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||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M Theme from A Summer Place]]'' ||RelaxOVision, [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus medium-sized intermissions]], [[RapeAsComedy "comical"]] [[AnimalHouse date rape]], [[{{Batman}} getting romanced in a museum cafe by a]] MonsterClown--in general, SoundtrackDissonance. ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ILbnHhAzk Dance of the Hours]]'' from ''La Gioconda'' (Ponchielli)||Mincing ballet dancers. Old-fashioned domestic scenes. [[Disney/{{Fantasia}} Tutu-clad hippos]]. Or kids [[AllanSherman writing home from Camp Granada]].||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5hz8fc4Cw William Tell Overture: Storm]]'' ||Storms at sea ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g Stuck in the Middle With You]]'' (Stealers Wheel)||Interrogation scenes. usually a tongue-in-cheek reference to its use in ''ReservoirDogs''.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-qhIGTXdU Theme]]'' from ''{{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]].||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE15tLBdso Minuet]]'' (Luigi Boccherini)||When ''Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'' just isn't fancy enough (or [[TheLadykillers you need to plan a heist genteelly]]).||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJOdbGziVg The Syncopated Clock]]''||Clocks, or clockwork machinery. Many local television stations used it as a theme for the early movie: BJ mentions this in an episode of {{MASH}}.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1_xDytEB1Q Nadia's Theme]]'' (HenryMancini) ||[[{{Melodrama}} High melodrama,]] gymnastics routines.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUxxQIUV7o Pizzicato]]'' from ''Sylvia'' (Delibes)||Like ''Gavotte'', overly fussy action. ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EfnYwpmOE Disco Inferno]], (TheTrammps)||Discos.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc]]'' (KCAndTheSunshineBand)||Discos and the '70s.||

||''[[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky_-_1812_overture.ogg 1812 Overture]]'' (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 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 slapstick and/or StuffBlowingUp timed to the music. ||

SubTropes include:

||''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Merry_Oldsmobile In My Merry Oldsmobile]]''||Driving in an old automobile.||

||''[[http://tiny.cc/umunc Mysterioso Pizzicato]]'' also known as ''The Villains Theme'' and jazzed up as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-km6YQUgU4 Mysterious Mose]]" ||Sneakiness, stealth (often {{Mickey Mous|ing}}ed), entrance of the [[DastardlyWhiplash mustache-twirling villain]]. ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyGhmbfd7rY 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."||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0skZvqLTiw Get Ready for This]]'' (2 Unlimited)||Sports events, especially basketball. Big arenas full of people||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Zf-WzS59k The Girl from Ipanema]]''||An instrumental version is standard "elevator music", to the point where it's named [[TheElevatorFromIpanema its own trope]].||

||''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23wpb_james-brown-i-got-you-i-feel-good_music I Got You (I Feel Good)]]'' (JamesBrown) ||Celebrations, characters having good fortune or...feeling good. ([[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113768/#Soundtrack examples]]) See also StockTrailerMusic.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWHlKAsBNA Lux Æterna]]'' (Music/ClintMansell and the Kronos Quartet)||{{Melodrama}}, first used in ''RequiemForADream'' when the main characters are about to hit rock bottom; re-worked for the trailer for [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]] as ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI_oWrseTKk Requiem for a Tower]]'', which is sadly(?) [[AdaptationDisplacement the better-known version]].||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMWwf8RtTQ&ob=av2n Money]]'' (Music/PinkFloyd)||Documentaries on [[CorruptCorporateExecutive financial shenanigans]], [[NouveauRiche less respectful looks at the lifestyles of the rich and famous]].||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrmDtH1Xpk The Bowery]]'' -- From 1892's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_(song) A Trip to Chinatown]]'' ||New York City and its East Side, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0M4BzzrNX4 here]]''(dead link)'' (between 1:50 and 2:00). ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqJJMSK15U Forty-Second Street]]''||New York City, especially in the '30s and '40s||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxlujC8A004 Korobeiniki]]''||Russia, Russians, VideoGame/{{Tetris}}. ([[ExecutiveMeddling The Tetris Company]] owns a sound trademark on this for computer games.)||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8DaeDs9KA Midnight in Moscow]]'' (also known as ''Moscow Nights'') ||Anything to do with the former Soviet Union, Russia, or the city of Moscow ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiFWoY69cE Baby Elephant Walk]]'' ||Slow, stupid characters; animals; people carrying awkward loads||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjpAGf0oks 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. ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_BF1q6uBY The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze]]''||Slow, stylish flying||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCvzizkI3U Overture]]'' from ''Carmen'' (Georges Bizet)||Fast-paced, often {{slapstick}} montages of comedy scenes in movie trailers. Music/WeirdAlYankovic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa1EnJt9UI flailing around like a constipated chimpanzee.]]||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofaoLKPz7c Un bel dì]]'' from ''Madame Butterfly'' (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.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZL-25906Oc Radetzky March]]'' (Strauss)||Soldiers marching jauntily and [[SoundtrackDissonance ninth-graders killing]] [[Literature/BattleRoyale one another on an island.]]||

||''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_(song) The Bowery]]'' -- From 1892's ''A Trip to Chinatown'' ||New York City and its East Side, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0M4BzzrNX4 here]]''(dead link)'' (between 1:50 and 2:00). ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y7tjxii2y4 Call to the Dairy Cows]]'' from ''William Tell'' (Rossini)||Morning, sunrise. Used as often as "Morning Mood".||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y7tjxii2y4 William Tell Overture: Ranz des Vaches]]'' ||Morning, waking up, nature, pastoralism, tranquillity.||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdq249uOGs Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair]]'' ||Hair, often hair styling or cutting||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZe8Uvf2emw Happy Go Lively]]'' ||Perky, efficient, immaculately dressed Fifties housewives working in ultramodern [[{{Zeerust}} Kitchens of The Future]], or those kitchens themselves; cleaning. See also ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcmp7kGAKmM Puffin' Billy]]'' (also known as the ''CaptainKangaroo'' theme) and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2u0BvyDxdM&feature Holiday for Strings]]''. ||

||''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moL4MkJ-aLk Pomp and Circumstance March No.1]]'' (Elgar) ||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 British national anthem, as ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=podh1wht9RY&feature=related 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]].||

||"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5fnZ_bwHk Ride of the Valkyries]]" from ''Die Walküre'' (Wagner)||Nazis (especially Luftwaffe), [[MusicToInvadePolandTo Invading Poland]], WorldWarII, bombs, speed, violence, helicopters (ever since ''Film/ApocalypseNow''), more bombs, [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes wabbit hunting]]; descending swarms of enraged nerds, rodeo clowns, grannies, or any group generally lacking dignity, in slow motion. So standard that it has [[Music/RideOfTheValkyries its own page]].||

||''Dies Irae'' by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxr84zacOfY Mozart]] (18th century) or [[http://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. ||

Compare with StockFootage, RegionalRiff, and PublicDomainSoundtrack. LohengrinAndMendelssohn is a subtrope specifically for weddings.

||''Music/CarminaBurana'' (Orff): ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhG-d_YnhhU Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi (O Fortuna)]]'' ||High drama, movie trailers, video game final bosses, demons being summoned, cavalry charges, revealed castles (with lightning) and [[Series/TheXFactor singing]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking contests]]||