Clavier]]', credited on ''[[Tarkus]]''.<ref>Duxbury, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2-wyCE21VEQC&pg=PA358 358].</ref> * "Are You Ready Eddy?", based on the tune of [[Bobby Troup]]'s song "[[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]" and including a quote from the [[Assembly (bugle call)|Assembly]] [[bugle call]], both uncredited (on ''Tarkus'').<ref>Emerson, ''Pictures'', p. 205.</ref> * ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'', by [[Modest Mussorgsky]], credited.<ref name=hollyq /> * "Blues Variation" from ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)|Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' also contains an uncredited quote of the 'head' of [[Bill Evans]]' minor blues piece "[[Interplay (Bill Evans album)|Interplay]]" (1:52), and [[Miles Davis]]' "Weirdo"([[Ballads and Blues (Miles Davis album)]]), (aka [[Walkin']]) (2:45).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brain-salad.com/Emerson/quote-list.txt |title=Keith Emerson Musical Quote List Sorted By Composer |last1=Plotcyk |first1=Steven |last2=Smith |first2=Jim |date=31 May 2006 |website=brain-salad.com |publisher=ELP Digest (fan website) |access-date=14 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028133256/http://www.brain-salad.com/Emerson/quote-list.txt |archive-date=28 October 2015 }}</ref> * "[[Nut Rocker]]", adapted by [[Kim Fowley]], credited, from [[Tchaikovsky]]'s "March of the Wooden Soldiers", uncredited.<ref name=hollyq /> * "Hoedown", from ''[[Rodeo (ballet)|Rodeo]]'' by [[Aaron Copland]], credited, quoting "[[Shortnin' Bread]]" and "[[Turkey in the Straw]]", both traditional.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Epstein |first1=Dan |last2=Gehr |first2=Richard |last3=Heller |first3=Jason | date=11 March 2016 |title=Emerson, Lake and Palmer: 10 Essential Songs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/emerson-lake-and-palmer-10-essential-songs-20160311 |magazine=Rolling Stone |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=14 March 2016 |quote=... East European elements find their way into his rollicking organ and Moog arrangement alongside American folk tunes like 'Shortnin' Bread' and 'Turkey in the Straw.' |url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312094711/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/emerson-lake-and-palmer-10-essential-songs-20160311 |archive-date=12 March 2016 }}</ref> * "Abaddon's Bolero", quoting "[[The Girl I Left Behind]]", traditional.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebigpictureandthecloseup.com/blog/?p=3309 |title=Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends |last1=Gohn |first1=Jack L. B. |date=26 August 2012 |website=thebigpictureandthecloseup.com |publisher=Jack L.B. Gohn |access-date=14 March 2016 |quote=Once you hear (Abaddon), you know that it's mostly true to classical form, in that the triplet-heavy melody keeps repeating itself, but every time louder and with more bells and whistles, even cranking in a phrase from the folksong The Girl I Left Behind Me before it's all over[.] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314051411/http://www.thebigpictureandthecloseup.com/blog/?p=3309 |archive-date=14 March 2016 }}</ref> * "[[And did those feet in ancient time|Jerusalem]]", by [[Hubert Parry|C. Hubert H. Parry]], credited.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ladiesofthelake.com/cabinet/bssliner.html |last=McCulley |first=Jerry |title=Liner Notes from the DVD-A of Brain Salad Surgery |website=ladiesofthelake.com |publisher=Ladies of the Lake - A Greg Lake Tribute Site |access-date=2 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150820025400/http://www.ladiesofthelake.com/cabinet/bssliner.html |archive-date=20 August 2015 }}</ref> * "[[Maple Leaf Rag]]", by [[Scott Joplin]] (in ''[[Works Volume 2]]''), credited.<ref name=hollyq /> * "Toccata", from a piano concerto by [[Alberto Ginastera]], endorsed by the composer, credited.<ref name=bachcantatas /> * "Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression", quoting "[[St. Thomas (song)|St. Thomas]]", a [[Caribbean]] melody sometimes attributed to [[Sonny Rollins]], uncredited.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brain-salad-surgery.de/karn_evil_9.html |title=Karn Evil 9: Songs: 2nd Impression |last1=Emerson |first1=Keith |date=2016 |website=brain-salad-surgery.de |publisher=Brain Salad Surgery |access-date=14 March 2016 |quote=The 'Caribbean solo' of the 2nd Impression was played on a Minimoog (an interpolation of the song 'St. Thomas' by Sonny Rollins). |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310113115/http://www.brain-salad-surgery.de/karn_evil_9.html |archive-date=10 March 2016 }}</ref> * "[[Fanfare for the Common Man]]", by [[Aaron Copland]], credited.<ref name=copland /> * ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'', by [[Carl Orff]], quoted in an extended solo in live recordings from Poland.<ref>Duxbury, p. 75.</ref> * With Emerson, Lake & Powell, the main theme to "Touch & Go" is identical to the English folk song "[[Lovely Joan]]", better known as the counterpoint tune in [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]' ''Fantasia on Greensleeves''. Not credited.<ref>Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves/Tallis Fantasia. The New Queen's Hall Orchestra/Wordsworth. Argo 440 116–2 (1994)</ref><ref>Duxbury, p. 76.</ref> * With Emerson, Lake & Powell, "Mars" is based on the equivalent movement from the suite ''[[The Planets]]'', by [[Gustav Holst]]. Credited.<ref name=duxbury359>Duxbury, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2-wyCE21VEQC&pg=PA359 359].</ref> * "Romeo & Juliet" from the ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' suite by [[Sergei Prokofiev]], credited.<ref name=duxbury359 /> * "Love at First Sight" intro, [[Étude Op. 10, No. 1 (Chopin)|Étude Op. 10, No. 1]], by [[Frédéric Chopin]], uncredited.<ref>Duxbury, p. 73.</ref>
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