Mysterioso Pizzicato

They begin with a staccato ascending arpeggio, reach a tremolo or trill on the minor submediant (♭6), and then descend through faster step-wise melodic motion.

I, compiled and edited by the Danish-American composer J. Bodewalt Lampe and published on March 24, 1914 by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York and Detroit.

[14] The melody appears prominently in the first Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon, The Skeleton Dance (1929) with music composed by Carl Stalling.

[2] The entrance is: The motif is referenced in a number of Max Steiner's film scores,[14] including The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) in which it forms part of "the low instrumental buffoonery illustrating an afternoon of frog-catching".

It is also the basis for the instrumental "Scrooge," included in The Ventures' Christmas Album, in an arrangement credited to band members Don Wilson, Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, and Mel Taylor.

The motif also appears in Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète  [fr] by Georges Brassens (1966).