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Xylophones for Walking Bones
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For the proper reading experience, play the music from this video while reading on. It seems that a lot of works have featured xylophone music to go along with skeletons. This is especially true wherever skeletons are featured dancing. Often (especially in 1920's - 50s' animation) this would be because a skeleton's rib cage would be played as a xylophone, and as a result, the association between skeletons and xylophones has stuck. The music is usually played In-Universe by having a character hit a skeleton's bones, often the ribs, with mallets of some sort. It may even be a Skeletal Musician playing their own bones. However, this isn't always the case. As long as it's a scene with skeletons or bones that uses xylophone music in some way, it counts. This performance tends to be the opposite of scary, and the dancers who move to cheerful or outright silly xylophone melodies are usually Friendly Skeletons. The song "Dem Bones" is commonly played, due to it being about skeletons. While most people know it only as a fun Halloween song, it's actually connected to The Bible - specifically, Ezekiel 37:1-14, in which Ezekiel visits the Valley of Dry Bones (no, not those Dry Bones), and prophesizes that God will resurrect the skeletons there (which then immediately happens). The song's bouncy melody and cheerful mood make it perfect for a xylophone rendition. Compare Ominous Music Box Tune and For Doom the Bell Tolls. Examples |
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Discussed in a couple of different The Simpsons episodes where Homer remarks that he's afraid of xylophone music because of its association with dancing skeletons. In an earlier episode, obsessive Itchy & Scratchy fans can't get over that while Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he hits twice the same rib, but still gets two different notes. |
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The Secret of Monkey Island: LeChuck is the Ghost Pirate captain of a ship crewed by skeletons. His theme and the music that plays in his ship use xylophones. | |
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SiIvaGunner: While "Legendary Ghost" from Cuphead is played on xylophone, it accompanies a ghost rather than a skeleton. SiIva's high-quality rip, however, contains the melody of "Spooky Scary Skeletons," making it an example of this trope. | |
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Donkey Kong Country Returns: The Cliff world, which makes use of a xylophone in its music, is filled with dinosaur bones, big and small, some still alive. The Tiki found there plays xylophone music and resembles the skeleton of a trilobite. His name? Xylobone. | |
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In Cuphead, the second phase of the Phantom Express boss fight pits Cuphead against the train’s conductor, a giant skeleton. Xylophone music plays when you defeat him. | |
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Eddie Potter, a comic strip from The Dandy had a strip where the titular character holds Pop Idol style talent show auditions at his school, which is populated by macabre creatures including werewolves and living skeletons. One of the acts involves a group of skeletons using their own bones as musical instruments. | |
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Animaniacs: The Warner Siblings sing a song about the structure of the human skeleton. When they reach the chest, there's a brief instrumental break as one of them plays the ribcage like a xylophone. | |
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Sent up in Discworld, when in Soul Music, Susan Sto Helit recalls a visit to her grandfather as a child. She asked for a xylophone: her grandfather took his robe off and gave her two little hammers. It began to dawn on her that there was something odd about your grandfather being an animated skeleton, as Death is usually depicted. | |
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In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Guybrush suffers a Disney Acid Sequence in which the skeletons of his parents dance and sing to a jaunty xylophone rendition of "Dem Bones". | |
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The Skeleton Dance features skeletons dancing to March of the Dwarfs by Edvard Grieg, which features xylophone in some parts. | |
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In the PONY.MOV animation SHED.MOV, there are a bunch of skeletons in Fluttershy's shed. When Fluttershy sings her Villain Song, the skeletons suddenly come to life and provide musical accompaniment on their bones, creating xylophone sounds. | |
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The Pink Panther short "Pink Panic" uses a Variable Mix of the Panther's usual leitmotifs, with the two antagonists accompanied by extra instrumentation when they appear onscreen: The ghost gets a spooky theremin and the skeleton has a tinkling xylophone. | |
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The Lion King (1994): A xylophone can be heard throughout "Be Prepared", but while bones are seen throughout, there aren't any living skeletons. One quick scene does come close, though: two hyenas are playing with some antelope skeletons, pretending to make them dance. There's also a hyena playing the xylophone part on an elephant's spinal column. | |
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad: Frantic xylophone music plays when Sinbad fights the animated skeleton. | |
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In Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, Doofenshmirtz and his alternate dimensional self does a musical, in which at one point they both played xylophone music on a creature's ribcage. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Magnus threatens to do this to the Emperor after he is accused of being a crybaby. He quickly shuts up after getting smacked with a pair of drumsticks. | |
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Will Wood: "Laplace's Angel" has an undercurrent of marimbas in multiple parts of the song, although they're most clearly heard in the first two verses. The music video prominently features skeletons and skulls. Real ones. Notably, a group of skulls sing backup during the chorus, and there is a brief Stop Motion sequence of a skeleton hitting some skulls like a xylophone. | |
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The Mad Doctor uses xylophone music in some of the skeleton scenes. It's mainly used to play quick notes indicating the skeletons' movements. | |
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In Minecraft, Note Blocks placed on top of a Bone Block play a xylophone sound when activated. | |
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Monkey Island: The Secret of Monkey Island: LeChuck is the Ghost Pirate captain of a ship crewed by skeletons. His theme and the music that plays in his ship use xylophones. In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Guybrush suffers a Disney Acid Sequence in which the skeletons of his parents dance and sing to a jaunty xylophone rendition of "Dem Bones". |
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In Yooka-Laylee, the living skeleton Clara's Speaking Simlish sounds like a marimba. | |
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I Spy Spooky Mansion, which stars a mischievous skeleton who traps the player in the titular mansion, uses xylophone music prominently. | |
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Family Guy: When Lois shows off how much weight she has lost since becoming a supermodel, her friend happily plays her visible ribs like a xylophone. | |
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ABCs of Death 2: In "X is for Xylophone", after the grandmother murders her granddaughter, she turns her body into a gory mockery of a xylophone: playing on the bones of her ribs. | |
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In King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, Alexander obtains a key item while in the Land of the Dead by using a convenient stack of bones as a xylophone to play "Dem Bones" and make the skeleton guards dance. | |
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