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This is related to the [[One-Woman Wail]], which it sometimes accompanies. See also: [[Creepy Children Singing]], where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* One of the main themes of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' is a slightly dischordant choir singing a capella.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' uses this with a weird electronic effect in a lot of scenes.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* Used for surreal effect in the overture to Willy Russell's stage musical ''[[Blood Brothers (theatre)|Blood Brothers]]''.▼
* Ravel's ''Daphnis and Chloe'' has its wordless chorus sing unaccompanied during a blackout between scenes.▼
* The scene in the musical ''[[Brigadoon]]'' where Mr. Lundie talks about hearing voices from the outside world.▼
▲== Film ==
* The approach to Cloud City in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
* An absolutely epic one when the ents march to trash Isengard in the Two Towers from Peter Jackson's [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]].
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* ''[[Titanic]]'' used heavily synthesized vocals to make a chorus during the sinking.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* One of the pieces of stock background music in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.
* Used at various points throughout the [[Murray Gold]] scores for ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Generally acting as a musical personification of Time, although this sometimes ends up as a [[One-Woman Wail]]. For the Daleks it becomes [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]. Notable at the end of "Gridlock", when the population of New Earth sings an acapella version of Abide with Me.
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* Part of the theme song in ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]''.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* A staple of [[Danny Elfman]]'s work.
* Holst's ''Planets'' ends with an
* The opening verse to [[The Rolling Stones]]' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is sang like this.
* Frequently featured in [[Nox Arcana]]'s work.
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* "[[Food for the Gods|Welcome to my Realm]]" by Fireaxe is sung by the devil, and uses an ethereal choir provided ''by the screams of the damned''.
* ''[[Warhammer
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▲* Used for surreal effect in the overture to Willy Russell's stage musical ''[[Blood Brothers (theatre)|Blood Brothers]]''.
▲* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has the choir of the astronomican that psykers and the occasional pious Space Marine can hear.
▲* Ravel's ''Daphnis and Chloe'' has its wordless chorus sing unaccompanied during a blackout between scenes.
▲* The scene in the musical ''[[Brigadoon]]'' where Mr. Lundie talks about hearing voices from the outside world.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲== Video Games ==
* Zora's Domain in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''. The Forest Temple and Stone Tower have ''ominous'' ethereal choir.
* ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'' has this in their main theme.
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* Used starkly near the end of ''[[Xenogears]]''.
* The music used in the main menu of [[Ninety-Nine Nights]] (N3) counts, and also doubles as [[One-Woman Wail]].
* Along with [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and [[One-Woman Wail]], ''[[
* The [[Cherubic Choir]] of ''[[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]]'''s "Theme Of Law" was designed for the "chilling" effect, especially given the intentions of the Three Angels and Mastema for you {{spoiler|and Zelenin}}.
* "Velvet Room," aka "The Poem/Aria for Everyone's Souls" in the ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series (and augmented as "The Battle For Everyone's Souls" in ''[[Persona 3]]''), is exactly this, to enhance the otherwordly, mystical atmosphere of the Velvet Room. In the first two (three if you count both ''[[Persona 2]]''s) games it was explicitly sung by Igor's assistant, Belladonna, but by the time of ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4|4]]'' there was no place for the opera diva anymore.
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* The music "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkCb43ixP0I Amongst The Dead]" in ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Underground'' has an [[Nightmare Fuel|ominous]] version of this.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSorp9x3nUE The Judge], the final boss theme from ''[[Kamui]]'', uses this.
* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' and ''[[
* Some themes in ''[[Koumajou Densetsu]]'' also use this.
* ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' uses
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPpOMxVyaIA White light] from ''[[Okami]]''.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate:
* Just about all the ''[[.hack]]'' games.
* In ''[[Dark Souls]]'', if the music isn't If it isn't [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] or a [[One-Woman Wail]], it's this. Often times [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ursula Vernon's ''[[Digger]]'' marks the appearance of ghosts with the sound of an ethereal choir. Because, as the author points out, "there is no feasible onomatopoeia for this," the sound is represented by the [[Unsound Effect]] of "sounds of distant ethereal chanting!" and variants.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' features this in a number of pieces. Some of the pieces are original music, some are classical works, some alternate with [[Ominous Latin Chanting]], and one of them does include a [[One-Woman Wail]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in a later episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''. The choir accompanies the appearance of a large ad that happens to be about the very thing Johnny needed the most in that particular scene. The camera then pans to slightly, [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|revealing an actual church choir.]]
* "Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds" from Disney's ''[[Dinosaur]]''.
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