Music

Minecraft contains many music tracks, which play at various points in game, including the main menu, in Creative mode, in the Nether, in the End, and during the credits. In the mobile versions of, music is classified as free DLC, downloaded from the Marketplace.

Playing
Music tracks can play at various points during gameplay. Some types of music are triggered by events, while others play randomly while certain criteria are met. The song "Alpha" always plays instantly during the credits, and the song "Boss" always plays instantly while the player is in the End if the ender dragon is undefeated. Both of these tracks start playing in place of any already playing music. If the player is in the End and the ender dragon has been defeated, the normal End track plays 5 to 20 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.

If the player is underwater in an ocean or river biome, random underwater tracks play randomly 10 to 20 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.

If none of the previous criteria are met, but the player is in the Nether, a random Nether track plays depending on the biome the player is in. If the player is not in the Nether and is currently in Creative mode, a random Creative track plays. If the player is not in Creative but is currently playing (i.e., not on the menu screen), a random general track plays. These tracks all play 10 to 20 minutes after any currently playing tracks are finished.

If the player is on the menu screen, a random menu track starts playing after 1 to 30 seconds.

Menu music stops playing when the player leaves the menu and game music stops playing when the player quits the world.

Overworld music
These music tracks are played when the player is in the Overworld.

Overworld music is played randomly. After a song ends, play song again, then play a different song and repeat

Underwater music
These music tracks can be heard while the player's head is submerged in water in any river or ocean biome.

Nether music
These music tracks play while the player is in the Nether.

End music
These music tracks play while the player is in the End.

Unclassified music
These music tracks do not play in-game, but rather in the Menu screen and during the End Poem specifically.

Composers
All music in Minecraft was originally composed by C418. However, as the game got more popular (specifically starting with the Update Aquatic, according to Mojang ), others started to produce music and soundtracks for the game. Nether Update tracks were composed by Lena Raine, and Samuel Åberg composed many recent ambient sounds. Some of the mash-up packs created by 4J Studios for the Legacy Console Edition include music by Gareth Coker. Music $$ is written by Shauny Jang, and music in Minecraft Dungeons was made by Peter Hont, Johan Johnson, and Samuel Åberg.

Trivia

 * Chirp uses the same accompaniment samples as "The Orb of Dreamers" from the LittleBigPlanet series. The samples come from the Optigan disc "Bossa Nova Style". C418 stated that it was coincidental.
 * "calm3.ogg", or "Sweden", is a Passacaglia, with a changing melody over a repeated bass line.
 * On April Fools' Day 2014, Mojang played a bunch of villager themed pranks on the players, including temporarily replacing the track "hal1.ogg", or "Subwoofer Lullaby", with a version that had a villager singing along, as well as temporarily replacing all the menu songs with the villagers singing the Game Of Thrones theme song. This was reverted on April 2, 2014.
 * 5 songs in C418's album "148" (Droopy Remembers, Vierton, Aria Economy, Biome Party, and Beta) are house remixes of some songs in "Life Changing Moments Seem Minor In Pictures", "Minecraft: Volume Alpha" and "Minecraft: Volume Beta" (Droopy likes ricochet + Droopy likes your face, Dreiton, Aria Math, Biome Fest, and Sweden).
 * hal3.ogg (Haggstrom) is in septuple time (precisely 7/4 time).
 * The song "Biome Fest" if listened to carefully appears to be in the style of a Gregorian chant.
 * The word "Shuniji" ( しゅにじ, 主虹 ) means "primary rainbow" in Japanese.
 * Axolotls are small Mexican salamanders that are critically endangered.
 * According to C418, the track "Mice on Venus" (game filename is piano3.ogg) was originally a short piano solo, but was then changed later in Minecraft's development and an addendum was added, which made the track that we have currently.
 * On the Legacy Console Editions, the music that plays in survival mode never plays in creative, and vice versa. If a world is created in survival and then later switched over to creative, creative music starts to play after the survival music ends, but this may take a long time before the music changes.
 * The word "Rubedo" is Latin for "redness", it was adopted by alchemists to refer to the final stage of creating the philosopher's stone, it is also likely associated with the red-colored environment of the Nether.
 * The word "Chrysopoeia" is an alchemical term that describes the creation of the philosopher's stone, or the transmutation of a given object into gold.
 * "Oxygène" is most likely a reference to Jean-Michel Jarre's album Oxygène.
 * On Java Edition, 2 tracks play more commonly in heights. Key plays underground (caves), Subwoofer Lullaby in sky (mountains).
 * The soundtracks Minecraft, Mutation, and Beginning 2 are slightly similar. Minecraft is the most calm, while Beginning 2 is the most intense.
 * In Bedrock Edition, due to river biome is considered plains, underwater music might also play in plains and flat biomes, provided that the pool is big enough and has underwater stuff (example: corals).