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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vrfEoc8_g Superman March]] (Music/JohnWilliams): Superheroes in general. Often used in parodies.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewyTGQR9Pw The Irish Washerwoman]]'': Anything Irish.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqEFZLhYFg Dance of the Comedians]]'' from ''The Bartered Bride'' by Bedřich Smetana: Chase scenes, especially ones featuring [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes a very fast desert bird and a hapless coyote]]. This was a favorite of ''TTA'' and ''Animaniacs'' composer Richard Stone.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKbz6ulOfQ California, Here I Come]]'': Traveling to California (natch); trains in general. The theme song for the ubiquitous HuellHowser shows, in which he explores unusual California landmarks.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRT715ftrg O Canada]]'': CanadaEh

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxLAr_bwpA Maple Leaf Rag]],'' Scott Joplin: 1910's/1920's early industrialism, and ''especially'' [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent films.]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oAFlPLGA8 Down Under]]'' (Music/MenAtWork): Australia, the LandDownUnder.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tUphnwb38 Prelude]]'' the first of Music/JohannSebastianBach's ''Six Suites for Cello'': Refinement, elegance, dinner parties and balls that are so fancy they don't have to show off how fancy they are. Compare ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZdbzreNcs Prelude and Fugue No. 1]]'' from Book I of ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNoGx7KJY4 Wishing on a Star]])" (Rose Royce)" or "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGoNjUtMi0 Wishing On A Star]]''(1998 cover version by Music/JayZ feat. Gwen Dickey): Hopefulness, but also used for TheSeventies scenes that are moody; anything relating to DarkestHour or when things get bleak. Sometimes used for romance-related scenes, when the character DidNotGetTheGirl or is depressed following a break-up.

* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxaunLybuM At the Car Wash]]''" (Rose Royce): Car washes, but mainly TheSeventies, [[GratuitousDiscoSequence disco scenes]]
* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfNoGx7KJY4 Wishing on a Star]])''" (Rose Royce)" or "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDGoNjUtMi0 Wishing On A Star]]''(1998 cover version by Music/JayZ feat. Gwen Dickey): Hopefulness, but also used for TheSeventies scenes that are moody; anything relating to DarkestHour or when things get bleak. Sometimes used for romance-related scenes, when the character DidNotGetTheGirl or is depressed following a break-up.
* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMeJSehCe4 Hot Stuff]]''"(Donna Summer): Love and romance, when a series or episode gets HotterAndSexier, TheSeventies, often GratuitousDiscoSequence. Sometimes used as much for parody as straight examples of TheSeventies. ''Series/LoveIsland'' used this in promos in 2019.
* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIQn8pab8Vc I Believe I Can Fly]]''"(Music/RKelly): {{Flight}}, scenes of planes, sometimes used with ducks etc. flying. Sometimes used at the end of a conflict or StoryArc with the beginning of the song, no lyrics.
* "''[[https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/ycmQpXWwT0c/mqdefault_6s.webp?du=3000&sqp=CIeCnYkG&rs=AOn4CLBOS9WiSj1887ycqTiVzBf4N_gqlw On a Mission]])''" (Music/GabriellaCilmi): High energy, intense action; scenes of fast cars or driving, occasionally used in {{Fanservice}} scenes, MsFanservice. Words sometimes cut from this.
* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFsWAkLoXQ School's Out]]''" (Music/AliceCooper): End of high school, graduation, rebellion, edginess
* "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZuxwVk7TU Toxic]]''"(Music/BritneySpears): High-intensity situations, also used for urban landscapes, but equally for WomanScorned, BusinessTripAdultery. Also used for Spring Break scenes. Sometimes used of {{Narcissist}} characters in media too.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zirn3M3ewQc The Skater's Waltz]]'' (Emile Waldteufel): Ice skating. Figure skating. Attempts by cartoon characters to travel or maneuver in any type of low- or zero-friction situation, usually resulting in misadventure.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk Ohio]]'', (Music/NeilYoung): Theme for scenes of 60s protests especially of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar -- especially the National Guard killing of four Kent State students[[note]]two of whom weren't even protesters[[/note]] for whom it was written.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusLypfx7OQ Pompeii]]'' (E.S. Posthumus): OminousLatinChanting.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ Careless Whisper]]'' (Music/GeorgeMichael): ''The'' {{Sexophone}} riff.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E Danger Zone]]", (Music/KennyLoggins): Fighter Jets or any CoolPlane in general, Fighter or stunt pilots or specifically the AcePilot, the Air Force or any military branch with cool planes, Stuntmen, or any dangerous but cool stunts being performed with or without airplanes. Made popular by ''Film/TopGun'', and Archer. The "Top Gun Anthem" instrumental by Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens also counts.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRLdhFVzqt4 Heart Of Courage]] (Two Steps From Hell)'': Epic Heroic scenes common in film trailers.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyg5iFddsJI Jump Around]]'' (House of Pain): Used as an alternative to the above. Also used in film as BackgroundMusic for erratic behavior on the part of one or more characters.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI5LtRtrb0 Overture]]'' from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (Georges Bizet): Fast-paced, often {{slapstick}} montages of comedy scenes in movie trailers. Music/WeirdAlYankovic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa1EnJt9UI flailing around like a constipated chimpanzee.]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU Sandstorm]]'' (Music/{{Darude}}): Sometimes used in works and advertisements targeting gamers, and also in scenes paying homage to [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000s]]. Was also widely used in flash animation and games from that era, and as BackgroundMusic to game streams, leading to [[MemeticMutation the meme]]. Now strongly identified with the University of South Carolina, thanks to the use of the piece during the university's football games.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU Sandstorm]]'' (Darude): Sometimes used in works and advertisements targeting gamers, and also in scenes paying homage to [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000's]]. Was also widely used in flash animation and games from that era, and as BackgroundMusic to game streams, leading to [[MemeticMutation the meme]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity]]'' from "The Planets" (Gustav Holst), ''Andante maestoso'' middle section (also called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaxted_(tune) Thaxted]]"): England at its pompous, grandiose (or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Vow_to_Thee,_My_Country reverent]]) best. Royal weddings and funerals.

* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1PfrmCGFnk (Main Theme)]]: [[TheWildWest Old West]] gunfight, or parody thereof; showdown or confrontation of any kind

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg In the Hall of the Mountain King]]'' from ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' suite (Edvard Grieg): A particularly dramatic or ominous event, often associated with Halloween themes, [[HauntedHouse haunted houses]] and spooky forests. Sometimes used for comedic effect in scenes featuring [[RubeGoldbergDevice large and needlessly complicated machinery]] under construction or in operation. Tied to adverts for Alton Towers in the UK. Finally, it's used in frantic montages with cuts getting quicker as the song goes on. Also, Edvard Grieg hated that it became so popular because it was meant to be ugly.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crh1v3zdCEs The Bowery]]'' -- From 1892's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_(song) A Trip to Chinatown]]'': New York City and its East Side, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.