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PCD Since: May, 2021
Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2022-02-17 11:03:33

Carousel and A Little Heart To Heart would be Creepy Circus Music. As for why it's connected to tricksters, in addition to more direct circus-trickster connections like The Barnum and Repulsive Ringmaster, the stereotypical Snake Oil Salesman frequently associates with traveling carnivals or tries to invoke this atmosphere during their "medicine shows". Ergo circus music = someone has found their next mark.

Ominous Pizzicato Strings is a completely different thing from what you're linking; pizzicato is a weird "prickling" sort of sound made by plucking instruments that are normally made to be bowed. I remember seeing a thing from Mark Snow (the guy who did most of the background music/soundscapes for the X-Files) where he discribed it as "spider music". This is a good example of it (starts around 3:50 mark if it didn't do the timestamp thing right)

Edited by Scorpion451
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