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\n Barber’s Adagio for Strings is sampled in Mobb Deep\u2019s Down For You.
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Barber\u2019s Adagio features in another new smash hit… and it\u2019s not by Ti\u00ebsto.<\/p>\n

Samuel Barber\u2019s Adagio for Strings<\/em><\/a> has become one of the most sampled and reimagined classical pieces in modern music, particularly within dance music, hip-hop and trance.<\/p>\n

And now it\u2019s been used by New York\u2019s Mobb Deep, one of the most successful rap duos of all time, in their latest single \u2018Down For You\u2019, <\/em>in a version the American composer may or may not have imagined when he composed it in 1936. Barber<\/a>\u2019s melody adds a certain depth and mourning to the hip-hop track.<\/p>\n

The piece was originally written for Barber\u2019s String Quartet, Op. 11. It gained popularity when he arranged it for string orchestra as simply Adagio for Strings, <\/em>at the suggestion of conductor Arturo Toscanini. Barber also arranged a choral version of the work, the Agnus Dei<\/em>, in 1967.<\/p>\n

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VOCES8: Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n