Jim Henderson wrote:
> Yeah, that's a nice thing to hear.  I'm often surprised by the number of 
> works that include some variation of the Dies Irae, for example.

Heh, yeah it does somehow manage to find its way into a lot of works. 
It seems to be one of the few themes which is regularly used by many 
different composers as a part of a work (as opposed to a folk tune which 
will generally not be so widely used).  Come to think of it I can't 
think of any other musical themes like this.  The closest I can recall 
offhand is the BACH theme, but as far as I know that's not nearly so 
widely used as the Dies Irae.

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