Man, I used to play EU2 long ago. I was just a kid back then... I think I really liked playing the tutorial, or the Mayans or something. Both, maybe.
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Man, I used to play EU2 long ago. I was just a kid back then... I think I really liked playing the tutorial, or the Mayans or something. Both, maybe.
After some youtube searching it was amazing how many versions of falala, falalalan, etc were available. It made me wonder how many of those are directly or indirectly a result of EU2.
Yeah, I think all the Clausewitz games have music triggers now. Pdox doesn't seem really use them in the base game, though, just in music DLC. So I doubt we'll get historically appropriate music in the base game, but I'm hoping there'll be a DLC with it. Hearing the music change at the turn of the century was one of my favorite things in EU2.
The EU2 version still pops into my head everytime I hear Europa Universalis, haha
This version is my personal favorite, grats to someone-who-I-can't-remember-who-posted-this
[video=youtube;63yTUdPU_bQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63yTUdPU_bQ[/video]
You mean, as opposed to the 200+ recordings of so-called French court madrigals (your falalalan) and their English derivatives that were made over the last 20 years...? Yeah, must be EU2.
Sorry, I don't mean to poke fun at you.
It's just that these madrigals--which are no sillier than any modern song that uses vocalize or repeated words to make an emotional effect--have a very long history. Many thousands were written. They were the best grade of popular music of their day. Many have been recorded in modern times, without reference to anybody's games. But every age's accepted way of doing things becomes the joke of people somewhere down the line; and the shades of all those composers who combined folk, classical, and popular music in those falala madrigals will just be laughing up their slashed sleeves at our culture years from now, when modern rock subgenres become the joke of future generations. 
French? English? Don't underestimate the Spanish, like Ortiz or Encina... or the great Rodrigo Martinez of an anonymous musician...
[video=youtube;V1HlSymdnB8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HlSymdnB8[/video]
... and Italians? Like Vallente...
[video=youtube;C7HCX-KyOi0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCX-KyOi0&feature=related[/video]
... or Falconiero?
[video=youtube;Mm6y-rI-7f4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6y-rI-7f4[/video]
And no ancient music of this time would be complete without a canario, like a theme from Kapsberger...
[video=youtube;ZEZ3FDBKr-8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZ3FDBKr-8&feature=related[/video]
... or later the famous one which was made by Sanz for the guitar:
[video=youtube;HeyMnzB_VII]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeyMnzB_VII&feature=fvwrel[/video]
(and re-used by the great composer Joaquín Rodrigo for his "Fantasias" in the 20th century)
[video=youtube;V1HlSymdnB8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HlSymdnB8[/video]
... and Italians? Like Vallente...
[video=youtube;C7HCX-KyOi0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCX-KyOi0&feature=related[/video]
... or Falconiero?
[video=youtube;Mm6y-rI-7f4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6y-rI-7f4[/video]
And no ancient music of this time would be complete without a canario, like a theme from Kapsberger...
[video=youtube;ZEZ3FDBKr-8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZ3FDBKr-8&feature=related[/video]
... or later the famous one which was made by Sanz for the guitar:
[video=youtube;HeyMnzB_VII]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeyMnzB_VII&feature=fvwrel[/video]
(and re-used by the great composer Joaquín Rodrigo for his "Fantasias" in the 20th century)
You mean, as opposed to the 200+ recordings of so-called French court madrigals (your falalalan) and their English derivatives that were made over the last 20 years...? Yeah, must be EU2.
Those were al versions of this exact same song, not of others in the same style. But thanks for the background, it is one of the fields I lack education.
imo, THE music that represents EU3 bar none is Conquistador...PLEASE let there be an even more awesome/or at least remix of this in EUIV
It perfectly represents the entire age, and the evolution of time, the first half def over the latter. More uplifting tunes like that I think.
[video=youtube;vxR-XdJo2cA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxR-XdJo2cA[/video]
It perfectly represents the entire age, and the evolution of time, the first half def over the latter. More uplifting tunes like that I think.
[video=youtube;vxR-XdJo2cA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxR-XdJo2cA[/video]
Can I suggest Stephen Micus?
It's perhaps more meditative but occasionally there are some middle eastern influences that really surprise the auditor.
It's perhaps more meditative but occasionally there are some middle eastern influences that really surprise the auditor.
Undoubtedly.
Personally I would go more with Conquistador than Falalalalalalaaaaaaaan. Stuff thematically similar to the soundtrack from Last of the Mohicans would be good too.
True this is a great song. The bit from 2.20 to the end could play for a long time as background music for me.
Call me a barbarian if you want, but i think A Cruce Victoria is way better than Conquistador.
I misunderstand you. Though the repeated jokes about Falala and Falalan up here have in the past been used sometimes to condemn madrigals in total, and even by inference, all the EU2 music.
Tons of good early music up on Youtube. And a great deal more where that came from.