History Main / Fanfare

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', the victory fanfare also plays when the player wins a chocobo race. If the player loses a chocobo race, a minor key version of the fanfare is played.

* In Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''Theatre/{{Cinderella}}'', "The Prince Is Giving a Ball" opens with a trumpet fanfare based on the first line of the song; a variation on this fanfare is repeated throughout.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' series has two regular appearing fanfares that debut in the first game, one that plays after selecting a save file as Samus appears, and another that plays when picking up a major upgrade.

* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fJV0l-UGbY "LOG-O-TYPE,"]] which plays at the conclusion of the prologue. It later becomes the {{Leitmotif}} of the Pigmask Army rearranged as "His Highness' Theme."

* The victory music in the first ''VideoGame/StarFox'' game. The reprise during the [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wkh1oHqqY Credits]] also qualify, as well as the ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl]]'' [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzbjtzeDXA remix.]]

* The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series has a fanfare for whenever a fighter wins a match. Each of these vary depending on the fighter, reflecting their series. Interestingly, [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Kazuya Mishima]] does not have a traditional music fanfare, which instead has the Smash announcer gets replaced by the announcer from his own series accompanied by no music.

* The Theme Tune for ''Series/LoisAndClark'', clearly inspired by the Music/JohnWilliams score from the ''Film/{{Superman}}'' movie.

* This has been around for about as long as film had original music. Studios tried to have a fanfare as their theme, but only Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox's theme has lasted.
* ''Film/OurMissBrooks'', the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]] to the long running radio and television program of the same name, dispenses with the usual series theme, and opens with a fanfare heavy composition.

* Creator/GustavMahler started off his Fifth Symphony with a trumpet solo. He grew up in a barracks town, so bugle calls and bits of military marches often find their way into his compositions.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' has the music played whenever Mario/Luigi touches a flagpole at the end of a level. A different fanfare is used at the end of each Castle level after he defeats a Fake Bowser (or the real one at the end of the final level) and rescues a Toad (or Princess Peach, again at the end of the final level).

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJW113tbKk Universal Logo]] is nothing short of EPIC.

* The Warner Bros. one made a brief return in ''Pee-Wee's Big Adventure'' (though within the movie itself, and not the opening). It was also once used in synthesized form for the Warner Home Video logo. Warner nowadays uses an excerpt of "[[Film/{{Casablanca}} As Time Goes By]]", though it appears more on their TV logo than on movies.
* Paramount had one that was rarely used; it mostly appeared on their VHS-era home video releases. ''Film/DeepImpact'' and ''Film/MeanGirls'' began with this fanfare, which was replaced in 2013.

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* ''Webcomic/GrimTrigger'': The second arc's title sequence shows the Grey Prince and plays a short fanfare.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' plays with this. The traditional fanfare is followed by one guy playing the ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' theme. "Enough, Reggie!" indeed. In fact, the traditional fanfare was itself a stylized portion of the ''Hawaii Five-O'' theme.

** ''Film/{{Supergirl}}''

* The theme to ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series may have been intended as a fanfare at first, but the audio limitations of the Famicom/[=NES=] made it difficult to make clear. The ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' series made it clear that the theme is a fanfare, and was also played as one in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''. There is also the major [[ItemGet item-finding]] cues in the games.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' series has two regular appearing fanfares that debut in the first one, one that plays after selecting a save file as Samus appears, and another that plays when picking up a major upgrade.

* The ''VideoGame/Metroid'' series has two regular appearing fanfares that debut in the first one, one that plays after selecting a save file as Samus appears, and another that plays when picking up a major upgrade.

* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' overture ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDniHIc3Bc especially obvious]] in ''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII VIII]]''). It also has several triumphant themes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Va2XO3f0NA mostly heard when scoring in the casino.]] Finally, the series consistently uses the same fanfare for when a character gains a level.
* "The Musashi Legend" from ''VideoGame/BraveFencerMusashi''.

* Part of the ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' main theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88zyFLzIXQ&list=QL&playnext=2 from about 0:15 to 0:50 here]].

* The victory music in the first ''VideoGame/StarFox'' game. The reprise during the [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wkh1oHqqY Credits]] also qualify, as well as the ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl]]'' [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzbjtzeDXA remix.]]
* The victory tune in Capcom's ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheRound''. Oddly, it's just the SNES port, not the arcade version, which sounds more like chimes than trumpets.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'':
** "Lucca's Theme." In fact, one of the things that annoyed some gamers about ''Cross'' was that even though that tune was upgraded to a full victory tune, and given two remixes, both of them ''slowed the tempo down''.
** A different sort of fanfare is "Courage and Pride", the castle theme -- there is a remix of it that plays it as it would be in "real life", outdoors with chattering voices.

* From 1:40 onward, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJFXt_erac The Greatest Journey]]" from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' is a Fanfare version of the original Halo Theme.

* ''Kessen'' is absolutely overloaded with sweeping fanfares, both for victory and for battles. ''Kessen III'' replaced some of the fanfares with odd rock/techno orchestral mixes though, which sort of worked, but didn't make your hair stand on end like some previous songs in the series did.
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' has "item acquired" and "boss defeated" fanfares.
* The victory music (especially the "defended town" one) in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic III''.
* Numerous games released by Apogee Software in the early-to-mid 90s opened with a screen displaying the company's logo accompanied by the "Apogee Fanfare."
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Xa6XECzSg title screen music]] for the original ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has been a recurring fanfare and main theme for the series. There are few various victory fanfares as well, but this is without the most recognizable one from the games.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' has the music played whenever Mario/Luigi touches a flagpole at the end of a level. A different fanfare is used at the end of each Castle level after he defeats a Fake Bowser (or the real one at the end of the final level) and rescues a Toad (or Princess Peach, again at the end of the final level).

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' has always had a subdued ambient soundtrack, so the short drumroll and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7frZL4xM8Q fanfare]] that plays when you level up might not seem very amazing, but in context of the game, it is nothing short of triumphant.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQtiSjGb74U Listen to the theme]] that first plays when a character is promoted in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', and swell with pride. It doesn't matter who you are or even if you've ever played this game... You'll find a reason to be proud.

* ''VideoGame/FrozenFreeFall Icy Shot'' uses the chorus of "Let It Go" when you win a level, as an instrumental with triumphant brass horns.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9xfNn09eQ The famous theme tune]] for ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''. The 2010 remake ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' at first attempted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKdYXyQa90 a techno remix]], but the backlash was ''intense''. So, the producers brought back [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUt558jdHqk most of the original band members]] for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwhvByj8YG8 much closer version]] that stays a fanfare!

* The first season opening credits of ''Series/Space1999'' start with a grand fanfare, heralding the arrival of... Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
* "Song of the High Seas", the InstrumentalThemeTune from ''Series/VictoryAtSea''.
* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'' has a massive fanfare as part of its opening theme.
* As does the opening theme of that other Creator/DonaldPBellisario creation named ''Series/{{JAG}}''.
* One of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'''s {{Running Gag}}s involves someone (usually Tom Servo) announcing "The King approaches!" in a pompous tone of voice whenever the movie plays a fanfare.
* Popular with British TV companies for their opening logos, particularly in the 1960s-80s. Anglia Television, [=ATV=], Creator/Channel4, [=LWT=], Rediffusion, Thames, TVS and Yorkshire Television all used fanfares at one time or another. Hilarious in the US, where many viewers exposure to British programming was limited to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''Series/TheBennyHillShow''. The stirring fanfare of Thames Television was followed by a half-hour of watching a pudgy guy chase half-naked women around.

** ''Film/TheTenCommandments''

* Music/MiklosRozsa and his magnum opus music for ''Film/BenHur''. Seriously, he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_z2OcL8-U out-fanfares John Williams in the fanfare department.]]