History Main / WestminsterChimes

* "Tender Shepherd" in the musical ''PeterPan'', though the low "sol" is often avoided by the singers.

* Can be heard in ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' during Blackwood's NewEraSpeech at the Parliament.

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Note: Though it is a RegionalRiff to establish you're in the U.K., if it is used in any work set in 2017-2020 (except Remembrance Sunday and New Year's Day) then [[RealityIsUnrealistic its use is inaccurate]] -- Big Ben was "turned off" for these years.

* Brownies (the UK equivalent of Girl Scouts) often used to end meetings with a song to this tune: "Oh Lord our God/ Thy children call/ Grant us thy peace/ And bless us all." Nowadays, because of the reference to God, another song is often used instead.

* Plays at the intro of "Playin' My Atari" by Bloated Monkey.

* Similarly to how the chime plays at the end of a school day in Japan, the sunset in the ''{{Pikmin}}'' games is marked with the Westminster chimes. The fourth note is higher than normal, however.

* The final cadence of "Everything's Coming Up Roses" in ''{{Gypsy}}''.

* It appears briefly at the beginning of the ''TokimekiMemorial'' stage in ''Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius''. And by extension, it's a staple of the ''TokimekiMemorial'' series, being {{Creator/Konami}}'s Japanese HighSchool RomanceGame series.

* The ThemeSong to ''Series/YesMinister'' was based on this motif.

* It appears briefly at the beginning of the ''TokimekiMemorial'' stage in ''Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius''. And by extension, it's a staple of the ''TokimekiMemorial'' series, being {{Konami}}'s Japanese HighSchool RomanceGame series.

* In the PatrickStewart narrated version of ''AChristmasCarol'', the chimes are used to indicate each quarter hour between midnight and one AM as Scrooge waited for the appearance of the Ghost of Christmas Past. The original book only uses "ding dong" for this purpose, but perhaps something more interesting was desired for an audio-only presentation.

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* [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul]] wasn't the only ex-[[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] to work the WestminsterChimes into one of his solo songs. They also feature quite prominently as a RecurringRiff in GeorgeHarrison's "Ding Dong, Ding Dong."
* Played on the harp in the "London Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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* Well the TropeNamer and TropeCodifier is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKOhOzQyZg Big Ben]] isn't it?
* Lots of doorbells have this as one of their standard digital tones.
* Some electronic air raid sirens have it as a test signal. So imagine the electronic doorbell tones, but at earsplitting volume, too!
* Japanese Schoolbells often use the Westminster chimes tune.
* Many antique clocks used this as a chime after "Big Ben" was built. However, the tune really originated from Great St. Mary's church in Cambridge, England, [[http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/great-st-marys/bells/ and was known as the "Cambridge" chimes before it was used in "Big Ben" at the Westminster Palace.]]
* Brownies (the UK equivalent of Girl Scouts) often used to end meetings with a song to this tune: "Oh Lord our God/ Thy children call/ Grant us thy peace/ And bless us all." Nowadays, because of the reference to God, another song is often used instead.
* At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Charlotte Dujardin won Britain's first individual dressage gold in decades, with a routine that matched the chimes to the strides in a [[http://theequestriannews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Olympic-dressage_DuJardinC_5x4.jpg canter pirouette]].
* Seems to be endemic to colleges and their belltowers. Examples include the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University.
* The Ohio State University Marching Band leads off its rendition of the school's alma mater, "Carmen Ohio", with an imitation of the campus's Orton Hall chimes.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_and_County_Building City and County Building]] in Salt Lake City.
* In Indonesia, train stations play this sound as a sign of train departure and arrival. Upon arrival of a train, the chimes will be looped continuously until it departs from the station. Indonesians mostly refers to the chimes as bel kereta, which means "train bells".

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* "Tender Shepherd" in the musical ''PeterPan'', though the low "sol" is often avoided by the singers.
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-->All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide

* The September chapter of ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'' starts with a scene at school where the Big Ben sound can be heard in the background.

->"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wWBjnaEck doo dee doo doo... doo dee DEE doo... dee doo dee doo... dee dee DEE doo...]]"

* ''TheKingOfQueens'': The doorbell of Doug and Carrie's annoying neighbors, the Sackskys.
* ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'': The doorbell of Ray and Debra's annoying rivals, the Parkers.

* The ArcadeGame ''Kangaroo'' plays the Big Ben chimes when you ring the bell. (This replenishes the fruits.)

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7w6a-siKs=1m32s Setia Band's "Stasiun Cinta"]] play the chimes twice after the first chorus.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZD9n7InB4=2m04s Heyho's "Stasiun Tua"]] play the chimes after singing "Di Stasiun Tua" in the first chorus.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7w6a-siKs=1m32s Setia Band's Stasiun Cinta]] After First Chorus Played This Chimes 2 Times.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZD9n7InB4=2m04s Heyho's Stasiun Tua ]]Play This Chimes After They Singing "Di Stasiun Tua" In First Chorus Of The Song.

* [[PaulMcCartney Paul]] wasn't the only ex-[[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] to work the WestminsterChimes into one of his solo songs. They also feature quite prominently as a RecurringRiff in GeorgeHarrison's "Ding Dong, Ding Dong."

* Jeff Beck quotes this in TheYardbirds song "Jeff's Boogie".

* PatrickWolf's ''London'' incorporates the last two measures, played on a piano.