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I agree with that one KB - any ideas as to where to get it?

I think Gwalcmai is correct in that we should make the music a seperate download. It should be strongly encouraged that people download the music so that they get the genuine Great War experience when playing the mod ;)
 
Originally posted by Allenby
I agree with that one KB - any ideas as to where to get it?

I think Gwalcmai is correct in that we should make the music a seperate download. It should be strongly encouraged that people download the music so that they get the genuine Great War experience when playing the mod ;)
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I don't know. What format do we get the music in, is it MP3? If so I might be able to get it translated from a cassette. I work for the library service so we must have a copy kicking arund somewhere.
 
Another absolutely essential piece of music is of course "Who bashed Bill Kaiser?" :p

Maybe a "minimum music" package, with the essentials, and a text file with a list of other recomended titles and where to get them?
 
Originally posted by StephenT
Who are we going to nominate to go to prison on our behalf if the copyright owners of this music send their highly-trained attack lawyers after us?
:D
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Well surely that would be a job for the Senior Team. Namely Aleenby & Johan. Certainly not me at the very least!
 
Originally posted by StephenT
Who are we going to nominate to go to prison on our behalf if the copyright owners of this music send their highly-trained attack lawyers after us?
:D
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Can't we pretend that we performed them ourselves?

I'm sure they'd be convinced. :D
 
Originally posted by Allenby
Can't we pretend that we performed them ourselves?

I'm sure they'd be convinced. :D
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I can whistle and play the spoons.

Well, its a start!
 
Re: Music

Originally posted by ptan54
Is it alright if we propose adding new music to the soundtrack for the mod or will this get us into licensing problems?

If we are allowed I propose adding country specific music.

Germany - Die Wacht Am Rhein, Deutschland Uber Alles.
Austria - Radetzky March
Russia - Bozhe Tsarya Khrani (although Russia is very well covered with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture)
France - La Marseillaise
Britain - God Save the King, Land of Hope and Glory
Italy - Inno di Mameli
USA - Battle Hymn of the Republic
Japan - Kimigayo
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The German anthem at that time was "Heil dir im Siegerkranz", an ode to the Kaiser. The melody is exactly the same as "God save the Queen" btw :D.

"Deutschland über alles" is a strictly republican anthem and would not fit the Prussian/militaristic WW1 German empire. Once Weimar Germany pops up (or a republican revolt in 1918-Germany maybe? Do you have events for that, mutiny of the sailors?) you can introduce the black-red-gold republican flag and anthem maybe. The Deutschland-song and the black-red-gold flag were seen as anti-monarchist symbols, that´s why they were chosen in 1919 :).

Apart from "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" I´d suggest "Preußens Gloria", which is a military march played on every occasion back then.
 
Wasn't the Habsburg national anthem also sung to the same tune as God Save the King?

Also, I've heard that while the Deutschlandlied wasn't the official national anthem during the war, it was one of the most popular patriotic songs sung by the soldiers.

All of which is irrelevant anyway, since as far as I can tell there's no way to get particular music in the game at specific times or for specific countries. There's a directory called /music which you can presumably copy new mp3s into, and a file called music.txt which contains the file names of those mp3s, and that's it.

Real purists could, of course, save the game when Germany becomes a republic, quit, edit music.txt to include deutschlandlied.mp3, and load the game again.:rolleyes:

Edit: and real loonies could follow the same procedure to get the Falalalan song in there :eek: :wacko:
 
Originally posted by StephenT
Wasn't the Habsburg national anthem also sung to the same tune as God Save the King? [/i]
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It´s a bit complicated with all those anthems :D. The anthem of Austria-Hungary is "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" and is sung to the melody of the Deutschlandlied. The Imperial German anthem is sung to the melody of "God save the king".
 
Originally posted by cyberhunne
It´s a bit complicated with all those anthems :D. The anthem of Austria-Hungary is "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" and is sung to the melody of the Deutschlandlied. The Imperial German anthem is sung to the melody of "God save the king".
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It's even more complicated.
The anthem of Austria-Hungary was indeed
"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" (the Kaiserhymne) but you have the thing about the melody backwards.

The Deutschlandlied uses the melody of the Austria-Hungary hymn, which was composed by Josef Haydn in 1796 as a tribute to the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef.
 
Of course, you´re right :). Kaiserhymne is older than the Deutschlandlied, sorry if I didn´t make that clear.
 
There is a song I heard performed by John McDermott (one of my favorite singers) called "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda." I don't think it was made DURING World War I, but it's about the Australian soldiers who died at Gallipoli, and it has that feel of a slow, somber war song. I need to find a copy of that...
 
It was written by the Scottish-born Australian folk singer Eric Bogle some time between 1969 and 1980, although it's been covered by lots and lots of artists, including the Pogues and Joan Baez.
 
Yeah I recently downloaded the Pogues versio, although Pogues is no John McDermott
 
I just realized some thing:

"Sgt. McKenzie" - which is the theme for the movie "We Were Soldiers" - is about World War I isn't it? There are lyrics in it that say:

Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun

My limited research shows the song is in memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie, who served with the Seaforth Highlanders and died in the trench warfare of World War I. It was actually written by his grandson in tribute.

Any way, I'm going to add this and John McDermott's "Minstral Boy" to my music list. :D
 
I've got Sgt. Mackenzie and Its a Long way to Tipperary going on mine


...gotta find that one about the aussies at Gallipoli though.....


Cvm
 
Just wanted to tip you folks about Holst´s Mars (from the planets), in that single piece of music (nine minutes) is the entire war, there is cavalry charges, a big bertha, artillery barrage, going over the top/gas attack, I put my vote on adding that...
 
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