French Suite No. 3 is one of the many French suites written by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are perhaps best known in the video game community for being used in some of the Tetris games.
Games
Tetris (GB)
The song serves as the third type of BGM heard during the game, and uses the fifth movement of the suite, Menuet. The song was transposed five steps down from the key of B minor to the key of F♯ minor.
The song was written by Hirokazu Tanaka in Z80 assembly using his sound driver.
Tetris & Dr. Mario (SNES)
The song serves as the third type of BGM heard during the game, and is an arrangement of the Game Boy version. The SNES version is much more refined in terms of quality and fidelity and uses an echoing harpsichord patch for its main instrument. While this is a superior version of the song, some of the notes during the end are off. This is most likely because the arranger(s) had to learn the Game Boy version by ear.
