Top ten classical game music
Alessandro didn't seem to have a pre-existing thread for this one. :) Not really a top ten (the thread title was just a cheap joke). I was wondering how many games (any platform) featured classical music. The ones that I can think of are:
Manic Miner - Straus's On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King
Jet Set Willy - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Sabre Wulf - Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
Ultima III - Arne's Rule, Britannia!
Epic - Holst's Mars - the Bringer of War
Colossus Chess X - Chopin's Prelude #28, Debussy's Claire de Lune, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
Manic Miner - Straus's On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King
Jet Set Willy - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Sabre Wulf - Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
Ultima III - Arne's Rule, Britannia!
Epic - Holst's Mars - the Bringer of War
Colossus Chess X - Chopin's Prelude #28, Debussy's Claire de Lune, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria
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The original Resident Evil includes Moonlight Sonata too.
As does Shadowman ;-)
Daynamite Dan II - lots
Tbh there is quite a lot of classical music in old Speccy games; it's not only a case of recognising it but also knowing the composer/name of the tune.
Little Computer People played a so-so version of Pachelbel's Canon, when the little fella played on the piano. He also played more tunes, on the piano and record player, but I can't remember if any of them were classical.
The 48K version of Technician Ted played the 1812th Overture (I think) in game.
Elite on the C64 played the Blue Danube when you activated the Docking Computer. Er, so I've read *looks embarrassed*.
Equinox.
I don't recognize it. It would sound better if it wasn't being played on an emulator that can't handle Mark Alexander's Music Box engine.
You are mistaken, my friend, since it was my very self who started such a thread several moons ago ;)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3805
Have I mentioned how difficult I find it to locate anything using WoSf search? :) Having said that your original question was restricted to Speccy games.
it features as audio on errm European countries and capitals or lost raider on atari 8 bit as audio when the tape is loading :)
chop suey (english software) has antiques roadshow music :p
supremacy music by jereon tel / maniacs of noise on c64 is a great piece ported back to live strings.. probably one of my fav c64 tunes ever.
there is a c64 version of venice in peril on c64 which is really nice also (I wanted to use it on something, hence why I'm being vague :p )
What is the description of this section of the WoS forums?
Clearly he's getting better.
Since games is a super-set of Spectrum games this is clearly a related question.
Ooooh, lovely game. One of my faves. I so miss Asylum and those crazy, squealin' butchers.
Anyway, back in Speccy-land.
Olli and Lissa. Forgotten the name of the tune again. Dad knows, I'll ask him.
Phoenix had Romanza.
Oh dear, in that thread 2004 our verbose ewgf says Technician Ted features the William Tell and gets a withering slap for not reading AG's opening post where he tells us it is the Radetzky March - but now ewgf attributes the same game with the 1812 Overture, but gets no slap, so the question over the actual music being BEEPed out will have to remain a mystery, unless of course someone simply loads up Technician Ted (which I for one will not be doing).
Either that or we must assume Mr Grussu has become more benign in the intervening 8 years and now accepts the frailties of memory that may occasionally be observed in mr ewgf.
Or perhaps someone like Ralf has stepped in between 2004 and 2012 and rewitten the music to enhance the game, and the archive has been updated :-?
Anyway, ewgf gets slapped again. :p
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20737
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=29189
Level one is 'The Easy Winners' and level two 'The Cascades'. I haven't got any further than that as I'm rubbish at this game!
Another ragtime classic is the 'Black and White rag' by George Botsford usually known in the UK as the theme to pot black. This is the tune Repton plays on it's menu screen.
The BBC version of repton used to play this in game which on our old Beeb used to make the screen jump up and down a lot!
Tech Ted megamix also had a different waltz on the menu screen (AY)
You beat me to Fahrenheit3000 - I used to load that up just to hear the music!
I ATEN'T DEAD.