The Music in TETRiS

Game Boy

Music A

Music A has become a well-known song in its own right. It is an instrumental arrangement of a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki.

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Music B

Music B is an original track by Hirokazu Tanaka, the game's sound designer.

Music C

Music C is an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's French Suite No. 3 In B Minor, BWV 814, IV. Menuett — Trio.



Nintendo Entertainment System

Music 1

Music 1 is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, a tune noted to be scene 14c of act two of The Nutcracker, composed by Tchaikovsky.


'Karinka' (BPG/Tengen)

One song in the BPS and Tengen versions is the Kalinka (or Karinka, as referred in-game), a famous Russian song written by Ivan Petrovich Larionov.

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Victory Song

The victory song playing while the rocket blasts off is George's Bizet's Les Toreadors from Carmen Suite No. 1.




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