The Amen Break of snobbery

Garrett Schumann posted on Twitter about Luigi Boccherini's String Quintet in E major, Op 11 No 5, one of the great one-hit wonders of the Western canon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fLPBIBOE5U

I didn't recognize the title and composer, but the music itself was instantly familiar to me as a film score cliche signifying classiness. When I posted that observation, Christopher Hunter responded.

https://twitter.com/chunter16/status/1230658215936917504

That phrase is so precisely correct.

Here's my favorite Boccherini String Quartet usage.

https://youtu.be/NFhgVeoFOhA?t=131

Lee Rosevere linked to The Idiot's Guide To Classical Music, a compilation of just this kind of cliche. I love these kinds of lists. Where else could you find out the composer and title of the music from a commercial for fancy chocolate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMVFXfoaS3w

This one is iconic too, it's been used in many episodes of SpongeBob:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvnMi9_9mM

And this one, which I probably first heard in Bugs Bunny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_0wPYFp9A

It's weird to think that something like this even has a composer, but of course it does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wmzoHd6yo

Oh no, the factory is out of control! Modern life is too crazy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI

Oh hey, my Nokia phone is ringing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

I know it's terrible to treat the Western art canon as a library of film, TV and sound design cliches. But cliches are fun.