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Women's Suffrage – Swinging at the Daisy Chain by the Count Basie Orchestra.Oracle – Theme from Harry's Game by Clannad.Trevor Jones' and Randy Edelman's soundtrack to The Last of the Mohicans (1992): Most videos, however, feature original compositions with often discernible inspiration, either from Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ: Adam Smith's Trading Company – The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from the oratorio Solomon, George Frideric Handel.Isaac Newton's College – Concerto For 4 Violins & Strings in B minor, Antonio Vivaldi.Statue of Liberty – El Capitan March, John Philip Sousa.Shakespeare's Theatre – taken from the prologue to Henry V.Bach's Cathedral – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Johann Sebastian Bach Michelangelo's Chapel – Credo from Missa Papae Marcelli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.Leonardo's Workshop – Cantaloupe Island, Herbie Hancock.King Richard's Crusade – Dance of the Furies, Christoph Willibald Gluck.The music is often taken from other sources: Whenever a player builds a Wonder of the World, a short video with music is played. The five different releases of Civilization II have added and subtracted tracks from the mix, with Fantastic Worlds containing the largest number of tracks of all releases. Over 200 MB of space on the Civilization II CD is taken up by the music, 280 MB is occupied by the videos (many of them are historical footages), whereas the actual program data takes up less than 30 MB. The music can be played back through any CD-ROM drive. The songs are quite varied some are from the 19th century classical era, such as the Blue Danube Waltz, while others have a tribal, tropical sound to them.

Indians – " Gautama Ponders" (original)īesides the main theme, sometimes known as " Civilization Opening Theme", other tunes used in the game were Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the "leader's day" celebration in cities, as well as the Funeral March from Beethoven's Third Symphony.Ĭivilization II 's music is in the Red Book CD-audio format, the same as that found on normal music CDs.English – "Rondeau" from Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper ( Jean-Joseph Mouret).Chinese – " The Shining Path" (traditional).Aztecs – " Tenochtitlan Revealed" (original).Russians – " Song of the Volga Boatmen" (traditional).Greek – " Aristotle's Pupil" (original).Americans – " Battle Hymn of the Republic".Egyptians – " Harvest Of the Nile" (original).Germans – DOS version: " Variatio 4: Lo stesso movimento" from Goldberg Variations ( Johann Sebastian Bach) Amiga version: " Rondo alla Turca" ( Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).Babylonians – " Hammurabi's Code" (original).The same music used for the Aztecs was also applied to the Barbarians whenever they invaded a city. Most of original tunes were composed by Jeff Briggs, while others were taken from traditional or classic compositions, referring to each national culture (civilization) represented in the game. The soundtrack of the original Civilization game was available in either digital MIDI format for DOS version, or in tracker format for Amiga version.