Non-classical/Euro music mod

[Arkaeyn]

I love what Civ4 has done with the game music - there's so much beautiful, historical music out there that it makes much more sense to use Bach and Beethoven than to try and match them. But listening to the opening menu music, with its world, African flair and then the classical Civ music makes me realize that it's incomplete.

I made this thread as a kind of brainstorming for a potential mod for including more diverse styles of music, as well as including perhaps more evocative music for each era (like the first part of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring for the modern era!)

The basic rules:

It should be unobtrusive. None of the Civ in-game music jumps out and says OH MY GOD MUSIC! This pretty much means nothing with heavy-duty vocals, or too up-tempo.

It should be known but not, perhaps, overdone. Overdone is kind of like including the Beatles on your list of influences in a band. Overdone in these terms might be the first movement of Beethoven's 5th, where Civ4 cleverly has the second movement! This also includes stuff that's known in Gamer Culture. Yeah, Halo has a good theme. Yeah, Lord of the Rings has cool music. But we can do better stuff!

That in mind, here's some stuff I'd like to see:

African drum circles
Rites of Spring
Dvorak's New World Symphony (4th movement)
Jazz! Maybe some Coltrane. Can't argue with Kind of Blue either.
Instrumental hip-hop. Like RJD2?
Arab/Middle-Eastern music. This is a huge gap!
Chinese/Japanese?
Trinidadian steel drums - remember when Sevomod had them on a leaderhead? good times!

 

[Shqype]

I personally prefer Cage's 4'33" ; perhaps we can play that during the modern era while we 'do something good for humanity.'

 

[Arkaeyn]

I'm willing to take a guess that that music doesn't fit my definition of "unobtrusive".

But on the other hand, I really liked the music for the Albanian leaderhead in Sevomod/CivGold, though it was a bit too loud, it was a good time.

 

[Shqype]

Which one, there were two ... and a few musics... I've got a lot more where that came from

John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer, writer and visual artist. He is most commonly known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without playing a single note.

Cage was an early composer of what he called "chance music" (and what others have decided to label aleatoric music)—music where some elements are left to be decided by chance; he is also well known for his non-standard use of musical instruments and his pioneering exploration of electronic music. His works were sometimes controversial, but he is generally regarded as one of the most important composers of his era, especially in his raising questions about the definition of music.

Cage believed there was no noise, only sound; and any sound could be music. The instructions for performing his piece 4 minutes and 33 seconds are to remain silent for that amount of time and to do something good for humanity.

 

[Leif]

Those Russian work songs would be good for the industrial age
do do dooooo do, do do do dooooo do, do do do do-do do, do do doooo do