Carleton's "Frequency of Mention of Titles" Databases for Art, Literature, and Music

Current Top 50-ish Music Titles

(Weight / Title (date) / Associated Name)

51 Rigoletto (1851) - Verdi, Giuseppe [libr: Francesco Maria Piave]
47 Carmen (1875) - Bizet, Georges [libr: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halevy]
47 Boheme, La (1896) [The Bohemians] - Puccini, Giacomo [libr: G. Giacosa & L. Illica]
45 Barber of Seville, The (1816) [Il Barbiere di Siviglia] - Rossini, Gioacchino [libr: Cesare Sterbini]
44 Pastoral Symphony (No. 6) (1806) [aka Pastorale] - Beethoven, Ludwig van
43 Boris Godunov (composed 1868-69; performed 1874) - Mussorgsky, Modest (Petrovich) [libr: self]
42 Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) - Mussorgsky, Modest [incl. famous orch. arr. by M. Ravel]
42 Rite of Spring, The (1913) [Le Sacre du Printemps] - Stravinsky, Igor
42 Traviata, La (1853) [Fallen Woman] - Verdi, Giuseppe [libr: Francesco Maria Piave]
41 Fidelio (1805) - Beethoven, Ludwig van [libr: J.& G.F. Sonnleithner]
40 Symphonie Fantastique (1830) [Subtitle: Episodes in the Life of an Artist] - Berlioz, Hector
40 Don Giovanni (1787) - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [libr: Lorenzo da Ponte]
39 Planets, The (1916) - Holst, Gustav
39 Aida (1871) - Verdi, Giuseppe [libr: Antonio Ghislanzoni]
39 Ring of the Nibelungen cycle (compl. 1876) [Der Ring des Nibelungen] - Wagner, Richard [libr: self]
37 Marriage of Figaro, The (1786) [Le Nozze di Figaro] - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [libr: Lorenzo da Ponte]
37 Madame Butterfly (1904) [Madama Butterfly] - Puccini, Giacomo [libr: G. Giacosa & L. Illica]
34 Messiah, The (1742; rev. 1767) - Handel, George Frideric
33 Magic Flute, The (1791) [Die Zauberfloete] - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [libr: E. Schikaneder]
33 Dido and Aeneas (1689) - Purcell, Henry [libr: Nahum Tate]
33 Bolero (1928) - Ravel, Maurice [Joseph Maurice Ravel]
32 Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1918) - Bartok, Bela [libr: B. Balazs]
32 Choral Symphony (No. 9) (1823-24) [Ninth Symphony; Chorale] - Beethoven, Ludwig van
32 New World Symphony (No. 9) (1893) [aka From the New World] - Dvorak, Antonin
32 Carmina Burana (1936) - Orff, Carl
31 Appalachian Spring (1944) - Copland, Aaron
31 Turandot (1926) - Puccini, Giacomo [libr: G. Adami & R. Simoni]
31 William Tell (1829) [Guillaume Tell] - Rossini, Gioacchino [libr: V.J.E. de Jouy & H.L.F. Bis]
31 Symphony Pathetique (No. 6, in B minor) (1893) - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
30 Tosca (1900) - Puccini, Giacomo [libr. G. Giacosa & L. Illica]
30 Bartered Bride, The (1866) - Smetana, Bedrich [libr: Karel Sabina]
30 Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896) [Thus Spake Zarathustra] - Strauss, Richard (Georg)
30 Rosenkavalier, Der (1911) [The Knight of the Rose] - Strauss, Richard
30 Falstaff (1893) - Verdi, Giuseppe [libr. Arrigo Boito]
29 Enigma Variations (1899) [aka Variations on an Original Theme] - Elgar, Edward (William)
29 Cosi fan tutte (1790) [aka So Do They All] - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [libr. Lorenzo da Ponte]
28 Tales of Hoffmann, The (1881) [Les Contes d'Hoffmann] - Offenbach, Jacques [libr: A. Barbier & Michel Carre]
27 Afternoon of a Faun, [Prelude to] the (1894) [L'Apres-midi d'un faune] - Debussy, Claude [choreographed by Nijinksy, 1912]
27 Porgy and Bess (1935) - Gershwin, George [lyr: Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward; libr: Heyward]
26 Peter Grimes (1945) - Britten, Benjamin [libr. Montagu Slater]
26 Pagliacci, I (1892) [The Strolling Players] - Leoncavallo, Ruggero [libr: self]
26 Midsummer Night's Dream, A (overture, 1826; incidental music, 1843) - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
26 Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951) - Menotti, Gian-Carlo [libr: self]
26 Carnival of the Animals (1886) [Le Carnaval des animaux] - Saint-Saens, Camille
26 Unfinished Symphony (No. 8 in B minor) (1822) - Schubert, Franz (Peter)
26 Four Seasons, The (1725) [le Quattro Staggioni] - Vivaldi, Antonio 26 Parsifal (1882) - Wagner, Richard [libr: self]
25 Eroica Symphony (No. 3, in E-flat major) (1804) [Heroic Symphony, in Memory of a Great Man] - Beethoven, Ludwig van
25 Peer Gynt (Suites and incidental music, 1875; rev. through 1892) - Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
25 Night on Bald Mountain, A (1867) [aka A Night on the Bare Mountain] - Mussorgsky, Modest (Petrovich)
25 Rake's Progress, The (1951) - Stravinsky, Igor [libr. W. H. Auden & C. Kallman]

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