History StandardSnippet / ToccataAndFugueInDMinor

* ''VideogGame{{BitLife}}'': The snippet is the GameOver theme that plays when your character dies. Unless they die to a military mission, which will play ''Taps'' instead.

* ''[[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' from 1931: this may be one reason people associate the piece with the better remembered 1931 film version of ''Film/Dracula1931''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}'': The first three notes play when you obtain the Spooky Ball powerup. The next six notes play when the powerup takes effect.

* ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKong Donkey Kong Junior]]'': The snippet plays during the opening.

* ''VideoGame/GhoulSchool'': uses a condensed version in the Basement, the game's final area.

* ''Castle of Deceit'': The snippet is used for boss battles.

* ''Galaxy Fight'': Bits of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor are worked into the theme of Rozalis, a planet invaded and brought to desolation and ruin long ago. Its prince has since been practicing magic in the hopes of one day fighting back.

* ''Mutant League Hockey'': Randomized snippets of the first few bars play during face-offs.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': The Toccata plays in Phoenix's nightmare sequence at the beginning [[spoiler:(as well as its DarkReprise near the end of the game, where he learns the truth about Matt Engarde)]]. When he wakes up, he realizes it is the ringtone of a cell phone that was left with him for some reason [[spoiler:and which ends up being a key piece of evidence in the first case: the phone in question belonged to the culprit, who took Phoenix's identical-looking phone by mistake when he beaned him upside the head and gave him amnesia with the intent of making him lose the case.]]

* Both arcade and NES versions of ''Gyruss'' plays the eponymous music as you shoot at the alien ships and satellites.

* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', the Toccata plays in Phoenix's nightmare sequence at the beginning [[spoiler:(as well as its DarkReprise near the end of the game, where he learns the truth about Matt Engarde)]]. When he wakes up, he realizes it is the ringtone of a cell phone that was left with him for some reason [[spoiler:and which ends up being a key piece of evidence in the first case: the phone in question belonged to the culprit, who took Phoenix's identical-looking phone by mistake when he beaned him upside the head and gave him amnesia with the intent of making him lose the case.]]
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'': The Toccata can be heard on the radio. The BigBad Zinyak hates it when people call it "the Dracula song," to the point of [[FelonyMisdemeanor executing anybody who does]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}'' plays the first three notes when you obtain the Spooky Ball powerup. The next six notes play when the powerup takes effect.
* ''Mutant League Hockey'': Randomized snippets of the first few bars play during face-offs.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': In arguably the greatest piece of video game music of all time, the epic final boss theme "Dancing Mad", the third movement takes heavy inspiration from Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. And by "heavy inspiration" we mean "entire sections of the melody lifted directly from Bach."

* ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfOlympus'' plays it in the gods' temples.
* The NES UnlicensedGame ''Castle of Deceit'' uses the Fugue part for boss battles.
* Used in the opening of ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKong Donkey Kong Junior]]''.
* ''VideoGame/GhoulSchool'' uses a condensed version in the Basement, the game's final area.

* ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'': The final episode, "A Wonderland Howl-oween", features a spoof of the classic horror movie ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 The Phantom of the Opera]]''. One night, the Queen and the White Rabbit explore a catacomb to find out where strange, spooky, unearthly noises are coming from. They find a masked figure (the Mad Hatter) playing this piece on a pipe organ.

* ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'': The final episode, "A Wonderland Howl-oween", features a spoof of the classic horror movie ''The Phantom of the Opera''. One night, the Queen and the White Rabbit explore a catacomb to find out where strange, spooky, unearthly noises are coming from. They find a masked figure (the Mad Hatter) playing this piece on an OminousPipeOrgan.

* ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'': The final episode, "A Wonderland Howl-oween", features a spoof of the classic horror movie ''The Phantom of the Opera''. One night, the Queen and the White Rabbit explore a catacomb to find out where strange, spooky, unearthly noises are coming from. They find a masked figure (the Mad Hatter) playing this piece on a pipe organ.

There has been some debate as to whether Bach actually wrote the piece at all. The only manuscript of the work that has survived to the present day was penned by Johannes Ringk, who attributes the piece to Bach; this copy also lacks a date, but is thought to have been written somewhere between 1730 and 1735. The work itself contains a number of stylistic anachronisms, such as the large lack of counterpoint in the toccata, the fugue utilizing subdominant rather than dominant answers, and wrapping up on a UsefulNotes/{{plagal cadence}}, among others. (Then again, the later styles had to draw their inspiration from ''somewhere''—[[TropeCodifier perhaps they drew their inspiration from this piece, and Bach actually started it all!]]) Another theory is that it was written down poorly by one of Bach's students. Another school of thought holds that it may have been originally written for solo violin (possibly by Bach but likely by another unknown composer), and then transcribed by Bach for the organ; several attempts to reconstruct the piece in this manner have been produced. Bach's most recent biographer Christoph Wolff believes that it's definitely by Bach, but that its stylistic oddities can be explained by its being an [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early work]].

** The incidental music used in the series was inspired by this snippet.

* Used in the opening of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongJunior''.

Music/JohannSebastianBach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, is perhaps the single most recognizable piece of pipe organ music in the world - [[StandardSnippet or at least the ominous opening is]].

There has been some debate as to whether Bach actually wrote the piece at all. The only manuscript of the work that has survived to the present day was penned by Johannes Ringk, who attributes the piece to Bach; this copy also lacks a date, but is thought to have been written somewhere between 1730 and 1735. The work itself contains a number of stylistic anachronisms, such as the large lack of counterpoint in the toccata, the fugue utilizing subdominant rather than dominant answers, and wrapping up on a UsefulNotes/{{plagal cadence}}, among others. (Then again, the later styles had to draw their inspiration from ''somewhere'' -- [[TropeCodifier perhaps they drew their inspiration from this piece, and Bach actually started it all!]]) Another theory is that it was written down poorly by one of Bach's students. Another school of thought holds that it may have been originally written for solo violin (possibly by Bach but likely by another unknown composer), and then transcribed by Bach for the organ; several attempts to reconstruct the piece in this manner have been produced. Bach's most recent biographer Christoph Wolff believes that it's definitely by Bach, but that its stylistic oddities can be explained by its being an [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early work]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcB-6L_b9Hk A fully orchestrated, but slightly truncated version]] serves as the centerpiece of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'''s first segment, [[DisneyAcidSequence set to increasingly trippy visuals]].

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': The famous snippet is played during [[spoiler:Stephen and Sinister Strangeks fight in which they turn music notes into magical runes.]]

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': This snippet is played dory game [[spoiler:Stephen and Sinister Strangeks fight in which they turn music notes into magical runes.]]

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': This snippet is played dory game [[spoiler:Stephen and Sinister Strangeks fight in which they turn music notes into runes.]]