High Note

High Note is a 1960 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Plot ==
Various musical notes set up the sheet music to get ready for a performance of The Blue Danube Waltz. However, a sole note is missing. It turns out the note (a red-headed "High Note") is drunk upon staggering out of the sheet music to "Little Brown Jug", and the irritated composer chases after him to put him back in his place so the waltz can continue as planned. However, High Note wanders around aimlessly around the sheet, drawing a tic-tac-toe game on one of the sharp symbols and sitting on a semibreve to make it hatch out small notes like an egg. As the composer chases after High Note, the latter starts interacting with the notes on the sheet, turning a quarter rest into a dog, tie symbols into skis, and a beamed note as a horse.
The conductor rides another beamed note horse and uses a treble clef as a lasso to pursue after High Note. He successfully manages to capture him, and has the note attached to the sheet by a clothespin. However, as the conductor tries to perform again, not only is High Note gone, but every note after it has also been intoxicated from joining in with High Note at "Little Brown Jug".
== Music Cues ==
* "The Blue Danube" - Johann Strauss II
* "How Dry I Am" - Irving Berlin
* "Little Brown Jug" - Joseph Winner
* "Brahms' Lullaby" - Johannes Brahms
* "Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?"
== Availability ==
Lt salute cj.jpg|(1985) VHS A Salute to Chuck Jones
LOONEY TUNES CURTAIN CALLS.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc - Looney Tunes: Curtain Calls: Classic Music and Show Business Cartoons
LTCE VOL 5 MUSICAL MASTERPIECES.jpg|(2000) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 5: Musical Masterpieces
Lt academy award animation collection.jpg|(2008) DVD Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 3
lt cash.jpg|(2009) DVD Cash McCall
LT Platinum Collection VOL 3 DVD Cover.png|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two
LTPC Volume 3 Cover.png|(2014) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two
Lt musical masterpieces.jpg|(2015) DVD Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces
lt mtf.jpg|(2016) DVD Music Triple Feature
== Notes ==
* The High Note also appears on the title card of the "C Flat or B Sharp" segment of the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Son of Looniversity Daze".
* This short was nominated for the 33rd Academy Awards for "Best Short Subject (Cartoon)" alongside "Mouse and Garden", both losing to the Czechoslovak-American short "Munro".https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961/
* Despite being released past "Hopalong Casualty", this cartoon lacks the "A VITAGRAPH RELEASE" byline on the ending titles. It is the last Looney Tunes cartoon until "Now Hear This" to lack this byline.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
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Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Academy Award nominees
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Shorts
Category:1960
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons animated by Richard Thompson
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by William Butler
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by John W. Burton
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with no dialogue
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons