There's a book by Erno Rapee, Motion Picture Moods For Pianists And Organists that is made of these, for use during silent movies. I don't know if I should add it to the top of the page.
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Ave Maria - Franz Schubert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bosouX_d8Y
Religious music, Wedding and Romantic scenes, Assassins (Hitman)
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Which is that one that goes "pararan pararan pararan tan tan pararan pararan pararan tan tan pararan pararan pararan tan tan ta ta tan pararan tan tan"
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Hmm... what could the snippet for the 2000s be?
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I've heard Justin Beiber's "Baby" being used to accompany birth announcements.
The current definition is problematic because a piece that is frequently performed in tv shows and has a standard meaning because of this cannot count as this trope since it is not just being used in part. In addition, pieces that are commonly used but have no clearly defined meaning end up requiring a separate trope, which could be called "Common Snippet" but the distinction is somewhat illogical.
Does anyone care to add Beach Parade by Armando Trovaioli? Often used in educational/parody-educational contexts.
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What is the music that plays whenever a beautiful woman shows up? It sounded like a bunch of trumpets, I think or even some trombones, and was often in old cartoons, if I remember correctly. The woman would probably be showing some leg, or playfully taking off a coat or something to show some more skin. Heck, she usually just strolled into the room without even doing any of that, or was walking down the street. The music would pretty much add on to the beauty she had, basically saying "Dang, she's hot."
It basically went like: "Wha wha wha wha wha wha wha whaa" Terrible, I know, but the tune is in my head, and I don't quite know how to put it down for eyes to see. Help if possible?
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Ought not Careless Whisper be on the page? No examples come to mind, though...
"As long as I breathe, I hope." - Cicero
There's a tune, the name of which I don't recall - it's like The Jimmy Hart Version of "Dixie" and often used in place of it, like on riverboat tours on the Mississippi. You hear it about as much as Dixie with reference to the Confederates in the US Civil War. It starts almost the same but...bloody hell, I'm not going to embarrass myself by typing out "dah dah dah" and hoping that makes an ounce of sense. Help me out Tropers...
I feel like Spanish Flea should be on the list, but can't think of any good examples. Anyone else agree and care to help?
What's the name of that song that's uses a ton in old cartoons for Arabian or Egyptian settings, it's usually played on a clarinet and it goes "Da da DAAAA, daaaa, da. Da da da DA da da da." Kesha used it as the melody for the intro for "Take It Off" (and Todd In The Shadows got it mixed up with the "Nyaaaah, nyaah, nya-naaaah, nyaah" playground taunt).
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Has Khachaturian's Masquerade become a Standard Snippet?
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I don't know. Where have you heard it used, and in what repeated context?
I don't know. Where have you heard it used, and in what repeated context?
Sandstorm. I know I've heard this many times long before I found the original source. Unfortunalty I can't remember any of the places I've heard it.
Does La Campanella count or not? It does not seem to have a standard meaning, but it is commonly used.
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If it doesn't have a standard meaning, it can't really count as this trope.
If it doesn't have a standard meaning, it can't really count as this trope.
Well, if it is a separate trope, then that trope does not seem to really exist from what I have seen. It is too common to just be under public domain soundtrack although I can understand how it does not quite fit.
I don't know what section this belongs under, but I've just learned its name: "Left Bank Two", most famously used in Vision On and Take Hart, has more recently been adopted as something of a Standard Snippet, appearing in Zero Punctuation (I forget which episode exactly), in the Weebl's Stuff short "The Cheese Family", and on QI as seen here.
Could there be a trope for a composer who is commonly referenced but does not have one song in particular that is frequently referenced?
A-ha's Take On Me is the quintessential 80s synthpop song. Whenever there's a flashback to the 80s and the movie wants to evoke images of spandex, bad hairdos and probably the protagonist's youth, chances are this song'll pop up.
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Now that you mention it, not too many. At least not from the top of my head.
Most prominent ones are probably Grosse Point Blank and Scrubs ep. 4.12 - the latter of which doesn't even appear on the list on imdb
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2165250/
Some of the stuff listed here probably counts - after all, a show called "Reunion" using it in an episode named "1986" is probably another example, but I haven't seen it, so I can't make any qualified observations about it.
But I think this is one of the problems. You usually don't have to play more than the song's intro to set the setting and this might not always be credited. Then again, I may be talking out of my ass here but I am convinced that this is one of the staple tracks on most sitcom/TV show sets and may be more frequently found on less memorable ones. Oh well, I'll chime in once I remember more specific examples. Any help is appreciated, though.
Should the definition be broadened to include songs that are frequently partially performed? They would fit the definition in every other respect and it does not really make that much sense to prevent them from being here.
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This troper already mentioned the Revolutionary Etude as an example of a song that would meet the requirements except that it is often performed in part like in Arthur.
So no, then. If it's actually being played, it has nothing to do with this trope.
However, it seems to me that there's room in this wiki for a trope of things that do get played in the show. A sister trope to Standard Snippet, and a supertrope of, for example, Shave And A Haircut and The Elevator from Ipanema. Your Etude would fit right in there.
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So no, then. If it's actually being played, it has nothing to do with this trope.
However, it seems to me that there's room in this wiki for a trope of things that do get played in the show. A sister trope to Standard Snippet, and a supertrope of, for example, Shave And A Haircut and The Elevator from Ipanema. Your Etude would fit right in there.
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Thanks for that trope idea. Fur Elise would definitely fit there and Invention 8 by Bach may belong there. Could it be called Standard Performance because it's a song that is commonly performed?
Ha, I was going to mention Fur Elise in my response and then I forgot it and couldn't think of it for anything. Mozart's piano sonata in C Major is right up there too, as a recital piece.
Oh, also the Xylophone Gag straddles both sides of the line.
My gut instinct is not to go with "Performance" because, for example, The Elevator from Ipanema isn't performed, just played. But it'll do at least as a placeholder title for a YKTTW.
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Ha, I was going to mention Fur Elise in my response and then I forgot it and couldn't think of it for anything. Mozart's piano sonata in C Major is right up there too, as a recital piece.
Oh, also the Xylophone Gag straddles both sides of the line.
My gut instinct is not to go with "Performance" because, for example, The Elevator from Ipanema isn't performed, just played. But it'll do at least as a placeholder title for a YKTTW.
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I would also include Sonatina no. 1 from Clementi's Op. 36 because it's really almost impossible to avoid playing it at least once if you are a pianist.
Is that something you've ever seen in media though? It's not one I've heard, and I have a very good memory for pieces of music I don't know the name of.
Is that something you've ever seen in media though? It's not one I've heard, and I have a very good memory for pieces of music I don't know the name of.
I actually am trying to find a piece of media that references him. That's why I put it there.
I'm surprised that "Lux Aeterna" (a.k.a. "that music from Requiem for a Dream") by the Kronos Quartet is not listed, so I'm about to add it.
So how common are allusions to Chopin's Revolutionary Etude? It could be a standard snippet, but is it referenced often?
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It's generally used as "difficult piano piece" music - cf. Sparky's Magic Piano. In many cases, the pianist is actually part of the action, and will quite often be an insane genius of some sort. That aside, it's as well-referenced as many of the examples here.
I found this
clip of the Magic Fire Music from Die Walkure. It's a full operatic performance rather than a piano arrangement, and was only uploaded recently. The only question is whether it starts in the right place - it sounds like it's the snippet referred to in the description, but I'm only assuming. If it is, what say we replace the existing clip with this one?
Could this part of Coronation Scot be the origin of the traveling music that Family Guy refers to here?
Should the 4th Movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony be mentioned (Thanks to its appearances in One Piece, Asura's Wrath and Killer Is Dead; possibly others)? If so, I think its connotations with the moon should be worth mentioning, and its Apollo 11 relevance explained.
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