Nodame Cantabile Music Info
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Compiled notes on what classical musical pieces are used in Nodame Cantabile.
Most notes are clipped from Wikipedia, as it's the easiest place to look for such a varied range of information. 
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 This part of the official drama website lists all the music they use!
ドラマのだめカンタービレ使用楽曲
www.geocities.jp/nodame_drama_music/

This is an unofficial fansite, but has a slightly different listing of music used in the drama.
Bach

Solo violin partita No. 2 (Bach) - Wikipedia, t...
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The Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004) by Johann Sebastian Bach was written during the period 17171723 and some scholars suggest it was written in memory of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. The partita contains five movements:

  1. Allemanda
  2. Corrente
  3. Sarabanda
  4. Giga
  5. Ciaccona
 Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 6, track 8 - Sarabanda only
List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach -...
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BWV 885 — Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G minor
 Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 7, tracks 8-9 (8 - preluge; 9 - Fugue)
Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the...
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The sonata comprises three movements:

  1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
  2. Adagio cantabile
  3. Rondo: Allegro
This is the song Chiaki first hears Nodame playing, when he does not know who she is. He comments on how well it's played, even though the pianist is sloppy.
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 1, tracks 1-3
Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_sonata

The sonata has three movements:

  1. Adagio sostenuto
  2. Allegretto
  3. Presto agitato
Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, th...
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The sonata has three movements:

  1. Allegro assai
  2. Andante con moto - attacca
  3. Allegro, ma non troppo - Presto
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 8, tracks 31-33
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the fre...
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The piece is in the standard four symphonic movements:

  1. Allegro con brio
  2. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
  3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
  4. Finale: Allegro molto
Also known as "Eroica".
Stresselman was supposed to conduct A orchestra for this piece in the first "A vs S Orchestra battle", but Koouchi ended up getting the job at the last minute, and A orchestra bombed.
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 4, tracks 1-4
Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the fre...
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The Seventh Symphony is in four movements:

This appears to be one of Chiaki's favorite symphonies. It's the first symphony he conducts with S-Orchestra, and later he conducts this with R*S orchestra in the drama. The first movement also provides the opening theme to the drama. Nodame plays a self-arranged version of this on the piano at one point, mixing in random lyrics that apparently help her remember how the melody goes.
Movement 4 is also used as the theme to the hilarious "Watashi no Tamagoyaki" song from Dragon Half.
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 3, tracks 1-4
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, the fre...
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The symphony is in four movements, marked as follows:

  1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
  2. Molto vivace
  3. Adagio molto e cantabile
  4. Presto/recitative
Also known as "Choral"; includes the well-known theme of "Ode to Joy"
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 2, tracks 1-4
Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, th...
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The work is in four movements:

  1. Allegro
  2. Adagio molto espressivo
  3. Scherzo: Allegro molto
  4. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
Mine needs to play part of this as part of his violin certification test. At first he drafts Nodame into playing it, but in the end Chiaki ends up providing the piano portion of the song.
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 1, tracks 7-10
Brahms

Paganini Variations (Brahms) - Wikipedia, the f...
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The Variations on a Theme of Paganini are a set of theme and variations for solo piano, written by Johannes Brahms (Op. 35).
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 8, tracks 1-30
These are the pieces Segawa Yuuta plays in the third round of the Maradonna competition
Symphony No. 1 (Brahms) - Wikipedia, the free e...
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The work is in the typical four movements

  1. Un poco sostenuto – Allegro – meno Allegro
  2. Andante sostenuto
  3. Un poco Allegretto e grazioso
  4. Adagio – Più AndanteAllegro non troppo ma con brio – Più Allegro
 Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 6, tracks 4-7
Chopin

List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin - Wikip...
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Op. 10, 12 Études à son ami Franz Liszt (1829-1832)
  • ...
  • No. 4 in C-sharp minor (1832)
 Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 7, track 10
Debussy

L'Isle Joyeuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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L'Isle Joyeuse is an extended solo piano piece by Claude Debussy composed in 1904.
Nodame Best 100 Box Disc 8, track 36
Dvorak

Czech Suite (Dvořák) - Wikipedia, the free ency...
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Czech Suite (Czech: Česká suita) in D Major, Op. 39 has been composed by Antonín Dvořák and actually published later in his life. He pretended it was an old work when he got it published. It consists of five movements as follows:

  • Preludium (Pastorale): Allegro moderato
  • Polka: Allegretto grazioso
  • Sousedská (Minuetto): Allegro giusto
  • Romance: Andante con moto
  • Finále (Furiant): Presto
Nodame Best 100 CD Box set, Disc 6 contains Polka and Finale.
Symphony No. 8 (Dvořák) - Wikipedia, the free e...
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The work is in four movements:

  1. Allegro con Brio in G major
  2. Adagio in C minor
  3. Allegretto Grazioso
  4. Allegro, ma non Troppo in G major
Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sonata for violin and piano, Op.82 (1918)

[m] A song Chiaki and Nodame play together while at Chiaki's uncle's house. 
George Gerswhin

Rhapsody in Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclop...
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Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924 which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. Due to Gershwin's lack of musical ability to do so himself, his composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofe three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942. The piece received its première in a concert entitled An Experiment in Modern Music, which was held on 12 February 1924 in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano. In the version for piano and symphony orchestra made by Ferde Grofé in 1942 it has become one of the most popular American concert works.
[d:all] This is the closing theme for the drama.
[m:?][d:5][a:?] This is the piece S-Orchestra plays for the Momooto festival. The piece is arranged so that the pianica gets a small but useful role (replacing some clarinet parts) in order for Nodame and a few of her friends from the piano division to be able to play with the rest of S-Orchestra.
Handel

Khachaturian

Sabre Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sabre Dance is a movement in the final act of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane, completed in 1942. It evokes a whirling war dance in a Kurdish dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Due to its exceptionally exciting rhythm, the Sabre Dance established a place for itself in common concert practice, leading also to various adaptations in popular music.
[d:various] This piece is used as background music whenever there are a ton of things happening at once, or there is a need to evoke a sense of speed.
Korsakov

Flight of the Bumblebee - Wikipedia, the free e...
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"The Flight of the Bumblebee" is a famous orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899-1900. The piece closes Act III, Tableau 1, right after the magic Swan-Bird gives Prince Gvidon Saltanovich (the Tsar's son) instructions on how to change into an insect so that he can fly away to visit his father (who does not know that he is alive). Although in the opera the Swan-Bird sings during the first part of the "Flight," her vocal line is melodically uninvolved and easily omitted; this feature, combined with the fact that the number decisively closes the scene, made easy extraction as an orchestral concert piece possible.
[d:various] This piece is used as background music in numerous episodes of the drama for any scene needing that frantic, helter-skelter atmosphere. 
Liszt

Mephisto Waltzes - Wikipedia, the free encyclop...
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The Mephisto Waltzes are four virtuoso piano solos composed by Franz Liszt. Of the four, the first is the most popular and has been frequently performed in concert and recorded[citation needed]. It was composed in 1856-1861, and Liszt made an orchestral version (as No.2 in the Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust) immediately after the completion of the original piano solo. Liszt dedicated the piece to Carl Tausig, his favourite pupil (who died prematurely at the age of 29 in 1870). It is popularly called "the Mephisto Waltz," as if there were only one.
[m:?][a:?]
This is the song Chiaki plays for his graduation exam.
Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B flat (Liszt) - ...
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Transcendental Etude No. 5 in B-flat "Feux Follets" (Will o' the Wisp) is the fifth etude of the set of twelve Transcendental Etudes by Franz Liszt.
Mahler

Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free e...
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The work is divided into two large parts. The first, Part I, Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus is a setting of a medieval Latin hymn by Hrabanus Maurus and typically lasts about 25 minutes; one of the soprano soloists does not appear in this section. The movement is almost continuously vocal, with the hymn being sung mainly by the choirs. Despite its apparent complexity, in it can be seen a type of sonata form.
Mozart

Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (Mozart) - Wik...
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Sonata for Two Pianos in D major
Piano Sonata No. 8 (Mozart) - Wikipedia, the fr...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K 310 (1778) is a sonata in three movements:

  1. Allegro maestoso
  2. Andante cantabile con espressione
  3. Presto
Oboe Concerto (Mozart) - Wikipedia, the free en...
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The piece itself is divided into three movements:

Prokofiev

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Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64b

  1. The Montagues and Capulets
This is often used as background music in the drama. It's conflict music so it shows up a lot when Streselman and Chiaki are butting heads.
Rachaminoff

Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) - Wikipedia...
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It is written in a traditional concerto form:

  1. Moderato
  2. Adagio sostenuto
  3. Allegro scherzando
Chiaki plays this while Streselman conducts A-orchestra during the Momogaoka music festival.
Nodame plays a variation on this entirely on the piano with Chiaki.
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Wikipedia, th...
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Russian: Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) in A minor, opus 43, is a concertante work (23 minutes in length) for solo piano and symphony orchestra by Sergei Rachmaninoff. According to the score, the work was written from July 3 to August 18, 1934. Rachmaninoff himself, a noted interpreter of his own works, played the solo piano part at the piece's premiere at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland on November 7, 1934 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
[d] - something nodame plays?
Ravel

Gaspard de la nuit - Wikipedia, the free encycl...
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Gaspard de la Nuit: Trois Poèmes pour Piano d'apres Aloysius Bertrand is a piece for solo piano by Maurice Ravel. It has three movements, each based on a poem by Aloysius Bertrand:

  1. Ondine, an oneiric tale of a water fairy singing to seduce the observer and accompany her to visit her kingdom deep at the bottom of the lake in the triangle of water, fire and earth.
  2. Le Gibet, an eerie work in which the observer wonders at the scene he's witnessing. "It is a bell tinting at the walls of a city under the horizon and the carcass of a hanged man reddened by the setting sun".
  3. Scarbo, a small fiend — half goblin, half ghost — making pirouettes, disappearing and scaring a person in his home. Scarbo could stand for "scarabée", a beetle. Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against the panels of the bed, casting a growing shadow under the moonlight creates a nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed.
 Scarbo is included in Best 100 Box CD set disc 7
Sarasate

Carmen Fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, by Pablo de Sarasate, is a violin fantasy on themes from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet.
 Kiyora plays this song as Chiaki conducts R*S orchestra during the new years concert.
Schubert

Impromptus (Schubert) - Wikipedia, the free enc...
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Franz Schubert's Impromptus, Opp. 90 and 142 (post.), are a series of pieces for solo piano which were composed in 1827 and first published during the composer's lifetime (or shortly thereafter) under that name. There are eight such Impromptus in total.
Schubert compositions D number 505-998 - Wikipe...
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D 845    Sonata #16 in an opus 42
Schumann

Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring - Wikipedia, the free encycl...
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The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps; Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svjaščennaja) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. While the Russian title literally means "Spring the Sacred", the English title is based on the French title under which the work was premiered, although sacre is more precisely translated as "consecration". It has the subtitle "Pictures from Pagan Russia".
[d:various] Differing parts of the piece are used as background music, especially when an intense and/or dark mood is required, such as Nodame's fearful remembering of her past conflicts with her previous piano teacher, Hanasakura.
Petrushka (ballet) - Wikipedia, the free encycl...
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Russian Dance
 This one of the songs Nodame plays in the third round of the Maradona competition. In Part III (Russian Dance) she ends up mixing in the NHK "Today's Cooking" ringtone.
R Strauss

Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks - Wikipedia, t...
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Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (German: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, 1894-95), Op. 28, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, chronicling the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero, Till Eulenspiegel.
Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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B. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy [ending altered from ballet-version]
[d:various] This portion of The Nutcracker is used as background music, mostly whenever Streselmann is starting to plot things.
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