Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
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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 | 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) | David Whittaker | ? | ? | |
1989-??-?? | Weird Dreams (AST) | David Whittaker | ? | ? | |
1989-??-?? | Weird Dreams (C64) | Barry Leitch | ? | SID | |
1989-??-?? | Weird Dreams (DOS) | Barry Leitch | ? | MUS (AdLib) | |
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 from 150 BPM to 300 BPM.
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Sugar_Plum_Fairy - Wikipedia.
- youtube.com/watch?v=Rapf3g_XvCc - A professional orchestral recording.