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1->''[stops playing Mendelssohn's wedding recessional]''\
2"[sigh] ''All these wedding songs are so... standard."''
3-->-- '''[[ElegantClassicalMusician Octavia Melody]]''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E9SliceOfLife Slice of Life]]"
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5Typically appearing in works that employ a score with non-original elements, these are brief segments of recognizable songs -- like [[PublicDomainSoundtrack classical music that doesn't involve paying royalties]] -- as themes for various types of scenes or activities. Some of these occur often enough to seem standardized, and in some cases they are [[PopCulturalOsmosis the only reason people know the songs at all]].
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7Many of these have become verbal shorthand for particular nationalities or ethnicities, and thus may border on stereotypes.
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9Very common in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age cartoons]] that employ MickeyMousing, where they may be used as a {{leitmotif}}. Less so in modern cartoons, unless they have the budget to score episodes individually. If there is danger of having to pay money to use a piece of music, the piece can be imitated in style (SuspiciouslySimilarSong) or parodied. In [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Renaissance Age]] Creator/WarnerBros cartoons, this often happened with movie scores. A few other unreasonable substitutes are very recognizable, though.
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11Many songs owe their entries on the list below to the work of Carl W. Stalling, the musical director for the vast majority of the Warner Bros. ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons. He had a well-known tendency toward musical quotation and punning; Creator/ChuckJones 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.[[note]]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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY "Powerhouse")]].[[/note]]
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13Expect a fair amount of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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 [[UndeadHorseTrope Undead Horse Tropes]], but may reach a stage where they are [[DeadHorseTrope only used ironically]].
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15'''{{Subtrope}}s and snippets with their own pages include:'''
16[[index]]
17* StandardSnippet/AlsoSprachZarathustra
18* AmazingFreakingGrace (or just "Amazing Grace")
19* AmenBreak
20* BringerOfWarMusic
21* StandardSnippet/TheCancanSong
22* ChaosOfTheBells (for "Carol of the Bells")
23* DeathlyDiesIrae
24* ColonelBogeyMarch
25* JeopardyThinkingMusic (aka "Think!")
26* LohengrinAndMendelssohn
27* MinskyPickup
28* StandardSnippet/OFortuna
29* StandardSnippet/OdeToJoy
30* PachelbelsCanonProgression
31* StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries
32* ShaveAndAHaircut
33* {{Taps}}
34* StandardSnippet/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor -- what everyone who plays an OminousPipeOrgan is required to play
35* WestminsterChimes
36[[/index]]
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38Compare with BadToTheBone, StockFootage, StockSoundEffects, RegionalRiff, and PublicDomainSoundtrack.
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40If you're trying to find the name of a famous tune, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWouZiMkuJg "100 Very Well-Known Instrumentals"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cRldWnmdmA "Another 100 Well-Known Instrumentals"]], or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCx8Xcm9l7U "100 Songs You´ve Heard And Don´t Know The Name"]] may help.
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42----
43!!Other Examples:
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45This list is by no means complete, but let's give it a shot, eh?
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49[[folder:The Classics]]
50* ''[[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky_-_1812_overture.ogg 1812 Overture]]'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky) - specifically the final part, starting at 15:35 and the part from 12:51-13:16: Explosions, bombing runs, cannon fire. (The original symphony called for actual cannons.) Destroying the oppressive Government. If used, the explosions will almost always [[MickeyMousing go off in time with the music]]. Also used in TV spots for family movies, often with [[MusicalSlapstickMontage slapstick]] and/or StuffBlowingUp timed to the music.
51* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450 Adagio for Strings]]'' (Samuel Barber): Something really depressing happened. Starting to rival Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata'' for [[TearJerker/ClassicalMusic Tear Jerker]] status. ''{{Film/Platoon}}'' really pushed it into the public consciousness.
52* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields poppies]]); peace when the dust has settled; aftermath of tragedy or an apocalypse. And ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI#t=2m50s here]].
53* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg Air on a G String]]'' (adapted from 2nd movement of ''Orchestral Suite No. 3'' by Music/JohannSebastianBach): Scenes of peace, relaxation and repose, English countryside in good weather. [[ElegantClassicalMusician Cute girls.]] [[SoundtrackDissonance Destroying Mass-Produced]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion Units]]. It's also inextricably tied to the Hamlet cigar ads in the UK (though not as much if you were born after 1991). In Italy, it's tied to scientific TV programmes since the 1980s, because it's been used from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CW0GfTdMHM 1981]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KE1JHEFlq0 the present]] as the opening of documentaries presented by Piero Angela.
54* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4 Alla Hornpipe]]'' from ''Water Music'' (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): Elegance, beauty, royalty. Popular as a wedding recessional. If it's loud, brash, and arranged for horns, you're probably watching [[Creator/{{ITV}} Anglia TV]] in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
55* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yomi0-WL5Pg Alla Turca]]'' from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._11_(Mozart) Piano Sonata No. 11]] (Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart): Busy, flustered activity, Regency England, salon de thé. Alternatively, scenes of melodramatic peril. Especially associated with silent movies.
56* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kV1ctLu0Y Anitra's Dance]]'' from ''Theatre/PeerGynt Suite'' (Edvard Grieg): Dance displays involving women (usually ''Eastern''); display can involve live footage, statuary, friezes and 2D art in any combination.
57* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMiMKWGpL4 Anvil Chorus]]'' from ''Il Trovatore'' (Music/GiuseppeVerdi): Any kind of rhythmic pounding or hammering, as by blacksmiths, construction workers, or [[AnvilOnHead actual anvils being dropped on people's heads.]] [[note]]something ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' used this for regularly[[/note]] Used sometimes for invoking GloriousMotherRussia.
58* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD0FDLOKGA The Aquarium]]'' from ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (Camille 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. A surf guitar rendition was used as the soundtrack for Space Mountain from 1996-2005.
59* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGKJ9MgCOQ The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba]]'' (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): Period architecture, estates and larger dwellings; formal or state occasions.
60* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4m885sTeE Åse's Death]]'' from ''Theatre/PeerGynt Suite'' (Edvard Grieg): Any slow-moving and/or depressing scene or sequence; shots of fjords in overcast weather.
61* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIpVj_YkNo The Barber of Seville]]'' (Music/GioachinoRossini): ''Largo al Factotum'': Opera singers, barbers. Often mistitled "Figaro" after the name of the character and the main {{refrain|fromassuming}}.
62* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw Boléro]]'' (Music/MauriceRavel): Seduction (partly because of the movie ''Film/Ten1979'' although its slow building intensity gave it this reputation long before that came out). Sometimes used as an ice skating motif after being used for Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's record breaking Olympic gold medal performance.[[note]]Technically the medal was for ice dancing, a related but separate discipline but no-one outside the sports really cares about the distinction.[[/note]] Interestingly, the author himself intended it to represent factory noise.
63* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDaId3w3sA Bugler's Dream]]'' (Leo Arnaud)/''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdOFgDQIn0 Olympic Fanfare and Theme]]'' (Music/JohnWilliams): The UsefulNotes/OlympicGames, athletes, sporting events, especially track and field. Also majestic processionals. The two themes have become near-inseparable since Creator/{{NBC}} stuck them together for their Olympic coverage.
64* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI5LtRtrb0 Overture]]'' from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (Georges Bizet): Either fast-paced, often {{slapstick}} montages of comedy scenes in movie trailers, Music/WeirdAlYankovic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa1EnJt9UI flailing around like a constipated chimpanzee]], or [[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys killer animatronics]].
65* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K68tdN3fYw Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Va Pensiero)]]'' from ''Nabucco'' (Music/GiuseppeVerdi): Things proceeding in smooth and orderly fashion; engineering or civil engineering being showcased.
66* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfzK_nX-QM La cumparsista]]'' (Gerardo Matos Rodríguez): {{Tango}} dancing.
67* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prTB2dJjW8 Dance of the Hours]]'' from ''La Gioconda'' (Amilcare Ponchielli): Mincing ballet dancers. Old-fashioned domestic scenes. [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Tutu-clad hippos]]. Or kids [[Creator/AllanSherman writing home from Camp Granada]].
68* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUmq1cpcglQ Dance of the Knights]]'' from ''Romeo and Juliet'' (Sergei Prokofiev): Heavy industry and engineering, industrial revolutions, history of same. Occasionally, madness. In the UK and Ireland, used as the theme tune for ''Series/TheApprentice''. It was also used in the opening credits of ''Film/{{Caligula}}''.
69* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6NGIySZFpQ Dance of the Reed Flutes]]'' from ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): DaintyLittleBalletDancers, delicacy, tiptoeing; mincing and effeminacy.
70* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTjJUcJNAw Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy]]'' from ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): Ickle children waking in expensive houses on snowy Christmas mornings. Traditionally associated with Main/SantaClaus's visit to a child's home to deliver presents on Christmas Eve alongside having milk and cookies.
71* ''Dies Irae'' by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQf-86ikvM Mozart]] (18th century) or [[https://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_(Mozart) Mozart's]] conveys a sense of terror and sadness, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. Also, for the Mozart version, "[[VideoGame/FatalFury2 I'll chisel your gravestone, sleep well!]]"
72* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNzZcegT8g Eine Kleine Nachtmusik]]'' (Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart): ''Any and all'' fancy parties. Rivaled by ''Minuet'' and ''Spring'', below.
73* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0 Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' (Julius Fucík): Clowns, the circus, carnivals
74* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdhRYMY6IEc Erlkönig]]'' (Music/FranzSchubert): DastardlyWhiplash and other villains
75* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MiETaBSnc Fingal's Cave]]'' (Music/FelixMendelssohn concert overture "The Hebrides"): Any action in a cave, or journeys through sinister waters. Also perversely utilized by Creator/ChuckJones in his "Inki" cartoons (none of which have anything to do with caves) whenever the mysterious Mynah Bird appears on-screen.
76* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_GVUWllP4 Flight of the Bumblebee]]'' (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov): Frantic activity, swarms of insects
77* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqezCR_XzaI The Flying Dutchman]]'' Overture (Music/RichardWagner): Sea voyages, especially when endangered by rough weather
78* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNBKfNo9Pu0 Flower Duet]]'' from ''Lakmé'' (Léo Delibes): Beautiful and/or delicate settings and things. Scenes of sportspeople in slow motion
79* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig Funeral March]]'' (Music/FryderykChopin): Death, used especially in [[PacManFever television portrayals of video games]]. And those who find it funny will...[[Wrestling/TheUndertaker REST...IN...PEACE!]]
80* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_egPlYIXKYQ Funeral March of a Marionette]]'' (Charles Gounod): [[Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents "Good evening."]] Or a trip to the gallows.
81* ''[[http://youtu.be/wGYdeXRCD1c Gallop]]'' from ''The Comedians'' (Dmitri Kabalevsky): Comically frantic activity, chases, the circus.
82* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38h5gPBoT04 Gavotte]]'' (François-Joseph Gossec): Mincing, fussy movements, such as setting a table ''just so''.
83* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53NqvQoK1iA La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)]]'' (Music/GioachinoRossini) (it's an excerpt from the overture, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8pN5jTyO4E here]]): Classy, elegant, balletic shenanigans. And sometimes, even straight ballet. Also, ''those'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zRtT5jPLA fight]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90KPJ6n4Ew scenes]] in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' (Warning: ultra violence).
84* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1-ILVJxQLg4 "Giants"]]'' {{Leitmotif}} from ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'' (Music/RichardWagner): General ominousness, especially in WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.
85* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQx2TWgxX14 Gloria in Excelsis Deo]]'' (Music/AntonioVivaldi): Great ecclesiastical buildings and architecture, also seats of learning and medicine. Can be applied to any work of man on an impressive scale that is photogenic and non-evil.
86* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU Gymnopédie No.1]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0 Gnossienne No.1]]'' (Music/ErikSatie): Stillness, quiet and introspection. Stills and slow montages. The dwelling place and haunts of an artist now deceased.
87* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU Hallelujah Chorus]]'' from ''The Messiah'' (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): Epiphanies; particularly fortuitous events, someone finally getting what they want (often used facetiously). MindRape, in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.[[note]]Note that this latter use is actually closer to the original context of the piece; in the cycle of ''Messiah'' it represents Christ's Second Coming, which of course is happening during an incredibly violent apocalypse.[[/note]] [[Wrestling/DamienSandow You're welcome!]]
88* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp_9w3WgESU Hoe-Down]]'' from ''Rodeo'' (Music/AaronCopland): Film trailers for Westerns, especially light-hearted or family-friendly ones. Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviyAIS9c_U beef, which is what's for dinner.]]
89* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2]]'' (Music/FranzLiszt): Mostly here because it is ''not'' an example: it was used in [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry famous]] [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons]], yes, ''but played directly by the characters.'' It is used as a snippet in ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.
90* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]]'' from ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' suite (Edvard Grieg): A particularly dramatic or ominous event, often associated with Halloween themes, [[HauntedHouse haunted houses]] and spooky forests. Sometimes used for comedic effect in scenes featuring [[RubeGoldbergDevice large and needlessly complicated machinery]] under construction or in operation. Tied to adverts for Alton Towers in the UK. Finally, it's used in frantic montages with cuts getting quicker as the song goes on. Also, [[SpringtimeForHitler Edvard Grieg hated that it became so popular because it was meant to be ugly]].
91* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity]]'' from "The Planets" (Gustav Holst), ''Andante maestoso'' middle section (also called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaxted_(tune) Thaxted]]"): England at its pompous, grandiose (or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Vow_to_Thee,_My_Country reverent]]) best. Royal weddings and funerals. UsefulNotes/{{Rugby union}}; "Thaxted" is the tune used for the Rugby World Cup's official anthem, "World in Union".
92* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adKwG9ZuzFw Karelia suite in D]]'' (Jean Sibelius): Originally a patriotic piece about the fight for UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}'s independence from Russia, the first and third movements have been used as establishing theme music for TV current affairs shows. The horn-driven music indicates that some ''serious'' investigative journalism is about to take place here, so you had better sit up and pay attention, as we will be doing a test later. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c Finlandia]]'', or at least its more emphatic themes, have also been used to set the scene for serious analysis and investigative forensic current affairs shows.
93* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_suite_in_D_minor_(HWV_437) Keyboard Suite in D Minor]]'', fourth movement (Handel): Known generically as "Sarabande," it's commonly used for scenes of royalty and grandeur. Frequently used in television commercials, it occasionally crops up in films and television (eg. ''Film/BarryLyndon'', ''Series/JohnAdams'').
94* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vj8ow8iC4s Khoschei's Infernal Dance]]'' from ''Theatre/TheFirebird Suite'' (Music/IgorStravinsky): Daring flight, pursuit, science, art, etc. Challenges made and met.
95* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs Lacrimosa]]'' (from Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's ''Requiem''): Deaths, [[Manga/HunterXHunter moments]] [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind of]] AlasPoorVillain. The lyrics of the OminousLatinChanting help. Also, [[WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}} noot-noot.]]
96* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfBxYxU5vwQ Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Drinking Song)]]'' from ''La Traviata'' (Music/GiuseppeVerdi): Extravagance, luxury. Sometimes used ironically to criticize decadence.
97* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5nhMIyeqI&t=2m23s Light Cavalry Overture]]'' (Franz von Suppé): TheCavalry (when not being BigDamnHeroes).
98* ''Lohengrin'' (Music/RichardWagner): [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InPRlxxOpOc Prelude to Act III]]: Flight, air power, squadrons of bombers.
99* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t894eGoymio Lullaby]]'' (Music/JohannesBrahms): Getting sleepy.
100* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uut6X4E-Kgk Un bel dì]]'' from ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' (Giacomo Puccini): Melodramatic scenes and ironic melodrama. Accompanying footage often in soft focus or in black and white. Can also apply to beautiful and/or delicate things if they use just the opening section.
101* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poSw7tFLB4 Marche Slave]]'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): Slavery, toiling, the construction of Egyptian monuments.
102* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE15tLBdso Minuet]]'' from String Quintet Op. 11 No. 5 (Luigi Boccherini): When ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' just isn't fancy enough (or [[Film/TheLadykillers1955 you need to plan a heist]] [[Film/TheLadykillers2004 genteelly]]).
103* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmYLRZkzc7M Moonlight Sonata No. 14]]'' ([[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]): TearJerker moments (1st movement) or descent into insanity and becoming [[Wrestling/MattHardy BROKEN]] (3rd movement).
104* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihp6gwTdeg Morning Mood]]'' (from Edvard Grieg's ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' suite): Sunrises.
105* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs Nessun Dorma]]'' (Music/GiacomoPuccini): Opera, also football (soccer) after the BBC used a 1972 recording of the song by Music/LucianoPavarotti as their theme for the 1990 World Cup.
106* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 Night on Bare/Bald Mountain]]'' (Music/ModestMussorgsky): Winds, storms, perils and devilment abroad, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking also]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBem3x7G6bc cassette tape sales]].
107* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgoBb8m1eE Nimrod]]'' (from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations): Memorial services, scenes of quiet and dignified grief.
108* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqlLKBKFhg On the Beautiful Blue Danube]]'' (Blue Danube Waltz, Johann Strauss II): Rivers (especially [[CaptainObvious the Danube]], and most especially the Danube in UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}}), waterfowl, graceful motion (think ice-skating or swans swimming--or [[CaptainObvious an elegant waltz in 19th-century Vienna]]) astronauts in space (especially a space ship docking with a space station, referencing its use in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''). Occasionally used for humorous or ironic effect, such as its diegetic use in ''Series/SquidGame'' for DissonantSerenity. Did we mention this song is used to represent Vienna?
109* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_7DA1G6tVs On the Trail]]'' from ''Grand Canyon Suite'' (Ferde Grofé): Cowboys loping along on horseback under Western skies. Also mule/donkey/burro characters.
110* ''[[https://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.
111* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUh-ggBfzI Piano Sonata No. 16]]'', 1st Movement (Mozart): Cozy, tranquil domestic scenes, especially of a slightly formal and refined type (e.g. tea in Grandmother's parlor)
112* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06cvLKfShO0 Piano Trio No. 2 in E Flat, Opus 100,]]'' 2nd Movement (Franz Schubert): Often used to suggest isolation or the passage of time in period dramas, most famously in ''Film/BarryLyndon''. Surprisingly common as a backdrop for [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene Action Film Quiet Drama Scenes]], as well.
113* ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition:'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5r8sa863Ts Promenade]] (Music/ModestMussorgsky, arranged for orchestra by Music/MauriceRavel): [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pictures at an exhibition]], museums in general, the act of painting in general (such as PaintedTunnelRealTrain). Japanese television uses it surprisingly often in connection with anything "artistic".
114* ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition:'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkoW1Ta3ew The Hut on Fowl's Legs/Baba Yaga]] ([[Music/ModestMussorgsky Mussorgsky]][=/=][[Music/MauriceRavel Ravel]]): Pursuit and peril, evil on the move.
115* ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition:'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0oKBtFKts The Great Gate at Kiev]] ([[Music/ModestMussorgsky Mussorgsky]][=/=][[Music/MauriceRavel Ravel]]): Huge monuments, epic grandeur; Wrestling/JerryLawler's [[ProfessionalWrestling theme music]].
116* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMmolrId_4 Pie Jesu]]'' from Gabriel 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 poppies]]); peace when the dust has settled.
117* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfoCvCxNAw4 Pilgrims' Chorus]]'' from ''Tannhäuser'' (Music/RichardWagner) - the part starting 2:15: Love and reunion, the cavalry arriving, impressive scenery and holiday destinations. And [[WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc Bugs Bunny, dressed as Brunhilde, riding in on a white mare.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Meets_Hare Twice.]]
118* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUxxQIUV7o Pizzicato]]'' from ''Sylvia'' (Léo Delibes): Like ''Gavotte'', overly fussy action; also sneaky tiptoeing.
119* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_aM_s0R1U#t=3m33s Poet and Peasant Overture]]'' (Franz von Suppé): [[TraintopBattle Fistfights on top of moving trains]], a holdover from its use with silent films.
120* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0PHWKRFgZ0 Pomp and Circumstance March No.1]]'' (Music/EdwardElgar): Graduations. (TruthInTelevision: 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 English national anthem, as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgl_2JRIUs Land of Hope and Glory]]''. A fixture at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proms#Last_Night_of_the_Proms Last Night of the Proms]]. [[Wrestling/RandySavage OOOOOOOOOHHH YEAAAAAHHH!!!!]]
121* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrmDtH1Xpk Pomp and Circumstance March No.4]]'' (Music/EdwardElgar): The cream of British society. ''Opening theme'': arrival at, or establishing shot of, exclusive event or venue. ''2nd theme'': (1:15) Quiet, ancestral dignity.
122* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tUphnwb38 Prelude]]'' the first of Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Six Suites for Cello'': Refinement, elegance, dinner parties and balls that are so fancy they don't have to show off how fancy they are. But also wistfulness, reflecting on past after having come to terms with it and become able to move on. (It therefore finds use in montages of the passage of time or personal development.) Can also read as evocative of the seashore, if only because the seashore is a great spot to be wistful. Compare ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZdbzreNcs Prelude and Fugue No. 1]]'' from Book I of ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''.
123* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1088E6E2fY The Prince of Denmark's March]]'' (Jeremiah Clarke): Posh, Regal or Noble stuff, rather like ''Minuet'', ''Rondeau'', ''Spring'' and ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' elsewhere on this list. Commonly, although erroneously, called the Trumpet Voluntary.
124* ''[[https://youtu.be/eab_eFtTKFs Radetzky March]]'' (Johann Strauss): Soldiers marching jauntily, circus settings and [[SoundtrackDissonance ninth-graders killing]] [[Literature/BattleRoyale one another on an island]].
125* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEwrus6G_-Y Heda! Heda! Hedo!]]'' from ''Das Rheingold'' (Music/RichardWagner): Like "Ride of the Valkyries", but lighter and with little promise of peril or asskicking. Impressive and dramatic scenes at or from high elevations.
126* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9yNSpKPBU Entry of the Gods into Valhalla]]'' from ''Das Rheingold'' (Music/RichardWagner): Real estate, the city, castles
127* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lcZM0MNek Requiem]]'' (György Ligeti): Incomprehensible horror and dread, NothingIsScarier, CosmicHorrorStory. Used so famously in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' that it is often called "TheMonolith theme." Was also later used famously in the trailers for ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' to indicate how this film was DarkerAndEdgier than other ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies.
128* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmLsvQaxw3g#t=8m49s Romeo and Juliet,]]'' Love Theme (Tchaikovsky): Romance, LoveAtFirstSight. MeadowRun.
129* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZib08sHrwE Rondeau]]'' from ''Suite de Symphonies'' (Jean-Joseph Mouret): The procession of royalty, or the bride and groom. Also well-known as the theme of ''Series/MasterpieceTheatre'' for many years.
130* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ISRMSIyX8 Russian Dance/Trepak]]''(Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky) from ''[[Theatre/TheNutcracker The Nutcracker Ballet]]'': Played in just about any movie trailer with a {{Christmas|Tropes}} theme to imply that [[HilarityEnsues hilarity will ensue]].
131* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI Sabre Dance]]'' (Aram Khachaturian): Frenetic activity, often with the camera {{undercrank}}ed, such as the DishDash.
132* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG5gRlcmkEk See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes!]]''[[note]]From the oratorio ''Judas Maccabaeus''.[[/note]] (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): European royalty. In anime (as in ordinary life in Japan), it is used at awards ceremonies.
133* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirn3M3ewQc The Skater's Waltz]]'' (Emile Waldteufel): UsefulNotes/FigureSkating, ice skating in general, or attempts by cartoon characters to travel or maneuver in any type of low- or zero-friction situation, usually resulting in misadventure.
134* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sb8WCPjPDs Sleeping Beauty Waltz]]'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): Ballet. Grand balls. Traditional venues for the aforementioned. Romantic or comedic impromptu waltzes. And [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Disney's film version of]] ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.
135* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkj2QeogAsU The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'' (Paul Dukas): Sorcery, automatons on the march, processes going out of control, trouble brewing. [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} And a famous cartoon mouse.]]
136* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MF9UbfNdtg Adagio]]'' from ''Spartacus'' (Aram Khachaturian): Grand (sometimes ironically over the top) romance, great vistas/scenery/cloudscapes (again with grand romance), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7RWW36wes tall ships under full sail in good weather]] (thanks to ''Series/TheOnedinLine'').
137* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kTei0XrCs Spring]]'' from ''The Four Seasons'' (Vivaldi): When ''Minuet'' is ''still'' not fancy enough. Also the Standard Snippet for any news report or item involving English stately homes.
138* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mz5Rtx-Eu0&feature=related Spring Song]]'' (Music/FelixMendelssohn): Associated with comical balletic movement, feminine delicacy, or prissy mannerisms. (In ''Film/VictorVictoria'', quoted near the beginning of the "Gay Paree" song -- followed immediately by "not ''that'' gay!")
139* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc65V41CcX0 Overture]]'' to ''Theatre/SwanLake'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): The ballet, as well as the original Creator/BelaLugosi ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', the original Creator/BorisKarloff ''Film/TheMummy1932'' (and references to them).
140* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvztnHOWEQ Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major]]'' (Music/LudwigVanBeethoven): I. ''Allegro con brio'': Expanding vistas. Inspiring montages. Usually coupled with a desire that you buy into something ''big''.
141* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak Symphony No. 5 in C Minor]]'' (Music/LudwigVanBeethoven): I. ''Allegro con brio'': Meeting a dire fate; being confronted or caught by an authority figure; classical musicians in concert. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, was also used as shorthand for the inevitable defeat of the Axis [[note]]the "dum-dum-dum-DAH" of the first four notes coincidentally fits the Morse code for the letter "V", and so was used as a musical leitmotif for "V for Victory"[[/note]]
142* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ Symphony No. 7 in A Major]]'' (Music/LudwigVanBeethoven): II. ''Allegretto'': Slow and steady build-up of drama. May or may not escalate to a climax. Otherwise, you can expect TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt once this rolls in.
143* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwIvS4yIThU Symphony No. 9 in D Minor]]'' (Music/LudwigVanBeethoven): II. ''Scherzo: Molto vivace -- Presto'': Intense, feverish concentration and productivity. Giddy, maniacal mischief. [[Film/AClockworkOrange A bit of the old ultra-violence.]] [[Wrestling/WWERaw Feels like greatness.]]
144* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwU37osOkQA Te Deum]]'' (Marc-Antoine Charpentier): Another favorite for wedding processionals. It's also used for every ''Eurovision'' broadcast, including the ''Series/EurovisionSongContest''.
145* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByRkggPFiMM Toccata]]'' from ''Symphony No.5'' (Widor): Weddings (especially Royal), grand events, cathedrals, consecrations, high church investitures.
146* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yr-r3GkW4 Tritsch Tratsch Polka]]'' (from ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'', Johann Strauss): Comedic pursuit, good-natured shenanigans. The piece is sometimes performed at concerts with an element of this taking centre stage.
147* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeuFK61YNIg Triumphal March]]'' from ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}'' (Music/GiuseppeVerdi): Victory and triumphalism. Sporting events and displays. Set pieces. Prizegivings (Mussolini was rather fond of this one.). Also, a graduation march in Philippines.
148* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNu6HKet0Jk Troika]]'' from ''Lieutenant Kijé'' (Sergei Prokofiev): White Christmas, usually with Santa's sleigh (or, rarely, a Russian ''troika'' - a three horse sleigh).[[note]]"Troika" translates as "threesome" or "three of a kind".[[/note]]
149* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chH7wMoFm9s Under the Double Eagle]]'' (Josef Franz Wagner): Fairgrounds, circuses, parades, calliopes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lTMiQsMH1g dancing teeth]]. Rarely used to represent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#Coat_of_arms Austro-Hungary]], though.
150* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoMZVpNnBs Feuerzauber/Magic Fire Music]]'' from ''Die Walküre'' (Wagner): Magical power; controlled descent from a great height.
151* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmMRBHxU0w William Tell Overture: Finale]]'', aka ''March of the Swiss Soldiers'' (Rossini): Galloping, the cavalry, Radio/TheLoneRanger clones, horse races, actions in fast motion.
152* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y7tjxii2y4 William Tell Overture: Ranz des Vaches (Call to the Dairy Cows)]]'': Morning, waking up, nature, pastoralism, tranquility. Sometimes all at once.
153* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5hz8fc4Cw William Tell Overture: Storm]]'': Storms, especially at sea.
154* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCfydWF48c Winter]]'' from ''The Four Seasons'' (Music/AntonioVivaldi): Men in powdered wigs, luxury cars, [[http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/grand-prospect-hall-penchant-cheesy-ads-pays-owners-raking-dough-article-1.154094 a banquet hall in Brooklyn,]] black stallions in New Zealand bank commercials during the 2000's, the original 1976 and 1979 teaser trailers for Franchise/StarWars specifically ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope]]'' and ''[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
155* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI0YOPoj4t0 Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem No.1)]]'' (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): Every British coronation since it was written (and a few elsewhere). [[UsefulNotes/UEFAChampionsLeague World-class football]]. Buildup to inspiring scenes. Holiday sales with this.
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162* ''[[https://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."
163* ''[[https://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.
164* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0bs9ZvM8gQ 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.
165* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff Asian Riff]]: East Asian characters and stereotypes. In Japanese works, this is usually restricted to Chinese characters and stereotypes.
166* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAS-vyaBtZw Auprès de ma blonde]]'': An alternative to ''Alouette'' to demonstrate how Gallic characters or setting are.
167* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_1FV_avP0 Auf der Vogelwiese]]'': Germany, especially during celebrations like Oktoberfest or Schützenfest.
168* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NKtyp6pqUQ Barwick Green]]'': The British countryside, Radio/TheArchers.
169* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crh1v3zdCEs The Bowery]]'' -- From 1892's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_(song) A Trip to Chinatown]]'': New York City and its Lower East Side, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
170* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7GkwU2Xq10 Brindisi]]'' from ''Theatre/LaTraviata'' (Music/GiuseppeVerdi): Italy, Italian cities, food, opera and drink, Italians making merry.
171* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A66DSDQLRDs By the Beautiful Sea]]'': The beach or oceanfront.
172* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmWMYro2To Entr'acte between acts III & IV]]'', Georges Bizet: TorosYFlamenco, ''Film/TheBadNewsBears''.
173* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jgR5zBv8Rc Carmen, Habanera]]'', Bizet, with or without lyrics: Sex, a beautiful and sensual woman, love, dancing (with charged subtext similar to a tango), Spain or the Spanish, mystery, intrigue, villainy, the opera, elegance, upper-class pursuits. An aria with a lot to say for itself.
174* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdN3nyJrVZw Charge!]]'': North American hockey and baseball matches, horse races; the OffLikeAShot stance - based off the bugle fanfare used to signal a cavalry charge.
175* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5y0hSqO48U The Charleston]]'': TheRoaringTwenties.
176* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJDv1IeF8I Cielito Lindo]]'' or "The song that goes 'Ay yi yi yi'": Mariachi bands and Mexico.
177* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0JCqk5LC4 La Cucaracha]]'' (Cockroach): Anything involving Mexico or a lively party therein.
178* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIFhJ6fyzk Dark Eyes]]'' (''Ochi Chernye''): Russians, {{Fake Russian}}s, or [[Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner people who smoke candy and listen to cigarettes.]]
179* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeLoa1gwCU Dixie's Land]]'': Synonymous with the DeepSouth and car horns. (Note, though, that it is ''not'' the official anthem of the Confederacy; that was ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpyBNKZ7FEA God Save the South]]''.)
180* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg La Donna e Mobile]]'' from ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'' (Verdi): Italy (usually larger conurbations with older architecture), Italian opera and food.
181* ''[[https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s?si=WFoj6EzSZ71G5d-G Down Under]]'' (Music/MenAtWork): Australia, the LandDownUnder.
182* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w65438PCGM Drowsy Maggie]]'': Anything Irish.
183* ''The Eyes of Texas'': EverythingIsBigInTexas. (Same tune as ''I've Been Workin' on the Railroad.'')
184* ''Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'' (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God): Protestantism, Protestants going to war. Was associated with German militarism until after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
185* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbkcUdDSyQ España Cañí]]'' (aka Spanish Gypsy Dance, aka "the paso doble song") (Pascual Marquina Narro) especially the snippet at 1:12: Spain, bullfighting, stadium cheering.
186* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA Fanfare for the Common Man]]'' (Music/AaronCopland): North America. Panoramas and grand cityscapes. Stadia and stadium events. The early days of space exploration. Unless it's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYn3aZl_fKM rock version]] by Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer, in which case you're looking at Britain in TheSeventies, and probably watching sports.
187* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQjOaIyh6HQ Overture]]'' to ''Theatre/LaForzaDelDestino / 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 ''[[Film/ManonDesSources Jean de Florette]]'' and ''[[Film/ManonDesSources Manon des Sources]]''.
188* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoefK4HOrs Forty-Second Street]]'': New York City, especially in the '30s and '40s.
189* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJd-SHzqUC4 Funiculì, Funiculà]]'': [[SpaghettiAndGondolas Italians and their food]] [[labelnote:Fun Fact]]It actually sounds so Italian that when some foreign composers, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss, visited Naples, they thought it was a Neapolitan folk song and incorporated its theme into some of their more exotic pieces. But, since the song was actually written by Luigi Denza in 1880, some litigation ensued, and they were forced to pay royalties.[[/labelnote]]
190* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwT2vtH7g4A Gaudeamus Igitur]]'' (De Brevitate Vitae): EstablishingShot of the old [[WackyCollege Alma Mater]]; used as a snippet as far back as Brahms's ''Academic Festival Overture''.
191* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk God Save the King]]'' (UK National Anthem): UK Royal Family, particularly the King (or Queen); any scene in London. The USA patriotic song ''America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)'' is [[ToTheTuneOf set to the same tune]].
192* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBnMlFENTvk&t=9s 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.
193* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOAM Greensleeves]]'': Pastoral England. Also occasionally associated with Christmas due to being used for the melody of "What Child Is This?".
194* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QO4aegj-jA Guantanamera]]'': Cuba. Also the tune is used by British football fans to show their appreciation of a player by singing "There's only one <name of player>" to it.
195* ''[[http://youtu.be/bxgoajDI1WQ Hail to the Chief]]'': The InvisiblePresident, TheWhiteHouse.
196* '' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSNZK4Je-Y Hava Nagila]]: [[AllJewsAreAshkenazi Jewish culture]]'', particularly festivals and weddings; UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}; the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
197* '' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPy-7BzSw Theme from How the West Was Won]]'': TheWildWest, adventures/epics (or parodies thereof), BigDamnHeroes moments, and [[MundaneMadeAwesome Midwestern State Fair highlights]].
198* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6d03gbmAzc I Left My Heart in San Francisco]]'': UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, oddly enough.
199* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2lANtTxKYw In a Persian Market]]'' (Ketèlbey): Arabian lands and surrounding areas. Or, if you're not picky, just about any Old World location that's suitably exotic-looking.
200* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gBmRuMbCw In the Good Old Summertime]]'': TheEdwardianEra, or summertime in general.
201* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA In the Mood]]'' (Music/GlennMiller): Having fun in TheForties, Swing/Big Band era.
202* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3fbIGREh4Y It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]'': World War I, usually from the British perspective though notably it was used by the Germans in the WWII epic Film/{{Das Boot}}. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXcs1Vv3YlE Pack Up You Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag]]'' is also frequently used, usually in older works, and for Americans WWI is more usually associated with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921z4LAHvak Over There]]''.
203* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewyTGQR9Pw The Irish Washerwoman]]'': Anything Irish.
204* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Rqdgna3Yw El Jarabe Tapatío]]'' (aka The Mexican Hat Dance): Mexico, of course.
205* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yIWBO_7nio Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)]]'' - Hubert Parry: Unofficial national anthem of England (the other countries in the Union have their own official national anthems, but England doesn't); endorsed by Edward VII.
206* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8m2BYv02Nw Kalinka]]'': Russia, Russians, cossack dancing, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgUdwsQyY_s arcade version]] of VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.
207* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80xBX0jK-c Korobeiniki]]'': Russia, Russians, VideoGame/{{Tetris}}. ([[ExecutiveMeddling The Tetris Company]] owns a sound trademark on this for computer games.)
208* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpEWpK_Dl7M#at=1m53s Land of Hope and Glory]]'': The United Kingdom and/or Queen. Notably overlaps with "The Classics" category for graduations in the US/Canada.
209* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvbrZSwPbM The Latin Quarter]] from Gold Diggers in Paris'': Substituted for “Alouette” to represent France and French people in some Warner Brothers cartoons, especially those starring [[WesternAnimation/PepeLePew a certain skunk]]. Also can-can numbers if [[Music/TheCanCanSong The Infernal Galop]] isn't used.
210* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeBYqL8nuSw Das Lied der Deutschen]]'' (''Deutschlandlied'', "Deutschland über alles"): Germany, Germans (with dignity), Axis forces (in [[WartimeCartoon WWII propaganda cartoons]]). Note that only the third verse is now sung in Germany- it's their National Anthem.
211* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU Londonderry Air]]'' ("Oh Danny Boy"): Associated with mourning and Ireland.
212* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGVFJqSqqg&feature=related Loch Lomond]]'': Scotland; the Highlands.
213* ''[[https://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.
214* ''[[https://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.
215* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5jiAv38q0 Malaguena]]'' or something similarly flamenco-sounding: Usually related to things Spanish or Hispanic in general.
216* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA Theme from]]''''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'': EstablishingShot or panorama of TheWildWest.
217* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxLAr_bwpA Maple Leaf Rag]],'' Scott Joplin: 1910's/1920's early industrialism, and ''especially'' [[MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films.]]
218* ''[[https://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; in ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'', "La Marseillaise" is used as a {{Leitmotif}} representing not only France, but the Allied cause in WWII as a whole)
219* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_nopTFuZA La Mer]]'' (Charles Trénet): France, artistic and relaxed, with ample time for long establishing sequences. Popular in the U.S. as "Beyond the Sea".
220* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xeETLadI4 Midnight in Moscow]]'' (also known as ''Moscow Nights''): Anything to do with the former Soviet Union, Russia, or the city of Moscow
221* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ryvMNuFIc The Millers' Dance]]'' (de Falla): Hispanic scenes and people, usually rural settings or smaller population centres.
222* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY Misirlou]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUiOh8efaQ (fast version)]]: At the original tempo, anything involving Greece or [[ArabianNightsDays The Middle East]]; when played by Dick Dale or a sound-alike, surfing, or as an entrance for badass characters (as in ''Film/PulpFiction'')
223* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs Moonlight Serenade]]'': [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Wartime romance]]
224* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilXc0j1iHA Mundian to Bach Ke]]'' by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjabi_MC Panjabi MC]]. Similar to the above-mentioned Asian riff, but used for Indian characters.
225* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ National Anthem of the Soviet Union]]'': The USSR and Russia (the tune is still used), especially the UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets
226* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE New World Symphony - Largo]]'', Music/AntoninDvorak: (If arranged for brass) Bread, OopNorth.
227* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrUfJW1JGk New York, New York]]'': The BigApplesauce's "Official Horrendously Overexposed Hit Show Tune" (as Creator/DaveBarry put it). Liza Minnelli's signature song. The New York Yankees used to play it at the end of all of their home games: Music/FrankSinatra's version if they won, Liza's if they lost (until Liza complained about being associated with losing, so now they just play Frank's version whatever happens). Also, the coda serves as the unofficial DownToTheLastPlay theme for the professional sports teams residing in Madison Square Garden. For many years Sinatra's version was played in Times Square just before the New Year ball drop; as of 2005, Music/JohnLennon's "Imagine" has replaced it (with Sinatra's "New York, New York" now played just ''after'' the ball drop).
228* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGXsw3XK9I Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien]]'' (Music/EdithPiaf): Paris. Old quarters of French cities. French quarters of old(ish) cities. Bars and clubs in those places[[note]](but not ones with actual torch singers, obviously, as that breaks the trope)[[/note]].
229* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQFaxw1XUw La Raspa]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Rqdgna3Yw El Jarabe Tapatio]]'', (AKA The Mexican Hat Dance): Anything vaguely celebratory in Mexico, also "that other song mariachi bands play"
230* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRT715ftrg O Canada]]'': CanadaEh
231* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRApdy4fFw O Sole Mio]]'': UsefulNotes/{{Venice}}, especially a gondola ride – overlooking the fact that the composer, Eduardo di Capua, hailed from Naples ...and that the lyrics are in the Neapolitan dialect, not Venetian! (No wonder its use in the Venice gondola rides has later been banned in Venice itself.)
232* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRmsbEQXEg Oh Susanna]]'': The DeepSouth. The WildWest. The Gold Rush. The Confederacy.
233* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOObPhTYi9I The Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)]]'': The DeepSouth. Especially around Mississippi River.
234* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKqekQOUfU Red September (Terry Devine King)]]'': The Soviet Union.
235* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-TS-BitnQ Rhapsody in Blue]]'' (Gershwin): EstablishingShot of New York City
236* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgd9nYqVz2s Rule Britannia]]'': EstablishingShot of London of any scene taking place in Great Britain.
237* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keF-KYKKYeI Sakura]]'' ("CherryBlossoms"): Japan, especially rural or historic Japan
238* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3rJ51psq8 Santa Lucia]]'': Italy, bonus points if played with an accordion
239* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH0eRKq1lE Scotland the Brave]]'': Standard piece used when bagpipes are played, especially when set in Scotland. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbkzIPJFDE4 The Campbells Are Coming]]''
240* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweCYZHCW60 The Sidewalks of New York]]'': New York City, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Was associated with Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith.
241* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_gW0VHBbSA Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing)]]'': The home front during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZtomQS8JkE In the Mood]]'' may be used instead.
242* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuSl9PKx6M4 Sleigh Ride]]'': Sleigh rides, or snowy winter/Christmas scenes in general
243* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CIvvsPUrQ The Stars and Stripes Forever]]'' (Music/JohnPhilipSousa): USA specific, with a number of uses: The Fourth of July, climaxes to college sports games, "Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends", [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye kicking Bluto's ass]], fireworks, any large amount of continuous pyrotechnic explosions when played for laughs, emergencies at the circus
244* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaDbHGusNgQ The Streets of Cairo]]'', or ''The Poor Little Country Maid'', and also known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_riff "Arabian riff"]]: The Middle East, snake charming, "hoochy-kootchy" belly dancing. (You may know it as "There's a Place in France".) Originally part of a 1893 World's Fair exhibit which is reenacted in ''Show Boat''.
245* ''[[https://youtu.be/sqrU2rhvED4?si=oqBngrQEJjCu8P6k Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay]]'': TheGayNineties. Frequently used to underscore humorous situations. Modern audiences know the melody as the ''Series/HowdyDoody'' theme song ("It's Howdy Doody Time").
246* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-gsdLSSQ0 Take Me Out to the Ballgame]]'': Playing baseball, watching baseball, being at the ballpark, or anything else related to the National Pastime.
247* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0 Tarantella Napoletana]]'': Italy, Italians
248* ''[[https://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
249* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHxRUQcQHk Torna a Surriento]]'': Italy (especially southern part)
250* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdvfjrPDS5c Truddelutt]]'' (Bengt Hallberg): A version of the trope [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative very specific]] to UsefulNotes/{{D|enmark}}anish {{cooking show}}s. First used by the UrExample amongst Danish cooking shows, ''TV-Køkkenet'', the tune has ever since been a stable for every show of its kind in Denmark, to the point where it has become ''the'' leitmotif for cooking, even outside cooking shows, and has almost become an UndeadHorseTrope.
251* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9VvO__zOA La Vie en Rose]] (also called "You're Too dangerous, Cherie")'': Streets of Paris, French countryside; love -- I mean, l'amour (though this song tends to cost money. Also the signature song of French songstress Edith Piaf)
252* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STYZsBov7fU Waxie's Dargle]]'': Ireland and Irish shenanigans. When played on a fife and drum, can also be associated with UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, even though the earliest known version of the song was written some 50 years after the Revolution. Is also sometimes used for the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 (which is a bit more accurate, since the song was brand-new and extremely popular in 1812).
253* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdn5YBrqOg When Irish Eyes Are Smiling]]'': Ireland
254* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOAnWEyzt8 Sirtaki]]'' from ''Film/ZorbaTheGreek'': Greek stuff, notably in ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', but also any scene depicting men dancing the Sirtaki.
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256
257[[folder:Marches, Bugle Calls, and Other Military Shenanigans]]
258* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gtISlR2dk Anchors Aweigh]]'': The Navy, sailors, the sea
259* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHqZFL7rKY&t=0m27s Assembly]]'' (US Army bugle call): The U.S. Army; most commonly the Cavalry as they enter a scene--riding hard.
260* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8 The Battle Hymn of the Republic]]'': Any American patriotic speech (especially if triumphally Yankee), the American Civil War
261* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4RuNuPH3ik&feature=related The British Grenadiers]]'': The British Army in general, Redcoats in particular.
262* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY58inWev0E Cavalry Charge]]'': An entity performing an action that could reasonably be considered a "charge", typically of the [[TheCavalry Cavalry]] or [[FoeTossingCharge Foe-Tossing]] varieties, although [[LudicrousSpeed rapid, straight-line movement]] in general is also valid.
263* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHfQGn3JTs Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean]]'': The U.S. Navy (Ironically, this song has nothing to do with the ocean or ships. The lines about the ark riding safe through the storm are "ship of state" imagery, and the "gem of the ocean" refers to the New World.)
264* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZk1n9C070s Eternal Father, Strong to Save]]'' aka The Navy Hymn: UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships (or any navy, for that matter), TearJerker [[MeaningfulFuneral military funerals and memorial services]], thanksgiving for surviving stormy seas.
265* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iouQstL5tc First Call]]'' (US Army bugle call): Horse racing. At the races it's known as "Call to the Post."
266* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPk9yYWQcM Garryowen]]'': The U.S. Cavalry, specifically UsefulNotes/TheSeventhCavalry. Also used in movies involving the Boston Police Department, such as ''Film/TheDeparted'', as the BPD is traditionally filled with Irishmen.
267* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4MHapIuRB0 The Girl I Left Behind Me]]'': Marching American soldiers, as far back as the Revolution. Or British Redcoats Napoleonic Era.
268* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NtSqZcT_4 The Last Post]]'': UK-based military remembrance, and for good reason.
269* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FD9PNpfpo The Liberty Bell]]'' (Sousa): [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And now for something completely different.]]
270* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfKoaZRbnM A Life on the Ocean Wave]]'': Setting sail and swabbing decks, often accompanied by, but not limited to, the British Navy.
271* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Fr5ILu-Hg Marine's Hymn]]'' ("From the halls of Montezuma..."): [[SemperFi Marines on the march]], especially common in [[WartimeCartoon WWII era cartoons]]
272* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGnZxcS7VKA&t=0m10s Reveille]]'' (US Army bugle call): An abrupt morning wakeup; the army
273* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1sAzdf0n_0 Semper Fidelis]]'' (Sousa): United States Marine Corps' official march; US marines on parade; [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} cheeses from around the world]].
274* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAoIh809dU Stars and Stripes Forever]]'': [[{{Eagleland}} Type I Eagleland]], bombastic patriotism, 4th of July Parades.
275* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc The Star Spangled Banner]]'': The United States, the army, the US flag, military victory (especially in [[WartimeCartoon WWII propaganda cartoons]])
276* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSEVv9JfXaw To The Colors]]'' (US Army bugle call): The army; the US flag
277* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCxegQupMU Washington Post March]]'' (Sousa): Military presentations (academy graduations and the like), American marching bands and parades of any sort
278* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3k8H_9SjoM When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again]]'': Armies, parades, marching; occasionally, specifically Irish (the origin of the song). DramaticIrony in [[WarIsHell anti-war film]]. However, its Irish counterpart, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUTHcjiZGo Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye]]'', '''''is''''' an [[FridgeBrilliance anti-war song]]. Common on fife and drum.
279* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C95Cb2ByHNA Wild Blue Yonder]]'': Airplanes, flying. The US Air Force.
280[[/folder]]
281
282[[folder:Songs You Probably Only Know from Cartoons]]
283* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Okoh5HN1mo Ahí, viene la conga]]'' (Raúl Valdespí): One of two songs used for any conga line dancing (see "Anabella" below).
284* ''[[http://youtu.be/1xpSeaxRpCc Ain't She Sweet?]]'' (Milton Ager/Jack Yellen): Pretty girls, especially (but not exclusively) in TheRoaringTwenties.
285* ''[[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y041-eT6QrI Ain't We Got Fun?]]'': TheRoaringTwenties, even used in period pieces.
286* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wP-4ZV8sv0 Aloha 'Oe]]'': Hawaii, tropical vacations, subversions thereof.
287* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q3EmqLX7GE Animal Fair]]'': Circus animals, zoo animals
288* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_FvoBS8yNs Anabella]]'' (Eduardo Durant): The ''other'' conga line dancing song.
289* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4inyD93KwQ Arkansas Traveler]]'': Slow, stupid characters, usually played very slowly. Also known as [[WesternAnimation/TheBashfulBuzzard "I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee"]].
290* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGr2NZHz0c Asleep in the Deep]]'': Scenes taking place on the water or underwater; drowsy or sleeping characters
291* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s2tPORlW4 Autumn Leaves]]'': Maudlin-tinged counterpart to ''A Summer Place''. Autumn leaves. Partings. Regrets and minor sorrows. Quiet romance. Slow montages, pans and dissolves. Easy listening moments. Extremely versatile.
292* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgOQIo42oc0 Baby Elephant Walk]]'': Slow, stupid characters; animals; people carrying awkward loads, scenes at carnivals and fairs, or, in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', [[ItMakesSenseInContext hopping around on enormous swollen testicles]].
293* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztGU-Lpdlf0 Baby Face]]'': Scenes with actual babies, or occasionally nubile young women.
294* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgklHQ52WE Beautiful Dreamer]]'' (Stephen Foster): Sleep, dreams
295* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65hL9d1ANM The Big Laugh]]'' by Jurgen Schlachter: Usually indicates laughter or general tomfoolery.
296* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-domL2Q4no Blues in the Night]]'': The blues; African-American stereotypes.
297* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?]]'': TheGreatDepression, or being down-and-out generally.
298* ''[[http://youtu.be/csG6MBYsmOU?t=45s By a Waterfall]]'': Scenes involving waterfalls, romantic scenes
299* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKbz6ulOfQ California, Here I Come]]'': Traveling to California (natch); trains in general. The theme song for the ubiquitous HuellHowser shows, in which he explores unusual California landmarks.
300* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZliSDhgXY The Camptown Races]]'': Horse races. Associated with the Warner Bros. character WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, who generally walked around humming it. Also used in Saloons in The Wild West. Also used by English soccer fans to mock German soccer fans: "Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo dah, doo dah!"
301* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0s77YWsCUE Captains of the Clouds]]'': Airplanes and flying
302* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKKCEviKGGk Chicken Reel]]'': Farmyards with chickens, gluttonous eating, and the occasional GossipyHens
303* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7kbyVF-qE Coronation Scot]]'': Steam trains, often coupled with a standard shot of the camera fixed to the running board showing the wheels going round and/or a camera between the rails watching the train go overhead. Inextricably associated with a dated TheFifties [[Radio/PaulTemple radio crime drama show]].
304* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiG7KGzZ5eo&t=0m27s A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You]]'': Eating, cooking, meals
305* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqEFZLhYFg Dance of the Comedians]]'' from ''The Bartered Bride'' by Bedřich Smetana: Chase scenes, especially ones featuring [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes a very fast desert bird and a hapless coyote]]. This was a favorite of ''TTA'' and ''Animaniacs'' composer Richard Stone.
306* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwvqMptS7UA The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze]]'': Slow, stylish flying. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzItbTLTzI The Acrobat's Daughter]]''.
307* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMHJ8PgVatk Darktown Strutters' Ball]]'': MinstrelShows, UncleTomfoolery, {{blackface}} gags, African-Americans in general. As you might have surmised, very much subject to ValuesDissonance for modern audiences.
308* ''[[http://youtu.be/5pp5cWGJWww Der Deitcher's Dog (Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone)]]''(Septimus Winner): Cute puppies and their antics. Somewhat ironic, given the original lyrics.
309* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo Devil's Galop]]'' (Charles Williams): Dramatic, old-style chases, [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus The Spanish Inquisition]], [[Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook two inebriated bums]] impersonating Franchise/SherlockHolmes and TheWatson, 'tecs vs crooks, skulduggery afoot. Originally the theme to ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Barton Dick Barton - Special Agent]]''.
310* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0&feature=related&t=0m33s Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes]]'' (Ben Jonson): Drinking -- if it's milk, juice, or water. Also performed reluctantly by those who [[WesternAnimation/ILoveToSinga love to singa]].
311* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WxfjWnuEno The Entertainer]]'' (Scott Joplin): Early 20th Century America up till the late 1930s. (This is anachronistic; ragtime gave way to early jazz around WWI. But ever since ''Film/TheSting'' everybody knows Ragtime = Great Depression because RealityIsUnrealistic.)[[note]]And in more ways than one: older folks ''would'' have still been listening to ragtime during the Depression, which was sort of the point of using it to start with, what with all the old con artists coming out of the woodwork for one last swindle.[[/note]]
312* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuw27SrRVL8 Frankie and Johnny]]'': Dive bars, gambling dens, flophouses, brothels, burlesque houses, and other places of ill repute
313* ''[[http://youtu.be/6jTZDJBP_kw Freddy the Freshman]]'': Football or other sports; less frequently college in general
314* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)]]'': You're in the money. One of the themes used in the stock market report on APM's ''[[https://www.marketplace.org/2009/05/14/business/marketplace-scratch-pad/give-us-song-then Marketplace]]'', if stock market reports all show a rise.[[note]]If stocks are down, it's "Stormy Weather"; if reports are mixed, "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing."[[/note]] See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvVR7QVrN8M With Plenty of Money and You]]''.
315* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNbye4m2Vs Goofus]]'': Farms and farming, rural life, characters on the move
316* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFUabzkAjBQ Happy Days Are Here Again]]'': Rivals "The Gold Diggers' Song" for signifying newfound wealth. Due to being used as UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's campaign song, it's also associated with the New Deal and the Democratic Party in general.
317* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmpQjjQOBA The Happy Farmer]]'': Popular with scenes that open on farms, milkmen or postmen making their deliveries, or any early morning scenes. Also associated with schoolchildren, and a popular piece for any comedic school recital when played nervously on a slightly out-of-tune piano.
318* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELDqIyrtNA Happy Go Lively]]'': Perky, efficient, immaculately-dressed Fifties housewives working in ultramodern [[{{Zeerust}} Kitchens of The Future]], or those kitchens themselves; mid-century industry and commerce; kitschy retro-suburbia. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxz86P5pcbM Holiday for Strings]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ro3d-5E54c Workaday World]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybgAnhv2dg Window Gazing]]''. A popular equivalent in Britain with the same associations is Jack Strachey's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk0uEbI01lI In Party Mood]]''.
319* ''[[http://www.archive.org/details/hearts1901 Hearts and Flowers]]'' ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterioso_Pizzicato hear non-ironic version here]]): Overacted melodrama, love, romance, and tragedy. Composed by Theodore Moses-Tobani, this is the "world's saddest song" that so often gets sarcastically played on the "world's smallest violin" for chronic whiners. Gustav Lange's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHs6KHmzDyg Flower Song]]" is the other one.
320* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GESHHqCCM2s Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush]]'': Chasing in circles, washing things (think "This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes")
321* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyc9B1aj1I Hit and Run]]'': Lots of activity in the city; crime scenes
322* ''[[https://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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII sequences (see ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'').
323* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK3kDDvKMoE Hooray for Hollywood]]'': Hollywood scenes, movie stars. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6gX37d2eP8 That's Entertainment]]''.
324* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvIMLeKwrJE How Dry I Am]]'': Drinking, drunkenness
325* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFruHQJeaRg In My Merry Oldsmobile]]'': Driving in an old automobile.
326* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5bSTOwre8M It's Magic]]'': Romance is in the air, or alternatively, literal if light-hearted magic.
327* ''[[http://youtu.be/KMK-d6n9k3U I've Been Working on the Railroad]]'': Hard work, often MickeyMousing the fall of sledgehammers to the beat. The "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah" part (actually a much older song assimilated by ''Railroad'') can be substituted for ''Shortnin' Bread'' in the kitchen.
328* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdq249uOGs Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair]]'' (Stephen Foster): Hair, often hair styling or cutting; sleep or dreams; occasionally [[GenieInABottle actual genies]].
329* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-2QwwxTJw Lady In Red]]'': A beautiful woman, often wearing red.
330* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvbrZSwPbM The Latin Quarter]]'': GayParee, can-can dancing.
331* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSaFFdeRosc Me-ow]]'': Cats or kittens. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaSQa-yCNjg The Waltzing Cat]]'' is also used.
332* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbp9WXQjZy8 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down]]'': Wacky cartoon shenanigans are afoot.
333* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94a6jbLxXBs My Old Kentucky Home]]'': Rural homes, the South. In RealLife, always played just before the running of the Kentucky Derby.[[note]]The words have changed a little, although not much they could do about the HaveAGayOldTime; it's now "'tis summer, the ''people'' (or the children) are gay."[[/note]]
334* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlwfUGrPiy0 Mysterioso Pizzicato]]'' also known as ''The Villain's Theme'' ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterioso_Pizzicato background here]]) and jazzed up as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rjEUpmzow Mysterious Mose]]": Sneakiness, stealth (often {{Mickey Mous|ing}}ed), entrance of the [[DastardlyWhiplash mustache-twirling villain]].
335* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vy-y16vOJo&feature=related Nearer, My God, to Thee]]'': The ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'', sinking ships, or inevitable doom, especially when met with tragic, stoic dignity.
336* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NxSTX0jkc Notre Dame Victory March]]'': Sports, especially collegiate American football, and pep talks of the WinOneForTheGipper variety. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up8kcyLOfzM Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A.]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0reywtH5Cw You Gotta Be a Football Hero]]'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76ABAUm0JU Buckle Down, Winsocki]]''.
337* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5HCDGJsvM Oh, What a Beautiful Morning]]'' from ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein): Waking, morning scenes and montages, [[DidYouJustHaveSex the morning after the night before]] (possibly including a {{hangover|Sensitivity}}).
338* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5VKO2OYrps&t=0m58s Oh, You Beautiful Doll]]'': Nubile, often scantily-attired young women, and/or the ogling thereof.
339* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0plbEFWWPA The Old Grey Mare]]'': Elderly animals and/or people, especially in rural settings.
340* ''[[https://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 BackgroundMusic.
341* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaB5320ZftE On the 5:15]]'': Train travel. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYP3ai5bIk Chattanooga Choo Choo]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_onOejoU2Q On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe]]''.
342* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921z4LAHvak Over There]]'': UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (U.S. involvement, 1917-18)
343* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9SvEaPm5U Por una Cabeza]]'': Tango, especially when used as a MatingDance.
344* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE&t=1m25s Powerhouse (B strain)]]'' (Raymond Scott): Factories, industry, active machinery, going up and down stairs while carrying a heavy load. (Q.v. below)
345* ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ick8_a-pretty-girl-is-like-a-melody-the_shortfilms#.UapHeECsim4 A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody]]'' (Irving Berlin): As Irving Berlin (the song's author) himself observed: "Today they play it when a pretty girl walks across a stage. And strip teasers disrobe to it. That's show business."
346* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby Rock-a-bye Baby]]'': Babies, [[EpicRocking rocking]], or occasionally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin both]]. (When used outside of BGM, can function as InstantSedation.)
347* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aAzT4OwgU Sailing, Sailing]]'': Ships, the ocean
348* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_JeKZd9ecE Sailor's Hornpipe]]'': Sailors, particularly those with [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} one eye and an affinity for spinach]].
349* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyYrQToKiKM Shuffle Off to Buffalo]]'': Exit, stage right.
350* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5rsEa9vUI Shortnin' Bread]]'': Food or cooking, particularly in the DeepSouth
351* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc Silver Threads Among the Gold]]'': Elderly people
352* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTd78X8TUo Sing, Sing, Sing]]'': Swing dancing or dancing in general, boisterous parties, the early 20th century, [[PopculturalOsmosis Chips Ahoy Song]].
353* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAtLb6e1BDA Singin' in the Bathtub]]'': Shenanigans in and around the bathtub, particularly those involving lots of sudsy foam, burly men in shower caps, great big back brushes, and rubber duckies.
354* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttvZzK_CVMM Sleep, Baby, Sleep]]'': Bedtime and/or drowsiness, innocent babies, frail old people
355* ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x816o_song-of-the-marines Song of the Marines]]'' ("We're Shoving Right Off for Home Again"): Sailors, sailing vessels, long voyages at sea (particularly Naval)
356* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M Theme from A Summer Place]]'': RelaxOVision, [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus medium-sized intermissions]], [[BlackComedyRape "comical"]] [[Film/AnimalHouse date rape]], [[Film/Batman1989 getting romanced in a museum café by a]] [[MonsterClown Monster]] [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker Clown]]--in general, SoundtrackDissonance.
357* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHH6vYzAgw Sweet Georgia Brown]]'' (or an [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong appropriate soundalike]]), usually whistled: Basketball (after its association with the Harlem Globetrotters); sports antics
358* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrpdQngwk2g The Syncopated Clock]]'' (Leroy Anderson): Clocks, or clockwork machinery. Many local television stations used it as a theme for their late-night movie: BJ mentions this in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}''. May also be used as an alternative to the JeopardyThinkingMusic to indicate waiting or intense thought.
359* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZANKFxrcKU Teddy Bears' Picnic]]'' (Henry Hall): Teddy bears. Woods. Childhood, make-believe, and its imaginary perils. Confronting the former as an adult. [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Entering Grunty's lair]]. And (employing increasing amounts of irony) psychological horror and worse.
360* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8n0PPogsQ (Believe Me if All) Those Endearing Young Charms]]'': The XylophoneGag. Only counts here because the BackgroundMusic tends to finish off the piece after the explosion.
361* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQGgSnCazg The Toy Trumpet]]'' (Raymond Scott): Toys, especially toy soldiers
362* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2CnasCfSw Trade Winds]]'': Tropical islands
363* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sYV3CFfilM Turkey in the Straw]]'': Farms, rurality, harvest festivals. Particularly where poultry is involved.
364* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z1wseT4lUg The Umbrella Man]]'': Umbrellas, or the use thereof, particularly for balance.
365* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DVi0ugelc Volaré]]'': Lounge singers, especially in Italian restaurants or supper clubs ("try the veal")
366* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5XBaslNd0 The Volga Boatmen's Song]]'' (Mily Balkarev): Hard labor, especially the forced kind (chain gangs, slavery, etc.) ''Especially'' Russian hard labor.
367* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWXvzL6nuA What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?]]'': Sailors, [[UsefulNotes/TheSevenSeas the ocean]], {{Pirate}}s and [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen anything nautical]], especially [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants sponges and crabs that own restaurants]].
368* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY We'll Meet Again]]'': UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, from the British perspective. Especially sad scenes (or [[Film/DrStrangelove nuclear war]]).
369* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzUxckhYT-Q Wooden Head Puddin' Head Jones]]'': Rural and/or simpleton characters.
370* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnY9NEgOvow#t=0m19s You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby]]'': A Warner Bros. cartoon cue for ogling a beautiful woman.
371* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlP5HkTzbA You Ought to Be in Pictures]]'': Hollywood scenes
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375::See also RecycledTrailerMusic.
376* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCCNtXsFBU 633 Squadron]]'' (Ron Goodwin): UsefulNotes/WorldWarII aircraft, bombing runs in particular. For the less picky, any piston-prop closed-cockpit plane in flight.
377* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24 Acceptable in the '80s]]'' (Calvin Harris): Programmes discussing the 1980s or, more generally, looking back on popular things of the past we now consider stupid.
378* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeKi6ZkbOw Albatross]]" (Music/FleetwoodMac): Tropical islands and beaches (or, at least, a token facsimile thereof), relaxation in such locales.
379* "All Along the Watchtower" (almost always [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY the]] Music/JimiHendrix cover from ''Music/ElectricLadyland''): TheSixties, drug trips, war (particularly Vietnam or a pastiche of same, frequently involving a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag and motley group]] of heroes); was an [[ArcWords Arc Song]] for the last season of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.
380* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXaE9NtQgg An Ending (Ascent)]]'' (Music/BrianEno, from his album ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''): TearJerker moments, calm, contemplative scenes, space.
381* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE Another One Bites the Dust]]" (Music/{{Queen}}): Another one bites the dust. Defeat, disqualification, failure and being finished off. If it's only the intro, a warning that the adversary will bite it.
382* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_qIhrB73Uo Ashokan Farewell]]'': (Like as not, SuspiciouslySimilarSong) Parodies of Ken Burns documentaries, played over wartime letters to sweethearts back home while [[TheKenBurnsEffect panning across sepia-tone photos]]; UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar[[note]]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.[[/note]]
383* ''[[https://youtu.be/gH476CxJxfg Bad Day]]'' ({{Music/Daniel Powter}}): Things are clearly not going so well.
384* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYn_W14zTU Bad Reputation]]" (Music/JoanJett): [[CatFight Cat Fights]], girls/women behaving either [[Creator/RondaRousey badly or badass]], rebellious youth.
385* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FyQNx8oyU Bad To The Bone]]" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers): The arrival or entrance of the badass, particularly a BadassBiker. The protagonist wants to rebel. [[BadToTheBone Distressingly common]] even in live action.
386* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo Baker Street]]" (Gerry Rafferty): Raphael Ravenscroft's saxophone in particular sees ubiquitous use. Commonly used to set a tone of romance, relationship issues, affairs, or lost loves, especially in a big city setting, but sees broad application. In a strange bit of trivia, Ravenscroft's solo is not only the best known part of the song (and often the only part that gets played), it's been called the best-known sax riff of all time. Yet Ravenscroft received only £27.50 for the performance, while Rafferty reportedly received some £80,000 annually in royalties, which now go to his estate.
387* "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=w-isTDv6hq0 Bamboleo]]": Used in scenes of characters showing off their dance moves.
388* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Tcggo45TQ Bang the Drum All Day]]" (Music/ToddRundgren): The end of the work day or week. However, ''much'' more strongly identified with the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]], which play the song after every Packers touchdown at their home of Lambeau Field.
389* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpIhL3lf0YY Basic Instinct]]'' (Music/JerryGoldsmith): Sexy, erotic thrillers.
390* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbpWcxcqDFk Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]'' (Tomoyasu Hotei): The arrival of an extreme badass, and the fight scene resulting thereof.
391* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G0_gC8Lur8 Beach Parade]]'' (Armando Trovajoli): Typically used as BackgroundMusic for in-universe educational films, usually ones that are long out of date.
392* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFH2llKgFog Behold the Darkness]]'' (Medwyn Goodall): Used to set a tone of mystery and tension. Often sampled in the BackgroundMusic of mystery documentaries and spooky video games.
393* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj9OWEm_uSM The Breakfast Machine]]'' (Music/DannyElfman): Frenetic but mechanized action; [[RubeGoldbergDevice Rube Goldberg devices]]; factories and machines; undercranked scenes of people in lines or rush-hour traffic.
394* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0 Bodies]]'' (Drowning Pool): Action movie badasses.
395* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn5YZ2umScM Born to be Wasted]]'' (009 Sound System): Website/YouTube instructional videos. Very popular in the 2000's, along with 'Dreamscape' and 'With a Spirit'.
396* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8 Born to be Wild]]" (Music/{{Steppenwolf}}): Bikers, and other people who are, well, born to be wild.
397* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a502RejLz8s Bright Eyes]]'' (Art Garfunkel): Rabbits. Usually used as ParentalBonus.
398* ''Carefree'' (Kevin Macleod) : Children, innocent situations, DIY instruction videos.
399* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ Careless Whisper]]'' (Music/GeorgeMichael):[[note]]The song was originally released as part of the Music/{{Wham}} album ''Make It Big''. However, the single release was credited to "Wham! featuring George Michael" in North America and solely to Michael in the UK and most of Europe.[[/note]] ''The'' {{Sexophone}} riff.
400* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDG2m5hN1vo The Chain]]'' (the end and the guitar solo): Motor racing - in particular, the BBC coverage of UsefulNotes/FormulaOne.
401* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4Ks_EMQBY The Chase]]'' (Giorgio Moroder): High suspense or busy night life montages. Also the theme song for ''Radio/CoastToCoastAM''.
402* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU "Chariots of Fire" Theme]]'' (''Music/{{Vangelis}}''): The last few segments of an important race, especially if [[{{Overcrank}} in slow motion]] (a tribute to the 1981 [[Film/ChariotsOfFire movie of the same name]], where it doesn't actually appear in that manner in the final race); alternately, [[MundaneMadeAwesome tongue-in-cheek]] slow motion cheesy inspirational music. Also a lot of parodies, see ParodiesOfFire.
403* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24"]]'' (Music/TransSiberianOrchestra): [[AnAssKickingChristmas Shit's about to go down this Christmas...]]
404* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SUpWrSVaIg Cloudscape]]'' (Music/PhilipGlass, from ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}''): Danger and disturbance, troubled times, stormy works, Freudian psychology, onset of puberty given a dramatic spin.
405* ''[[https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8 Closing Time]]'' (Semisonic): Something is coming to an end.
406* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA Clubbed to Death]]'' (Rob Dougan); itself derived from Elgar's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wviJIQpZ_yY Enigma Variations]]''.: Adds a TeamPowerWalk-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 ''Film/TheMatrix'' (or at the very least, through its soundtrack album -- the piece only makes one relatively brief scene in the film).
407* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHNPKkvcK38 The Cuckoo Song]]'' (Marvin Hatley): Best known as the theme music of Creator/LaurelAndHardy and as a result often used in comedic scenes involving funny obese people or two people bumbling about.
408* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM Frolic]]'' by Luciano Michelini, best known as the theme from ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'': When something does something exceedingly stupid or cringeworthy, [[CringeComedy causing secondhand embarrassment]].
409* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E Danger Zone]]", (Music/KennyLoggins): Fighter Jets or any CoolPlane in general, Fighter or stunt pilots or specifically the AcePilot, the Air Force or any military branch with cool planes, Stuntmen, or any dangerous but cool stunts being performed with or without airplanes. Made popular by ''Film/TopGun'', and Archer. The "''Top Gun'' Anthem" instrumental by Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens also counts.
410* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EfnYwpmOE Disco Inferno]]", (Music/TheTrammps): Discos.
411* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj23_nDFSfE Do the Hustle]]", Van [=McCoy=]: The ''other'' standard disco song.
412* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU Don't Worry Be Happy]]" (Bobby [=McFerrin=]): SadTimesMontage in comedies. [[RelaxOVision Cheer-up]] [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties song]] used [[SoundtrackDissonance to indicate]] a CrapsaccharineWorld (if it's an outright CrapsackWorld, "What A Wonderful World" can be used).
413* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A Don't You (Forget About Me)]]'' (Simple Minds): Often used in scenes involving people's memories and/or during a GoodTimesMontage.
414* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-qhIGTXdU Theme]]'' from ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'': Investigation by police or other officials. The opening four-note sting can indicate any surprising discovery or revelation. Additionally, [[Magazine/{{Mad}} the Domm-Da Dom-Domm routine is #8 of essential routines for typical-type lampoons]].
415* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCywKz4yXc Dramatic Impacts #1 through #6]]'' (Ivor Slaney): A series of dramatic stings, #1 and #3 probably being the most common.
416* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfS5zVfGBc Dreamscape]]'' (009 Sound System): Website/YouTube instructional videos, particularly from in the mid-2000s. Look for unoriginal text bumpers made in Windows Movie Maker, and the "Unregistered Hypercam 2" watermark.
417* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPWNsGFXCZk Dream Weaver]]'' (Gary Wright): LoveAtFirstSight; almost never used seriously anymore.
418* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE Dude Looks Like a Lady]]'' (Music/{{Aerosmith}}): Used to denote a WholesomeCrossdresser. Though it still surfaces independently, these days it's more likely to be a direct homage to Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire''.
419* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnQ2zOmb6Hg Duel]],'' (Music/{{Propaganda}}): The instrumental versions are often used for sports montages, especially motorsport such as rallying.
420* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt0UuNpUqK4 Duel of the Fates]],'' from ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace'': Dramatic situations in particular. Is beginning to give ''O Fortuna,'' which it resembles, some competition, especially on the TalentShow.
421* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8 Dueling Banjos]],'' Arthur Smith: Scenes in set the rural back-country; rednecks. Especially associated with ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'', and subsequently carries implications of BlackComedyRape.
422* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogOtenplCM Title theme]] to ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'': Fairytale settings, celestial myths, white Christmas, toy sales.
423* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4 Eye of the Tiger]]" (Music/{{Survivor|Band}}): TrainingMontage, though it's often only the epic intro. Also used for boxing in general.
424* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw Firestarter]]" from ''Music/TheFatOfTheLand'' (Music/TheProdigy): Rabble rousing, vigilantism, urban dissent and riot, punk fashion, juveniles acting up.
425* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yprqSr1-v3o Forearm Shiver]]'' by Sam Spence: Spy thrillers or campy 60's superheroes.
426* ''[[http://youtu.be/GXE_n2q08Yw For the Love of Money]]'' (The O'Jays): Anything related to {{greed}}, high finance, or UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
427%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1xATrGMtg Fortunate Son]]" from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'' (Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival): UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
428* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs For What It's Worth]]" (Buffalo Springfield): [[TheSixties The 1960s]], [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]], general social strife, usually used when focusing on assassinations, protest. (often ironic, except in non-fiction television)
429* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDIoJlZLxY Get Together]]" (The Youngbloods): [[TheSixties The '60s]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], Peace and Love.
430* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCkb6k_aow Get on Up]]'' (James Brown): Used just before jump balls (other than tipoff) at arenas hosting [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] and [[UsefulNotes/WomensNationalBasketballAssociation WNBA]] games.
431* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sp9FnMAW1c Get Ready for This]]" (2 Unlimited): Sports events, especially basketball. Big arenas full of people
432* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os&ab_channel=ABKCOVEVO Gimme Shelter]]" (Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}): Something intense/violent/erotic is going to happen. Usually in Creator/MartinScorsese flicks.
433* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8e2hMAL6c Ghost Love Score]]'', or rather [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ8T1ZWUGaI 45 seconds of it]]: MundaneMadeAwesome, {{Unnecessary Combat Roll}}s, ever since its use in a YTMND fad featuring [[http://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com/ a Star Trek character rolling under a closing door]].
434* "Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}" (Ray Parker, Jr.): Sometimes used when people are vacuum cleaning, always PlayedForLaughs.
435* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOJzahgbVUg The Girl from Ipanema]]'': An instrumental version is standard "elevator music", to the point where it's named [[TheElevatorFromIpanema its own trope]].
436* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioE_O7Lm0I4 Gonna Fly Now]]," Music/BillConti (''Film/{{Rocky}}''): TrainingMontage. Compare with "Eye of the Tiger". Also fit for people jogging.
437%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pPJywRGTk Gonna Make You Sweat]]" (C+C Music Factory): TheNineties, rave culture, cash-in compilations of "rave" music, energetic dancing. If there's a DancePartyEnding, there's a high probability this song will be playing.
438* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' [[https://youtu.be/AFa1-kciCb4 (Main Theme)]] (aka "[=a-A-a-A-aah wah-wah-wah=]"): [[TheWildWest Old West]] gunfight, or parody thereof; showdown or confrontation of any kind
439* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbsuAbTTsV8 The Great Escape]]'' theme (Music/ElmerBernstein): Escaping, or energetic group preparation to escape.
440* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q Green Onions]]" [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2747832/ (Booker T. & the M.G.s)]]: Driving, movement, and preparation.
441* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH7-FrwwYMs The Grid]]'' (Music/PhilipGlass, ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}'': Overwhelming technology, usually out of control and/or putting people into a fugue state.
442* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRLdhFVzqt4 Heart of Courage]] (Two Steps From Hell)'': Epic Heroic scenes common in film trailers.
443* "[[http://youtu.be/mAqJ0R-EkZg Hoppípolla]]" (Music/SigurRos): The wonders of nature. Spectacular landscapes, especially seen from the air.
444* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPbkUH7ltuw The House of Leaves]]'' (Kevin Macleod): General creepiness, specifically in internet videos.
445* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TqIdff_DQ I Got You (I Feel Good)]]" (Music/JamesBrown): Celebrations, characters having good fortune or...feeling good. ([[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113768/#Soundtrack examples]]) See also StockTrailerMusic.
446* "[[https://youtu.be/QtZssakZLzM I Predict a Riot]]" (Music/KaiserChiefs): Social unrest. Often, the opening riff is enough.
447* "[[https://youtu.be/pMgHX2dhVlE I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]" (Music/DropkickMurphys): [[StPatricksDayEpisode St. Patrick's Day]] and Irish-American culture, especially in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, as the title says and as portrayed in ''Film/TheDeparted''.
448* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ I Want to Break Free]]" (Music/{{Queen}}): People (usually men) doing housework.
449* ''[[https://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU?t=3m9s I Will Always Love You]]'' (Music/WhitneyHouston): Invariably starts at the moment of Houston's bombastic reprise of the chorus and signals a triumphant reunion of two lovers (often by rushing toward one another and embracing), or LoveAtFirstSight. Usually PlayedForLaughs.
450* "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}}: Another one often used for TheSixties, hippie or NewAgeRetroHippie things, drugs, traveling in psychedelic painted vans, etc.
451* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrRktFXNkr0 Town]]" from ''[[VideoGame/TheiDolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'': ''Website/NicoNicoDouga'' instructional videos.
452* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwDL4WPoOrw Ironside]]" (Quincy Jones): The opening riff to be exact. Ensuing action and vengeance. Popularized quite a bit by ''Film/KillBill'', although first used in this context in the trailer for ''Film/FiveFingersOfDeath''.
453* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8 The Imperial March]]'' from ''Franchise/StarWars'': Pure evil, totalitarianism, forced conformity, bad authority figures, awe-inspiring power. Generally not used seriously outside of ''Star Wars'' itself, along with college bands playing it between plays at football games.
454* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m17iHHv3uo&feature=fvst Incense and Peppermints]]'' (Strawberry Alarm Clock), or "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&feature=related White Rabbit]]" (Music/JeffersonAirplane): Drug trips. Rarely used without at least some sense of irony anymore; often replaced with a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sound-alike]] as it's still under copyright
455* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOwhNg25GQ In the Night (Arthur Baker mix)]]'' (Music/PetShopBoys): Fashion, the 1980s, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs 1980s fashion]].
456* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9QTSyLwd4w Main Title and First Victim]]'' from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'': Being oblivious to approaching danger, being unknowingly stalked - probably by a predator. Strongly associated with water. Du-dun, du-dun, dudun dudun dudun...
457* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oidm5Zfw_SA Jessica]]" (Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand): Road trips and driving montages. And ''Series/TopGear''. Don't forget ''Top Gear''.
458* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACltdtn7rVI Jingo Jango]]'' (Bert Kaempfert): SantaClaus and his elves, or Christmas in general.
459* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOFZSnz9J3s Journey to the Line]]'' from ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' (Music/HansZimmer): [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]] [[WarWasBeginning Was Beginning]]. Or possibly DuringTheWar. In any case, StuffBlowingUp set to [[DissonantSerenity serene]] classical music with the [[BackgroundMusicOverride sound turned off]]. Heroes [[HeroicSacrifice dying horribly]].
460* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk Jump]]'' (Kriss Kross): Sometimes used to set the mood for jump balls (other than tipoff) at arenas hosting NBA and WNBA games.
461* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPz7ZwMSok Jump]]'' (Van Halen): Extreme sports, "Humans are awesome" kind of feats, young people doing risky things, and, yes, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin jumping]].
462* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyg5iFddsJI Jump Around]]'' (Music/HouseOfPain): Used as an alternative to the above. Also used in film as BackgroundMusic for erratic behavior on the part of one or more characters. To [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball (US) college football]] fans, strongly identified with the Wisconsin Badgers, which play it at the end of the third quarter of all home games.
463* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GH6M7cUq4 Kids in America]]'' (Music/KimWilde): [[KidHero Kid heroes]] banding together to save the world, occasionally with ThePowerOfRock, [[Anime/DigimonTheMovie even if said kids aren't American]]. Also sometimes used in advertisements targeting youth.
464* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0 Kung Fu Fighting]]'' (Carl Douglas): Martial arts, whether actual Kung fu is being practiced or not. Usually for comedic effect.
465* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM Layla]]" (Music/EricClapton[[note]] performing with "Music/DerekAndTheDominos"[[/note]]): The main song: Fast cars. Motor racing. The piano coda: Grief after a huge loss, similar to ''Adagio for Strings'' or ''Moonlight Sonata'' but more upbeat (it was used this way at the end of ''Film/GoodFellas'').
466* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QZn9xiuOE Let's Get it On]]" (Music/MarvinGaye): Sexiness, the beginning of a romantic or intimate moment
467* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"]] (The Tokens): The jungle or the presence of jungle animals (often though not necessarily lions).
468* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHvzybkqfo London Calling]]" (Music/TheClash): Modern UsefulNotes/{{London}}, UK.
469* "[[https://youtu.be/k_lYcTxncNg The Lonely Man]]" (Joe Harnell, ending theme to ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''): Underscoring grief, sometimes PlayedForLaughs.
470* ''[[http://youtu.be/bbS-Zhz31CA Lux Æterna]]'' (Music/ClintMansell and the Kronos Quartet): {{Melodrama}}, first used in ''Film/RequiemForADream'' when the main characters are about to hit rock bottom; re-worked for the trailer for ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_oWrseTKk Requiem for a Tower]]'', which is sadly(?) [[AdaptationDisplacement the better-known version]].
471* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 Mad World]]'' (Gary Jules' version): Scenes of desolate environments, or a sober/tragic scene in a drama.
472* ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KAjt7v4t4 theme]] (Music/ElmerBernstein): In settings with cowboys; portraying the romantic Old West. Also the theme for Marlboro Country.
473* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFTAFLBdi4 March of the Swivelheads]]" (The English Beat): [[RaceAgainstTheClock Racing against the clock]] in a [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]] fashion. Possibly most associated with the segment in Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff where Ferris is rushing to get back to his house before his parents return; expect any later use to include a homage to ''something'' from that scene.
474* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWGeRgFa-hI 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.
475* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ufB9gQBU7c The Moment of Truth]]" (Survivor): The other TrainingMontage music, courtesy of ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
476* "[[http://youtu.be/JkhX5W7JoWI Money]]" (Music/PinkFloyd): Documentaries on [[CorruptCorporateExecutive financial shenanigans]], [[NouveauRiche less respectful looks at the lifestyles of the rich and famous]].
477* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQCoV1TarO4 Monkeys Spinning Monkeys]]" by Kevin Macleod: General humorous BackgroundMusic, sometimes involving cute animals getting into mischief.
478* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7dTBoW5H9k Mr. Blue Sky]]" (Music/ElectricLightOrchestra): {{Morning Routine}}s and {{Falling In Love Montage}}s.
479* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfmq4PGaOvE Mundian Tu Bach Ke]]'' (Panjabi MC): Can be used as a Leitmotif for Indian characters, or basically whenever a scene has a distinct Indian nature.
480* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_tmH6y7ng Music Box Dancer]]" (Frank Mills)[[note]]You might be more familiar with Richard Clayderman's cover version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQA8fSpxQwI here]][[/note]].: Dance. Gymnastics routines. Little girls pretending to be the ballerina in the music box. Brisk leisure activities.
481* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ My Generation]]" (Music/TheWho): Children or the elderly; almost always played for irony with the latter.
482* "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5EFRVoaMNmI Nadia's Theme]]" (Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.)[[note]]Often misattributed to Henry Mancini[[/note]]: [[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless High melodrama,]] gymnastics routines.
483* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g Oh Yeah]]'' (Music/{{Yello}}): [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Hellooo, nurse!]]; inanimate objects displayed in [[ItsNotPornItsAnIndex sexy and desirable ways]]. Also mockingly used when you [[VideoGame/GranTurismo fail a test.]]
484* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk Ohio]]'' (Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung): Theme for scenes of 60s protests especially of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar -- especially the National Guard killing of four Kent State students[[note]]two of whom weren't even protesters[[/note]] for whom it was written.
485* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN1B-tUpgs On the Nature of Daylight]]'' (Max Richter): Emotionally-charged scenes, most notably used in ''Film/{{Arrival}}'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'' and ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023''.
486* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRWlw0M-rdw Oxygene part 2]]'' (Music/JeanMichelJarre): High technology, often with Blinkenlights. Uber geekiness. Astronomical or paranormal events (e.g. viewing eclipses).
487* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_SVhB-a7cc Oxygene part 4]]'' (Music/JeanMichelJarre): Flight, especially gliders. Smooth action. CGI mockups. Technology. Rhythmic gym.
488* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg Paint It Black]]'' (Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, from ''Music/{{Aftermath|Album}}''): The Vietnam War.
489* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz3WMFEC9Gs "Peter Gunn"]] theme'' (Music/HenryMancini): Spies, capers, schemes (thanks to ''Spy Hunter'' and ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', probably)
490* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IuFl3sMhk Phantom of the Opera]]" (Music/IronMaiden): The start of a race, with buildup.
491* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusLypfx7OQ Pompeii]]'' (Music/ESPosthumus): OminousLatinChanting.
492* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc Popcorn]]'' [[note]]Yes, this is Hot Butter's [[CoveredUp better-known cover version]]. Kingsley's original version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc here]] has a slightly different melody, [[AdaptationDistillation rather muddy editing and some chaotic key changes]].[[/note]](Gershon Kingsley): Techy geekiness, often quirky. Fads and gadgets. The early '70s. And occasionally, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin popcorn]].
493* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-QoG-7CqpA&feature=related Psycho Suite]]'' (Music/BernardHerrmann): PsychoStrings.
494* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4QbJRAWvRU The Race]]" (Music/{{Yello}}): Used in scenes involving car or motor races, or any need for speed
495* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZOuo2cezI Reach for the Stars]]'' (Richard Harvey): The finale to a breathtaking scene, the closing of a race. Heroism.
496* ''[[https://youtu.be/QOrrNM4md8c Roundabout]]'' (Music/{{Yes}}): When an accident is imminent, yet the scene just stops abruptly as the opening guitar riff kicks in. Made famous in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', but nowadays is PlayedForLaughs.
497* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCiDuy4mrWU Running in the 90s]]'' by Max Coveri: Anything involving moving at a very high speed. It was made famous when it was featured in ''Manga/InitialD'', where it was played straight, but nowadays it's always PlayedForLaughs.
498* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9DxYhqmKw Sadeness - Part I]]'' (Music/{{Enigma}}): Make-out music, often for scenes with a forbidden or BDSM edge. Often used seriously in TheNineties when the song was new, it's more likely to be a parody now.
499* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZ7bBaYpcw Sad Romance]]'' (Over The Green Fields)[[note]]Often called by the Vietnamese title "Thao Nguyen Xanh" despite coming from a Korean drama, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff for some reason]][[/note]]: Used for TearJerker scenes, but nowadays it's almost ''never'' used unironically and thus it's also associated with [[{{Narm}} narmy]] sequences that are meant to be more comedic than actually sad.
500* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdPVCIRe1U San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)]]" (Scott [=McKenzie=]): [[UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Haight Ashbury]], [[NewAgeRetroHippie Hippies]], [[TheSixties 1960s]], [[IndianSummer Nostalgia]].
501* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU Sandstorm]]'' (Music/{{Darude}}): Sometimes used in works and advertisements targeting gamers, and also in scenes paying homage to [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000s]]. Was also widely used in flash animation and games from that era, and as BackgroundMusic to game streams, leading to [[MemeticMutation the meme]]. Now [[https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32089706/how-finnish-dj-created-sandstorm-sec-sports-world strongly identified with the University of South Carolina]], thanks to the use of the piece during the university's football games.
502* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo1cB_KgTdI Scheming Weasel]]'' (Kevin Macleod): Someone pulling off a clever scheme, [[TheInternetIsForCats cat videos]]
503* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7bxJWlffE Shock Horror (A)]]'' (Dick Walter): "''Dun-dun-DUN!!!''". A recognizable dramatic {{Sting}}, often used jocularly.
504* Piano break from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5tiuZU4JI#t=4m53s Sinnerman]]'' (Music/NinaSimone): Extreme, highfalutin and usually highly successful naughtiness.
505* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp0ZISBYidI "Sirius"]], Music/TheAlanParsonsProject: Sports team intros, or parodies thereof.
506* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' theme: Superhuman strength or speed, in slow motion.
507* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk&ob=av3e Song 2]]" (Music/{{Blur}}): Action scenes, particularly extreme sports.
508* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0fZeySNck Soul Bossa Nova]]'' (Quincy Jones): The Swinging Sixties. Fashions and open-topped vehicles of that era. Groovy chicks. Film/AustinPowers. Was also the theme to the 1970s game show ''Definition.''
509* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o Space Oddity]]'' (Music/DavidBowie, from ''Music/SpaceOddity''): Dramatic or sombre scenes in space. If it's just the opening, space travel in general.
510* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU Spanish Flea]]'' (Music/HerbAlpert & His Tijuana Brass): Often played as comedic BackgroundMusic. You'll probably be hearing this as an on-hold song when [[ForInconveniencePressOne navigating an automatic menu system]], interspersed with a voice saying "Your call is important to us. Please continue to hold", or even "Please stand by. We are experiencing technical difficulties".
511* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY Stayin' Alive]]'' (Music/TheBeeGees): TheSeventies.
512* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bLX06yR3wY The Stripper]]'' (David Rose): Anyone performing a [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn striptease]]. However, a scene done by Creator/MorecambeAndWise, where they make breakfast to this tune, is also well known.
513* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g Stuck in the Middle With You]]'' (Stealers Wheel): Either used to evoke the drugs-and-folk-music era of Sixties music (even though this didn't come out until 1972 and didn't hit the charts until the following year), or as a tongue-in-cheek reference to its use in the interrogation scene in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
514* ''[[https://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 RelaxOVision.
515* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh54rSzheg Sunshine of Your Love]]" (Music/{{Cream}}): Vietnam, or that time period in general
516* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vrfEoc8_g Superman March]] (Music/JohnWilliams): Superheroes in general. Often used in parodies.
517* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5BuYf8q4o Sweet Home Alabama]]'' by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd: SweetHomeAlabama, the DeepSouth. If somewhere else, used to indicate that the character is a GoodOlBoy (or gal). Has become associated with incest thanks to MemeticMutation.
518* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc That's The Way (I Like It)]]" (KC and the Sunshine Band): Discos and the '70s.
519* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYQmsyYxSFk Telescope]]'' (Music/PinoDonaggio): Sexually charged scenes.
520* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj-6fr2SlI Things Can Only Get Better]]'' (D:Ream): Used for British Prime Ministers, usually mockingly. Originally used as UsefulNotes/TonyBlair's election theme.
521* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs Title theme]] from ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'' (Ron Goodwin): Classic biplanes and triplanes. Lo-tech prototypes, joke mock-ups and risible failures in the field of aeronautics.
522* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ym9E0R0tNI Trap Door]] (David Lindup): In particular, the bit from 0:29 - 0:32 is used as a dramatic {{Sting}}, most notably for the entrance of the [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Spanish Inquisition.]]
523* "[[https://youtu.be/xVOJla2vYx8 Turn! Turn! Turn!]]" (Music/TheByrds version): TheSixties, hippies.
524* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU Theme]]: Something is very disturbingly wrong. (Note that the first season of ''The Twilight Zone'' didn't use this iconic theme.)
525* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0wOD9TWynM Intermission song ]] from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Used for Intermissions]], or when [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties a show or streamer is experiencing technical difficulties.]]
526* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c The Typewriter]]'' (Leroy Anderson): Newsrooms and secretarial pools, BBC Radio's ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz''. Jerry Lewis made this his own in ''Who's Minding the Store'', though it was written before that.
527* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWdLt3Afjrg Under Pressure]]'' (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.
528* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U Walking on Sunshine]]" (Music/KatrinaAndTheWaves): A montage in which characters are genuinely happy. See also StockTrailerMusic.
529* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY We Are The Champions]]" (Music/{{Queen}}): Victory in a sporting contest. Usually tongue-in-cheek (except in real arenas).
530* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk We Will Rock You]]" (Queen): Sports chants, especially taunting opponents.
531* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM Welcome Home]]" (Music/CoheedAndCambria): Threatening apocalyptic action music, especially the closing guitar solo and chorus.
532* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg Welcome to the Jungle]]" (Music/GunsNRoses): WretchedHive. Wild partying. In sports arenas, usually as taunting or BadassBoast. Sometimes used for trailers for works about actual, literal jungles.
533* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU What a Wonderful World]]" (Music/LouisArmstrong): {{Roman|ce}}tic or [[SoundtrackDissonance/WhatAWonderfulWorld just as often ironic]], such as horrific fighting on screen. SoundtrackDissonance, used to indicate a CrapsackWorld. See also "[[CrapsaccharineWorld Don't Worry Be Happy]]" above.
534* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_H3MWVx6JU With a Spirit]]", (009 Sound System): Website/YouTube instructional videos.
535* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoPzjWjBZNY Wipe Out]]": Surfing. Humorous accidents. Used more often for this purpose than ''Misirlou,'' but not nearly as badass
536* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM Welcome Home]]" (Music/CoheedAndCambria): WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} action music, especially using the guitar riffs and chorus at the end.
537* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sXQoGcMN1U The X-Files]]" from, unsurprisingly, ''Series/TheXFiles'': Mostly used tongue-in-cheek by web original creators as an audio counterpart to putting on a TinfoilHat
538* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVS3QqrXhD8 Yakety Sax]]'': Wacky comedic chase scenes. Usually with the action sped up. See also ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'', MusicalSlapstickMontage. Bonus: it includes the hook from "Entrance of the Gladiators."
539* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQt6NmOKzYw We're Walking In The Air]]''" (Aled Jones): [[ChristmasTropes Christmas]], scenes of ice or snowflakes, associated with ''ComicBook/TheSnowman'' primarily.
540* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1H2fTUaWqI Show Me The Way to Go Home]]''" (Max Bygraves): Mainly associated with DrunkenMontage or AlcoholInducedIdiocy, as of the 1990s, DrunkDriver, LadyDrunk and HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
541* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWuflI2NCo Words of Love]]''" (The Mamas and the Papas): Couples arguing, romantic moments in general.
542* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrtF45-y-g Let's Talk About Sex]]''" (Salt-N-Pepa): Romance, sex, occasional use was for parody.
543* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLcZCNTLCY Hold Me Close]]''" (David Essex): Romance, couples, sex
544* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vTKmVvyNRc Love Train]]''" (The O'Jays): TheSeventies, romance scenes
545* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8nmKMBgrFI Birthday]]'' " (Katy Perry): Birthday scenes, birthdays, sometimes used as stock muzak with words cut out in an attempt to copy classical music. Sometimes used to show scenes of discos etc.
546* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbHlXPmmcE Back to the Future End Credits Theme]]''" (Alan Silvestri).: End theme from ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', normally used from 0:00 to 1:15 for TimeTravelEpisode settings. ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' used this in the 2007 episode "Ultimate Pursuits" and actually referenced the movie itself at the end of the episode. Often used for {{Parody}} or {{Pastiche}} purposes.
547* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhyLCS0KXs Get Get Down]]''" (Paul Johnson, 1999): Ibiza scenes, Spring Break, party scenes; anything to do with summer. Sometimes was used as a {{Pastiche}} or {{Satire}} of what Ibiza music was like during TurnOfTheMillennium. Occasionally seen in Spring Break or CoolestClubEver scenes in American TV or movies.
548* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4HCZe-tew Lush Life]]''" (Music/ZaraLarsson): Scenes of towns or cities, British towns, party scenes, young women, women dancing; wealth, grandeur, influencers; also high-performance or luxury cars.
549* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SeRU_ZPDkE You Don't Own Me]]''" (Saygrace/Grace Sewell feat G.Eazy)''": Christmas time, alternatively CrapsackWorld or CrapsaccharineWorld settings.
550* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3agvlyRmM Doin' It]]''"(Music/CharliXCX feat. Music/RitaOra): Lifestyle scenes, comedy, advertising, ConMan characters. Often used without lyrics.
551* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxaunLybuM At the Car Wash]]" (Rose Royce): Car washes, but mainly TheSeventies, [[GratuitousDiscoSequence disco scenes]]
552* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNoGx7KJY4 Wishing on a Star]]" (Rose Royce)" or "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGoNjUtMi0 Wishing On A Star]]''(1998 cover version by Music/JayZ feat. Gwen Dickey): Hopefulness, but also used for TheSeventies scenes that are moody; anything relating to DarkestHour or when things get bleak. Sometimes used for romance-related scenes, when the character DidNotGetTheGirl or is depressed following a break-up.
553* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMeJSehCe4 Hot Stuff]]" (Music/DonnaSummer): Love and romance, when a series or episode gets HotterAndSexier, TheSeventies, often GratuitousDiscoSequence. Sometimes used as much for parody as straight examples of TheSeventies. ''Series/LoveIsland'' used this in promos in 2019.
554* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIQn8pab8Vc I Believe I Can Fly]]" (Music/RKelly): {{Flight}}, scenes of planes, sometimes used with ducks etc. flying. Sometimes used at the end of a conflict or StoryArc with the beginning of the song, no lyrics.
555* "[[https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/ycmQpXWwT0c/mqdefault_6s.webp?du=3000&sqp=CIeCnYkG&rs=AOn4CLBOS9WiSj1887ycqTiVzBf4N_gqlw On a Mission]])" (Music/GabriellaCilmi): High energy, intense action; scenes of fast cars or driving, occasionally used in {{Fanservice}} scenes, MsFanservice. Words sometimes cut from this.
556* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFsWAkLoXQ School's Out]]" (Music/AliceCooper): End of high school, graduation, rebellion, edginess
557* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZuxwVk7TU Toxic]]"(Music/BritneySpears): High-intensity situations, also used for urban landscapes, but equally for WomanScorned, BusinessTripAdultery. Also used for Spring Break scenes. Sometimes used of {{Narcissist}} characters in media too.
558* "[[https://youtu.be/9MO1KyNUOIs?si=K3l2iWnflGUWERnr Viva Las Vegas]]" (Music/ElvisPresley): [[VivaLasVegas Las Vegas]], gambling.
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562* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE Powerhouse]]'' (Raymond Scott): Used or [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong imitated]] in a number of later WB theatrical shorts, in scenes involving a chase, or (especially) a factory or mechanism such as a RubeGoldbergDevice. The latter usage (''[[https://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 "[[SuspiciouslySimilarSong soundalikes]]" in WB cartoons can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100112044311/http://raymondscott.com/WB.html here]].
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