First of all, the song Babayetu, which has just entered the four main menus of civilization, comes from the prayer songs of Swahili people on the east coast of Africa. The first half of this song is scattered, symbolizing ignorance during the origin of civilization. With the passage of time, the fire of civilization grew stronger and stronger, and the whole music became magnificent, combining some characteristics of Mediterranean music. Of course, the choice of African-style music has a lot to do with the fact that human beings originated in Africa.
The whole game of Civilization IV is divided into five eras: the classical era, the middle ages, the Renaissance, the industrial era and the modern era. There are four tunes in the classical era, including tribal percussion and oriental music, which basically inherited the style of Civilization 3, which is very consistent with the civilization history at the beginning of the game. The following is a special introduction to the music of the other four eras.
There were 20 hymns in the Middle Ages. Among them, in 1623, Pope urban VIII entrusted composer gregorio allegri to compose a Miserere, one of the nine works. And the distant and concentrated flute of Santa Maria. There are also/kloc-Gloria by brumel, a religious musician in the 5th century, and Compassion by Johannes Oak. Four pieces of music, including Tenet by Italian musician Giovanni P.Palestrina, once fascinated Beethoven. In addition, there are three cantata chants. These religious songs, whether in-game or out-of-game, make people feel very clear after listening.
There were nineteen pieces of music in the Renaissance. Among them, Mozart has three adagio, andante and serenade, Beethoven has three allegro, andante and serenade, and Bach has thirteen. Bach's 13 songs include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, his broadboard and variations, and so on. Music in the industrial age followed the Renaissance closely, including Beethoven's three violin concertos and Brahms' Hungarian dance music. Dvorak's American Symphony and Slavic Suite are very appropriate in this era. In addition to these, there is19th century Russian musician korsakov's "Arabian Nights" symphony. Allegro of Shengsang is even more exciting in this dynamic era. I don't need to say the artistic achievements of these famous songs. I can only say that Civilization IV sets the time and frequency of their appearance in the game very appropriately, so that players always appear in world famous songs.
After entering modern times, the musical style of Civilization IV gives people a feeling of loneliness and gloom, which is related to various problems and puzzles encountered by human civilization in modern times. When you hear the sad passage in German composer Richard Wagner's orchestral parsifal, look at the global landscape distorted by yourself. How do you feel in your heart? There is actually a grand piano in modern music. Repeated tunes bring people an inexplicable sense of irritability, and to some extent, they also conform to the monotonous status quo of human civilization in modern society after industrialization. In addition, there is John Adams's symphony Harmony. This composer won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 for his music "The Transfer of Soul" commemorating the victims of "9. 1 1".