5-3 Conversation between Classical Music and Pop Music

1. Crossover

“Crossover” means adding “popular (pop music)” features into classical music. Crossover has become the main stream in the music field nowadays and it has enabled the original classical music melody to appear with a brand new style and feature.

2. Soul Resonance

“Soul Resonance”《靈魂的共鳴》 is a famous pop song enclosed in a well-known Chinese pop singer, J. J. Lin’s 9th album—Lost N Found. (He is originally from Singapore). In this song, J J Lin tries his first collaboration with a world famous pianist, Lang, Lang, to have their first “Crossover collaboration”. The song is originated from the melody, Paganii Caprice No. 24. Similar to several other famous music experts such as Schumann, Lizst, Brahams, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and the composer of The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lyoyd Webber, all are in favor of this theme. The transcription—“Variation 25: Clash of the Souls” by J. J. Lin and Lang Lang shows their great creativity and innovation on the Crossover collaboration.

3. Celebration

“Celebration” is POP song transcribed from Salut d'Amour, a piece composed by Elgar and dedicated to his wife. The melody is sweet and elegant and is fond by many people. It is transcribed into pop music previously. Besides the song, “Celebration”, Isabella Leung, a pop singer from Hong Kong and Seven Princes, a children pop singer group from Korea both use “quote” from Salut d'Amour in their songs, “先苦後甜（Rainbow after Storm), and “Love Song”, respectively.

4. I don't want to grow up

“I don’t want to grow up” is a pop song sang by S. H. E.—a popular pop singer group in Taiwan. This song uses melody derived from W. A. Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550. In this song, the major theme quotes from Symphony, and its chords follows the original composition that quips this song with a tremendous momentum. Besides this song, S.H.E. has many well-known pop songs that are transcribed from classical music, such as “Remember”—transcribed from Swan Lake and “Persian Cat”—transcribed from In a Persian Market.