Can I either download or purchase the BfW music

[mamadu.bwana]

Hi,

I am new to the BfW game, which I like very much, but the music I find absolutely *superb*! Is there somewhere I could either download or purchase all the music in the latest BfW version (I have version v1.2.6 for Ubuntu GNU/Linux)

I suppose the music is released under the GPL or something similar, right?

Many thanks in advance,

Mamadu

PS: were can I learn more about the composer(s) and the recording(s)?

[AI]

http://svn.gna.org/svn/wesnoth/trunk/data/core/music/


If you have wesnoth installed, you can also find the music in /path/to/wesnoth/data/core/music (strip out the 'core/' for 1.2)

[mamadu.bwana]

thanks for the link!! I am downloading them right now (but I did not have them in my Wesnoth folder even though I have the game, and plenty of addons, installed).

Cheers,

Mamadu

[Tyler Johnson]

Yeah, i'm actually curious as to who wrote what. In Particular the Battle Theme.

[mamadu.bwana]

not only that, but who recorded that stuff and how?

the music is just superb and the arrangements and recordings are extremely well made.

whoever did them is a really talented and skilled person!

[mamadu.bwana]

Turns out that the music files had that info. Here are the names I have found:

*Aleksi Aubry-Carlson:

Battle Music
Elf Land
Frantic
Main Menu
Main Theme
Northerners
Underground

*Mattias Westlund:

Breaking the Chains
Legends of the North
The King is Dead
Travelling Ministrels

*Timothy Pinkham:

Defeat
The Knolls of Doldesh
Still Another Wanderer

*Ryan Reilly:

Defeat
Knalgan Theme
Victory

*Doug Kaufman:

Elvish Theme
The City Falls

*Timothy Pinkham:

The Knolls of Doldesh

*Jospeh G. Toscano (Zhaytee):

Loyalists

*Jeremy Nicoll:

Vengeful Pursuit

My God, there is so much talent here!! You guys need to consider making a CD for sale together or, at the very least, to advertise this music for download on the Internet. What a remarkable collaborative success the music for BfW is!

[tsr]

That's actually a very good idea for drawing funds for the new server

/tsr

[mamadu.bwana]

That's actually a very good idea for drawing funds for the new server

/tsr

Well, now that you mention it, the server does have some issues for sure; for example, it appears not have a hard time accepting the high amount of connections it receives.

But I also think that the guys who composed this music deserve far more recognition.

Can anybody tell us how they got together for the BfW score? Did they just agree to give their music to the game, or did they write that stuff specifically for BfW?

What is the history of this amazing collaborative effort?

[jeremy2]

Well, I can't really speak for anyone else, but I love composing and I really like playing the game and I decided to contribute. I don't know any of the other composers except through this forum.

[Dave]

But I also think that the guys who composed this music deserve far more recognition.

The music is indeed excellent.

Can anybody tell us how they got together for the BfW score? Did they just agree to give their music to the game, or did they write that stuff specifically for BfW?

What is the history of this amazing collaborative effort?

Basically way back in about Wesnoth 0.3, four and a half years ago, I added support for music. Not having any music, I emailed an artist named ZhayTee who agreed to produce some music for Wesnoth. He produced some great stuff for her.

As time went on, different people contributed music. Some was great, some not so great. As Wesnoth became better and better, several good musicians were attracted and began contributing. At some point we decided we had enough music that we could discard all but the best. We appointed Aleksi and West as music developers, in charge of deciding what got in and what didn't.

The music is definitely one of the best aspects of Wesnoth.

David

[mamadu.bwana]

Thanks for the background on this fantastic effort.

The amazing thing for me is not only that the BfW project could attract some phenomenally gifted composers, but that this diverse group of composers could produce a very wide variety of compositions which still do have an internal consistency, a common 'feel' to them. There definitely is, I think, a BfW-style of music and that is also a huge achievement.

Thanks a lot to all of you!

[Iris]

We appointed Aleksi and West as music developers, in charge of deciding what got in and what didn't.

If you are talking of the times pre-West, you sure meant Aleksi and TimothyP.