# ID this song from a video game

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**Created:** [March 4, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456 "2004-03-04T03:29:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456/1 "2004-03-04T03:29:48Z")

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I’ve been playing the origional Tetris for the NES. What’s the name of the song with the first music option? I know it’s a classical music piece I’ve heard before, and I think it’s somewhat famous. Can anyone give me the name of this piece of music?

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**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456/2 "2004-03-04T03:38:15Z")

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If memory serves, it’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” [Here’s](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001CLYPC/104-7724466-0471113?v=glance&st=digital-music) a link to an Amazon page where you can hear an mp3 clip of the song.

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**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456/3 "2004-03-04T06:10:19Z")

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“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies” is definately one of the songs.

I don’t recall any of the other songs except one… “Korobeiniki”, an old Russian folk song, is used in one of the options…

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456/4 "2004-03-04T11:37:04Z")

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Didn’t Tetris also have the Radetzky March by Strauss snr? I’m sure it did on the Spectrum, at any rate.

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**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-from-a-video-game/232456/5 "2004-03-06T23:52:45Z")

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Ashtar- is “Korobeniki” music-2 or music-3?  
For the record, music-2 has a fast beat, and sounds more “electronic” than music-3. Music-3 sounds more “flowing”, and I think it sounds like it’s being played on a flute. Does that match up with Korobeniki or the Radetzkey March?