Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Released 1892/12/18

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is a famous instrumental from the ballet The Nutcracker. The instrumental features a rare keyboard instrument piece, the celesta, which means "heavenly" in French. Tchaikovsky wrote Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy specifically the celesta in order to be the first composer to use it.


Games


Released

Game

Arranger

Length

Format

Listen

1987/02/26 エアロビスタジオ (FC) Unknown NSF
1989/03/?? Dance Aerobics (NES) Unknown NSF
1989/11/?? Tetris (NES) Hirokazu Tanaka 0:55 NSF
1989/11/?? Tetris (NES) (Fast Version) Hirokazu Tanaka 0:27 NSF
1989/??/?? Weird Dreams (AMI) Barry Leitch, David Whittaker  ?  ?
1989/??/?? Weird Dreams (AST) Barry Leitch, David Whittaker  ?  ?
1989/??/?? Weird Dreams (DOS) Barry Leitch, David Whittaker  ? MUS (Unknown Type)
1991/12/?? Home Alone (SNES) Mark van Hecke  ? SPC


Tetris (NES)

Music 1 is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Licensed NES game. Under normal circumstances, the song plays at it's regular tempo, however, when you get dangerously close to the top, the song plays at a much faster tempo.

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