The piece derived its humor from the contrasts between their didactic solemnity and the jaunty music.

Like the films in countless visitors' centers, this one featured professional narration, jaunty music and a mixture of live action and explanatory diagrams.

"Big Bertha," set to jaunty band-machine music, tells the story of an all-American family of the 1950's.

Indeed, the stories were funnier than the choreography, which required 10 dancers to jostle one another and pair off to jaunty music by Paul Bowles.

"Dexter," with its stylish cinematography, jaunty Cuban music and fetish for dismemberment, takes it one step further out of bounds.

(Even the jaunty music sounds like the "Italian Circus Music" theme that Mr. David took from a bank commercial for his HBO comedy series.)

The similarly chaotic Concert Fantasy blithely juxtaposes jaunty music in the vein of the Rococo Variations with demonic Lisztian escapades for the piano.

In the early days, bands were not allowed to play foreign songs or jaunty music that could encourage dancing.

EVERY time that jaunty music to the children's television series Captain Pugwash is broadcast, Johnny Pearson doubtless allows himself a smile.

Glamorous but empty-headed young people cavort on the Riviera to jaunty music by Darius Milhaud.