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1	The [[http://www.clockworkquartet.com/ Clockwork Quartet]] are a {{Steampunk}} [[FilkSong Filk]] group with a propensity for the macabre. Although the band's website is quiet, they maintain a presence on [[http://www.facebook.com/ClockworkQuartet Facebook]].
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3	The band's music is dark, somewhat disturbing, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking catchy]], usually set in a pseudo-Victorian CrapsackWorld, which has been expanded on a bit more as of late with the site's webcomic.
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5	!! The band provides examples of:
6	%%* {{Clockpunk}}
7	* ClockworkCreature: "The Doctor's Wife" has parts of her body being shut down by some unnamed malady while the Doctor has to keep replacing them with mechanical bits.
8	%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Raconteuse seems to have this opinion of Queen Oriana.
9	* MadDoctor: Although [[SanitySlippage he doesn't start out mad]], the unnamed doctor in "The Doctor's Wife" [[{{Determinator}} will go to any lengths]] to keep his wife alive
10	* MurderBallad: "The Watchmaker's Apprentice", about said apprentice trying to frame his boss for said murder.
11	* RevengeByProxy: A variation occurs in "The Watchmaker's Apprentice". After being fired by the watchmaker, the [[VillainProtagonist eponymous apprentice]] breaks into his master's shop in the middle of the night; wanting a more satisfying revenge than burglary or vandalism, he spends the entire night constructing a very special pocket watch. A week later, a customer buys the watch -- only for it to explode "at six on the dot," killing him instantly. As a result, the watchmaker is arrested for manslaughter, his business is left in ruins and his reputation obliterated. Meanwhile, the apprentice [[KarmaHoudini gleefully slinks off to the seaside]], knowing that [[TheBadGuyWins the whole plan has worked out like clockwork]].
12	* RightOnTheTick: "The Clockmaker's Apprentice" reveals that he has rigged the pocketwatch to [[spoiler: explode, killing the owner]] at precisely 6:00.
13	* SanitySlippageSong: ''The Doctor's Wife'', a SteamPunk song about a doctor, trying and failing to cure his wife's deadly illness, over the course of several months.
14	%%** Also implied at the end of ''Closer''
15	* VillainProtagonist: "The Watchmaker's Apprentice", who is trying to frame his boss for murder.
16	* VillainSong: "The Watchmaker's Apprentice" is from the POV of a disgruntled ex-employee framing his boss for murder. As the song progresses, he gradually gets more and more unhinged:
17	-->''I rigged up a watch to do more than just chime\
18	And I didn't balk once at the depth of my crime\

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