There's also Tron Scherzo from the movie Tron. Here's the wikipedia definition of a scherzo:
A scherzo (/'sk?rt.so?/; Italian pronunciation: ['skertso]; plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a piece, sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata, usually written in 3 4 time. The precise definition has varied over the years, but scherzo often refers to a movement that replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or string quartet.[1] The term can also refer to a fast-moving humorous composition that may or may not be part of a larger work.[2]
It's something along the lines of "I'll know one when I hear one." A number of film comedies--many older ones, especially--the main titles probably qualify as a scherzo. (Tiomkin's 'The Fourposter' for example.) "Vigorous and playful" are key words here.
Williams likes them a lot. His work is littered with them. "Blowing Off Steam" is one scherzo in 'Far and Away,' for instance. Many many others.
Beethoven basically invented the genre. At the time, large-scale works like symphonies used minuets in between their slow and fast movements but he wanted something with the same pulse (3/4) but with more movement.
Beethoven basically invented the genre. At the time, large-scale works like symphonies used minuets in between their slow and fast movements but he wanted something with the same pulse (3/4) but with more movement.
To use TVTropes terms, he more properly codified it. It was already a 'thing' at the point he started using them, though he pretty much made it the standard.
So, does Goldsmith's "The Hunt" from Final Conflict qualify? For that matter, could the themes from Star Trek The Motion Picture and Players also count? Or are they disqualified because they are in 6/8 time?
The scherzo is a menuet but much faster. The menuet is a dance in 3/4 measures. The royals/nobility danced on this kind of music on court. So the menuet became a symbol for the nobility. The menuet was also a (mostly the 3rd) part of the structure of a symphony in classical music. The "symphony laws" were very stricked at the time Haydn and Mozart composed their music. A lot of music was performed for the nobility and royal families.
When Beethoven started composing he admired Napoleon, but at some time he changed his mind. The revolution (in France -1789–1799) changed all politics and also the music!
Beethoven used a scherzo as a joke. The nobility should fall when dancing! That's why he screwed up the tempo.