Identify the familiar tune by its original title
The studio identified the melody in a player's timestamp as The Great Gate of Kiev from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Animusic arranged the same composition for Cathedral Pictures. Look under Mussorgsky in the game's credits if the melody is familiar but the arrangement or instrumentation on your recording sounds different.
Match the recording as well as the composition
Golden Horn says the game uses a public-domain recording obtained through Musopen for this piece. Write down the credit as shown in your copy of the game before identifying a video clip. A commercial performance of the same composition can sound similar and have different recording credits.
Check the composer of a requested radio addition
Open Credits and consult the music entries. A player requested Shostakovich while discussing two movements from Mussorgsky; the request alone does not establish that Shostakovich was added. Match the composer and work named in Credits to the piece you heard before tagging a clip or looking for a soundtrack download.
Look up Bydło separately from The Great Gate
Search the music credits for Mussorgsky or Pictures at an Exhibition and compare the movement named there. Bydło and The Great Gate of Kiev are different movements of the same suite. A player identified both by ear while the studio independently confirmed The Great Gate in a separate thread. That confirmation does not identify every movement you hear.
Find the English title for the waltz in the Russian-language recommendation
The cited Steam reviewer identifies a tune as На сопках Маньчжурии. The bilingual score catalogues that title as On the Hills of Manchuria, Op. 3 by Ilya Shatrov. Search for the composer and title if the Cyrillic name is hard to enter. Match the performance or arrangement against the game Credits before giving a recording credit. The reviewer documents a player's identification, while the score establishes the title translation and composer.
Retail Steam player review of this shift ↗
Original Shatrov waltz: score and bilingual composition title ↗
Sources
- Steam player discussion: Animusic Cathedral pictures steamcommunity.com
- Steam player discussion: Soundtrack list of songs steamcommunity.com
- Steam player discussion: Add Shostakovich‘s music？ steamcommunity.com
- Retail Steam player review of this shift steamcommunity.com
- Original Shatrov waltz: score and bilingual composition title imslp.org