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Line 2: Sound and music are significant in storytelling to help the viewer grasp the personalities, moods or locales in which the story takes place. [[Leitmotif~~\|Leitmotifs~~]]s are usually used to identify a character. [[Regional Riff~~\|Regional Riffs~~]]s are to give the listener an audio cue to the location of their story, and Mood Motifs are to help set the tone of the sequence. You may also find [[Standard Snippet~~\|Standard Snippets~~]]s traveling in tandem with the instruments common to this trope. Here we're exploring Mood Motif - and the musical instruments that seem inexorably linked to certain moods and situations. Most of these are fairly ancient connections, often dating back to [[Opera]]. Line 39: * Heard on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', ''Blockbusters'', ''[[Card Sharks]]'' and a few other [[Mark Goodson]] shows, when a contestant loses a game. * Also heard on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' when a skit ends with Muppets who shake their heads and sob, such as when the Beautiful Day Monster ate the ukulele Ernie had just repaired.. [[Proud Warrior Race Guy~~\|Proud Warrior Race Guys~~]]s * The Klingon Theme from ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture\|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' is mostly elegant horns. Wacky Line 199: * The [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] in the "Sister Sledgehammer" episode of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' * The "Here goes no mercy" moment at the end of "Slipping" in ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'' * The moment in ''[[Deep Impact]]'' where Jenny hits the net to find out what ELE ~~is -- and~~is—and discovers it stands for Extinction Level Event, thus making her understand why the White House willing to go to extremes to keep it secret. Romantic Strings * That classic sound found now only in old films, complete with the [[Gaussian Girl\|diffuse closeup of our leading damsel]] * Also invariably features in the middle portion of any 70s procedural TV show opening theme Strings that sound like animals * ''[[Batman\|Batman Returns]]'' had the [[Mood Motif]] of strings evoking cats for Catwoman. * Flight Of The Bumblebee is the definitive string riff on invoking insects. ** There's a shrieky, staccato violin riff for 'ahh, get it off me, get it off me' creepy crawlies that are coming to do terrible things to us. Line 258: * '''The Harpsichord of:''' [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy\|Beethoven]] [[Evil Brit~~\|Evil Brits~~]]s and other [[Blue Blood~~\|Blue Bloods~~]]s in [[Swashbuckler~~\|Swashbucklers~~]]s, [[Historical Fiction]] Japanese [[Elegant Gothic Lolita\|Gothic Lolitas]] Snooty rich people/royalty/decadence Line 280: * '''The Choir of Uplifting Inspiration''' The [[Sting]] Subverted and [[Lampshaded]] at the end of ''[[Airplane!]]'' when the choir gets more and more ~~obvious -- louder~~obvious—louder, higher, and with overarticulated vowels, finally ending in a screech. * '''[[One-Woman Wail]]''' * '''Human Whistling of:''' Line 307: * ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'' Ghostly Spookiness * [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Flushed Away]]'' ~~-- Roddy~~—Roddy is frightened in the [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]], and hears the eerie theremin noise. When he turns around, he sees [[Sorry I Left the BGM On\|musical slugs providing the appropriate Mood Motif]]. * There's a ''[[Pink Panther]]'' cartoon in which the titular cat is bedeviled by ghosts. So the Pink Panther's theme music is played on theremin to illustrate the spooky ghosts. ** [[Mad Scientist\|Mad Science]] Line 350: == Composers == {{quote\|These composers have a certain [[Mood Motif]] that is a kind of auditory trademark in their music.}} * [[Danny Elfman]] [[Mood Motif]]: Ominous, Spooky, Wacky * ''[[Batman (film)\|Batman]]'', ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' * [[John Williams]] [[Mood Motif]]: High Adventure * ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', and... ''[[NBC]]''(as well as [[Seven Network\|Channel Seven]]) News *** [[Two Words]]: ''[[Steven Spielberg]]''. Basically every single movie he has done has been scored by [[John Williams]]! * [[James Horner]] [[Mood Motif]]: Battle Crescendo, Heroism * ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan\|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Krull]]'' * [[Randy Newman]] [[Mood Motif]]: Whimsical * The ''[[Toy Story]]'' movies, and several other [[Pixar]] vehicles. * ''[[Princess and The Frog]]'' * ''[[Monk]]'' Series 2 onwards. * Guy Moon [[Mood Motif]]: Whimsically Thematic Retro * ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', retro fifties * ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', ghostly rock with rap * ''[[Yin Yang Yo!\|Yin Yang Yo]]'', [[wikipedia:Asian Riff\|Asian Riff]] with rock * [[Hans Zimmer]] [[Mood Motif]]: Battle Crescendo, Heroism * ''[[Gladiator]]'', ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', ''[[The Lion King]]'', ''[[Inception]]'', ''[[The Rock]]'', ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'', ''[[The Thin Red Line]]'' * [[Nobuo Uematsu]] [[Mood Motif]]: Melancholy, Hope, Defiance, [[One-Winged Angel]] * ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', ''[[Lost Odyssey]]'', ''The Black Mages'' * Howard Shore [[Mood Motif]]: Epic Adventure * ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''

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