History Main / CherubicChoir

* At the end of ''Franchise/StarWars [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Episode I]]'', children sing a major-key version of the ominous Emperor's theme.

* Played wonderfully in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', when the Exodus is occurring and the Israelites are leaving Egypt. In the musical background, groups of children are singing a song of praise to God in Hebrew. The music and animation in this scene work well in sync. At the beginning of the children's choir, the Israelites are unsure, as though they cannot believe that they are indeed being delivered from their bondage. Slowly, as the tempo picks up and more voices join in, we start seeing children playing in the road. A girl offers an elderly woman a hand. Moses ends up carrying two kids who are hanging from his staff as he balances it on his shoulders. People start laughing. Some people break out drum-heads and other musical instruments. Young women start dancing. By the end of the chorus we've gone from uncertainty to jubilation.

A group of children singing, giving an encouraging and positive feel to the scene. The choir is usually dominated by the clear, ringing voices of boy sopranos. A Cherubic Choir normally means that the good guys are in the middle of triumphing, though sometimes it just indicates we're done with the tense part. It can also imply a sort of divine endorsement of what's happening. Often a ThemeMusicPowerUp.

Children singing, giving an encouraging and positive feel to the scene. The choir is usually dominated by boy sopranos. A Cherubic Choir normally means that the good guys are in the middle of triumphing, though sometimes it just indicates we're done with the tense part. It can also imply a sort of divine endorsement of what's happening. Often a ThemeMusicPowerUp.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': The [[https://youtu.be/dbMAmDaRW6I C.H.E.R.U.B jingle]]. Sure, it might not be the traditional style of music you hear from this trope, but the song is still a sweet if highly energetic tune about blessing people and spreading positivity sung by ''literal'' cherubs.

* In addition to the Art/SistineChapel's famous paintings, the church is blessed with a six-hundred year old Latin choir that performs during compositions from the likes of the polyphonic master Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and other artists of the Counter-reformation during the Pontifical masses; [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/palestrina-missa-papae-marcelli/id1141527382 stream their hottest album on iTunes!]]

* ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 1}}'': The game's SoundStone, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtM4onLQ1I Eight Melodies]], is one of these in its OST interpretation. This song was used in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 1989 commercial]] for the game.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'' of all games employs this with Bowser's Castle and the end credits.

* ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemist2003'' has a beautiful Russian song named "Brothers", used both straight and for SoundtrackDissonance. [[TearJerker Very effectively.]]

* ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemist'' has a beautiful Russian song named "Brothers", used both straight and for SoundtrackDissonance. [[TearJerker Very effectively.]]

* Music/TheRollingStones song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from ''Music/LetItBleed'' with The (London) Bach Choir.

Compare EtherealChoir. Contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. See also InnocentSoprano and TenorBoy, who are heroic characters with high singing voices (that may even be childlike in the case of the former). For individual members of the choir, see {{Putto}}. See also ChildrenVoicingChildren.

Compare EtherealChoir. Contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. See also InnocentSoprano and TenorBoy, who are heroic characters with high singing voices (that may even be childlike in the case of the former). For individual members of the choir, see {{Putto}}. Compare ChildrenVoicingChildren.

Compare EtherealChoir. Contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. See also InnocentSoprano and TenorBoy, who are heroic characters with high singing voices (that may even be childlike in the case of the former). For individual members of the choir, see {{Putto}}.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': The scene where Esmeralda frees Quasimodo from the torture wheel.

** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'': Whenever Beelzebumon is involved in a [[CombiningMecha DigiXros]], the end of the TransformationSequence plays a brief high note of a Cherubic Choir, playing on his status as TheSacredDarkness.

* ''Film/LesChoristes'' is a movie about a Cherubic Choir formed by Clément Mathieu in order to SaveOurStudents; the choir also doubles as a way to highlight his resistantly cheerful attitude.

* The first ballad of Clamavi De Profundis's Music/{{Chieftain}} saga, "Strong", has two segments: the lament of the women who sang their farewells to their loved ones, and the Latin chant sung by the monks as the Vikings arrive to plunder their monastery. Both serve as a contrast to the Vikings' powerful battle cries.

->''"Expensive horror films have more expensive theme tunes, like choirs of small children going, 'Aah-AAH-aah-aah-AAH-aah, I died tragically, la, la,la.'"''
-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard'''

* Three Dog Night’s “Black And White” features a chorus of children at the end.

Contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. See also InnocentSoprano and TenorBoy, who are heroic characters with high singing voices (that may even be childlike in the case of the former). For individual members of the choir, see {{Putto}}.

Contrast CreepyChildrenSinging, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. For individual members of the choir, see {{Putto}}.

* Used extensively in ''[[VideoGame/NiGHTSIntoDreams NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams]]'' to drive home the [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent-children]] theme of the game. It's most prominent in "When the Night Falls," the hub world. The same vocal sounds are later used in ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'''s Desert Ruins Zone 3, which has a [[LevelAte candy motif]].

-->It's a motherfucker, don't you know!
-->When they push that button, yo' ass gotta go!

* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': The scene where Esmeralda frees Quasimodo from the torture wheel.

* The first ballad of Clamavi De Profundis's Music/{{Chieftain}}, "Strong", has two segments: the lament of the women who sang their farewells to their loved ones, and the Latin chant sung by the monks as the Vikings arrive to plunder their monastery. Both serve as a contrast to the Vikings' powerful battle cries.