Some of the music used in MSX games was inspired by music from other sources, such as film works and classical music. Such influences may have been subtle or massive. It may have been intentional, such as games based on movies, like there are also games that feature music which isn't known to the mainstream audience. Below is a(n under construction) list of MSX game music origins.
| Game | Developer | Origins
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| Abadía del Crimen, La (intro) | Opera Soft | Minuet in G Minor (BWV Anh 115) (J.S. Bach)
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| Antarctic Adventure | Konami | Skaters Waltz (Émile Waldteufel)
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| Amores de Brunilda, Los | RetroWorks/BitVision | Cantata Nº 208, "Sheep May Safely Graze", BWV 208 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
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| Averno | PJ Soft | Fantaisie Impromptu, Op. 66 (Frederic Chopin)
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| Breaker | Radarsoft | Theme A (title): I Was Kaiser Bill´s Batman (Whistling Jack Smith) (Wikipedia)
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| Camelot Warriors (title screen) | Dinamic | Scarborough Fair (background info) (C64 version)
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| Castle, The | ASCII corp | The Syncopated Clock (Leroy Anderson)
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| City Connection | Jaleco | Piano Concerto 1 (Tchaikovsky)
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| Circus Charlie | Konami | American Patrol (Frank White Meacham)
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| Comic Bakery | Konami | Ito maki maki (Japanese children song)Yankee DoodleMusunde hiraite (Japanese children song)
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| Dragon Quest | Enix | Suite Bergamasque - Passepied (Claude Debussy)
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| Dynamite Dan | Mirrorsoft | Turkish March (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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| Elidon | Orpheus | Peer Gynt - Anitra's Dance (Edvard Hagerup Grieg)
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| Fantasm Soldier Valis II | Telenet Japan | Love Theme From Flashdance (Helen St. John/Giorgio Moroder)
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| Flight Deck (II) | Aackosoft | Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
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| Fire Hawk | Game Arts | Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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| Gorby's Pipeline | Compile | a.o. "Swan's Theme" from Swan Lake (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1876), "Promenade" from "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Modest Mussorgsky), "Flight of the Bumblebee" from "Tsar Saltan" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), "Procession of the Sardar" from "Caucasian Sketches" (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov), "В средней Азии, V srednyeĭ Azii" ("In the Steppes of Central Asia") (Alexander Borodin).
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| Ghostbusters | Activision | Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr)
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| The Goonies | Konami | The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper)
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| Hundra | Dinamic | Gavottes I and II (excerpt from Bach English Suite No. 3 in G Minor (BWV 808)) (J.S. Bach)
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| Hydlide 2 | T&E Soft | Indiana Jones (John Williams)
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| Hyper Olympic 1 | Konami | Chariots of Fire - Titles (Vangelis)
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| Jack The Nipper | Gremlin Graphics | Baby Elephant Walk (Henry Mancini)
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| Jet Bomber | Aackosoft | Star Wars (John Williams)
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| Jet Fighter | Aackosoft | Star Wars (John Williams)
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| Jet Set Willy I (ingame) | Software Projects | If I Were a Rich Man (Jerry Bock) Humoresque (Dvorak)
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| Jet Set Willy I/II (title) | Software Projects | Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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| Lazy Jones | Terminal Software | Lazy Jones has various references to (popular) synth pop songs from & before the year of it's original (C64) conception (1984), as well as various other (earlier) references (of which some debatable). See Lazy Jones for more details.
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| Magical Tree | Konami | O Vreneli (Swiss folklore)
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| Manic Miner | Software Projects | Peer Gynt - In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg)
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| Metal Gear 2 | Konami | Rambo: First Blood Part II (Jerry Goldsmith) (3:57)
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| North Sea Helicopter | Aackosoft | M*A*S*H theme
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| Phantis 1 | Dinamic | Masquerade (Berlin)
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| Pooyan | Konami/Hudson Soft | Humoresque (Dvorak)
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| Pumpkin Adventure 3 | UMAX | M*A*S*H theme
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| Red Lights of Amsterdam | The Bytebusters | Big Spender (Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields)
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| Radx-8 | Radarsoft | Smiling Jack Casey (Tony Banks)
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| Search for Mum (in-game) | Triple Soft | "Liberty Bell" March (John Philip Sousa) as popularised by Monty Python's Flying Circus Intro Theme Song
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| Shark Hunter: ingame, season over | Electric Software | Cuckoo Song (Michael Praetorius), popularised by Mike Oldfield; Fröhlicher Landmann (Robert Schumann)
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| Skooter | The Bytebusters | Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
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| Sorcery | Virgin Games | Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Abraham Dukas)
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| Space Manbow | Konami | Mars (Gustav Holst)
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| Thexder (game over) | Game Arts | Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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| Time Curb | Aackosoft | Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (J.S. Bach)
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| Undeadline | T&E Soft | 5th Symphony, 3rd movement (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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| Who Dares Wins II | Alligata | Theme from The Great Escape (John Sturges)
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| Xak - The Tower of Gazzel (Cabin Times) | Microcabin | Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1 (Friedrich Kuhlau)
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| XVM | Namco | Thine Be the Glory (Handel)
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| Ys series (II, III) | Falcom | Feena's theme is not part of the OST of Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished Omen series on MSX, as it is on other platforms, but parts of the theme can be heard in Ys II and III also on MSX. Feena's theme may have been influenced by Pop Avenue (Janko Nilovic), as there is at least some resemblance (some discussion).
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