If you could add great works what would they be?

[XboxAddict77]

Hey, I'm thinking of making a mod that add a good amount of stuff to BNW. The mod is centered around making the game easier and not as onotenous in the earlier eras, and fixing some problems. Things like more wonders and buildings new WC resolutions/projects and most importantly great works so if your on a bigger map you don't run out of them, now while music may not be possible I can still add art an literature. So what great works would you add, I having problems thinking of some. Any suggestions would be great!

Also I know some people wished there were more types of art, so if you can think of anything that is not European, american or Asian i'll consider that too.
If your wondering about my mod here is the forums link be sure to leave ideas there too!
Civfanatics forum thread for BNW+

 

[VainoValkea]

Is there a list including everything already in? Some of these may be duplicates.

I guess I would add at least the following, with both classical and modern influences in mind:

Great Works of Writing
- Children's and Household Tales (Brothers Grimm)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)
- Slaughterhouse-five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

Great Works of Music
- Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
- New World Symphony (Antonín Dvořák)
- Valse Triste (Jean Sibelius)
- The Liberty Bell (John Philip Sousa)
- Entrance of the Gladiators (Julius Fučík)


These are all culturally influential works, although the more recent ones like LoTR may have copyright issues to handle. And some aren't the artists' best known works, but I'd avoid works like "Finlandia" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" that establish a connection with a certain civilization or nation in their name.

Edit: found the list in Civilization wiki (see here). Struck out those already in.

 

[Sequm]

Add "The Motherland Calls" it's a Soviet era statue (largest non-religious statue in the world) that was going to be added but wasn't because of a copyright. That alone makes the mod worth it

Edit: I'm sure you know, but the artwork is already done for it.

 

[VainoValkea]

Sequm, totally seconded. That statue is terrifyingly great.

 

[XboxAddict77]

Add "The Motherland Calls" it's a Soviet era statue (largest non-religious statue in the world) that was going to be added but wasn't because of a copyright. That alone makes the mod worth it

Edit: I'm sure you know, but the artwork is already done for it.

I had all the wonders planned but I'd totally add that, anyone know where all the art files are any way I need the sizes of the great works of art so I have something to compare to.

 

[XboxAddict77]

Is there a list including everything already in? Some of these may be duplicates.

I guess I would add at least the following, with both classical and modern influences in mind:

Great Works of Writing
- Children's and Household Tales (Brothers Grimm)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)
- Slaughterhouse-five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

Great Works of Music
- Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
- New World Symphony (Antonín Dvořák)
- Valse Triste (Jean Sibelius)
- The Liberty Bell (John Philip Sousa)
- Entrance of the Gladiators (Julius Fučík)


These are all culturally influential works, although the more recent ones like LoTR may have copyright issues to handle. And some aren't the artists' best known works, but I'd avoid works like "Finlandia" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" that establish a connection with a certain civilization or nation in their name.

Edit: found the list in Civilization wiki (see here). Struck out those already in.

Yea the last thing I'd want is copyrights down my neck.

 

[IAmOzymandias]

I was surprised they omitted (or at the very least, I haven't seen) any great works by Antonín Dvořák, Considering his New World Symphony made it into Civ IV (It's actually how I came to admire his works)

EDIT: Late to the party again? Not surprising I haven't seen it, I suppose, in the 3 BNW games i've played thus far.

In that case, just throw Twilight in there and it would round it out nicely.

 

[XboxAddict77]

I was surprised they omitted (or at the very least, I haven't seen) any great works by Antonín Dvořák, Considering his New World Symphony made it into Civ IV (It's actually how I came to admire his works)

EDIT: Late to the party again? Not surprising I haven't seen it, I suppose, in the 3 BNW games i've played thus far.

In that case, just throw Twilight in there and it would round it out nicely.

Probably not I want to avoid copyright claims.

 

[VainoValkea]

Oh boy, after revising the list I can't believe they left these out...

Writing
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

 

[VainoValkea]

Yea the last thing I'd want is copyrights down my neck.

It just occurred to me that a non-commercial mod is probably Fair Use anyway, so don't worry about it.

 

[XboxAddict77]

Oh boy, after revising the list I can't believe they left these out...

Writing
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

Thanks guys these are great! If you can think of art, the artist is good for its art, while if writings and music runout the second abilities are useful most of the time.

 

[VainoValkea]

Too bad I know paintings much worse than books and music. And my taste in even those two are fairly limited.

You could include these for art:
- A Grotesque Old Woman (Quentin Matsys) *
- Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (James Whistler)

* this one is exactly what is says on the tin, see the picture

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi

 

[XboxAddict77]

Too bad I know paintings much worse than books and music. And my taste in even those two are fairly limited.

You could include these for art:
- A Grotesque Old Woman (Quentin Matsys) *
- Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (James Whistler)

* this one is exactly what is says on the tin, see the picture

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi

Thanks.

 

[otaman1]

Rembrandt Rijn - Descent from the Cross

 

[MeowthLover]

Literature
"Makura no Soshi" (The Pillow Book) by Sei Shonagon
"Iroha" by Kukai
"Xi You Ji" (Journey to the West) by Wu Cheng'en
"Sanguo Yanyi" (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) by Luo Guangzong
"Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

Possibly replace "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare with "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare?

Paintings
"Grande Odalisque" by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
"Boulevard Montmartre" by Camille Pissaro
"Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Possibly replace "Portrait of Bindo Altoviti" by Raphael Sanzio with "School of Athens" by Raphael Sanzio?
Please replace "Water Lilies (1916): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_Water_Lilies_1916.jpg by Claude Monet with "Water Lilies (1919)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_metmuseum_Water_Lilies_by_Claude_Monet.jpg by Claude Monet?
Possibly replace "L'Absinthe" by Edgar Degas with "The Dance Class" by Edgar Degas?
Possibly replace "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by Edouard Manet with "Olympia" by Edouard Manet?
Possibly replace "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir with "Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir?
Please replace "Portrait of a Man in a Turban" by Jan van Eyck with "The Arnolfini Wedding" by Jan van Eyck?

Music
Either "Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)" or "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert?
"The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi

Please replace "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by W.A. Mozart with "Die Zauberflote" (The Magic Flute) by W.A. Mozart?

 

[XboxAddict77]

Literature
Possibly replace "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare with "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare?
Possibly replace "Portrait of Bindo Altoviti" by Raphael Sanzio with "School of Athens" by Raphael Sanzio?
Please replace "Water Lilies (1916): "Water Lilies (1919)"by Claude Monet?
Possibly replace "L'Absinthe" by Edgar Degas with "The Dance Class" by Edgar Degas?
Possibly replace "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by Edouard Manet with "Olympia" by Edouard Manet?
Possibly replace "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir with "Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir?
Please replace "Portrait of a Man in a Turban" by Jan van Eyck with "The Arnolfini Wedding" by Jan van Eyck?
Please replace "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by W.A. Mozart with "Die Zauberflote" (The Magic Flute) by W.A. Mozart?

I will NOT replace anything the only reason I adding is so that people dont run out of great works in larger games.

 

[Teholb]

I'd only like to see it "spawn" from Russia if I was in game (is it in game??), but I think it would be cool if Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was included. Anything to snub Napoleon

 

[XboxAddict77]

I'd only like to see it "spawn" from Russia if I was in game (is it in game??), but I think it would be cool if Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was included. Anything to snub Napoleon

Sorry I'm really bad with old art stuff, is that art,writting, or music? I want to check for you.

 

[XboxAddict77]

It appears that its not in.