Library Answer Person » Culture http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson Answering your questions about the library and life since 1982 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:17:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Tetris music http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/2008/03/31/tetris-music/ http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/2008/03/31/tetris-music/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:06:44 +0000 Library Answer Person http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/2008/03/31/tetris-music/ Hi, does the theme music to the game tetris have a name?

There are many versions of Tetris for different platforms, with variations in the theme music. Wikipedia has a nice overview . The most popular theme is called “Music A” and seems to be based on a Russian folk tune, “Korobeiniki.”

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[in the same pen as the spelling correction:] A: B/c the Phillipines was once a Spanish colony and their people “got busy.” [3355B]

As the purple-pen person suggests, they were for a long time a Spanish colony. The Spanish introduced (compelled?) the Spanish naming system on the native populace (perhaps this went hand-in-hand with their conversion to Catholicism), but the language itself never seemed to get a foothold.

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