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\"Aria of the Soul\" is the official translation


* If you lose in ''{{Persona 3}}'', a slower, down-key piano version of "A Poem For Everyone's Souls" plays on the Game Over screen.

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* If you lose in ''{{Persona 3}}'', a slower, down-key piano version of "A Poem For Everyone's Souls" "Aria of the Soul" plays on the Game Over screen.

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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the movie's "Komm, Suesser Tod" on first hearing has a bubble-gum pop upbeat tone; only after realizing the lyrical dissonance the piano solo manages this effect, without even changing rhythm.

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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Rei's theme (''Rei I'') is the movie's "Komm, Suesser Tod" on first hearing has a bubble-gum pop upbeat tone; only after realizing the lyrical dissonance the piano solo manages this effect, without even changing rhythm.epitome of loneliness, and appropriately so. So very sadly so.
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That's hardly a spoiler.


* [[spoiler:Roxas's]] theme in ''KingdomHearts''.

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* [[spoiler:Roxas's]] Roxas's theme in ''KingdomHearts''.
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* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' features this in the episode where the Axis Powers are alone on an island. [[spoiler:You get a double whammy when it turns out that [[SorryILeftTheBGMOn Austria was playing it]], and realize that it could apply to him too.]]
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* The track "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liMhcJrbxVE&feature=related Jewel Seed]]" from the [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] The Movie 1st original soundtrack.
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* Shepard's death at the beginning of ''MassEffect2'' has a lonely piano piece play over it.
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* ''Elmer Bernstein'' was the master of this trope. Listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alg_V0dJs9c Far From Heaven]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t98LWNwUhI To Kill A Mockingbird.]]

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* ''Elmer Bernstein'' ''ElmerBernstein'' was the master of this trope. Listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alg_V0dJs9c Far From Heaven]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t98LWNwUhI To Kill A Mockingbird.]]
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* {{Efterklang}}'s song ''Mimeo'' on the ''Parades'' album.
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"Rain" wasn't used in The Movie, it was used in Session 5: Ballad of Fallen Angels


* ''CowboyBebop'' does this with piano ("Adieu") less often than other instruments, like saxophone ("Goodnight, Julia"). The movie even manages it on a pipe organ ("Rain").

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* ''CowboyBebop'' does this with piano ("Adieu") less often than other instruments, like saxophone ("Goodnight, Julia"). The movie Session five even manages it on a pipe organ ("Rain").
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* "Home Movies" in the remake of ''{{Halloween}}'' and its sequel.
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** Also, the music during the opening cinematic and first several seconds of the post-credits mini-level "Lone Wolf" in ''Halo: Reach''.
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* Fullmetal Alchemist the first anime with a simple yet heartugging piano solo, which coincidentally is titled "Alone" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEOpVvS1Sc

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* Fullmetal Alchemist ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' the first anime with a simple yet heartugging piano solo, which coincidentally is titled "Alone" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEOpVvS1Sc
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* Fullmetal Alchemist the first anime with a simple yet heartugging piano solo, which coincidentally is titled "Alone" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTEOpVvS1Sc
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* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1qMsGZC84#t=2m25s ending]] to RayCrisis. Since Ray Crisis is a prequel to RayForce, ForegoneConclusion means that despite your success in shutting down Con-Human, the damage has already been done, and indeed, TheWarHasJustBegun. With the piano single as the background music, the lone pilot sorties off...
--> '''Narrator''': "We managed to separate the human clone from Con-Human computer environment, but we could still not stop the violence generated by the Con-Human. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Can we call the Con-Human and human clone a new life creation?]]. Are we supposed to destroy this creature? The humans who are fighting against their ominous fate will use their latest strategy, resulting in [[TitleDrop ''Operation Ray Force'']]
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* ''BattleRoyale II'' has Memories, played by Shiori Kitano on a piano she finds in Shuya's base. As she plays, the scene cuts between her in the present, and her remembering how horribly she treated her father in years gone by.
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* Midna's Desperate Hour from ''LegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess''. It's actually a variation on the [[{{Leitmotif}} Hyrule Field theme.]]

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* Midna's Desperate Hour from ''LegendOfZelda: TwilightPrincess''. It's actually a variation on the [[{{Leitmotif}} Hyrule Field theme and Midna's theme.]]
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---> "I think I'll wait another year..."
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...yeah that isn't piano.


** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10CGIjH12FQ Requiem of Spirit]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3G5cIq-lKo&feature=related Nocturne of Shadow]].
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* The end of the final episode of season 1 of BuffyTheVampireSlayer has the Buffy theme music being played over it, slowly, on a piano.
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* Oddly enough, the opening piano score from "BadSanta" is oddly touching, hearing Billy Bob Thornton monologue about how crappy a person he is while Chopin's Nocturn Op.9 No.2 plays is rather moving.
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** Oh AmandaPalmer...
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*In ''Chojin Sentai Jetman'' has Maria, who constantly plays a tune on a piano. During [[spoiler: The times when Maria is hurt or dying, this plays.]]
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEuNySeWQy0 "Magdalene"]] from ''SilentHill 2'', which is played after Maria's first death.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEuNySeWQy0 "Magdalene"]] from ''SilentHill 2'', which is played after Maria's first death. The DarkReprise of "Theme of Laura" also uses this, along with PlayingTheHeartStrings.
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* The Game Over music in the PCEngine version of ''{{Valis}} 1''.
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* ''FinalFantasyIV'' has a sad piano remix of its overworld theme for the sad moments.
* ''FinalFantasyV'' has a sad piano and strings theme for the same purpose.
* ''ChronoTrigger'' also similarly has a sad (or alternately, touching) theme, "In the Bottom of the Night", which starts solo piano and is later joined by strings.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10CGIjH12FQ Requiem of Spirit]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3G5cIq-lKo&feature=related Nocturne of Shadow]].
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** "Nocturne pour Tamaki" is also a solo piano piece. The melody itself isn't necessarily sad, but the few scenes its played for aren't exactly joyous. Considering Tamaki's past, it gives off a more melancholy feel when its played.
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* Singer-songwriters who are piano-based (e.g. ToriAmos, ReginaSpektor, RufusWainwright) are likely to have songs like this. Rufus even has a ''whole album'' of lonely piano pieces (''All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu'').
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* Heard in ''DoDonPachi Daifukkatsu'' right before your carrier gets shot down and you fight Hibachi.

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