Line #68 Main/ElegantClassicalMusician


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13	[[quoteright:350: [[Literature/MansfieldPark https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Austen_MansfieldPark_ElegantClassicalMusician_9887.jpg]]]]
14	[[caption-width-right:350: Edmund is enchanted by Mary the harpist.\
15	Fanny is somewhat less pleased.]]
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17	->''"A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself, and both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded by shrubs in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart."''
18	-->-- Narrator of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/MansfieldPark''
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20	Maybe the way [[DoubleEntendre she can handle the instruments]]. Maybe her skilled hands, the way she blows that oboe, the way she wraps her legs around her cello, or the dramatic effect she creates when she reaches the concerto's climactic high note. Her beautiful silk dress and her carefully arranged hair add to her appeal. Whichever it is, there is something about women playing Classical instruments that really pulls men's strings. As the page image and quote illustrate, HarpOfFemininity often falls under this.
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22	Apparently, [[MenAreUncultured men aren't so uncultured]] if the culture in question is performed by an elegant beauty.
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24	Applies to all female classical musicians no matter what instrument they are playing. Might apply [[RealMenWearPink to male classical musicians too]], especially if they are handsome, charismatic, and wearing a stylish tailored suit or tuxedo.
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26	Compare SittingSexyOnAPiano, where the fetching woman on the piano isn't the one playing it. {{Subtrope}} of ArtistsAreAttractive. See also ClassicalMusicIsCool, which may be a reaction if the hottie inspires someone to pay attention to the music, and GirlsLikeMusicians, where the appeal comes from the very fact that the boy is a musician.
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39	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Rin Baio is a refined young lady in middle school who plays the violin and is humble in spite of her talent, insisting she still needs her lessons. In fact her name, when in surname-first Japanese order, is a play on "violin". This is in stark and hilarious contrast to the other main aspect of her personality: a violence-loving NightmareFetishist. In fact her name, when in surname-first Japanese order, is a play on "violence".
40	* Creator/MichiyoAkaishi re-uses the trope in ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria'', where the lead female Aria Kanbara wants to be one of these and thus she applies to a music school in the Tokyo of TheRoaringTwenties. She also has enough talent to [[spoiler:switch ''completely'' from piano to opera singing when she cannot play the piano anymore due to an injury]].
41	* Seika "Mariana" Akishima from Creator/MichiyoAkaishi's ''Manga/Amakusa1637'', a prospective opera singer who's famous in her school as such. Her beautiful voice is showcased when she reunites with Natsuki and Eri in the past, via singing to them from the boat she's in so they can recognize her.
42	* Haji, a male example from ''Anime/BloodPlus''. He carries a cello and was specifically trained in using it to entertain his master, [[spoiler:Saya]]%% * In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', teenaged Takami "Komo" Komoda is a talented pianist. In the manga, it's a plot point: [[spoiler: she actually manages to ''win her battle without pìloting Zearth'', as she and her father lure her rival pilot in her last recital and get him killed]].
43	* The twelfth ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie, ''[[Anime/DetectiveConanFilm12FullScoreOfFear Full Score of Fear]]'', gives us ''several'':
44	** Reiko Akiba and Sara Chigusa are opera singers and {{Aloof Dark Haired Girl}}s. Appeared because the case has two classical musicians being killed off.
45	** There's the beautiful Shion Yamane, who's a violin player.
46	** There's a cute violinist named Shouko Kabe. [[spoiler:She dies too.]]
47	** The violinist Osamu Shida is a local musician, and very good-looking. [[spoiler: And he's killed, too.]]
48	** It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Reiko's ex-boyfriend Hikaru Souma]] was a musician -- a flute player. And he was quite TallDarkAndHandsome. [[spoiler:He actually [[PosthumousCharacter was killed]] in a [[DeadlyPrank prank that went horribly wrong]]... ''and this is what triggers all the murders'', as the killer of the week is Hikaru's long-lost father Takumi, aka the director of the music hall that hosts a lot of the action, [[LoveMakesyouEvil seeking to punish those who caused the death of the son he never knew]].]]
49	** In the series proper we meet the violinist and composer Kyousuke Haga, who is ''very'' TallDarkAndHandsome as well [[Creator/KoichiYamadera and has a lovely deep voice]]. [[spoiler: And he turns out to be the case's SympatheticMurderer.]]
50	* Misaka in episode 19 of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' does a violin solo. Bonus points as it was the [[DiegeticSoundtracKUsage opening tune]] and one of the few times she wears something other than her school uniform, a white flowing dress.
51	* Hijiri Minase from ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' is a male TeenGenius violinist who is the DistressedDude from the ''Devil's Thrill'' arc.
52	%% * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': [[TheHero Allen]] can play the magic piano of the 14th aboard the original Noah´s Ark.
53	* Nozomi from the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' manga aspires to become one of the sexy musicians (of the opera singer kind), despite her father's objections and tremendous abuse.
54	* ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'': Leonhardt Aschenbach is a FamedInStory pianist nicknamed "the secondcoming of Mozart" because of his skills. [[spoiler:It plays an important role as it comes out in handy when he uses an anti-Nazi song in his "Austrian symphony" to escape from the Nazis with Jeudi.]]
55	* The ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'''s version of ''Rapunzel'' has the protagonist as a skilled musician, and her signature instrument is the lyre. The Prince actually hears her playing and [[LoveAtFirstNote falls in love with her music]], ''then'' meets up with her. [[spoiler: She keeps her lyre after [[StarCrossedLovers she and the Prince are separated]] by the Witch, and the now blinded Prince finds her after [[BookEnds he hears her play the same song that she played when they met]].]]
56	* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Henrietta carries her main gun in a violin case a la [[TheMafia the Mafia]], and plays the violin quite well. However, she is only eleven years old and lacks any sexualization. Many of the cyborgs are versed in arts, with Henrietta being a musician.
57	%% ** Claes loves to play the piano, but being one of Henrietta's, she is only a child herself.
58	* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Ai Shinozaki is a pre-teen HugeSchoolgirl who is [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks]]. At the age of 12-13, she's a genius violin player as well as an AloofDarkHairedGirl. [[spoiler: And a LonelyRichKid StepfordSmiler who's possessed by a demon due to her loneliness and emotional turmoil.]]
59	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
60	** Austria plays the piano. [[http://www.zerochan.net/369634 As seen on the official calendar]], he can also play the violin. And Germany can play the cello. Fanart frequently shows Austria's wife Hungary as a musician, though they tend to make her either a backup folk dancer or the violin player to accompany Austria and his piano.
61	** The ''[[HighSchoolAU Gakuen Hetalia]]'' strips and anime episode show that Estonia (piano player) and Ukraine (singer) are also fond of music and are members of the World School's music club.
62	** [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-1566.html Prussia]] is a talented flute player, even if he's far more HotBlooded than the standard.
63	* Seraphim from ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'' plays the violin and later [[spoiler:leads her fellow vampire ninjas in closing the gates to the underworld; extra appeal comes from them being in [[{{Meido}} maid costumes]]]].
64	* Fujiwara from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' was an award-winning pianist when she was a child, and her talent is apparently well known enough around the school that a guidance counselor asked if she was planning on attending a conservatory while discussing her plans for after graduation. This is one of the many reasons that Miko [[InappropriateRoleModel looks up to her]] since she is also a piano player.
65	* Kaoru from ''Manga/KidsOnTheSlope'' is a male example. He's a soft {{bishonen}} who plays the piano and contrasts with his more boyish drummer friend. Together, the two play jazz.
66	* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'':
67	** Madoka Ayukawa plays the piano, the saxophone, and the guitar with skill enough to make her a professional musician with any one of them. She's a not half-bad IdolSinger when in a pinch, either.
68	** It's InTheBlood. Madoka's mother is implied to be beautiful but never clearly seen, and she is a famous classical violinist. And Madoka's father is an equally well-known conductor, so she learned from the best.
69	%% * ''Manga/KurobaraAlice'':
70	%% ** Dimitri was an opera singer in the past.
71	%% ** Dimitri's beloved Agniezska was a really good pianist [[spoiler:before dying]].
72	%% ** Asuza was a music teacher who played the piano pretty well.
73	%% * As befitting of young {{Ojou}}s, [[ThoseTwoGuys Arisa and Suzuka]] of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' both take violin lessons.
74	* ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'': Kei Tsuchiya is a handsome boy that plays the piano, while Anju Kitahara is a lovely girl who plays the violin.
75	%% * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'':
76	%% ** Trowa plays the flute, while Quatre plays the violin. He is also a skilled piano player, bonding with Noin over a sonata that he plays [[spoiler:in the Sanq Kingdom school.]]
77	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Shirabe is very pretty with her violin, but [[DreadfulMusician is not a good performer]]. Her music can [[MusicalAssassin shatter stone]], even.
78	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
79	** Shinji Ikari plays the cello. Although it doesn't particularly make him more attractive than usual to the viewers, hearing his performance does elicit [[PetTheDog some rare genuine niceness]] from Asuka as she notes he's really skilled with it.
80	** Kaworu Nagisa is known for playing the piano and in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' his playing was apparently so sexy that he was able to give ShrinkingViolet Shinji a LuminescentBlush.
81	%% ** The first part of ''Evangelion: Death and Rebirth'' has several of the Children playing instruments.
82	%% * ''Manga/NodameCantabile'':
83	%% ** [[http://www.jasms.de/anime/nodame/kiyora.jpg Miki]] [[http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i276/miharuyuki/fall%202006%20anime/cast06kiyora.jpg Kiyoura]].
84	%% ** Nodame herself if she wouldn't make silly faces while playing.
85	%% * [[{{Ojou}} Haru]] from ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' plays the violin.
86	%%* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
87	%%** Both Choutarou Ohtori and Yuushi Oshitari are handsome, promising violinists. Their coach Tarou Sakaki is an older version, as he works in Hyoutei as a tennis coach ''and'' one of the music teachers.
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89	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has Kyosuke Kamijou, Sayaka's longtime friend and one-sided crush. A violin prodigy from a young age, he had some kind of CareerEndingInjury before the series began and became increasingly depressed and unstable as a result; Sayaka thus uses her [[DealWithTheDevil wish]] to heal him. Things go [[AllLoveIsUnrequited downhill]] [[LoveTriangle from]] [[DespairEventHorizon there]].
90	%% * Quon Kisaragi from ''Anime/RahXephon''. She's the MsFanservice of the show.
91	* ''Manga/RougeNoir'' gives us the two leads, Kou and Ayane. Ayane doubles as SenseiChan since she's a music teacher, and sings well enough to be able to take over when the music club's main singer Rena can't perform.
92	* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
93	** Michiru plays the violin and the piano. In fact, many of her scenes have her introduce herself... violin melody first. She's depicted as more mature and alluring than the Inner Senshi, though [[ArtisticAge she's still a high schooler herself]].
94	** Michiru's girlfriend Haruka is seen playing the piano alongside Michiru and she does it rather nicely. Haruka is also classy and mature, though with a more boyish appeal than Haruka.
95	* Invoked with the trumpist Reina from ''Literature/SoundEuphonium'', who wants to become a professional musician. All the characters play instruments, but Reina intentionally tries to act older than her actual age (which is 15 at the start). She wears long dresses and gives off the impression of an AloofDarkHairedGirl, but there are [[NotSoAboveItAll still moments where she shows her youth]].
96	* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', the incredibly wealthy and good-looking Shuu Tsukiyama is a pianist with a love for classical music. During his turn as the ArcVillain, he plays "Moonlight Sonata" on a church organ to pass the time while waiting for his..."dinner date" to arrive. In the sequel, his equally-attractive [[KissingCousins cousin]], Kanae, is a violinist and fondly recalls their DuetBonding.
97	* Music/{{Tsukipro}} idols Hajime Mutsuki (violin), Rui Minaduki (piano), and Shou Onoda (violin) all fit this trope. Rui and Shou both played classical music professionally before becoming idols, and their focus episodes in their respective anime series (''Tsukiuta the Animation 2'', ''Vazzrock the Animation'') involve people from their past who were deeply moved by their music. Hajime simply learned the violin as a child, but he is elegant playing it, the same as everything else he does -- especially to Shun.
98	* Luka from ''Manga/UndertakerRiddle'' is a child violinist and [[MagicMusic uses it to give musical burials to evil spirits]].
99	* ''Manga/YourLieInApril'': Kousei was already a ChildProdigy pianist that inspired many people with his piano playing before events in the series began. Though at the start of the series he's got HeroicBSOD and somewhat lost his edge, he starts to become this again when he returns to playing piano and tries to overcome his obstacles with the help of Kaori. [[spoiler:He finally fully become this after the death of Kaori, stunning Hiroko, Nagi, and even Koharu with his practice performance.]]
100	-->'''Hiroko''': "Look how you've gotten more sensual. You've grown up, have you?"\
101	'''Koharu''': "So cool!"\
102	'''Nagi''': ''blushing'' "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I-it's not like I want to be able to play like him, all right?]] What a cliche!"
103	%% ** Though she's fit to the category, Kaori averts this: she plays the violin and has an elegant appearance, but her style of play is wild and full of energy.
104	%% ** Takeshi and Emi both are pianists who play quite elegantly, although Emi's style is also very personal and energetic.
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108	* Virtuosa, the [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Villain]] to [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[ComicBook/TheFlash Flash]] villain the Fiddler. She plays a magic violin that can control minds and alter matter.
109	* In ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy: Hotel Oblivion'', the image of [[LoveInterest Vanya]] in Diego's heart is of her playing the violin in a rundown apartment, eyes closed -- completely oblivious to the grime and poverty surrounding her. It is one of the few panels in which she is truly content. (They [[IntimateArtistry used to be in a band together]] before things went to hell.)
110	* Ingrid from ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'' is said to be a well-known professional pipe organist, which curiously [[InformedAbility never is brought up again after her introduction]].
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114	* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': As in canon, Shinji is a skilled cello player, and he is later joined by Asuka (Violin), Rei (Viola), and Kaworu (Violin). Shinji even [[spoiler:writes a concerto for Asuka's birthday and performs it alongside Rei and Kaworu.]] And yes, he does get other uses out of his "musician's hands".
115	* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
116	** Taliesin is, of course, being a legendary bard, a highly accomplished musician, and a practitioner of MagicMusic. And by "highly accomplished" we mean, "was to music what Da Vinci was to art." In one of the side-stories, he riffs off "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", saying that he's "the best there's ever been" - and given what he does next, and [[spoiler: the fact that he ''can't'' lie]], every indication is that he's ''right.'' And even with that, incredibly, the bard thing was a sideline as he was primarily the Court Physician of Camelot. Certainly, he can play the harp and seamlessly shift pieces while carrying on a conversation with someone, and his appearance [[spoiler: (both glamoured and original)]] is generally agreed to be very handsome. He's also better known as [[spoiler: Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme.]]
117	** Harry becomes one in Book III during the TimeSkip, practising with the flute that Hagrid made him, and which has since been inlaid with mithril by Doctor Strange. It's unclear whether it's inherently magical or he's simply learned how to play MagicMusic, but he's happy using it either as an ersatz [[VideoGame/LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]], or simply as a flute. By the time the story catches up to him again, he's good enough and confident enough to play for a dance party in K'un L'un, and later, to attract an audience simply by sitting down and playing, leaving Carol utterly entranced, before noticing her presence and ad-libbing an instrumental version of [[Music/RoyOrbison "Pretty Woman"]]. And, of course, he is long acknowledged to have become a dashingly handsome young man.
118	* In many ''FanWorks/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics, Octavia Melody is a sophisticated musician who plays classical music for the upper-class of Equestria. Taken further in Fanfic/TheCadanceverse, in which Octavia's cello is enhanced by the magic of the Elements and she uses their power to perform music that can crush evil... while still maintaining her reserved, elegant demeanor.
119	* The fanfic ''Fanfic/ThisNearlyWasMine'' includes Octavia Philharmonica, but it's focused on Frederic Horshoepin, Octavia's bandmate and a male example of an Elegant Classical Musician.
120	* In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' fanfic ''Mockingbird'', fake Ciri beautifully plays the fortepiano and the piano, coming to compose a melody herself.
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124	%% * Both main characters (Hiroki and Sayuri) in ''Anime/ThePlacePromisedInOurEarlyDays'' play the violin. She plays a certain song for him, he later learns her song and plays it himself.
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128	* ''Film/AugustRush'': Evan's parents are both definitely this, but his mother, with the fingers, and the strings, and the touching... And look how into it she is.
129	%% * Daigo from ''Film/{{Departures}}'' plays the cello.
130	%% * Madeline in ''Film/ElectricDreams''.
131	* Dana Barrett (Creator/SigourneyWeaver) from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', who is a cello player that gets stranded in the middle of a return of Sumerian god.
132	* ''Film/IfYouBelieve'' (a MadeForTVMovie and YetAnotherChristmasCarol): Tom Weller, a former lawyer and a writer, plays the trombone. He uses it to charm Susan when he invites her to see him play Christmas carols with a town orchestra. She is his editor, working with him on his first novel, and insists that they cannot be romantically involved. Susan's younger self Susie says she ''[[LampshadeHanging loves]]'' that he plays the trombone, pointing out that musicians are attractive.
133	* Kara Milovy (Creator/MaryamDabo) in the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''. Her first scene is playing cello at a concert and looking gorgeous enough to distract [[HandsomeLech Bond]].
134	* Tamsin (Creator/EmilyBlunt) in ''Film/MySummerOfLove'' is an attractive brunette from the upper class and plays the cello, in a case of CastTheExpert.
135	* India from ''Film/{{Stoker}}'' is a very gifted pianist, and at one point, she and her uncle engage in some very suggestive DuetBonding.
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139	* A blonde woman goes into an expensive clothes shop looking for evening wear. Every time she tries a new dress, she sits in a chair and spreads her legs as far as she can. The salespeople are shocked, and when she's made her choice is coldly told never to come back again. As they smugly look at her leave, another customer points out that they just kicked out the lead cellist for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...
140	** Typically, female cellists of whatever age and level of performance in a situation where the dress code is dresses or skirts wear wide-legged pants that suggest a flowing skirt.
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144	* In most of Creator/JaneAusten's novels, both protagonists and secondary female characters can play musical instruments to various degrees of excellence, and it is often significant for the plot. It's a rather justified trope: back then music was one of the important accomplishments that girls and women tried to gain to appear beautiful and more desirable as a future spouse.
145	** Marianne Dashwood of ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' is a talented pianist with very deep feelings for music. She is greatly admired for it. She's also an extremely beautiful girl.
146	** Pictured above: Mary Crawford from ''Literature/MansfieldPark'' plays the harp and is very well aware of this trope. She uses her playing the harp to charm Edmund, although he would have probably fallen for her without the harp as well.
147	** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'':
148	*** Elizabeth Bennet plays the piano moderately well, but she's a good singer and everybody enjoys her pleasant performance. In the Rosings arc, Elizabeth and her playing is a major source of entertainment to Colonel Fitzwilliams and Mr. Darcy.
149	*** Elizabeth's sister Mary is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Although she practices a lot and tries very hard, [[DreadfulMusician she cannot sing and her taste in music is rather dreadful]]. It doesn't help that she's ''the only one'' plain among the attractive Bennet sisters.
150	*** Miss Bingley is an attractive woman and a good pianist. Music is among her tricks to enchant and catch Mr. Darcy. She's not very successful, though.
151	*** Miss de Bourgh is too ill to take lessons, but her mother boasts that if she had been healthy, she would have been a wonderful performer.
152	*** Miss Darcy can play the piano exceptionally well and she practices playing and singing all the time, which is mentioned throughout the book several times.
153	** ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Both Emma and Jane Fairfax play the piano and are admired. It helps that both are great beauties, often considered the loveliest in Jane Austen's 'verse.
154	*** Emma is very talented, but she never bothered to practice regularly as a child. She is still more than just a decent pianist and she plays and sings very well, but whenever Jane visits her relatives in Highbury, Emma is vexed that [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter she's no longer the best musician]].
155	*** Jane Fairfax was brought up in London and had lessons with the best masters, reaching her top performance. Everybody admires her dedication to music and everybody urges her to play for them.
156	** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'':
157	*** Anne Elliot is an elegant, slender woman with a cultured mind. She plays the piano exceptionally well and has great taste in music. However, she could share it with only two people -- her late mother and her former fiancé Captain Wentworth.
158	*** Henrietta and Louisa Musgrove both play the piano, the harp and they sing. They are pretty and amiable, and they like showing off their accomplishments. It's hinted that their parents tend to gush about them.
159	* ''Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood'': A male example, but it definitely counts. Vivi's boyfriend attracts the attention of everyone everywhere ever because he just looks and sounds so pretty when playing his fiddle. It's also used to demonstrate what a gentleman he is; there's a very touching scene where he dedicates a song to Vivi's unattractive, unloved mother and nearly makes her cry with happiness.
160	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has a couple of examples.
161	** Although no romantic attraction is involved, Katniss notes that her wealthy OnlyFriend Madge is an excellent pianist, and Katniss loves to listen to her play.
162	** Also, Peeta fell head-over-heels in love with Katniss when he was five years old and he heard her singing in their music class. Allegedly her singing was so beautiful that "the birds stopped to listen."
163	%% * Jem Carstairs from ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', can play the violin, and quite well, too.
164	* The eponymous and very feminine heroine in ''Literature/KilmenyOfTheOrchard'', by Creator/LMMontgomery, plays expert violin.
165	* In the Literature/JamesBond story "The Living Daylights", Bond notices a female cellist entering a symphony hall suspected to contain a sniper nest, and he briefly contemplates all the vaguely-erotic implications of such a woman with such a large instrument between her thighs as she plays.
166	* A male example with Milton Stephanides in ''Literature/{{Middlesex}}''; he uses his skills to seduce Tessie. They then go on to [[spoiler: use it ''in'' sex, or at least, foreplay]].
167	* In the ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' series, among Tina's criteria for a boyfriend is that he play a musical instrument.
168	* Blanche from Jen de la Brete's novel ''Reine: My Priest and my Uncle'' is Reine's AloofDarkHairedGirl of a cousin, and she's an excellent piano player as well.
169	* Gideon from ''Literature/TheRubyRedTrilogy''. He moves Gwen to tears when he plays the violin and he can also play the piano. Learning to play these instruments seems to be part of the Guardians' [[TimeTravel time-travel]] curriculum.
170	* {{Invoked}} in ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13'' -- [[RichBitch Mrs. Trottle]] is nursing a crush on the Astors' suave double-bass player, Rodrigo de Roque. The narration informs us that he's actually a HappilyMarried man named Neville Potts, but smiling flirtatiously is apparently part of his job.
171	* In ''{{Literature/Seraphina}}'' both Seraphina and her mother Linn Dombegh play several instruments enchantingly well:
172	** Seraphina bewitches an audience of thousands, with a song she wasn't going to play in the first place, ''at a funeral'', playing someone else's flute!
173	** Seraphina gets this from her mother, Linn, who was also an incredibly talented musician. Her case becomes even more interesting because instead of just playing technically perfectly as other emotion-impaired dragons might, Linn apparently played with passion.
174	** A lot of what drew Linn and Claude (Seraphina's father) to each other seems to be linked to their joint interest in music, though Claude seems to be more of a composer and is only ever shown singing, not using any other instrument.
175	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': ShelteredAristocrat Rhaegar Targaryen could bring people to tears with his beautiful harp music.
176	* FriendlyEnemy Captain Werner Von Ebrannac in the French novella ''[[Literature/LeSilenceDeLaMer Le Silence de la Mer]]''.
177	%% * Fenchurch from ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish''
178	* ''Literature/FujimiOrchestra'': Yuuki is a magnificently talented violinist whose music attracted the prodigy conductor Kei's attention even without seeing him, even while playing outdoors on a poor-quality instrument.
179	* Alan from ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' is incredibly gifted at playing the piano and violin, to the point that people say that he had been blessed by the god of music. Given that he had spent most of his childhood living in the shadow of his twin brother, he quickly came to embrace music once his talent was discovered. The brothers' relationship started to improve soon afterwards.
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183	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
184	** Leslie Winkle plays in a string quartet. She {{lampshades}} this trope when she tries to seduce Leonard and blatantly asks him if playing the cello [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything reminds him of anything else]].
185	** Leonard plays the cello. It worked on Leslie but he doesn't use it on other women.
186	** Amy Farrah Fowler plays the harp, which is of course completely lost on Sheldon.
187	* [[{{Parody}} Parodied]] and {{Inverted\|Trope}} in the ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' episode "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS3E16HouseMouses House Mouses]]", in which classical musicians are too broke to worry about anything but survival, so they resort to thefts both major (insurance fraud) and minor (the trio Holt hires attempting to steal kitchen supplies from the Nine-Nine's cafeteria). Boyle sums it up: "Classical musicians are savages".
188	* ''Series/{{Everwood}}'':
189	** Ephram Brown is a brilliant pianist. Amy Abbott, his love interest and his eventual girlfriend, likes Ephram's playing a lot. She admires his dedication to music and his immense talent.
190	** DiscussedTrope: In a flashback, Ephram's mum tells him that girls find his playing very attractive. She's convinced that they sense he is very confident when he plays as it is his thing.
191	** InvokedTrope: Mrs. Brown was quite a matchmaker. She tried to invoke the trope as she makes Ephram ''accidentally'' meet his crush and invite her for his piano recital.
192	* In the pilot of ''Series/{{Forever\|2014}}'', Henry is chatting up a beautiful, elegant woman on the subway, who is a cello player heading to perform at a concert at the Lincoln Center.
193	%% * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' had a couple, notably a cellist he meets at the airport.
194	%% * Emma from ''{{Series/Heroes}}''.
195	* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Jeri's old flame Kith is a cellist, and when they start hooking back up there is a ''lot'' of "playing classical music leading to sexy times" scenes.
196	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Faculty Band", Mr. Boynton mentions that Miss Enright, Miss Brooks' [[SitcomArchNemesis great rival]], plays the harp.
197	-->'''Mr. Boynton''': Well, look at our new harp.
198	-->'''Miss Brooks''': [[FluffyCloudHeaven But we're so young!]]
199	-->'''Mr. Boynton''': It's for the band. Miss Enright lent it to us. I understand she plays like an angel.
200	-->'''Mr. Boynton''': [[DeadpanSnarker I can hardly wait.]]
201	* ''Series/PartOfMe'': Mónica's is refined ProperLady who is a pianist of international renown. When she starts SharingABody with the younger but working-class Adriana, she starts working as a pianist tutor to find a way back into the social circles she used to frequent.
202	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. HandsomeLech Tom Paris finds out that his friend Harry Kim is doing music practise with a good-looking female crewmember and derides her as having "cold hands, cold heart." Harry smirks and replies: "Not when she's playing the oboe."
203	%% * ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' has an example.
204	%% * ''Series/{{Wings}}'': Helen is a cellist.
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207	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
208	* In the old Spanish ballad ''Romance del Conde Niño'' (''Romance of the Young Count''), the protagonist is a [[PrincelyYoungMan young count]] with a very beautiful singing voice. He decides to sing about his feelings for [[UptownGirl his kingdom's princess]], nevermind her mother's ParentalMarriageVeto. [[StarCrossedLovers It goes]] FromBadToWorse [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse very]] [[DeathByDespair soon]] and they end up TogetherInDeath.
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210
211	[[folder:Poetry]]
212	* In Creator/WilliamShakespeare's "Sonnet 128", the poet [[CargoEnvy envies the keys of the virginal]] (the musical instrument very much like the harpsichord) that they are touched by the dark lady's fingers. It's very sexy and very erotic.
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215	[[folder:Theater]]
216	%% * Male example: Thomas Jefferson in ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''. Martha Jefferson's one scene is the song "He Plays the Violin" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6DJEn2J9o&feature=related Hear it here]].
217	* Deconstructed in Creator/GeorgeBernard Shaw's ''Theatre/DonJuanInHell'' where he points out that Donna Anna's mother made her learn how to play half a dozen pieces on the harpsichord "which she hated as much as you did" so she could convince some unsuspecting man that she was an angel of harmony that would fill his home with music, but never touched the instrument after she was married. She replies that a married lady with a large household to run hasn't time "to sit at the spinnet with no support for her back."
218	%% * This trope was so conventional in Elizabethan England that Ben Jonson in fact {{parodied}} it in Comedy of Manners ''Every Man in his Humour''.
219	* In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Benedick is careful to include "excellent musician" in the description of his perfect woman.
220	%% * Used in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''.
221	%% * Jane Spofford in ''Theatre/TheWitchesOfEastwick''.
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223
224	[[folder:Video Games]]
225	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Miles Edgeworth is at least a former member of this trope, as he is both extremely elegant and classy, and in school, was an accomplished flute player.
226	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', {{Moe}} and BunnyEarsLawyer Kotomi Ichinose is a ''really'' cute violin player. In a subversion, she is rather a DreadfulMusician and sucks at playing.
227	* ''VisualNovel/CrescendoJP'': Miyu Shizuhara, one of Ryo's possible love interests, is a very cute-looking piano player. You can have Ryo attends one of her recitals! [[spoiler:And one of the sex scenes with her happens in the music room... ''and on the piano itself'']].
228	* ''VideoGame/LaCordaDOro'' is a harem game set in a fancy music school, so naturally there are many scenes where a male character impresses the heroine with how soulfully they play their instrument of choice.
229	%% * Helena from ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' is an opera singer when she isn't in battle.
230	* Carina Mitchell from ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' is a soft-spoken girl who Tim meets when she performs for a music ShowWithinAShow. She's involved in a case where [[spoiler:her one-of-a-kind violin is almost stolen]]. Pikachu has [[InterspeciesRomance a crush on Carina]] because of her elegant and humble demeanor.
231	%% * Usami Haru in ''VisualNovel/TheDevilOnGString'', though she never really gets to play the violin for Kyousuke due to [[spoiler:her trauma and desire for revenge against Maou.]]
232	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
233	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'':
234	*** [[BrokenAce Cordelia]] is said to be an incredibly talented [[HarpOfFemininity harp player.]] Her supports with [[NiceGuy Stahl]] have her teaching him how to play the harp as well. [[RelationshipUpgrade At the highest support level, they get married.]]
235	*** Cordelia says that her Pegasus knight captain/superior and Emmeryn's bodyguard, Phila, is even more talented at the harp than she is. Phila herself is a very beautiful woman, with a beauty mark under her left eye and pretty blue hair. [[spoiler: Too bad she's also a SacrificialLamb.]]
236	*** While the violinist Brady is said to have a bad case of FaceOfAThug, lots of fans find him adorable anyway. In his endings, he becomes "the world's scariest violinist". And if he marries either [[{{Tomboy}} Kjelle]] or [[CuteMonsterGirl Nah]], either of the girls will be inspired to take up music so they can keep him company.
237	** If singing counts, then Princess Azura from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' definitely fits in. Many of her romantic supports have her singing her songs and having potential boyfriends commenting on how lovely her singing is. In the same game, Sakura and Elise bond over playing their string instruments.
238	* The five musicians of the Sky Philharmonic Orchestra in ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', all having mastered their instrument and bringing brilliant and elegant music all across the Skydom for everyone to enjoy.
239	* ''VideoGame/LaCordaDOro'': Kahoko Hino plays the violin with the help of magic, and manages to attract a hoard of {{bishounen}} while she's at it.
240	* The ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'' games have two ghosts who fit this description:
241	** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' has Melody Pianissima, the {{Miniboss}} of the Conservatory you must summon by playing the instruments: she is courted by the old butler [[DirtyOldMan Shivers]], plays a soft rendition of the main theme on her piano while you walk in the corridor, and is a GamerChick who challenges you to find musical references to ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' games. If you have them, she throws paper sheets at you while playing a unique miniboss theme; on the other hand, if you don't get them, she will smash the piano keys in rage and disappear, forcing you to get out of the room and summon her again.
242	** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' has Amadeus Wolfgeist, a classy ghost piano player who holds an uncanny resemblance to Music/LudwigVanBeethoven and plays his own boss theme during a part of his battle. However, after his dancers are defeated, he [[VillainousBreakdown loses it]] and possesses the piano.
243	* In ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch'', the first thing we learn about Frances' LoveInterest is that when she played piano in the town pub, he would shush everyone so as to hear her better.
244	* {{Bishonen}} MusicalAssassin Yōkinshi from ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'' who kicks ass in all his gracefulness with the ''guqin''. He is also super arrogant, takes his music super seriously, and does not take too kindly to having his mood disrupted mid-recital.
245	* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
246	** Depending upon the player's choices, the protagonists of both ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' could be this. Due to both of them being eternal aces, no matter their choice of instrument they will inevitability be masterful at using it, and needless to say, are both incredibly handsome and desired by just about every girl they happen to cross (and more than a few boys).
247	** If the MC from ''VideoGame/Persona4'' joins the music club, he can befriend a very cute first-year student named Ayane Matsunaga, who plays the trombone and is one of the two candidates to become the Sun Social Link. While she's too shy and young-looking to fully fit the trope, within some years she should grow into one.
248	%% ** And in ''VideoGame/Persona3'' the Music Club one of the options for the Fortune Arcana to take place for the Male Protagonist.
249	%% * Maria in ''VideoGame/RhythmThiefAndTheEmperorsTreasure'', talented young Parisian violinist and Phantom R's love interest.
250	%% * Yurika Kirishima, violin-wielding MusicalAssassin from ''VideoGame/RivalSchools''.
251	* Ludwig from ''[[VideoGame/{{Richman}} Richman 11]]'' is a musician born in royalty. He is a nice man that is well-educated since young, can write and play classical music, and greatly values arts.
252	* ''VideoGame/SentimentalGraffiti'': Akira Endou is a virtuoso, but she never seems to win first place in any of her competitions, and this frustrates her to no end. You, as the protagonist, can help her gain some CharacterDevelopment by practicing with her and helping her realize that she's been too mechanical about it, not putting any of her emotions into her music.
253	* Rosé Mulan from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' is a graceful and attractive woman from the upper class, so it's not too much of a surprise when she reveals that she's been trained in a variety of classical instruments. Her knowledge of instruments [[ChekhovsSkill proves useful]] when finding something to calm the Screaming Author spirit.
254	* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'':
255	** Downplayed with the mayor's daughter Maria in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon1''. She's the most polite and cultured bachelorette, but her organ playing is more a sign of her religiousness rather than her class.
256	** Lumina from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' is an elegant teenager who lived with her affluent grandmother Romana. Lumina plays the piano, though she sometimes feels frustrated and overworked over it.
257	%% * Tsukasa from ''VisualNovel/SwanSong'', although only with his left hand.
258	%% * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Lunasa Prismriver, [[SelfFanService by the will of some of her fans]].
259	* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Malleus Draconia plays the violin. He's also royalty, and generally carries himself in a dignified, aloof manner.
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261
262	%% [[folder:Web Comics]]
263	%% * Jigsaw Forte, professional violinist turned ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' Executioner.
264	%% [[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Web Original]]
267	* Codex from ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' was a concert violinist, and plays her violin with the door open to try to get the attention of her attractive neighbor.
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269
270	[[folder:Western Animation]]
271	* Octavia Melody, formerly a OneSceneWonder background pony from the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' season one finale but has since appeared in future seasons and has garnered several fans for her classy demeanor, [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal snazzy bowtie]], and her skill with the cello. She's usually been seen alongside Vinyl Scratch, the {{Dubstep}} fan and club DJ who's achieved similar (and unusually literal) EnsembleDarkhorse status.
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