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Typically appearing in works that employ a score with non-original elements, these are brief segments of standard songs -- suchsongs—such as [[Public Domain Soundtrack|old songs that don't involve paying royalties]] --— as themes for various types of scenes or activities. Some of these have become standardized, and in some cases they are the only reason that many people know the songs at all.

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 Onon 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|Undead Horse Tropes]]s, but may reach a stage where they are [[Dead Horse Trope|only used ironically]].

Compare with [[Stock Footage]], [[Regional Riff]], and [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]., and [[LohengrinEpic and MendelssohnRiff]] is a subtrope specifically for weddings.

| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky_-_1812_overture.ogg 1812 Overture]'' (specifically the final part, starting at 15:35) ||Explosions, bombing runs, cannon fire. (The original symphony called for cannons.) Destroying the oppressive Government. If used, the explosions will almost always [[Mickey Mousing|go off in time with the music]]. Also used in TV spots for family movies, often with slapstick and/or [[Stuff Blowing Up]] timed to the music.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM Agnus Dei]'' (Samuel Barber) - same tune as ''Adagio'' above||Old ecclesiastical sites; tombs and sepulchres; meditative sorrow; old battlefields and war graves (often with [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_FieldsIn Flanders Fields|poppies]]); peace when the dust has settled; aftermath of tragedy or an apocalypse. And ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI#t=2m50s here].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg Air on a G String]'' (adapted from 2nd movement of ''Orchestral Suite No. 3'' by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J.S. Bach]])||Scenes of peace, relaxation and repose, English countryside in good weather. [[Elegant Classical Musician|Cute girls.]] [[Soundtrack Dissonance|Destroying Mass-Produced]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Evangelion Units]]. It's also inextricably tied to the Hamlet cigar ads. In Italy, it's tied to scientific TV programmes since the 1980s, because it's been used from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CW0GfTdMHM 1981] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KE1JHEFlq0 the present] as the opening of documentaries presented by Piero Angela.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yomi0-WL5Pg Alla Turca]'' from [http[wikipedia://enPiano Sonata No.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._11_ 11 (Mozart) |Piano Sonata No. 11]] (Mozart)||Busy, flustered activity, Regency England

|''[[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 ItsIt's Not Awesome?|humorous fashion]], or as a [[Stock Shout -Outs|reference]] to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Or as [[Ric Flair]]'s [[Professional Wrestling|ring entrance tune.]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD0FDLOKGA The Aquarium]'' from ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (Saint-Saëns)||Underwater scenes. Pretty common, even in live action. Also commonly used in movie trailers, especially for films concerning magic, wizards, fortune-telling and the like.

|''[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]].

|''[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 (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa1EnJt9UI flailing around like a constipated chimpanzee.]

|''[[Carmina Burana (Music)|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)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ILbnHhAzk Dance of the Hours]'' from ''La Gioconda'' (Ponchielli)||Mincing ballet dancers. Old-fashioned domestic scenes. [[Fantasia (Disney)|Tutu-clad hippos]]. Or kids [[Allan Sherman|writing home from Camp GrenadaGranada]].

|''[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 (Theatretheatre)|The Nutcracker]]'' (Tchaikovsky)||Ballet, delicacy and daintiness; tiptoeing; mincing and effeminacy; ickle children waking in expensive houses on snowy Christmas mornings.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fMHms5Cvsw Dies Irae]'' (13th century) ||The instrumental equivalent of [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] -- or—or, if sung with lyrics, literally [[Ominous Latin Chanting]], especially in association with the Middle Ages.

|''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. [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_:Requiem (Mozart) |Mozart's]] conveys a sense of terror and sadness, and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_: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.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig Funeral March]'' (Chopin)||Death, used especially in [[Pac -Man Fever|television portrayals of video games]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIk5DWUx_EMw0oQ4sD4us FuneralGallop]'' Marchfrom of''The a Marionette]Comedians'' (GounodDmitri Kabalevsky)||[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV)|"Good evening."]] OrComically afrantic tripactivity, tochases, the gallows.circus

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0oQ4sD4us38h5gPBoT04 GallopGavotte]'' from ''The Comedians'' (DmitriFrançois-Joseph KabalevskyGossec) ||ComicallyMincing, franticprancing activitymovements, chases,such theas circussetting a table ''just so''

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RrdwElnTU Hallelujah Chorus]'' from ''The Messiah'' (George Frideric Handel) ||Epiphanies; particularly fortuitous events, someone finally getting what they want (often used facetiously). [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Mi]][[Soundtrack Dissonance|nd]] [[Mind Rape|Ra]][[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|pe]].

|''[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 (Animation)|famous]] [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|cartoons]], yes, ''but [[Source Music|played directly by the characters]].'' It is used as a snippet in ''[[My Fair Lady]]''.

|''Lohengrin'' ([[Richard Wagner (Creator)|Richard Wagner]]): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPRlxxOpOc Prelude to Act III] ||Flight, air power, squadrons of bombers

|''Lohengrin'' ([[Richard Wagner (Creator)|Richard Wagner]]): ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFTnFErJEu4 Treulich geführt ziehet dahin]''||Western wedding ceremonies, especially the entrance of the bride ("Here comes the bride.") One of the quintessential wedding songs; see [[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn]].

|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ([[Felix Mendelssohn]]): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDr8Q7lDW8o Wedding March]||Wedding outtros; see [[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 Night on Bare/Bald Mountain]'' (Mussorgsky)||Winds, storms, perils and devilment abroad, [[Fantasia (Disney)|Chernabog]], also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc cassette tape sales].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqlLKBKFhg On the Beautiful Blue Danube]'' (Blue Danube Waltz, Johann Strauss II) ||Rivers, waterfowl, graceful motion (think ice-skating or swans swimming) astronauts in space (especially a space ship docking with a space station, referencing its use in ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''). Occasionally used for humorous or ironic effect.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WRJES4cyw Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers)]'' (Offenbach): The Can-Can ||[[Chorus Girls]], especially French ones. Or possibly [[Lemmings|lemmings]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFhfPYPUl4 Over the Waves (Sobre las Olas)]'' (Juventino Rosas)||Trapeze and high-wire work in a circus; fairgrounds, merry-go-rounds and any form of travel humorously related to such a situation. (Occasionally used for swimming scenes, since it ''is'' officially about water.) Of course, this tune is a common fixture on merry-go-rounds and calliopes in real life.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0oKBtFKts Pictures at an Exhibition]'' (Mussorgsky) ||[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Pictures at an exhibition]]; Japanese television uses the opening; [[Jerry Lawler]]'s [[Professional Wrestling|theme music]]; movement (Promenade) surprisingly often in connection with anything "artistic"

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmolrId_4 Pie Jesu]'' from Fauré's ''Requiem''||Ecclesiastical sites, done low key; tombs and sepulchres; meditative sorrow; old battlefields and war graves (often with [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields:In Flanders Fields|poppies]]); peace when the dust has settled.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfoCvCxNAw4 Pilgrims' Chorus]'' from ''Tannhäuser'' (Wagner) - the part starting 2:15||Love and reunion, the cavalry arriving, impressive scenery and holiday destinations. And [[What's Opera, Doc?|Bugs Bunny, dressed as Brunhilde, riding in on a white mare.]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Meets_Hare:Herr Meets Hare|Twice.]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUxxQIUV7o Pizzicato]'' from ''Sylvia'' (Delibes)||Like ''Gavotte'', overly fussy action.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U#t=3m33s Poet and Peasant Overture]'' (Franz von Suppé) ||[[Traintop Battle|Fistfights on top of moving trains]], a holdover from its use with silent films.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moL4MkJ-aLk Pomp and Circumstance March No.1]'' (Elgar) ||Graduations. ([[Truth in Television]]: Nowadays American and Canadian students "get" to hear the same four lines repeated ''ad nauseum'' during commencements). Also, frequently (although not officially) used as the British national anthem, as ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=podh1wht9RY&feature=related Land of Hope and Glory]''. A fixture at the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proms:The Proms#Last_Night_of_the_PromsLast Night of the Proms|Last Night of the Proms]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZL-25906Oc Radetzky March]'' (Strauss)||Soldiers marching jauntily and [[Soundtrack Dissonance|ninth-graders killing]] [[Battle Royale (Literature)|one another on an island.]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAb0_ovLvlM#t=6m5s Heda! Heda! Hedo!]'' from ''Das Rheingold'' (Wagner)||Like "[[Ride of the Valkyries (Music)|Ride of the Valkyries]]", but lighter and with little promise of peril or asskicking. Impressive and dramatic scenes at or from high elevations.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmLsvQaxw3g#t=8m49s Romeo and Juliet]'', Love Theme (Tchaikovsky) ||Romance, [[Love At First Sight]]. [[Meadow Run]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ISRMSIyX8 Russian Dance/Trepak]''(Tchaikovsky) from ''[[The Nutcracker (Theatretheatre)|The Nutcracker Ballet]]'' ||Played in just about any movie trailer with a [[Christmas Tropes]] theme to imply that [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity will ensue]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneUNq_Ndbw The Sorcerer's Apprentice]'' (Dukas)||Sorcery, automatons on the march, processes going out of control, trouble brewing. [[Fantasia (Disney)|And a famous cartoon mouse.]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQgt-nKHOU Spring]'' from [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_%28Vivaldi%29:The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]] by Vivaldi ||When ''Minuet'' is ''still'' not fancy enough. Also the StandardSnippet for any news report or item involving English stately homes.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHFKPOUbO7k Overture]'' to ''Swan Lake'' (Tchaikovsky)||The original, [[Bela Lugosi]] ''[[Dracula (Film1931 film)|Dracula]]'', and references to it.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak Symphony No. 5 in C Minor]'' (Beethoven): I. ''Allegro con brio''||Meeting a dire fate; being confronted or caught by an authority figure; classical musicians in concert

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcOpyM9cBg Symphony No. 9 in D Minor]'' (Beethoven): IV. ''Allegro assai: Freude, schöner Götterfunken'' ([[Ode to Joy]])||Any character overwhelmed by joy or sudden good fortune (real or imagined). Unless it's anime, in which case things are going to go ''[[The End of the World Asas We Know It|very badly]]''.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o Toccata and Fugue in D minor]'' (attrib. [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J.S. Bach]]) ||[[Haunted House|Haunted houses]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Bela Lugosi impersonators]] and Captain Nemo. Often played on the [[Ominous Pipe Organ]].

|''[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). <ref>"Troika" translates as "threesome" or "three of a kind".</ref>

|''[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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Austria-Hungary#Coat_of_armsCoat of arms|Austro-Hungary]], though.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoMZVpNnBs Feuerzauber/Magic Fire Music]'' from ''Die Walküre'' (Wagner)||Magical power; controlled descent from a great height

|"[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, [[LooneyWhat's TunesOpera, (Animation)Doc?|wabbit hunting]]; descending swarms of enraged nerds, rodeo clowns, grannies, or any group generally lacking dignity, in slow motion. So standard that it has [[Ride of the Valkyries (Music)|its own page]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmMRBHxU0w William Tell Overture: Finale]'' (Rossini) ||Galloping, the cavalry, [[The Lone Ranger]] clones, horse races

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5hz8fc4Cw William Tell Overture: Storm]'' ||Storms at sea

|| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|'[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39eUzlYd2Qc 'Ach du Lieber Augustin]'' ||Germany, Germans (usually overweight and/or bumbling), [[Oktoberfest|beer, sausages that end in -wurst]]. Note that the text says: "Oh my dear Augustin, everything's lost."

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TLYW6YFxk Alouette]'' ||The French, and especially French Canadians--sometimes hummed or sung by characters to show how French they are

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSBtCUvOOE America the Beautiful]'' ||United States patriotism (typically this is played, and not ''The Star-Spangled Banner,'' which is reserved for non-background use in ceremonies such as military funerals and baseball); mattress sales

|The [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riffOriental riff|Asian Riff]] ||East Asian characters and stereotypes.

|''[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_The Bowery (song) |The Bowery]]'' -- From 1892's ''A Trip to Chinatown'' ||New York City and its East Side, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0M4BzzrNX4 here]''(dead link)'' (between 1:50 and 2:00).

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmWMYro2To Carmen, Entr'acte between acts III & IV]'', Bizet ||[[Toros Y Flamenco]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD3mr2d-khg Cielito Lindo]'' or "The song that goes 'Ay yi yi yi'" ||Mariachi bands and Mexico

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0JCqk5LC4 La Cucaracha]'' ||Anything involving Mexico

|''[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

|''[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|Fake Russians]]s, or [[The Shop Around the Corner|people who smoke candy and listen to cigarettes.]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGgyGGSFCWw&feature=related Fanfare for the Common Man]'' (Copland)||North America. Panoramas and grand cityscapes. Stadia and stadium events. The early says of space exploration. Unless it's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYn3aZl_fKM rock version] by [[Emerson, Lake and& Palmer (Music)|Emerson Lake and Palmer]], in which case you're looking at Britain in [[The Seventies]], and probably watching sports.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQjOaIyh6HQ Overture]'' to ''La forza del destino / The Force of Destiny'' (Verdi) - part starting 0:50||Rural France and its inhabitants, usually in good weather. Rural jiggery-pokery. Mostly attributable to its use in ''Jean de Florette'' and ''[[Manon Desdes Sources]]''.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJd-SHzqUC4 Funiculì, Funiculà]'' ||Italians and their food

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwT2vtH7g4A Gaudeamus Igitur]'' (De Brevitate Vitae) ||[[Establishing Shot]] of the old [[Wacky College|Alma Mater]]; used as a snippet as far back as Brahms's ''Academic Festival Overture''

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hAleep6uBI God Save the Tsar!]'' ("Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!")||The Russian Empire; non-Communist Russian military forces. Also used at the aforementioned climax of the 1812 Overture; when the Tsarist anthem was banned in the USSR, its use in the 1812 Overture was replaced with a tune from an opera by Glinka.

|'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSNZK4Je-Y Hava Nagila]''||[[All Jews Are Ashkenazi|Jewish culture]]'', particularly festivals and weddings; [[Roma]]; the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.

|'' [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 ItsIt's Not Awesome?|Midwestern State Fair highlights]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewyTGQR9Pw The Irish Washerwoman]'' ||Anything Irish

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Rf2KqA7a4 Kalinka]''||Russia, Russians, cossack dancing, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgUdwsQyY_s arcade version] of [[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxlujC8A004 Korobeiniki]''||Russia, Russians, [[Tetris (Video Game)|Tetris]]. ([[Executive Meddling|The Tetris Company]] owns a sound trademark on this for computer games.)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOhk4Lk9aE The Maple Leaf Forever]''||Canada. Within Canada, usually used ironically in the same way ''America the Beautiful'' is used, at least in English Canada.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0ktol1q7I&feature=related Mademoiselle from Armentieres]''||Anything set in World War I, especially dogfights; olde-time airplanes. You may remember the "Inky-Dinky-Parlez-Vous" lyric.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5jiAv38q0 Malaguena]'' or something similarly flamenco-sounding ||Usually related to things Spanish or Hispanic in general

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA Theme from]'' ''[[The Magnificent Seven (Film)|The Magnificent Seven]]''||[[Establishing Shot]] or panorama of [[The Wild West]]

|''[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)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKaZ-hVy8yQ The Mexican Hat Dance]'' ||Anything vaguely celebratory in Mexico

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8DaeDs9KA Midnight in Moscow]'' (also known as ''Moscow Nights'') ||Anything to do with the former Soviet Union, Russia, or the city of Moscow

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY Misirlou]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUiOh8efaQ (fast version)]||At the original tempo, anything involving Greece or [[Arabian Nights Days|The Middle East]]; when played by Dick Dale or a sound-alike, surfing, or as an entrance for [[Badass]] characters

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ National Anthem of the Soviet Union]''||The USSR and Russia (the tune is still used), especially the [[Useful Notes/Reds With Rockets|Reds With Rockets]]

|''[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 (Music)|Frank Sinatra]]'s version if they win, Liza's if they lose.

|''[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>.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOObPhTYi9I The Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)]'' ||The [[Deep South]]. Especially around Mississippi River.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI Sakura]'' ("[[Cherry Blossoms]]")||Japan, especially rural or historic Japan

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF5pEsJQlxI Scotland the Brave]''||Standard piece used when bagpipes are played, especially when set in Scotland

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9VvO__zOA La Vie en Rose] (also called "You're Too dangerous, Cherie")'' ||Streets of Paris, French countryside; love -- Ilove—I mean, l'amour (though this song tends to cost money. Also the signature song of French songstress Edith Piaf)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOAnWEyzt8 Sirtaki]'' from ''Zorba The Greek'' ||Greek stuff, notably in ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels''

|| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHqZFL7rKY&t=0m27s Assembly]'' (US Army bugle call) ||The army

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWLMkxSwIo Colonel Bogey]'' (Ricketts)||British troops and encampments. Showing cheery mood, insouciance, or a brave face. Often whistled, as in ''[[The Bridge Onon the River Kwai]]'', or sung as "Hitler has only got one ball" <ref>Churchill's press secretary came up with these lyrics - while in the bath - and Churchill [[Throw It In|got him to sing them to the assembled chiefs of staff]] at the next opportunity. Oh, and Hitler did turn out to have just the one testicle...</ref>

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xLSoAd86c The Girl I Left Behind Me]'' ||Marching American soldiers, as far back as the Revolution. Or British Redcoats Napoleonic Era.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlSXeo-sBY A Life on the Ocean Wave]'' ||[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]], usually accompanied by, but not limited to, the British Navy.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1sAzdf0n_0 Semper Fidelis]'' by John Philip Sousa||United States Marine Corps' official march; US marines on parade; [[Animaniacs (Animation)|cheeses from around the world]].

|''[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.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEVv9JfXaw To The Colors]'' (US Army bugle call) ||The army; the US flag

|''[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> It'sIts Irish counterpart, "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", [[Fridge Brilliance|is an anti-war song.]]</ref>. Common on fife and drum.

|| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|''[http://youtu.be/1xpSeaxRpCc Ain't She Sweet]'' (Ager/Yellen)||Pretty girls, especially (but not exclusively) in [[The Roaring Twenties]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wP-4ZV8sv0 Aloha 'Oe]'' ||Hawaii, tropical vacations, subversions thereof.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4inyD93KwQ Arkansas Traveler]'' ||Slow, stupid characters, usually played very slowly. Also known as "I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee".

|''[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiFWoY69cEb1z4JfxFb6c Baby Elephant Walk]'' ||Slow, stupid characters; animals; people carrying awkward loads.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgklHQ52WE Beautiful Dreamer]'' ||Sleep, dreams. In various anime, unfulfilled dreams and hopes.

|''[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.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4NVg8i8i1Y The Camptown Races]'' ||Horse races. Associated with the Warner Bros. character [[Foghorn Leghorn]], who generally walked around humming it. Also used in Saloons in The Wild West

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKKCEviKGGk Chicken Reel]'' ||Farmyards with chickens, gluttonous eating

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo Devil's Gallop]'' (Charles Williams)||Dramatic, old-style chases, [[Useful Notes/The Spanish Inquisition|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 ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Barton:Dick Barton|Dick Barton - Special Agent]]''.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0&feature=related&t=0m33s Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes]'' (Ben Jonson) ||Drinking -- ifDrinking—if it's milk, juice, or water. Also performed reluctantly by those who [[I Love to Singa|love to singa]].

|''[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.

|''[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.

|''[http://www.archive.org/details/hearts1901 Hearts And Flowers]''||Overacted melodrama, love, romance, and tragedy. This is the "world's saddest song" that so often gets sarcastically played on the "world's smallest violin" for chronic whiners.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPc4vcNg3gY Home, Sweet Home]''||Cabins, houses, anyplace considered a "home" or a "home away from home". Also played in nightclubs when it's time to close. Popular in anime due to a well-known translation, and often used with [[World War II]] sequences (see ''[[Grave of the Fireflies (Anime)|Grave of the Fireflies]]'').

|''[http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=277117 Hooray for Hollywood]''||Hollywood scenes, movie stars

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvIMLeKwrJE How Dry I Am]'' ||Drinking, drunkenness

|''[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

|''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200123121106/http://tinykf49pnjr.freepod.ccco/umunc Mysterioso Pizzicato]'' also known as ''The Villains Theme'' and jazzed up as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-km6YQUgU4 Mysterious Mose]" ||Sneakiness, stealth (often [[Mickey Mousing|Mickey Moused]]), entrance of the [[Dastardly Whiplash|mustache-twirling villain]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NxSTX0jkc Notre Dame Victory March]'' ||Football, sports, pep talks (since the movie ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'')

|''[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]]).

|''[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

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Holr8ZwaSs Over There]''||[[World War OneI]] (U.S. involvement, 1917-181917–18)

|''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Rock-a-bye_Babybye Baby|Rock-a-bye Baby]]''||Babies, [[Epic Rocking|rocking]], or occasionally [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|both]]. (When used outside of BGM, can function as [[Instant Sedation]].)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yBQnBPToE Sailor's Hornpipe]''||Sailors, particularly those with [[Popeye (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|one eye and an affinity for spinach]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5rsEa9vUI Shortnin' Bread]''||Food or cooking

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc Silver Threads Among the Gold]''||Elderly people

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M Theme from A Summer Place]'' ||[[Relax -O -Vision]], [[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|medium-sized intermissions]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHH6vYzAgw Sweet Georgia Brown]'' (or an [[The Jimmy Hart Version|appropriate soundalike]]), usually whistled ||Basketball (after its association with the Harlem Globetrotters); sports antics

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8n0PPogsQ (Believe Me if All) Those Endearing Young Charms]''||The [[Xylophone Gag]]. Only counts here because the background music tends to finish off the piece after the explosion.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm-h0qa8iA The Toy Trumpet]'' (Raymond Scott) ||Toys, especially toy soldiers

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWXvzL6nuA What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?]''||Sailors, [[Useful Notes/The Seven Seas|the ocean]], [[Pirates]] and [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|anything nautical]]

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY We'll Meet Again]''||[[World War II]], from the British perspective. Especially sad scenes (or [[Dr. Strangelove (Film)|nuclear war]]).

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlP5HkTzbA You Ought To Be In Pictures]'' ||Hollywood scenes

:::''See also [[Recycled Trailer Music]].''

|| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viqr6KHwJjc Albatross]'' ([[Fleetwood Mac (Music)|Fleetwood Mac]])||Tropical islands and beaches (or, at least, a token facsimile thereof), relaxation in such locales.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJcg-g1pg Another One Bites the Dust]'' (Queen)||[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Another one bites the dust.]] Defeat, disqualification, failure and being finished off.

|''[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>

|''[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]]. [[BadStandard toPre-Ass-Kicking The BoneSnippet|Distressingly common]] even in live action.

|''[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.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9OWEm_uSM The Breakfast Machine]'' ([[Danny Elfman (Music)|Danny Elfman]])||Frenetic but mechanized action; Rube Goldberg devices; factories and machines; undercranked scenes of people in lines or rush-hour traffic.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6IwEG0FYM "Chariots of Fire" Theme]'' ([[Vangelis]]) ||The last few segments of an important race, especially if [[Overcrank|in slow motion]] (a tribute to the 1981 [[Chariots of Fire|movie of the same name]], where it doesn't actually appear in that manner in the final race); alternately, [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|tongue-in-cheek]] slow motion cheesy inspirational music.

|''[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 (Film)|The Matrix]]'' (or at the very least, through its soundtrack album -- thealbum—the piece only makes one relatively brief scene in the film).

|''[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).

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-qhIGTXdU Theme]'' from ''[[Dragnet]]''||Investigation by police or other officials. The opening four-note sting can indicate any surprising discovery or revelation. Additionally, [[Mad (Magazine)|the Domm-Da Dom-Domm routine is #8 of essential routines for typical-type lampoons]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8 Dueling Banjos],'' Arthur Smith||Scenes in set the rural back-country; Rednecks. Especially associated with ''[[Deliverance (Film)|Deliverance]]''

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1xATrGMtg Fortunate Son]'' ([[Creedence Clearwater Revival (Music)|Creedence Clearwater Revival]]) ||[[The Vietnam War]].

|''[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 ItsIt's Not Awesome?]], [[Unnecessary Combat Roll|Unnecessary Combat Rolls]]s, ever since its use in a YTMND fad featuring [http://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com/ a Star Trek character rolling under a closing door].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4 Gonna Fly Now],'' [[Bill Conti]] (''[[Rocky (Filmfilm)|Rocky]]'') ||[[Training Montage]]. Compare with ''Eye of the Tiger''.

|''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly (Film)|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4 (Main Theme)]||[[The Wild West|Old West]] gunfight, or parody thereof; showdown or confrontation of any kind

|''[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]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m17iHHv3uo&feature=fvst Incense and Peppermints]'' (Strawberry Alarm Clock), or ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&feature=related White Rabbit]'' ([[Jefferson Airplane (Music)|Jefferson Airplane]]) ||Drug trips. Rarely used without at least some sense of irony anymore; often replaced with a [[The Jimmy Hart Version|sound-alike]] as it's still under copyright

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw00IqWZCAU&feature=fvw Main Title and First Victim]'' from ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]''||Being oblivious to approaching danger, being unknowingly stalked - probably by a predator. Strongly associated with water. Du-dun, du-dun, dudun dudun dudun...

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oidm5Zfw_SA Jessica]'' ([[The Allman Brothers Band (Music)|The Allman Brothers Band]])||Road trips and driving montages. And [[Top Gear]]. Don't forget [[Top Gear]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWHlKAsBNA Lux Æterna]'' ([[Clint Mansell (Music)|Clint Mansell]] and the Kronos Quartet)||[[Melodrama]], first used in ''[[Requiem for Aa Dream]]'' when the main characters are about to hit rock bottom; re-worked for the trailer for [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|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]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM Layla]'' ([[Eric Clapton (Music)|Eric Clapton]]<ref> performing as "Derek and the Dominoes"</ref>)||Fast cars. Motor racing.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPoHgKcqag Let's Get it On]'' ([[Marvin Gaye (Music)|Marvin Gaye]])||Sexiness, the beginning of a romantic or intimate moment

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 Mad World]'' (Gary Joules' version)||Scenes of desolate environments, or a sober/tragic scene in a drama.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGeRgFa-hI Mission Impossible]'' theme (Lalo Schifrin)||Preparation for or execution of a complex task, generally with high-tech elements or requiring gymnastic activity. Also the surprise injection of visible gas into a confined space such as a lift, where the protagonists are trapped.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMWwf8RtTQ&ob=av2n Money]'' ([[Pink Floyd (Music)|Pink Floyd]])||Documentaries on [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|financial shenanigans]], [[Nouveau Riche|less respectful looks at the lifestyles of the rich and famous]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ My Generation]'' ([[The Who (Music)|The Who]]) ||Children or the elderly; almost always played for irony with the latter.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg Oh Yeah]'' (Yello)||Lust, avarice and/or greed. Hot cars and hotter babes that you are ''expected'' to covet upon seeing. Oh, and ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Bueller]]''.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg Oxygene part 2]'' ([[Jean Michel Jarre (Music)|Jean Michel Jarre]])||High technology, often with Blinkenlights. Uber geekiness. Astronomical or paranormal events (e.g. viewing eclipses).

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDEl7JnWvo Oxygene part 4]'' ([[Jean Michel Jarre (Music)|Jean Michel Jarre]])||Flight, especially gliders. Smooth action. CGI mockups. Technology. Rhythmic gym.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InRDF_0lfHk Paint It Black]'' ([[The Rolling Stones (Music)|The Rolling Stones]])||The Vietnam War.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CHjYHwNzx0 "Peter Gunn"] theme'' ([[Henry Mancini (Music)|Henry Mancini]])||Spies, capers, schemes (thanks to ''Spy Hunter'' and ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', probably)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IuFl3sMhk Phantom of the Opera]'' ([[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]])||The start of a race, with buildup.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc Popcorn]'' <ref>Yes, this is Hot Butter's [[Covered Up|better-known cover version]]. Kingsley's original version [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc here] has a slightly different melody, [[Adaptation Distillation|rather muddy editing and some chaotic key changes]].</ref>(Gershon Kingsley)||Techy geekiness, often quirky. Fads and gadgets. The early '70s. And occasionally, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|popcorn]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdPVCIRe1U San Francisco (Flowers..)]'' (Scott McKenzie) ||[[San Francisco|Haight Ashbury]], [[New Age Retro Hippie|Hippies]], [[The Sixties|1960s]], [[Indian Summer|Nostalgia]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o Space Oddity]'' ([[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]])||Dramatic or sombre scenes in space. If it's just the opening, space travel in general.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY Stayin' Alive]'' ([[The Bee Gees (Music)|The Bee Gees]]) ||The 1970s. Also (because of a big push by the British Heart Association) CPR.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk&ob=av3e Song 2]'' ([[Blur (Musicband)|Blur]]), AKA "[[Refrain From Assuming|Woo-Hoo]]" ||Action scenes, particularly extreme sports.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M Theme from "A Summer Place"]'' (Percy Faith)||Classic "easy listening" music, typically denoting shopping malls, doctor's offices, hotel lobbies, elevators, telephones on hold, and [[Relax -O -Vision]].

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJOdbGziVg The Syncopated Clock]'' ([[Leroy Anderson]])||Waiting. Sometimes used as an alternative to the [[Jeopardy Thinking Music]] for intense thought

|''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU Theme]||Something is very disturbingly wrong. (Note that the first season of ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' didn't use this iconic theme.)

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c The Typewriter]'' (Leroy Anderson)||Newsrooms and secretarial pools, BBC Radio's ''[[The News Quiz (Radio)|The News Quiz]]''. Jerry Lewis made this his own in ''Who's Minding the Store'', though it was written before that.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWdLt3Afjrg Under Pressure]'' ([[Queen (Music)|Queen]])||Training montages, financial crises, buildup to someone's big event, performance anxiety - but soft-pedaled. Getting across the notion of "under pressure" without going for one of the obvious ones.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY We Are The Champions]'' ([[Queen (Music)|Queen]]) ||Victory in a sporting contest. Usually tongue-in-cheek.

|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU What a Wonderful World]'' ([[Louis Armstrong (Music)|Louis Armstrong]])||[[Romance|Romantic]] or just as often ironic, such as horrific fighting on screen. [[Soundtrack Dissonance]], used to indicate a [[Crapsack World]]. See also ''[[Crap Saccharine World|Don't Worry Be Happy]]'' above.

|''[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 (TV)|The Benny Hill Show]]'', [[Musical Slapstick Montage]].

|| '''Song''' || '''Theme'''

|''[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 [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20100112044311/http://raymondscott.com/WB.html here].

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