Civ4 Soundtrack

[LordViking]

I was wondering if anyone has taken music from their Civ4 folders and been able to name correctly the different files. I've been trying to figure out the music, but my knowledge of Classical Music is lacking. Does anyone know what each piece is? Is there a list online somewhere?
Thanks

 

[Equendil]

I was wondering if anyone has taken music from their Civ4 folders and been able to name correctly the different files. I've been trying to figure out the music, but my knowledge of Classical Music is lacking. Does anyone know what each piece is? Is there a list online somewhere?
Thanks

Tricky question that, classical music is, erm, vast.

As far as I can tell the "classical" era music was home brewed by Firaxis, as well as the opening track.

The renaissance era is all Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (ach!), the industrial era mostly Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvorak, should be easy enough to put proper labels on tracks (or maybe not hehe).

The modern era seems to be entirely John Adams.

The real tricky era is the "medieval" one, a selection of renaissance composers :

The Franco-Flemish school:
-Josquin des Prez ("DesprezElGrillo.mp3" = "El Grillo"(!), and I *think* "DesprezLament.mp3" is "La déploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem", could be wrong though).
-Johannes Ockeghem ("OckeghemKyrie.mp3" is a from a mass "Missa pro defunctis", first movement).
-Antoine Brumel ("BrumelGloria.mp3" from a mass I guess)
-Orlande de Lassus ("LassusAlmaRedemptorisMater.mp3", you got the full track name there).

-Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ("PalestrinaCredo.mp3" and "PalestrinaGloria.mp3" are movements from a mass, which one I have no idea).
-Allegri ("AllegriMiserere.mp3", see Miserere mei).

- Diego Ortiz
- Francisco de la Torre

Ok, not really helping, but oh well.

 

[jjo31420]

Tricky question that, classical music is, erm, vast.

As far as I can tell the "classical" era music was home brewed by Firaxis, as well as the opening track.
[..]

Ok, not really helping, but oh well.

Ok, having gotten my brains kicked in for the third time in a row palying Civ4, I have turned my energy into this more productive endevour.

I'll post my research on this thread, if anyone is interested.

First song:
\Soundtrack\Medieval\DesprezElGrillo

wikichoral link: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/El_Grillo_(Josquin_Des_Prez)
(you can listen to it here so you know which one it is)

'El Grillo' by Josquin Des Prez, published 1505. It is about a singing cricket:

Italian:
El grillo è buon cantore
Che tiene longo verso.
Dalle beve grillo canta.
Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli
Come li han cantato un poco,
Van de fatto in altro loco
Sempre el grillo sta pur saldo,
Quando la maggior el caldo
Alhor canta sol per amore.

English translation:
The cricket is a good singer
He can sing very long
He sings all the time.
But he isn't like the other birds.
If they've sung a little bit
They go somewhere else
The cricket remains where he is
When the heat is very fierce
Then he sings only for love.

 

[Sisiutil]

Ok, having gotten my brains kicked in for the third time in a row palying Civ4, I have turned my energy into this more productive endevour.

I'll post my research on this thread, if anyone is interested.

First song:
\Soundtrack\Medieval\DesprezElGrillo

wikichoral link: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/El_Grillo_(Josquin_Des_Prez)
(you can listen to it here so you know which one it is)

'El Grillo' by Josquin Des Prez, published 1505. It is about a singing cricket:

Italian:
El grillo è buon cantore
Che tiene longo verso.
Dalle beve grillo canta.
Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli
Come li han cantato un poco,
Van de fatto in altro loco
Sempre el grillo sta pur saldo,
Quando la maggior el caldo
Alhor canta sol per amore.

English translation:
The cricket is a good singer
He can sing very long
He sings all the time.
But he isn't like the other birds.
If they've sung a little bit
They go somewhere else
The cricket remains where he is
When the heat is very fierce
Then he sings only for love.

Thanks! It's nice to know what they're singing about. Here I thought it had to be some sort of religious dirge.