# Jingles, Fanfares, and other micro-sized works **URL:** \ **Category:** Style\ **Tags:** en, worktype, works, musicbrainz, style\ **Created:** [April 18, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683 "2026-04-18T16:30:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ultimateriff/32/47799_2.png) [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/1 "2026-04-18T16:30:33Z")
I’ve been thinking about tiny works and how to represent them in the database, from [insurance jingles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB6r2Wi0E98) to [the Charge fanfare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVR4NVTrilA) to [video game victory dances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCwJC7uIjs) to [that one vaudeville fanfare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1F93EJIds) and everything in between. I’m thinking new work types would be great, ideally for at least: - **Advertising jingles:** short (usually vocal) songs promoting some product or service. the Wikipedia article on [Jingles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle) refers to these specifically - the [State Farm jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB6r2Wi0E98&pp=ygURc3RhdGUgZmFybSBqaW5nbGXSBwkJ0woBhyohjO8%3D) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/e7713c5a-cbca-4228-8462-45f915dcd92f)] - which even has [a parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9zI7lGmTU), lol - the [Folgers Coffee jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7LXSQ85jpw) - the [Empire Today jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwJQQux0TF0) - the [Sprite Cranberry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA0Mad-fTuo) commercial jingle [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/5a3381e0-4668-4219-ae86-7b4e675f09f9)], a parody of the Christmas carol, [It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_R4pR1hck) - **Theme music:** a slightly longer musical piece often played during the intro to a radio or TV show, video game, film, or other media, sometimes vocal, sometimes not. probably shouldn’t be used in cases where existing music is used, such as the iconic [Borderlands title themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbgncFCO0M) - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s [opening theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ohCKS_LUM) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/ed456c59-0008-4ba8-8f73-28e0aeb218e6)] - all the iconic title themes for the James Bond movies, like [Goldfinger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2WlDM3tEA&list=PL92B49FE4898EE6B8&index=16) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/c0a94aa3-21e6-3a06-9142-a891c323f010)] - the [NFL on Fox](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1o2blfeO0) theme [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/9d80e330-44a1-4d3b-a0f4-c7057427f28c)], which has become the theme of the whole Fox Sports channel - possibly related is sports entrance themes, many of which are preexisting compositions, but some are original, especially in wrestling, such as [John Cena’s entrance theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGeIwAR1pw) (appears at about 1:20) [[MB recording](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/e174aff9-ab59-45b7-a776-e94b713afe01)] - **Video game fanfare/jingle:** little tunes that play when you get an important item, finish a level, or other events in-game. I’m not too attached to this name, but I’ve heard them called jingles or fanfares before (and I only add “video game” to differentiate them from other types of fanfare) - the iconic [Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTaD1PY1aw) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/4b86aa44-f05d-40c4-9057-cce9e85eb4f8)], used in basically every single Final Fantasy when you win a battle - the [pair of themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AyYUJUBTg) for opening a chest and getting an item in Ocarina of Time [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/337307c8-40a8-4f99-acb8-31b746e74af7)], [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/36754792-4087-4e8e-923f-d56a53b468a7)] - this [pair of themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0qSjLDVElY) for getting a power star in Super Mario 64 [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/cf4c8749-0930-4e5c-a07a-949f51571424)], [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/db25dae5-7078-488a-ac21-cfd4436e641a)] - **Brass fanfare:** different from the above, usually longer and played on trumpets, French horns, or other brass instruments, usually played before or during the arrival of an important person. the Wikipedia article on [fanfares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare) talks about these - [Rejoicing (The Arrival of the Bride)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4UykffLHOw) [[MB recording](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/406246b5-0bc1-4595-ac8a-2f0ae4e51eaa)], from the 2018 royal wedding - [Hail to the Chief](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhgdZOP9Fk) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/725f5c47-743f-49d6-9a2a-e80b41c838da)], the US presidential fanfare - **Sports chants:** short musical chants often either played by instruments at sports games (like the iconic baseball Charge mentioned above) or chanted by the crowd in the stadium. @sound.and.vision started a [forum thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/football-chants-works-or-not-works-folk-music-or-something-else/727934) about the latter some time ago, and Wikipedia has an article on [Football chants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_chant) which might be of use here - several examples in the forum thread, which due to the folk nature of many of these, don’t have official titles again, not too attached to most of the names, but I wanted to get these out there. lemme know if there’s any types I might have missed ---
**Author:** ![dseomn](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/dseomn/32/12195_2.png) [@dseomn](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dseomn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 3:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/2 "2026-04-21T03:55:30Z")
Ok so maybe this is just because I watched [The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdVG45wveo) recently, but this post reminds me of a bunch of probably-not-music audio “works” that might be worth considering too. - The sound elevators make to signal up vs down. - All sorts of horns, like how the sounds that ships, trains, trucks, and foghorns make are all different. - [Back-up beeper - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-up_beeper) - [Prosigns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code), like the rhythm for SOS. - The sounds in an airplane cockpit, like [Voice warning system - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_warning_system) (which can use tone and rhythm in addition to words to convey information), [Marker beacon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_beacon), or the various combinations/patterns of beepers and buzzers that can indicate non-normal conditions like stall or ground proximity. Basically every other audible signal that uses memorable combinations of tone and rhythm to tell people something important. > [@UltimateRiff](#): > > **Brass fanfare:** different from the above, usually longer and played on trumpets, French horns, or other brass instruments, usually played before or during the arrival of an important person. the Wikipedia article on [fanfares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare) talks about these > > - [Rejoicing (The Arrival of the Bride)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4UykffLHOw) [[MB recording](https://musicbrainz.org/recording/406246b5-0bc1-4595-ac8a-2f0ae4e51eaa)], from the 2018 royal wedding > - [Hail to the Chief](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhgdZOP9Fk) [[MB](https://musicbrainz.org/work/725f5c47-743f-49d6-9a2a-e80b41c838da)], the US presidential fanfare Somewhat related: [Bugle call - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugle_call) ---
**Author:** ![UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ultimateriff/32/47799_2.png) [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/3 "2026-04-21T05:20:25Z")
ah, a fellow Technology Connections viewer~ lol on a similar note, there has been discussion about those end-of-cycle jingles that some home appliances play, and how relevant they are to MusicBrainz > [@Fringe Releases and the Flexibility of What MBz Tracks](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/fringe-releases-and-the-flexibility-of-what-mbz-tracks/669682/13): > > There’s a lot of washing machine models to be added as well! > [@Storing non-music products as Releases](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/storing-non-music-products-as-releases/591784/23): > > I’m still of the opinion that a video game can be within the scope of MusicBrainz, even without a mix-mode CD or MP3s in the game files I’m all down for a new entity type to represent the “original” release date of a game, movie, TV show, or other product which might be outside the scope of the database allow me an example that’s “clearly” outside the scope of the database, a Samsung washing machine [[Samsung Washing Machine plays a song ("Die Forelle" by Schubert)] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1gbHYqdPnk) at the end of… (my opinion might have changed in the last 3 years, lol) I’m not sure where I might draw the line here, because the washing machine tunes are pretty clearly musical, but is a back-up beeper? a smoke alarm? a car horn? I don’t know what the answer is here… * * * if I do make tickets, I’ll try and remember to add one for bugle calls tho~ that’s exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about here ---
**Author:** ![IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ivandobsky/32/11785_2.png) [@IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IvanDobsky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 6:55am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/4 "2026-04-21T06:55:46Z")
I can think of a few iconic audio collections that fade away without noticing. - Default OS sounds - Win95 startup, MacOS error beeps, Skype call sound, etc. - Classic Ringtones - Nokia’s ringtone, or the annoying “hello moto” that some phones wake up with. Some of these you can forget how iconic they are until you hear one in the background and react “that’s old”. ---
**Author:** ![UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ultimateriff/32/47799_2.png) [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 7:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/5 "2026-04-21T07:59:51Z")
oh, good additions Ivan~ I’ve definitely heard songs that sample the Skype dialtone, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to cover it, lol actually, looked it up, and yeah, there are quite a few covers of it, lol [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PUlxUap2fv8/maxresdefault.jpg "Skype Call Sound on Tons of Instruments!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUlxUap2fv8) * * * related, you reminded me of something I wanted to add to the OP, but I don’t know what the actual name is; logo sounds and music, like the THX [Deep Note](https://youtu.be/uYMpMcmpfkI) or the one for [Walt Disney Pictures](https://youtu.be/ayRlrAtnmlY). there’s even a Wikipedia page [for the former](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note) ---
**Author:** ![WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/windowslover/32/94887_2.png) [@WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/WindowsLover)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 8:35am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/6 "2026-04-21T08:35:38Z")
[https://www.winhistory.de/more/winstart/winstart.htm](https://www.winhistory.de/more/winstart/winstart.htm) [https://archive.org/download/Win95-audio-media/Windows%2095%20audio%20media/](https://archive.org/download/Win95-audio-media/Windows%2095%20audio%20media/) ICQ sounds [https://sounddino.com/en/effects/icq/](https://sounddino.com/en/effects/icq/) ---
**Author:** ![WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/windowslover/32/94887_2.png) [@WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/WindowsLover)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/7 "2026-04-21T09:04:45Z")
In total, you can assign sounds to the start, end, or crash of Picard. ---
**Author:** ![IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ivandobsky/32/11785_2.png) [@IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IvanDobsky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/8 "2026-04-21T09:58:48Z")
> [@UltimateRiff](#): > > logo sounds and music, like the THX [Deep Note](https://youtu.be/uYMpMcmpfkI) I’m ripping a pile of my DVDs\BLuRays for my media centre. And that means all the Universal logos, etc. And the classic “you wouldn’t steal a car” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PLzy-IJg4_4/hqdefault.jpg "You wouldn't STEAL a CAR? (Hilarious anti piracy commercial)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzy-IJg4_4) This is all audio that was there during our history. ---
**Author:** ![WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/windowslover/32/94887_2.png) [@WindowsLover](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/WindowsLover)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/9 "2026-04-21T10:06:56Z")
Most Hollywood movies are about thieves who succeed in their theft. Moreover, they evoke our sympathy and we feel sorry for them when they are caught by the police. Who knows how much real criminals took advice and tips from movies… ---
**Author:** ![UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ultimateriff/32/47799_2.png) [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/10 "2026-04-21T10:14:33Z")
my favorite little fun fact about the “You wouldn’t download a car” promo is that it accidentally told many who didn’t already know you _could_ download pirated movies, thereby backfiring, lol ---
**Author:** ![IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ivandobsky/32/11785_2.png) [@IvanDobsky](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IvanDobsky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/11 "2026-04-21T13:20:44Z")
> [@UltimateRiff](#): > > it accidentally told many who didn’t already know you _could_ download pirated movies And the bonus that all downloaded movies skipped the piracy warnings and trailers. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![dseomn](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/dseomn/32/12195_2.png) [@dseomn](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dseomn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jingles-fanfares-and-other-micro-sized-works/814683/12 "2026-04-21T16:42:23Z")
> [@UltimateRiff](#): > > related, you reminded me of something I wanted to add to the OP, but I don’t know what the actual name is; logo sounds and music, like the THX [Deep Note](https://youtu.be/uYMpMcmpfkI) or the one for [Walt Disney Pictures](https://youtu.be/ayRlrAtnmlY). there’s even a Wikipedia page [for the former](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note) [Sound trademark - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_trademark) has some names: “ **sound trademark** , **sound logo** , **audio logo** , or **brand sound** ”