Video Game Music Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference?

by Emily Reese, Minnesota Public Radio
January 18, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. — We've been playing video game music all week, now the moment of reckoning: can you tell the difference between these Classical compositions and Video Game scores? Take our quiz and find out.

Here's how it works, click the play button to hear a piece of music, then let us know if it's origins are from a video game score or not. Simple? Answers might surprise you.

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  • Clarinet Concerto No. 4 11:34 Louis Spohr
    Academy of St Martin in the Fields
    Kenneth Sillito
    Sabine Meyer, clarinet
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  • Concerto in 7 Parts 11:27 Willem de Fesch
    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
    Jan Willem de Vriend
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