Civ 4 Music :)

[Ramsses]

I just love the African songs. Gives me goosebumps !

[drank]

Originally posted by Jalinth
I truly enjoy the music. What I am looking for is the lyrics for "The People are the Heroes Now". I've done a few Google searchs, but no luck.

It's originally a quote from Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book". The vocal piece in the Civ soundtrack is from Act I of John Adams' opera Nixon in China. Here is one page I found with the the lyrics:

The people are the heroes now
Behemoth pulls the peasant's plow
When we look up, the fields are white
With harvest in the morning light
And mountain ranges one by one
Rise red beneath the harvest moon

[Boris Godunov]

Firaxis dudes: How would I add more musical tracks to the different eras (not replacing any)? Is this possible? I know in Civ3 the number of tracks was fixed. I'm assuming this is not the case in the super-moddable Civ4, yes?

[Yuufo]

Excellent music!
The game menu soundtrack is awesome!

I also liked the references to other Sid Meier's games. Here is the list I found by myself:
some nations themes out of Civ I, remasterized (e. g. persian)
some out of civ 3: the greeks
some out of colonization: the americans with george washington

There is also one Civ 3 theme in the classical era.

And if you ever built Oracle, perhaps did you recognise the music for Xenoempathy Dome of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri... (it makes my PC crash almost every time :-( )

Did someone find other "remembrances" from SM's games??

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Firaxis dudes: How would I add more musical tracks to the different eras (not replacing any)? Is this possible? I know in Civ3 the number of tracks was fixed. I'm assuming this is not the case in the super-moddable Civ4, yes?

Have you tried placing the mp3s in the folder?

As a quick test you can remove the other songs and just put one or two custom ones in, to make sure it works.

[Boris Godunov]

Well, no, but I assume placing the mp3s in the folder won't just cause the game to play them, right? I mean, something has to tell the game to play new files.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
I must say, as a non-Christian I am absolutely non-offended by this choice of menu music. I demand an immediate non-apology from Firaxis for the religiously-toned non-slight towards my fellow non-Christians and I or else they'll being hearing from my non-lawyer...

Isn't it interesting though that eventhough Firaxis included other religions, that the main music is Christian, the intro (Leonard Nimoy reading Genesis) is Christian and a lot of the tech quotes are from the Bible and they removed Darwin's Voyage?

Oh, and yes, the music is awesome!

[CrONoS]

#Lie Mode activated

Thats's o.k.. Since the religious right wing is know to be the principale shareholder of Firaxis andthey wanted a game to "influence" the kids to believe in Creationism. Sid is a well known creationism...

Right wing always have a secret agenda...

#Lie Mode Deactivated

Yep... i'm just kiddin....

I love more in more John Adams music.. I'm going to prepare my Italian spaguetti salsa while listening J. Adams. It's absolutely beautifull.

Originally posted by The diplomat


Isn't it interesting though that eventhough Firaxis included other religions, that the main music is Christian, the intro (Leonard Nimoy reading Genesis) is Christian and a lot of the tech quotes are from the Bible and they removed Darwin's Voyage?

Oh, and yes, the music is awesome!

[Boris Godunov]

Genesis is Jewish. And Darwin gets a nod in the Biology advance, although I think removing ToE was silly, given its dramatic importance to science.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Genesis is Jewish

Well, yeah. But Genesis is in the Christian Bible too since Christianity has its roots in Judaism.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Well, no, but I assume placing the mp3s in the folder won't just cause the game to play them, right? I mean, something has to tell the game to play new files.

Custom Music Soundtrack in the Audio tab you can simply pick a folder and it plays music from there. I'm pretty sure it's the same for the main soundtrack with each of the specific era music folders.

[Yolky]

HEY SOREN can you give us his web page please? John Adams and doing a search on that gives you lots of people, naming a DEAD PRESIDENT and some other composure.

I went to his web site but no listing for CIV IV so not shure if this is the John Adams you are talking about.

[Kassiopeia]

The thing Nimoy reads in the intro is not the Genesis. The opening sentence is, like it was in Civ1, but the rest of the intro is pulled straight from Civ1 and has little to do with the Bible or the creation myth. It actually details the birth of life and the process of evolving to man in a way that should make your average creationist cringe.

Custom Music Soundtrack in the Audio tab you can simply pick a folder and it plays music from there. I'm pretty sure it's the same for the main soundtrack with each of the specific era music folders.

I think the era specifics are hardcoded to the track names. This I believe because when I placed my own mp3s into the /Classical/ directory and took out the AncientSoundtrackX.mp3 files, when the game entered Classical age, it played nothing and displayed an error message saying "Could not find AncientSoundtrackX.mp3 blahblah".

Although I have yet to try this so that I point the "custom soundtrack" directory to the actual game music directory, with the custom songs added... a sort of expanded soundtrack, if you will.

[Boris Godunov]

"shure?"

http://www.earbox.com/frames-html/low-frames.html

That's his official cite. I'd doubt it would reference Civ4, since he didn't compose the music for the game, the game used some of his already-extant pieces (such as from Nixon in China.

Trip: Hmm, thanks, I will check that out. Will it only play Mp3s? I have a lot of files in WMA format.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by The diplomat
Well, yeah. But Genesis is in the Christian Bible too since Christianity has its roots in Judaism.

Fine, but Genesis has its origins in Jewish mythology, so stating it's "Christian" is simply inaccurate.