Actual Names of Some Well-Known 'Cliché' Songs?

Nah, that’s duh-nuh, duh-nuh, duh-nuh duh-nuh duh-nuh dun-uh dun-uhhhhhhh (etc.) :slight_smile:

I think he means the one where the first four "dun"s are ascending tones and the last ones descend back down the scale (but more quickly).

ETA: and the first and fourth “dun” are an octave apart, if that helps.

And I’ll add Boccherini’s String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5, which you’ll surely recognize as the snobby violin music from many movies & TV shows.

Also, Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood from his Peer Gynt is a stereotypical “morning song”.

Speaking of Peer Gynt, if you were a big gamer in the 1990’s you might recognize the Death of Ase.

Descent, level 8 level music

Also, another videogame tune that wasn’t originally a videogame tune is Nikolay Nekrasov’s Korobeiniki.

Tetris

Ah, it’s either Mysterioso Pizzicato or Mysterioso Burglar Music 1. There’s conflicting info.

Here’s an example of the “sneaky/villain” music. Spanky is playing the bad guy. Also listen for the familiar tear-inducing “Hearts and Flowers” at the end of this snippet.

Anyway, this tune has come up before, and someone in an earlier thread found it in a directory of ‘stock silent movie music.’ I don’t think the source gave it a title.

Another tune widely used in cartoons, especially those set in the West or in the country: “The Arkansas Traveller”

Stock magic or dreamland music

For all your 50s era PSA needs

Is it…could it be…? Yes, oh rapture, it’s my true love!

One of the most stereotypical Highland bagpipe tunes is, in fact, Amazing Grace - the same tune you might sing in church. Scotty played it on the pipes in one of the Star Trek movies, iirc.

Also, Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood from his Peer Gynt is a stereotypical “morning song”.

Funny, it sounded like an Olive Garden commercial to me. :smiley: Thanks for the name of the tune.

Whenever there’s a conga line in a cartoon, you’ll hear “Ahí, Viene La Conga,” written by Raúl Valdespí and popularized by Xavier Cugat.

Also used widely: “The Campbells Are Coming”

In sea-related cartoons, you often heard “The Song of the Marines.”

The actual title of “L’amour” from Carmen is “Habanera.”

You mean it’s not “I Ask To Be, Or Not To Be?”

Oh, and the one bagpipe piece everyone has heard is called “Scotland the Brave.”

I was once at a party where practically everyone had an advanced degree, and the youngest people were at least college students, and it turned out that *everyone *knew all the words to all the songs from the particular production of Hamlet.

O Fortuna, from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, is commonly used in trailers for fantasy or period pieces, in big dramatic scenes with people riding horses and fighting in slow motion.

Like, a lot.

Sorry, can’t get to YouTube at work.

I’m racking my brain trying to remember that stereotypical spooky organ music.

The one that opens with a long held chord, then a series of quick, mostly rising ones.

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor?