Elizabeth's theme music question

[Martinus]

A bit atypical question, as not directly game related - does anyone know the name and the author of the piece used for Elizabeth's diplomacy theme? I suspect it might be Handel but not sure.

[psyyco]

I think it´s the national england´s hymn, isn´t it?

[Solver]

It's quite possibly Mark Cromer, who wrote most of the leader music. The leader music is typically based on anthems or other well-known compositions, but they're not actually the anthems.

[Martinus]

I know for sure Elisabeth's piece is not written by Civ composer (it could have been adapted/modified, but the same may Rule Brittania and La Marseille - i.e. taken from an existing piece of work).

[Bushface]

It's that well-known jingoist anthem "Rule, Britannia !". I like the various arrangements.

[Jaguar]

Rule Britannia is Victoria's theme, not Elizabeth's.

[Martinus]

Wasn't easy but I found it:

Jean-Joseph Mouret - First Suite "Fanfare for trumpets, timpani, violins, and oboes", known for being a theme for "Masterpiece Theatre".

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Martinus
Wasn't easy but I found it:

Jean-Joseph Mouret - First Suite "Fanfare for trumpets, timpani, violins, and oboes", known for being a theme for "Masterpiece Theatre".

Unbelievable.

Elizabethan English music had a European wide reputation- for the first time since the days of John Dunstable.

I don't think they looked hard enough....


Anyone wanting some suitably Elizabethan music should listen to:

William Byrd

Thomas Tallis

John Dowland

Orlando Gibbons

Giles Farnaby and

Thomas Weelkes

to name but a few.


I heartily recommend 'Cantiones Sacrae' by Byrd, or his 'Mass For Three Voices' and Thomas Tallis's 'Spem in Alium', a forty part motet:

This is a remarkable piece: a forty-part motet, each part written out separately. Voices come in one by one with the words 'Spem in alium', and weave in and out until the huge thrilling moment several minutes into the work when all 40 voices suddenly sing together.

Another theory is more commercial. During the mid-1500s, there was a kind of war going on between English and continental music publishers to see who could produce the biggest vocal blockbuster. Tallis's 40-part extravaganza, still one of the most remarkable pieces in the repertoire, was the one that trumped everyone.

http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/hardfindsongs/spem_in_alium.html