"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is a traditional composition by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his ballet, The Nutcracker. On Barney & Friends, the composition first appeared in "Practice Makes Music". And it in the music box on Barney's Night Before Christmas It was also heard during the restaurant scene in Barney's Great Adventure and during The Nutcraker performance in the home video A Very Merry Christmas