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1	A song (the genre of the song can be rock and roll, heavy metal, pop, country, alternative rock, etc.) has intervals of music that sound like they came from a music box. These music box intervals may sound light-hearted, nostalgic, or calming compared to the rest of the song. Sometimes it can serve as a creepy contrast to the actual song, or it may actually go well with the general theme/sound of the song.
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3	Compare OminousMusicBoxTune.
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6	!!Examples:
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11	* ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'''s "Sleepless Beauty".
12	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Sadness And Sorrow, Grief And Sorrow, Man Of The World, Loneliness, etc.
13	* The ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' anime has the song "Kabe no Mukou", which is quite [[NightmareFuel creepy]].
14	* "Lilium", the opening song used in the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' anime.
15	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Soundscape To Ardor (Morning Remembrance)
16	* A music-box theme plays periodically in ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', and the box itself is shown in one episode to belong to a certain character. It has a tune designed to invoke nostalgia.
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20	* [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hedwig's Theme]], although it is actually played on a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celesta celesta]] (a large music box that you can play like a piano).
21	* The song "I Am Listening" from ''Film/IAmLegend''.
22	* The theme song of the movie ''Literature/RequiemForADream.''
23	* The theme song of the movie ''Film/ForrestGump'', that plays in the opening.
24	* ''Film/{{Titanic\|1997}}'''s "My Heart Will Go On".
25	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'s'' "Once upon a december".
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29	* The British group Music/{{Muse}} tends to have introductions like this.
30	* The song "Blue" by Music/TheBirthdayMassacre.
31	* ''Music/SecretTreaties'' by Music/BlueOysterCult'' has tinkly little music-box rhythms linking the tracks.
32	* "Nemo" by Music/{{Nightwish\|Band}}.
33	** Also, "Taikatalvi"
34	** From Tarja Turunen's solo output, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85o7cEsb4ug "I Walk Alone."]]
35	* "A little pain" by Olivia inspi' Reira (Trapnest).
36	* "Saeglopur" by Music/SigurRos.
37	* "Bizarre Love Triangle" by Music/NewOrder.
38	* "No Don't Shoot" by Foxy Shazam.
39	* Frank Mills - "Music Box Dancer."
40	* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject: "Eye In The Sky", "Don't Answer Me", the main theme of "The Turn Of A Friendly Card" suite.
41	* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer, "Bitches' Crystal".
42	* ''The Dresden Dolls,'' "Coin-Operated Boy."
43	* A few Music/{{Evanescence}} songs. Most notably, "My Immortal" and "Bring Me To Life".
44	* "Flyswatter" by Music/{{eels}}.
45	* "Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy" by Music/MrBungle (complete by winding up and down).
46	* "Kuso Breakin No Breakin Lilly" by Music/MaximumTheHormone opens with this.
47	* Frosti by Music/{{Bjork}}--actually much of Vespertine.
48	* The song "Music Box" by Thrice opens and closes with a music box playing.
49	* "Kid A" and "No Surprises" by Music/{{Radiohead}}.
50	* "Every day", by Music/BuddyHolly.
51	* Music/TheProtomen song "Father of Death" from Act II.
52	* The beginning of "Gz and Hustlas" by Music/SnoopDogg.
53	* "Sunday Morning" by Music/VelvetUnderground.
54	* "Just Trying To Be" by Music/JethroTull.
55	* "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" by Music/{{ABBA}}.
56	* Music/BlackSabbath, of all bands, has a moment with this in "Fluff".
57	* "Time In A Bottle" by Music/JimCroce.
58	* Music/OzzyOsbourne: "Mr Tinker Train" opens with some music-boxish music. The song itself is kinda creepy, though.
59	* The opening riff to "Sweet Child Of Mine" by Music/GunsNRoses.
60	* "Wahrheit" by Music/YouseiTeikoku starts off with these, intersperses them within the chorus, and ends with them.
61	* "Listen To My Song" by Arthur Lee and Music/{{Love\|Band}}.
62	* "Old" by Music/{{Starflyer 59}} begins with a music box getting wound up and playing a few notes. The music box continues, very faintly, for the whole song, even after the rest of the instruments stop at the very end.
63	* The second half of "Spanish Caravan" by Music/TheDoors has an organ that sounds like a music box.
64	* "Streamline" by Music/{{Pendulum\|Band}} ends with one of these.
65	* "Freak", by Music/MollySanden, especially at the beginning. The music video also prominently features a ballerina music box.
66	* "Song 2" and "Nothing Passes" by Music/TheBody, provided in both cases by ambient artist Braveyoung.
67	* A music box arrangement of the Chorale from "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" [[BookEnds bookends]] Isao Tomita's version of Music/GustavHolst's ''The Planets'', playing at the start of "Mars, the Bringer of War" and the end of "Neptune, the Mystic.''
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71	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' has an entire level set in a music box. The music for this level is, fittingly, a slowed down music box rendition of series mainstay "Vampire Killer".
72	* A lot of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' songs: Kairi's theme, Namine's theme, Roxas's theme, Dearly Beloved, Hikari, etc.
73	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d357LkWN5U This song]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. The ocarina songs in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' (Song of healing, Stone Tower Temple theme, Elegy of Emptiness, etc. ) and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' (Zelda's lullaby, Song of time, etc.); no doubt there's more songs in the Zelda video games that fit this trope.
74	** The Song of Storms is technically played on a music box when you first hear it, but the device lacks the iconic tinny sound and more resembles a concertina.
75	* "Burning Heat! (3 Option Mix)", a remix of a song from ''Gradius 2'' heard in ''DDRMAX 2: VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution 7th Mix'', drops back to NES-style bleeps for eight seconds.
76	* In ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'', there are several songs with music box arrangements, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdP_CbUfvPY "Dispossession"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2yaLaULpEI "The Shadowlord's Theme."]]
77	* ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFJ1r6_4mW4 "Blue Bird Lamentation,"]] a sad song which begins and ends with a music box melody. It's the melody that Luna's music box pendant plays in-game.
78	* ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'' has Despair, its SimpleScoreOfSadness, done in this fashion for the light and super light arrangements of it.
79	* ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuLT0Hg1u80 "Eternity's Moment."]] the menu theme.
80	* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has "Mergo's Lullaby", the theme for one of the final bosses. In this case it actually ''does'' come from a music box, making an EarlyBirdCameo as the song played by the music box Gascoigne's daughter gives you.
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84	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' uses a gamelan during the Crystal Chamber sequence.
85	* "Fixing WesternAnimation/WallE" by Thomas Newman.
86	* "Tears To Shed" from the movie ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''.
87	* A majority of the songs in the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''.
88	* Mrs. Potts singing ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' in the movie's ballroom scene.
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