Music to Game To
One of the recurring threads on the gaming b-boards is the search for music to
set a mood for gaming. Here's our list of what we use.
- Motion Picture Soundtracks:
- Braveheart
- Conan (any)
- Dances With Wolves
- Disney's Aladdin (instrumental tracks only)
- Dracula
- Dragonheart
- Elizabeth
- Hamlet
- Immortal Beloved
- Independence Day
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jurassic Park
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Legend
- The Madness of King George
- The Mummy
- Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
- The Shadow
- Sleepy Hollow
- The Three Musketeers
- Wolf
- Classical Selections:
- Bach's concertos, suites and Toccata & Fugue in d minor
- Beethoven's Leonore Overture
- Berlioz's March to the Scaffold
- Chopin's "Heroic" Polinaise
- Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary
- Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, John Henry
- Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Dvorák's Complete Slavonic Dances
- Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette
- Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and Holberg's Time
- Handel's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba, overture to Messiah
- Holst, The Planets
- Humperdink's Witch's Ride
- Ives' Halloween
- Khachaturian's Spartacus
- Kodály's Háry János
- Liszt's Mephisto Waltz
- Mahler's Symphonies 1 - 5
- Marais' The Bells of St. Genevie
- Mouret's Rondeau
- Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain
- Pachabel's Canon
- Ravel's Boléro, et.al.
- Rossini's William Tell Overture
- Rosza's music from El Cid
- Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre
- R. Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, various concertos
- Wagner's Zeigfried, Ride of the Valkyries
- Other Selections:
- Irish Drinking Music
- Thunderstorm environmental sounds