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* Haydn's [[wikipedia:Surprise symphony|Surprise Symphony]] has a nice peaceful melody, but is then rudely interrupted by loud, accented notes. Haydn did it to wake up slumbering members of the audience. He was known as a prankster, and this is one of the many jokes in his pieces. |
* Haydn's [[wikipedia:Surprise symphony|Surprise Symphony]] has a nice peaceful melody, but is then rudely interrupted by loud, accented notes. Haydn did it to wake up slumbering members of the audience. He was known as a prankster, and this is one of the many jokes in his pieces. |
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDWh9F3Vig Here it is on Youtube, for those of you who enjoy your spines 1 inch out of proper alignment in the vertical direction.] |
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDWh9F3Vig Here it is on Youtube, for those of you who enjoy your spines 1 inch out of proper alignment in the vertical direction.] |
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* Haydn's [[wikipedia:Symphony No. 45 |
* Haydn's [[wikipedia:Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)|Farewell Symphony]], while not a nightmare ending, is pretty disconcerting. The last movement ends with the musicians, one or a few at a time, quietly leaving the stage, with the final part played by just two violins. This was Haydn's hint to his patrons, the Esterhazy family, that his orchestra's stay at their summer palace had gone on for too long and that they would really like to get back to their families. |
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* Tom Turpin's "A Ragtime Nightmare" is actually a very cheerful upbeat ragtime work despite the name, best known for its use in the Good N' Plenty commercials of the 60s. But the last chord sounds like a bunch of random keys hit at once, but you can tell it wasn't because it's pure dissonance. A sharp contrast to the pleasant tune known for its use in candy commercials. |
* Tom Turpin's "A Ragtime Nightmare" is actually a very cheerful upbeat ragtime work despite the name, best known for its use in the Good N' Plenty commercials of the 60s. But the last chord sounds like a bunch of random keys hit at once, but you can tell it wasn't because it's pure dissonance. A sharp contrast to the pleasant tune known for its use in candy commercials. |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6BeeoX474 "Black Angels"] by George Crumb, while the whole piece is surreal, is something of an inversion. The first section, Night of the Electric Insects, features multiple screeching violins playing loudly then softly then loudly again. It's [[Nightmare Fuel]] that will keep you up at night. [[Schmuck Bait|Not to be listened to while reading]] [[Nothing Is Scarier|the Nothing Is Scarier section]]. |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV6BeeoX474 "Black Angels"] by George Crumb, while the whole piece is surreal, is something of an inversion. The first section, Night of the Electric Insects, features multiple screeching violins playing loudly then softly then loudly again. It's [[Nightmare Fuel]] that will keep you up at night. [[Schmuck Bait|Not to be listened to while reading]] [[Nothing Is Scarier|the Nothing Is Scarier section]]. |
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* The final boss music for [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2. The song looping comes with blaring klaxons. |
* The final boss music for [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2. The song looping comes with blaring klaxons. |
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** In the mirror section of Amy's Twinkle Park stage, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP6Yg1fCEik the music] initially starts out as cute, quiet, and innocent... Then the music seems to take a darker turn, becoming much more tense, you can also hear a child laughing for a brief moment. |
** In the mirror section of Amy's Twinkle Park stage, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP6Yg1fCEik the music] initially starts out as cute, quiet, and innocent... Then the music seems to take a darker turn, becoming much more tense, you can also hear a child laughing for a brief moment. |
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* Happens in ''[[Paper Mario |
* Happens in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' when you win but your partner's at 0 HP. The ''victory'' music can be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-Y5i_pyts quite chilling.] |
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* While not ''entirely'' a Last Note Nightmare, because the transition happens only a third of the way in, the [[Team Fortress 2]] Engineer's theme [http://youtu.be/6NTfCbfvwM8 More Gun] qualifies. The song starts out as the pleasant guitar riff (Taken from the Wilco song "Someone Else's Song") that the Engineer plays throughout his ''Meet the Team'' video. At 0:54, however, the song quickly changes gears, with a sudden shift from major chords to minor ones, with a louder, deeper and more ominous guitar riff overshadowing the original and a low, foreboding trumpet playing backup. |
* While not ''entirely'' a Last Note Nightmare, because the transition happens only a third of the way in, the [[Team Fortress 2]] Engineer's theme [http://youtu.be/6NTfCbfvwM8 More Gun] qualifies. The song starts out as the pleasant guitar riff (Taken from the Wilco song "Someone Else's Song") that the Engineer plays throughout his ''Meet the Team'' video. At 0:54, however, the song quickly changes gears, with a sudden shift from major chords to minor ones, with a louder, deeper and more ominous guitar riff overshadowing the original and a low, foreboding trumpet playing backup. |
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* "The Rowhouses" from ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Frontline'' starts with a continuation of the "Nijmegen Bridge" theme, adding a jaunty oboe motif to it a third of the way through, but then the ominous Panzer [[Leitmotif]] starts to creep in, completely taking over in the last third. |
* "The Rowhouses" from ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Frontline'' starts with a continuation of the "Nijmegen Bridge" theme, adding a jaunty oboe motif to it a third of the way through, but then the ominous Panzer [[Leitmotif]] starts to creep in, completely taking over in the last third. |
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