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{{trope}}
Typically appearing in works that employ a score with non-original elements, these are brief segments of standard
Many of these have become verbal shorthand for particular nationalities or ethnicities, and thus may border on stereotypes.
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Very common in [[The Golden Age of Animation|Golden Age cartoons]] that employ [[Mickey Mousing]], where they may be used as a [[Leitmotif]]. Less so in modern cartoons, unless they have the budget to score episodes individually. If there is danger of having to pay money to use a piece of music, the piece can be imitated in style ([[The Jimmy Hart Version]]) or parodied. In [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|Renaissance Age]] [[Warner Bros]] cartoons, this often happened with movie scores. A few other unreasonable substitutes are very recognizable, though.
Many songs owe their entries on the list below to the work of Carl Stalling, the musical director for the vast majority of the Warner Bros. [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons. He had a well-known tendency toward musical quotation and punning; [[Chuck Jones]] was known to complain that Stalling would always use certain pieces of music in certain situations and would go out of his way to find preexisting pieces whose titles corresponded to the action he was scoring.<ref>Stalling would have been foolish ''not'' to make the most of the studio's great facilities: the vast Warner music catalogue and a full studio orchestra. Stalling's contribution to those Golden Age cartoons is noticeable when you compare the 1940s classics to the later shorts of the 1950s, with much more minimal scoring. (Classic Warner Bros. cartoons also used some songs that were neither public domain nor from the Warner music catalogue, particularly Raymond Scott's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206121652/http://raymondscott.com/MENsndf.html "Powerhouse"]).</ref>
Expect a fair amount of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] with classical pieces; the composers typically wrote these pieces for the precise contexts that their titles indicate (likewise with some pop songs). Many of these are [[Undead Horse Trope
Compare with [[Stock Footage]], [[Regional Riff]],
[[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn]] is a subtrope specifically for weddings, and [[Standard Pre-Ass-Kicking Snippet]] is a subtrope for badass scenes.
If you're trying to find the name of a famous tune, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWouZiMkuJg "100 Very Well-Known Instrumentals"] or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cRldWnmdmA "Another 100 Well-Known Instrumentals"] may help.
▲Compare with [[Stock Footage]], [[Regional Riff]], and [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]. [[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn]] is a subtrope specifically for weddings.
{{examples}}
This list is by no means complete, but let's give it a shot, eh?
== The Classics ==
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|''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k ''Sunrise''] (R. Strauss)||Moments of something that can only be described as "[[Friedrich Nietzsche|Über]]" happening, paralyzing everyone in transcendent awe, often in space. More often that not used in a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|humorous fashion]], or as a [[Stock Shout-Outs|reference]] to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Or as [[Ric Flair]]'s [[Professional Wrestling|ring entrance tune.]]
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|''[[Amazing Freaking Grace|Amazing Grace]]'' (John Newton)||Funerals. Usually played on [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes|bagpipes]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kV1ctLu0Y Anitra's Dance]'' from ''Peer Gynt Suite'' (Edvard Grieg)||Dance displays involving women (usually ''Eastern''); display can involve live footage, statuary, friezes and 2D art in any combination.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IizWc4cJwbw Bugler's Dream (Leo Arnaud)/Olympic Fanfare and Theme (John Williams) ]'' ||The Olympics, athletes, sporting events, especially track and field. Also majestic processionals. The two themes have become near-inseparable since [[NBC]] stuck them together for their Olympic coverage.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjQJuQN6hs Canon in D Major]'' ([[Pachelbel's Canon|Pachelbel]]) ||Weddings and fancy art museums, memories. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qro2R-hwNNo Inspiring shampoo commercials]. And yes, we've all heard the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM rant] and it doesn't count as it is [[Pachelbel's Canon Progression|about another trope]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCvzizkI3U Overture]'' from ''[[Carmen]]'' (Georges Bizet)||Fast-paced, often [[Slapstick]] montages of comedy scenes in movie trailers. [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa1EnJt9UI flailing around like a constipated chimpanzee.]
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|''[[Carmina Burana]]'' (Orff): ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhG-d_YnhhU Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi (O Fortuna)]'' ||High drama, movie trailers, video game final bosses, demons being summoned, cavalry charges, revealed castles (with lightning)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K68tdN3fYw Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Va Pensiero)]'' from ''Nabucco'' (Verdi)||Things proceeding in smooth and orderly fashion; engineering or civil engineering being showcased.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ILbnHhAzk Dance of the Hours]'' from ''La Gioconda'' (Ponchielli)||Mincing ballet dancers. Old-fashioned domestic scenes. [[Fantasia|Tutu-clad hippos]]. Or kids [[Allan Sherman|writing home from Camp
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkZQ84YDlk Dance of the Knights]'' from ''Romeo and Juliet'' (Prokofiev)||Heavy industry and engineering, industrial revolutions, history of same.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94BdxnheeM Dance of the Reed Flutes]'' and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3XYpB5w0U Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy]'' from ''[[The Nutcracker (theatre)|The Nutcracker]]'' (Tchaikovsky)||Ballet, delicacy and daintiness; tiptoeing; mincing and effeminacy; ickle children waking in expensive houses on snowy Christmas mornings.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMHms5Cvsw Dies Irae]'' (13th century) ||The instrumental equivalent of [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]
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|''Dies Irae'' by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxr84zacOfY Mozart] (18th century) or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFFHaz9GsY Verdi] (19th century)||Same lyrics as above, different tunes, and famous pieces in their own respects. [[wikipedia:Requiem (Mozart)|Mozart's]] conveys a sense of terror and sadness, and [[wikipedia:Requiem (Verdi)|Verdi's]] conveys a sense of urgency. Both are dramatic to the utmost. Note that the Dies Irae by Mozart you will hear most of the time is the version of his Requiem as completed by Süssmayr.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38h5gPBoT04 Gavotte]'' (François-Joseph Gossec) ||Mincing, prancing movements, such as setting a table ''just so''
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|''[https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AJ.S.Bach_partita_No.3_Gavotte_in_Rondeau.ogg Gavotte in Rondeau]'' (J.S. Bach) || Something classical and elegant in the background. (It's a three-minute snippet from a much longer work, J. S. Bach's [[w:Partita for Violin No. 3 (Bach)|Partita for Violin No. 3]].)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53NqvQoK1iA La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)]'' (Rossini) (it's an excerpt from the overture, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8pN5jTyO4E here])||Classy, elegant, balletic shenanigans. And sometimes, even straight ballet. Also, ''those'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zRtT5jPLA fight] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90KPJ6n4Ew scenes] in ''A Clockwork Orange'' (Warning: ultra violence).
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbASemGk0k Hoedown]'' from ''Rodeo'' (Copland)||Film trailers for Westerns, especially light-hearted or family-friendly ones. Also, beef, which is what's for dinner.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no Hungarian Rhapsody no.2]'' (Liszt) ||Mostly here because it is ''not'' an example: it was used in [[Tom and Jerry|famous]] [[Looney Tunes|cartoons]], yes, ''but [[Source Music|played directly by the characters]].'' It is used as a snippet in ''[[My Fair Lady]]''.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]'' from ''Peer Gynt'' suite (Edvard Grieg)||A particularly dramatic or ominous event. Sometimes used for comedic effect in scenes featuring [[Rube Goldberg Device|large and needlessly complicated machinery]] under construction or in operation.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeuFK61YNIg Triumphal March]'' from ''Aida'' (Verdi)||Victory and triumphalism. Sporting events and displays. Set pieces. Prizegivings. (Mussolini was rather fond of this one.)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsRDpsItq0 Troika]'' from ''Lieutenant Kijé'' (Prokofiev)||White Christmas, usually with Santa's sleigh (or, rarely, a Russian ''troika'' - a three horse sleigh).
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chH7wMoFm9s Under the Double Eagle/Unter dem Doppeladler]'' by Joseph Franz Wagner||Fairgrounds, circuses, parades, calliopes, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGJHlhL9DE dancing teeth]. Rarely used to represent [[wikipedia:Austria-Hungary#Coat of arms|Austro-Hungary]], though.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoMZVpNnBs Feuerzauber/Magic Fire Music]'' from ''Die Walküre'' (Wagner)||Magical power; controlled descent from a great height
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|"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5fnZ_bwHk Ride of the Valkyries]" from ''Die Walküre'' (Wagner)||Nazis (especially Luftwaffe), [[Music to Invade Poland To|Invading Poland]], [[World War II]], bombs, speed, violence, helicopters (ever since ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''), more bombs, [[
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmMRBHxU0w William Tell Overture: Finale]'' (Rossini) ||Galloping, the cavalry, [[The Lone Ranger]] clones, horse races
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI0YOPoj4t0 Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem No.1)]'' (Handel)||Every British coronation since it was written (and a few elsewhere). World-class football. Buildup to inspiring scenes. Holiday sales with this.
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== Setting The Setting ==
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STm83fDhyxg Le Tic Toc Choc]'' (or a sound-alike) ||18th Century western Europe (generally France), usually in an aristocratic setting
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIFhJ6fyzk Dark Eyes]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20170911085654/http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ochi-chornyye-origver-dark-eyes-original-version.html] (''Ochi Chernye'') ||Russians, [[Fake Russian
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeLoa1gwCU Dixie's Land]''||Synonymous with the [[Deep South]]. (Note, though, that it is ''not'' the official anthem of the Confederacy; that was ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpyBNKZ7FEA God Save the South]''.)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAsycMvZde4 Hail to the Chief]''||The [[Invisible President]], [[The White House]]
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|'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSNZK4Je-Y Hava Nagila]''||[[All Jews Are Ashkenazi|Jewish culture]]
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|'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPy-7BzSw Theme from How the West Was Won]''||[[The Wild West]], adventures/epics (or parodies thereof), [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments, and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Midwestern State Fair highlights]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5jiAv38q0 Malaguena]'' or something similarly flamenco-sounding ||Usually related to things Spanish or Hispanic in general
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA Theme from]'' ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''||[[Establishing Shot]] or panorama of [[The Wild West]]
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g La Marseillaise]''||Any scene change or opening on France (this even happens in live action; it's even quoted in the 1812 Overture)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-K9QBR1uXc New York, New York]'' ([[Refrain From Assuming|Start Spreading The News]]) ||The [[Big Applesauce]]'s "Official Horrendously Overexposed Hit Show Tune" (as [[Dave Barry]] put it). Liza Minelli's signature song. The New York Yankees play it at the end of all of their home games: [[Frank Sinatra]]'s version if they win, Liza's if they lose.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGXsw3XK9I Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien]'' (Édith Piaf)||Paris. Old quarters of French cities. French quarters of old(ish) cities. Bars and clubs in those places.<ref>(but not ones with actual torch singers, obviously, as that breaks the trope)</ref>
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRApdy4fFw O Sole Mio]'' ||Venice, especially a gondola ride - overlooking the fact that the composer, Eduardo di Capua, hailed from Naples ...and that the lyrics are in the Neapolitan dialect! (No wonder its use in the Venice gondola rides has later been banned in the Venice itself.)
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0 Tarantella Napoletana]''||Italy, Italians
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9VvO__zOA La Vie en Rose] (also called "You're Too dangerous, Cherie")'' ||Streets of Paris, French countryside;
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOAnWEyzt8 Sirtaki]'' from ''Zorba The Greek'' ||Greek stuff, notably in ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels''
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== Marches, Bugle Calls, And Other Military Shenanigans ==
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Taps]'' (US Army bugle call) ||Someone dying/pretending to die; the army going to sleep.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NtSqZcT_4 The Last Post]'' ||UK-based and Canada-based military remembrance (and possibly other Commonwealth nations as well), and for good reason.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEVv9JfXaw To The Colors]'' (US Army bugle call) ||The army; the US flag
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VLTqGCOC8 When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again]''||Armies, parades, marching; occasionally, specifically Irish (the origin of the song). [[Dramatic Irony]] in [[Anti War Film|anti-war]] film.<ref>
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C95Cb2ByHNA Wild Blue Yonder]''||Airplanes, flying. The US Air Force.
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== Pop Songs You Probably Only Know From Cartoons ==
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kP8jPa1wCg Autumn Leaves]''||Maudlin-tinged counterpart to ''A Summer Place''. Autumn leaves. Partings. Regrets and minor sorrows. Quiet romance. Slow montages, pans and dissolves. Easy listening moments. Extremely versatile.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgklHQ52WE Beautiful Dreamer]'' ||Sleep, dreams. In various anime, unfulfilled dreams and hopes.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjpAGf0oks California Here I Come]'' ||Travelling to California (natch), Trains in general. The theme song for the ubiquitous [[Huell Howser]] shows, in which he explores unusual California landmarks.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo Devil's Gallop]'' (Charles Williams)||Dramatic, old-style chases, [[The Spanish Inquisition]], [[That Mitchell and Webb Look|two inebriated bums]] impersonating [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[The Watson]], 'tecs vs crooks, skulduggery afoot. Originally the theme to ''[[wikipedia:Dick Barton|Dick Barton - Special Agent]]''.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0&feature=related&t=0m33s Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes]'' (Ben Jonson) ||
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcznaE2BDz0 The Entertainer]'' (Scott Joplin)||Early 20th Century America up till late 1930s (Note this is anachronistic; ragtime gave way to early jazz around WWI. But ever since ''[[The Sting]]'' everybody knows Ragtime = Great Depression because [[Reality Is Unrealistic]].)<ref>And in more ways than one: older folks ''would'' have still been listening to ragtime during the depression, which was sort of the point of using it to start with.</ref>
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNbye4m2Vs Goofus]''||Characters on the move, rural settings
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFUabzkAjBQ Happy Days Are Here Again]'' ||Rivals the Gold Digger's Song for being rich. Also popular in political pastiches, assuring voters that the days will be happy once our boy<ref>it's always a male candidate</ref> is elected.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZe8Uvf2emw Happy Go Lively]'', Laurie Johnson ||Perky, efficient, immaculately dressed Fifties housewives working in ultramodern [[Zeerust|Kitchens of The Future]], or those kitchens themselves; cleaning.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTsfIYeDsI My Old Kentucky Home]'' ||Rural homes, the South. In [[Real Life]], always played just before the running of the Kentucky Derby
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|''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200123121106/http://
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vy-y16vOJo&feature=related Nearer, My God, to Thee]'' ||The Titanic, sinking ships, or inevitable doom, especially when met with tragic dignity.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NxSTX0jkc Notre Dame Victory March]'' ||Football, sports, pep talks (since the movie ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'')
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5HCDGJsvM Oh, What a Beautiful Morning]'' from ''Oklahoma'' (Rodgers & Hammerstein)||Waking, morning scenes and montages, [[Did You Just Have Sex?|the morning after the night before]] (possibly including a [[Hangover Sensitivity]]).
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXsfeBXjG_Q#t=1m55s On Moonlight Bay]'' ||Drinking, sailing, sailing while drinking. Along with ''How Dry I Am,'' makes for great drunken harmonizing in addition to background music
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Holr8ZwaSs Over There]''||[[World War
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9SvEaPm5U Por una Cabeza]''||Tango, especially when used as a [[Mating Dance]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlP5HkTzbA You Ought To Be In Pictures]'' ||Hollywood scenes
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== Recent Works ==
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGd21qshXDc Ashokan Farewell]'' ||(Like as not, [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]) Parodies of Ken Burns documentaries, played over wartime letters to sweethearts back home while [[The Ken Burns Effect|panning across sepia-tone photos]]; [[The American Civil War]]<ref>Note that it is not a Civil War era piece; it was written in 1982 to express the composer's sadness at leaving fiddle camp.</ref>
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69mD7xI Bad To The Bone]'' (George Thorogood and the Destroyers)||The arrival or entrance of the [[Badass]], particularly a [[Badass Biker]]. [[
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKlA5VUwRk Basic Instinct]'' ([[Jerry Goldsmith]])||Sexy, erotic thrillers.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvwYU9K504 Battle Without Honor or Humanity]'' (Tomoyasu Hotei)||The arrival of an extreme [[Badass]], and the fight scene resulting thereof.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9OWEm_uSM The Breakfast Machine]'' ([[Danny Elfman]])||Frenetic but mechanized action; Rube Goldberg devices; factories and machines; undercranked scenes of people in lines or rush-hour traffic.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SUpWrSVaIg Cloudscape]'' ([[Philip Glass]], from ''[[Koyaanisqatsi]]'')||Danger and disturbance, troubled times, stormy works, Freudian psychology, onset of puberty given a dramatic spin.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA Clubbed to Death]'' (Rob Dougan); itself derived from Elgar's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wviJIQpZ_yY Enigma Variations]''. ||Adds a [[Power Walk]] -like ambience to any character's perambulations (if correctly timed with their footsteps), game-face montages, trailers. Extra points if they do a sharp focus change on the gap between the first and second bits of the opening. A mid-90s piece, but gained its notoriety in '99 through ''[[The Matrix]]'' (or at the very least, through its soundtrack
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02zOk_LQCkY Don't Worry Be Happy]'' (Bobby McFerrin)||[[Sad Times Montage]] in comedies. [[Relax-O-Vision|Cheer-up]] [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties|song]] used [[Soundtrack Dissonance|to indicate]] a [[Crap Saccharine World]], e.g. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtcVjClZYok#t=2m45s here]. (if it's an outright [[Crapsack World]], ''What A Wonderful World'' can be used).
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUmAphvThQ Get Ready for This]'' (2 Unlimited)||Sports events, especially basketball. Big arenas full of people
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8e2hMAL6c Ghost Love Score]'', or rather [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ8T1ZWUGaI 45 seconds of it] ||[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]], [[Unnecessary Combat Roll
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Zf-WzS59k The Girl from Ipanema]''||An instrumental version is standard "elevator music", to the point where it's named [[The Elevator From Ipanema|its own trope]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8 The Great Escape]'' theme ([[Elmer Bernstein]]) ||Escaping, or energetic group preparation to escape.
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|''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120412155749/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23wpb_james-brown-i-got-you-i-feel-good_music I Got You (I Feel Good)]'' ([[James Brown]]) ||Celebrations, characters having good fortune or...feeling good. ([http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113768/#Soundtrack examples]) See also [[Stock Trailer Music]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamKl-su8PE&ob=av3e I Predict a Riot]'' ([[Kaiser Chiefs]])||Social unrest. Often, the opening riff is enough.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWHlKAsBNA Lux Æterna]'' ([[Clint Mansell]] and the Kronos Quartet)||[[Melodrama]], first used in ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]'' when the main characters are about to hit rock bottom; re-worked for the trailer for [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Two Towers]] as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_oWrseTKk Requiem for a Tower]'', which is sadly(?) [[Adaptation Displacement|the better-known version]].
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM Layla]'' ([[Eric Clapton]]<ref>
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag Let's Get it On]'' ([[Marvin Gaye]])||Sexiness, the beginning of a romantic or intimate moment
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o Space Oddity]'' ([[David Bowie]])||Dramatic or sombre scenes in space. If it's just the opening, space travel in general.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY Stayin' Alive]'' ([[The Bee Gees]]) ||The 1970s. Also (because of a big push by the British Heart Association) CPR.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9F_HWel5g#t=20s The Stripper],'' David Rose||Anyone performing a [[You Can Leave Your Hat On|striptease]]. However, a scene done by [[Morecambe and Wise]], where they make breakfast to this tune in a well-done dance routine is also well known.
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVS3QqrXhD8 Yakety Sax]''||Wacky comedic chase scenes. Usually with the action sped up. See also ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', [[Musical Slapstick Montage]].
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== The One Everybody Always Asks About ==
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|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE Powerhouse]'' (Raymond Scott) ||Used or [[The Jimmy Hart Version|imitated]] in a number of later WB theatrical shorts, in scenes involving a chase, or (especially) a factory or mechanism such as a [[Rube Goldberg Device]]. The latter usage (''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE&t=1m25s Powerhouse B]'') has become famous enough to be recognizable outside an animated context. Full documentation of all Raymond Scott works and "[[The Jimmy Hart Version|soundalikes]]" in WB cartoons can be found [
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