Classical music has been a staple on old videogames. The reason behind it is that they were easily recognizable, and free to use. Thanks to it, many young people, me included, got to know about famous composers through humble chiptune renditions of their pieces.
I want to create a list of all classic music in old games for reference/research purposes. Also maybe you'll be able to find nice tunes and learn about composers.
I'll be supplying this thread with updates, as I find more classical music in games. If you find any, post them here! The requisites are:
1-It needs to be from old game consoles. By old, I mean 'anything that is N64 or earlier'. The more 'chiptune-y', the better: it's interesting to see how game composers covered 'real' music with simple sound hardware. (this is why GBA is included: it's a chiptune-based console).
2-Add info regarding the source music and the original composer.
3-The music needs to be a rendition of the classical music. It can be arranged or mixed with other music, but the game soundtrack needs to have an excerpt of it.
4-NO PARODIUS. Parodius music is already well-documented here.
5- Keep the videos inside spoiler tags. This is to optimize page loading time.
6-If you suspect that a soundtrack is classical music, but you are not sure about it, you may post here so others can help you guess.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Note: sample at 0:13.
The Nutcracker Suite (Marche), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies by Pyotr Illitch Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Note: intro is an excerpt of 'Johnny B. Goode' by Chuck Berry.
Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Csikós Post by Hermann Necke
Toccata and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach
Csikós Post by Hermann Necke
Skaters Waltz by Émile Waldteufel
American Patrol by Frank White Meacham
Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II
La Marseillaise, French National Anthem by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Prelude to Carmen by Georges Bizet
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
The Song of the Volga Boatmen, Russian traditional folksong
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks by Modest Mussorgsky
Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven
5th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Sabre Dance by Aram Kachaturian
The Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
Note: becomes a "Muzak" brand elevator music at 0:28.
Funiculi, Funicula by Giuseppe Turco
Note: intro is an arrange of 'Tarantella Napoletana'.
Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement Presto Agitato) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement) by Ludvig van Beethoven
Voices of the Spring Waltz by Johann Strauss II
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Canon by Pachelbel
The Poet and the Peasant, by Franz von Suppé
The Nutcracker Suite (Marche) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Infernal Galop "Can-Can" by Offenbach
Korobeiniki, Russian folk song
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
Passepied by Claude Debussy
Chromatische Phantasie by Johann Sebastian Bach
Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Note: 0:07 contains a sample of the game's original track 'Etude for Ghosts'.
Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Tocatta and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, Hallelujah by Georg Friedrich Händel, Four Seasons - Spring by Vivaldi
Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie
FDS
Famicom Fairytales: Yuyuki 1989 © Nintendo
Published by: Nippon Columbia
Composed by: Soyo Oka
Arranged by: Ikuro Fujiwara
Performed by: Mario Freaks Orchestra
Keyboards: Ikuro Fujiwara
Electric Guitar: Teiji Mihata
Synthersizer Programming: Jun Araki
Synthesizer Operator: Naoki Suzuki
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Could you fetch the original in-game version of the track, along with the info of the source music?
FDS
Famicom Fairytales: Yuyuki 1989 © Nintendo
(I can't find the music separate i can only find all the music together)
Composed by: Soyo Oka
really hard to find any info on it too.
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by source music I meant the classical music the soundtrack was based upon.
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I would love to put Catherine's renditions of classical songs here, but oh well.
I have some I know
Korobeiniki, Russian Folk Song
French Suite No. 3 In B Minor, BWV 814, IV. Menuett – Trio by Johann Sebastian Bach
Most of Punch-Out's intro are classical songs
Sakura Sakura, Japanese folk song
The Song of the Volga Boatmen, Russian Folk Song
That's all I remember for now
@ Gors i think i found a little where Yūyūki music is inspired from a novel called Journey to the West, of which the music is inspired from that's all i could find out about it.
here's a wiki about the novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
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Senjen, you don't seem to understand the purpose of this thread. This thread is supposed to be a list of games that have classical music in their soundtrack.
Post the track with the classical music from a game, and then tell who is the original composer of the classical music. Follow the examples that are in the original post.
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Here's a little something from a very obscure NES game.
'Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks' by Modest Mussorgsky
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08-02-2014, 06:00 AM
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The song used while invincible in Super Mario Land:
http://youtu.be/gaixEixOCW0
Is actually part of Offenbach's "Infernal Galop" (at about 1:50):
http://youtu.be/okQRnHvw3is
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...Man, I always called that "Can-Can Music", even though I should know better. That's pretty good!
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08-02-2014, 01:17 PM
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I'd like to take note that it might help with the research collection if the rules are loosened up a bit.
There's some more common pieces of classical music that are used enough that its easily possible that someone recognizes a tune as classical music, but doesn't have classical music knowledge to identify the name, let alone the composer.
For example, there's a few tracks in King Arthur's World I suspect are classical music (Namely all the Real World levels)
(and I know the boss music is
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
(had to look that up since I don't know composers by heart, partially proving my point) but I merely recognize them from elsewhere and would need someone with more musical knowledge to tell me what they were IF they are as I suspect.
Ah yes, that would be good too. It's fine to post songs that you suspect it is classic, so other people can guess them. Good suggestion!
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In that case, I've always thought I've heard this music somewhere, or at least, a variation of it, like in a commercial or something, but I can't place a name.
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The Nutcracker Suite (Marche), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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