Silly Symphonies - Music Land 

I can't believe Disney is promoting sax and violins!

I love how the bass weds them; perfectly captures how the bass is the constant between classical music and jazz.

My grandmother played cello in a professional symphony and her father was a youth symphony director, and my grandfather played in a jazz band and his dad was the band leader. This cartoon is hilariously close to their story.

"And so the prince and princess had children who went on to be the Electric Light Orchestra. The End."

Still my favorite silly symphony! Fun fact: This symphony was the first music I ever heard. I’m mostly deaf, and I had just gotten my first set of hearing aids. Needless to say, it was recorded on VHS, and said VHS was watched daily.

This is what I love about Silly Symphonies or other classic cartoons. I love how they can actually use music notes to make characters speak. Thank you for uploading this! Please upload more.

I like how the Saxophone writes the Prisoner's song as a message to his father. "Now if I had the wings of an angel, Over these prison walls I would fly, Then I'd fly to the arms of my darling, And there I'd be willing to die."

Isn't it kinda weird that the young violin and sax end up as husband and wife AND stepsiblings? I mean, how does that work?

And together they created swing music. The End.

*1930’s* : Land of Symphony and Isle of Jazz *2010’s* : Land of Symphony, Isle of Jazz, Island of Pop, Gulf of Rock, Region of Goth, Continent of Rap, Sea of Autotune, Coast of Country, River of Dubstep, and so on....

The detail on the pastor's face when he pronounced them man and wife just shows how they actually cared for these cartoons even tho most were made for the theater screen it always turns out the best animation

musics i recognized: 0:26 "Minuet in G" by Ludwig van Beethoven 2:14 "Gavotte" by François-Joseph Gossec 4:14 "march of the knights" by Sergei Prokofiev (i think) 6:17 "the ride of the valkyries" by Richard Wagner 8:13 "Lohengrin: bridal chorus" by Richard Wagner

It was really cool how they mixed the jazz with the classical when they were both blowing each other up. That took some badass compositional skill.

And they lived happily ever after as husband and wife... and brother and sister :)

Really love that it's a note from the classical music island that sink the girls boat and a note from jazz kingdom that sink the sax boat. That tiny detail that just scream: "destroyed by their own parent's hate" is really powerfull

These are super classic cartoons! Extremely creative and cute! I'm sad Disley doesn't make things so pure and creative anymore..

Hah, noticed a funny detail: when both kingdoms start to fight, the Island of Jazz shots have the colors white, red and blue, while the island of symphony, playing the ride of the valkyries, shoots notes of red, yellow and black. This short was released in 1935, 4 years prior to world war II. That....was just brilliant.

If he's getting married he better get rid of that side ukulele

Making the curl on the violin some dolled-up hair and using a mute combined with the sax's brim to make a boater hat is really peak character design I think

Gosh I remember watching this when I was REALLY little. I could never remember what it was called. But here it was, in my recommended videos! I loved watching it again after so long :)

The people who made these types of cartoons back in those days are unsung Geniuses of the highest degree. You don't see creativity like this anymore..

Wait but if the King of Jazz married the Queen of Symphonies doesn't that make the prince and princess step siblings?? But the prince and princess still married...0_0

6:17 I always found those organ cannons awesome!

It would be interesting to see a continuation of this with other genres that have come into fashion. The Islands of Rock, the Kingdom of Electronica, the Hip-Hop Fleet…

9:11 Did King Jazz just break her G-String?

Walt Disney told a better love story in 9 minutes than Twilight did in 4 films

5:45 will always be my favorite part. It was the Father conducting literal 'Instruments of War'. Just outstanding 👏

In the “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom” episode, Professor Owl described the characters are Queen Cello, Princess Fiddle-Dee-Dee, King Sax and Prince Max.

This is like Romeo and Juliet but with instruments and a happy ending.

Disney really hit a homerun with this one. Every child should have to watch this--a cartoon that teaches: - Love overcomes hate and intolerance - Risk is worth it for something you really want or believe in - War is pointless and only serves to destroy the things most important to you - Different people living together in harmony is better than discordant isolation Imagine if all kids internalized these lessons at a young age. Disney really was a dreamer and I love dreaming along with him. Bravo!

The saxaphone prince shaking his prison bars after the prison is destroyed reminds me of that prisoner in Porky Pig in Wackyland/Dough for the Dodo who demands to 'be let out of here'...despite there being only window bars in front of him, and only because he's holding them up himself. XD

This movie lives rent free in my head since I was small. I come back here every now and then for the nostalgia ❤️

i figured out what the sax said when he was playing with violin princess, "peek-a-boo, i see you, hiding behind the tree".

years ago cartoons where soo good animated ;0;;

I’m only 23 so I was never able to watch these master pieces as a child, but now idk why I love old cartoons so much, literally there are days where I get home from work, get some snacks and watch old school cartoons for hours

Further, the music that the prince of Jazz saxophone starts writing (and “singing”) at 4:46 while locked in the metronome jail, is “The Prisoner’s Song” which was a big hit in 1925 and well known for many years afterwards. So for then, a rather obvious musical joke.

My two favorite parts of this fantastic (in every sense of the word) cartoon: Jazz King's battle cry at 5:25, and the Classical organ pipes turning into naval guns at 6:05.

This is so clever! Jazz was considered to be erratic and not follow a basic time/beat. (It isn't, but back when this was produced some people thought that way.) So they put the jazz prince in a metronome that keeps time because jazz players see keeping time as a type of prison. :0

I’ve noticed something that I didn’t as a little kid: Is it implied the prince and princess have been seeing each other for some time before this? Her waving at him looks like part of a routine.

0:30: The sea of Discord, where all gamers are connected

*YOU EXPECTED A CUPHEAD DLC, BUT IT WAS ME, THE SILLY SYNPHONIES*

My heart broke when she ran out with the white flag and risked her life for peace, sooo deep!

I had Peter And The Wolf on VHS growing up. I remember that this cartoon short was featured within the same VHS. This is super nostalgic for me

Silly symphonies is the most underrated and forgotten disney film

5:41 Mark my words, there will be a boss battle like this in Cuphead 2.

The Cello queen is all like "Get your brass out of my stringdom!"

So fun fact... I used to watch this as a kid and it would pop back into my head but I could remember what it was called even if I had dreamt it up out of the dark recesses of my mind. I mentioned it to my family and everyone thought I was mental... except my younger brother who was going through the same thing as me

Anybody else watch this on their Peter and the Wolf VHS?

I love how despite being depicted as strict and possibly a little mean, the mother shows great concern at the sight of her daughter drowning

Wedding Scene 8:15 Bass: Do you violins take these saxophones to be your husbands? Princess Violin: I do. Queen Violin: I do. Bass: And do you saxophones take these violins to be your wives? Prince Saxophone: (Shakily) I do. King Saxophone: I.. I.. I.. (Whistles) I do. Bass: I know pronounce these musical instruments are husbands and wives!

6:23 ride of valkyries in katyusha style

My brother with Autism, this is his favorite of the Silly Symphonies! Thank you so much for the upload!

I love the wedding scene, and how you can pretty much understand what they are "saying."

These cartoons made huge contributions to my best dreams when I was a child. I would wake myself laughing.

0:11 Everybody loves a great story. And now, Disney’s favorite stories collection brings you four fun filled classic children’s stories on videocassette.

Im 32 years old now and i clearly remember watching this 25+ years ago, such a great story line. Timeless classic

4:02 it was at this moment he knew.... he fucked up.

It's been a very long time since I last saw this cartoon! Brought back some good memories watching plenty of the classic Disney cartoons. ❤

Just goes to show, different instrument families can live together in harmony. Without them there would be no orchestra.

Probably my favorite Silly Symphony, I love the fantastically music world so much and they get so many great gags out of it

I saw this as a child once!

Artwork is still fantastic and a huge inspiration. Love the look of classic toons

Wait shouldn't she be his sister now

7:38 I like how the queen changes the tempo that tells her guards to row faster

Back when creativity was a thing...

This is a beautiful melodic story of two young lovers from different areas that reminds me of Romeo and Juliet :)

the way that they did the Bass as if it was asking a question!!! man someday there is gonna be some awesome technology that will help musical instruments talk for real!!!

That snap at 4:41 is the essence of Jazz music - you have a specific tune or rhythm (in this case the metronome) then suddenly, you add something to it.

I knew those fuckers in the Cuphead funhouse looked like the Jazz King.

Great & superb classic Silly Symphony of all time & it’s my favorite, too!

It's Romeo and Juliette with musicals instruments and a happy ending. I like this short :D Pretty music and animation, cute romance. It's excellent! I consider it as a classic like the Cookie Carnaval.

My favorite Cuphead level

Still a better love story than twilight Lmao

I keep watching this. I can’t get enough of how they speak at the end IN MUSIC!!!😍😍😍

Back when cartoons were actually good. Great!! Classic!!! Beautiful!!! Classy!!! Best and it's sad they've only gone downhill from there:( Lower and lower and lower. I cant even watch any shows that are new besides American Dad and Futurama. That is it. Lol thank you 4 this beautiful classic masterpiece. Xoxoxo

5:46, I cannot imagine how loud that is when they made it in the studio.

In my opinion the best Old School mashup of all time. 5:27 - 7:30 Put on headphones, close your eyes, and be amazed! This is the type of animation that needs to be seen on the big screen for the artistic style.

The metronome boat was the best part 🤣 this will honestly never get old 💙

This is nice a classic silly symphony episode

As a lover for harmonizing music, and old 50's-90's films, this has made a wonderful evening for me.

Walt Disney and his artists should have won a Nobel Peace Prize for this its beautiful

Guys, I don't know why, I never cry and neither I did here but seeing the war payed with music notes and instruments and seeing the princess almost drowning and screaming with a string voice hit me really hard.

6:30 A Battle Jazz vs Symphony.

The symphony land is firing the Ride of the Valkyries.

Awesome.

I love that during the scene where the Princess and Prince are running around the garden, even though the princess seems shy at first and won’t let him kiss her; you can see she’s just teasing her boyfriend and they’re really just being lovestruck young people together. You can see later in the scene that he really loves her anyways, when his raft breaks and he dives into the water to save her despite not having a boat. He was willing to drown with her rather than save himself, even afterward you can see that the two don’t want to be separated when their parents arrive. Goodness they’re so sweet and I love them both. ❤ Really the expressive body language in that first scene is my favorite, but I was always fascinated by how older cartoon characters are drawn to move. You can tell a lot about them by just that, one of the many MANY reasons I love 2D animation and miss it so much.

Everytime I listened to Botanic Panic from Cuphead it always reminded me of the scene where the Isle of Jazz opens fire. Also in the Cuphead Comics where there were the famous music rivals Wolfgang and Ludwig. They also did a music battle which automatically reminded me about the war scene how grim it was (no pun intended)

I miss the old animations, I really want to be a Disney animator 😝

7:21 is the funniest part i love it

As a classical-music lover, this is one of my favorites. It's a clever idea that's given enough "edge" to keep it from becoming annoyingly cute. (What does the saxophone intend to do with his mouthpiece?) The music penned by the saxophone is "If I had the wings of an angel".

I believe the “King of Jazz” saxophone here is supposed to be a caricature of Paul Whiteman, the dance orchestra leader who in the 1920s was called “the King of Jazz”. This was also the title of his (two strip Technicolor) movie made about the band in 1930. Although his orchestra featured saxophones (as well as violins etc), I believe he started out as a violist before becoming a conductor and bandleader.

I remember watching this cartoon when I was a child! Such a lovely memory!

My 7th grade music teacher showed this to us on the last day of school and the entire class was laughing their asses off at the screen. The at the end when the saxophones were sweating, one kid yelled "WHY IS IT WHITE?!" And everyone, myself included, lost it and left class in tears... Middle school was great.

It would be cool if disney decided to remake this classic cartoon, but make it more modern, with all the music that has come out since this cartoon was realised, there would be more islands, and probably alot more conflicts

4:25 To those who are wondering, that metronome was set for 60 BPM.

Awesome. Watched it as a kid, but now I understand it better. Great synchronization between the music and the story.

The way they talk makes me laugh

I enjoy everything about these classic toons! They really show just how clever the folks at Disney were(and still ate). Not to mention ahead of their time!

What an absolute masterpiece this is. Enjoyed watching it as a kid, enjoy watching it now.

This is when Disney was Classy, Respectful and Wholesome; Family oriented. Love