While playing Tetris, I thought why in the world does this Type A song sound so Russian!
Play Tetris :D
"Korobeiniki" was arranged by Hirokazu Tanaka and used as the "Type A" music in the GameBoy version of Tetris. It has since become closely associated with the game in Western popular culture.
Korobeiniki were peddlers with trays, selling fabric, haberdashery, books and other small things in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Play Tetris :D
"Korobeiniki" was arranged by Hirokazu Tanaka and used as the "Type A" music in the GameBoy version of Tetris. It has since become closely associated with the game in Western popular culture.
Korobeiniki were peddlers with trays, selling fabric, haberdashery, books and other small things in pre-revolutionary Russia.
The song "Korobeiniki" is based on a poem with the same name by Nikolay Nekrasov, written and printed in the Sovremennik magazine in 1861. Due to its increasing tempo and the dance style associated with it, it quickly became a popular Russian folk song.
The song tells the story of a young Korobeinik trying to sell his goods to a dark-eyed girl named Katya, eventually kissing her which leads them to disappear into a rye field, and she mysteriously ends up taking a turquoise ring from him. The events that lead to her getting this ring are unknown.
Take a look, it's pretty cool... This is not the original arrangement though.
Please post comments or suggestions. Rock hard!
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