Setting-Off Song

The characters in the story are all rearing and ready to go! They need something to keep their spirits up, something to heighten the moment: A MUSICAL NUMBER! This is the number that everyone sings when they set off on their adventure. A "let's get ready and go" kind of number. Something jaunty and fun.

Often crosses over with the "I Want" Song, and may be an Ear Worm. Compare Wanderlust Song.

Examples of Setting-Off Song include:

Film

• "City of Light" from The Brave Little Toaster.
• "Adventuring" from The Land Before Time: The Great Longneck Migration.
• "Get Up and Go" from Little Golden Book Land.
• "Gonna Take You There" from The Princess and the Frog.
• "Never Say Never" from An American Tail.
  • "Way Out West" from Fievel Goes West
• "The Apple Song" from Melody Time.
• "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from Mulan..
• "An Actor's Life For Me" from Pinocchio.
• "The Virginia Company" and its reprise from Pocahontas.
• "Movin' Right Along" from The Muppet Movie.
• "Sailing For Adventure" from Muppet Treasure Island.
• "Have You Been to Baia?" from The Three Caballeros.
• The reprise of "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled.
• "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco" from Road to Morocco.
• "We're Off to See the Wizard" from The Wizard of Oz.
• Non-musical example: "The Submarine" from Atlantis the Lost Empire, especially when we see the Ulysses finally descend into the ocean.

Theatre

• "New York, New York" from On the Town.
• "One Foot, Other Foot" from Allegro.
• "I'm On My Way" from Paint Your Wagon.
• "A Weekend In The Country" from A Little Night Music.
• "Into The Woods" from Into the Woods.
• "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello, Dolly!.
• "There's A Hill Beyond A Hill" from Music in the Air.

Western Animation

• Parodied in the Billy and Mandy Christmas Special.