At this point I'm tempted to just go to the park, sit around Oktoberfest until the song comes on (I feel like I've heard it play fairly recently), and just record the damn thing myself lol
Hamlet Theme Music
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Since I started searchng for all of this stuff, I've purchased physical CD's for everything except Trapper's Village (cause I don't personally like the music and have no desire to listen to it) and Hastings. I'm unwilling to upload anything and infringe on copyright though, a lot of Oktoberfest was hard to come by.
Does that mean that you've found the rest of the Oktoberfest music? If you have, where? P.S. I doubt the copyright lords would come after the music if it was uploaded but I respect your choice not to if it's for reasons of respect to the holders
I went to the park today and was able to get this clip from Germany of one of our missing polkas. I was sitting beside the speaker by the swings, but at about 2 minutes in my phone screen went off and I thought it would be fine but it turned off the microphone as well. So we're missing about a minute of music from it. I sate there for about an hour to an hour and a half and it seemed a lot like it looped in the time I sat there (either that or they do not play them in any order and shuffle the songs), but the one in the recording is the only polka we don't have I heard play. While I was there I also heard this song on the bridge to Italy and this one in France (both were Shazamed). I think France and England have both abandoned their original soundtracks, I've been in denial for a bit, but I feel like my trip there really confirmed it.
Edit: I think the polka in the clip is either in unserem Garten or Sommernacht in Wochein since there is a video of Morgensonne on YouTube and it doesn't sound like the clip.
Edit: I think the polka in the clip is either in unserem Garten or Sommernacht in Wochein since there is a video of Morgensonne on YouTube and it doesn't sound like the clip.
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I asked them about the music in Germany and they sent this back. Its strangely worded but I think it more or less means they do not play the tracks from our list anymore, or at least not all of them.
@AshleyDawn124 I am not really sure that that customer service representative is entirely sure what they are saying. The statement doesn't make much coherent sense. What exactly was your question that you sent to them? And is your screenshot the entire response?
I think what it’s trying to say is that Rhinefeld’s music was sourced from an existing soundtrack when the country opened (in 1975). Due to copyright laws, the park cannot sell or disclose the song list.
While I was waiting around San Marco for Bel Conertino (a really nice charming show), I heard the beautiful two tunes again for the first time in a long while. It was mixed in with the "new" soundtrack.
I know the only things I’ve posted in this thread have had to do with the Pompeii music (Feste Romane and all that Jazz), but...last night I was looking at multiple renditions of Respighi’s Feste Romane (as if I had nothing better to do), and I just so happened to stumble across this one version. After listening to it very carefully - with much shock afterwards - I can now say I’m 99% sure this is the version of Feste Romane that plays right outside Pompeii. And I found it by luck (there’s so many different versions out there). You may think I’m making too much of a deal over this, but to me listening to a rendition of a song that plays at a theme park just feels like I’m there. It gives me the vibes. Here is the version I found down below. Of course the only thing I found inconsistent is the pitch, but some of you may know that part of the Pompeii area soundtrack is slightly above key (most likely because of copyright or dare I say, to add an ominous tone to the environment).
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So I just put together an apple music playlist of some of the music mentioned in this thread and I swear I could smell the England confectionary in my cubicle when Water Music Suite No. 1 in F came on.
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I commented on this quote back in August and I'm too lazy to go back and find it so here's another one. Just found the song Anenome by U137 and I think it would be a great song to play as people are leaving at the end of the night.
I found two more Pompeii songs, and I think these might’ve been the last ones remaining to be identified in this area.
The first one is String Quartet in F Major: IV Vif et Agité. The second song is the end of Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate
The complete playlist is as follows:
1: The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls by Igor Stravinsky
2: Roman festivals: I. Circenses by Respighi
3: Montagues and Capulets by Prokofiev
4: Pompeii Tag by Gary Lensenmayer *
5: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate
6: String Quartet in F Major: IV Vif et Agité
7: The Planets by Gustav Holst
I am working on the proper order of the songs right at this moment. Track 4 is an original song composed specifically for Escape from Pompeii, by Gary Lensenmayer. The song plays at seemingly random intervals throughout the playlist. You can hear certain motifs of this song inside the ride’s show building; most prominently, from the piccolo heard somewhere between the main chamber and the overhead fire scene. That piccolo is one of my favorite parts of the score, but for over a year, the speaker(s) that plays that instrument longer seems to work. ?
The complete playlist is as follows:
1: The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls by Igor Stravinsky
2: Roman festivals: I. Circenses by Respighi
3: Montagues and Capulets by Prokofiev
4: Pompeii Tag by Gary Lensenmayer *
5: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 by Pablo de Sarasate
6: String Quartet in F Major: IV Vif et Agité
7: The Planets by Gustav Holst
I am working on the proper order of the songs right at this moment. Track 4 is an original song composed specifically for Escape from Pompeii, by Gary Lensenmayer. The song plays at seemingly random intervals throughout the playlist. You can hear certain motifs of this song inside the ride’s show building; most prominently, from the piccolo heard somewhere between the main chamber and the overhead fire scene. That piccolo is one of my favorite parts of the score, but for over a year, the speaker(s) that plays that instrument longer seems to work. ?
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I was watching some videos from the "Old Park Footage" thread and I heard some familiar music playing in New France. That's when I remembered this random piece of trivia I found over the summer: you can still hear several songs from the original (well, circa 2001) New France soundtrack playing at a Virginia theme park. It seems the banjo-music album "Everything is Gonna Work Out Fine" by Jerry Douglass, from which OG New France borrowed heavily, now plays in Old Virginia at Kings Dominion. It was added when KD switched the area to a themed soundtrack last July, and it's a neat little throwback to the old days of New France if you close your eyes and listen.
(And here's the coolest part: I believe the songs were added at KD with the full knowledge they used to be at BGW. A very, very subtle bit of VA theme park history at work there!)
(And here's the coolest part: I believe the songs were added at KD with the full knowledge they used to be at BGW. A very, very subtle bit of VA theme park history at work there!)
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If anyone wants a New France, Rhinefeld, Festa Italia, Oktoberfest, Or England (All Incomplete) playlist from Spotify, I will post the link.
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Not only has Banbury Cross gotten rid of the London Rocks music in favor of just classical music (thank GOODNESS), but there’s an interesting development in New France too: it seems like the area has gone back to its original (at least early 2000s era) soundtrack of pure instrumental bluegrass. I recognized several songs from Jerry Douglas’ “Everything is Gonna Work Out Fine” album, which made up the majority of the area’s music in the old AB days.
It’s almost sort of a shame, because I’d finally gotten used to New France’s newer soundtrack. I honestly liked the vibe of the accordions and old-timey folk songs in the newer soundtrack, like the Blackfly Song and even the Gordon Lightfoot songs. It was a nice mix of feeling like an old trapper’s village and a relaxing, reflective mood. I wish they would’ve just added the OG New France songs in addition to the newer stuff, because my biggest complaint about the pre-2020 Soundtrack was that it was too short and repetitive.
Also, funny enough, this means New France and Kings Dominion’s Old Virginia now share the same soundtrack - or at least part of it.
It’s almost sort of a shame, because I’d finally gotten used to New France’s newer soundtrack. I honestly liked the vibe of the accordions and old-timey folk songs in the newer soundtrack, like the Blackfly Song and even the Gordon Lightfoot songs. It was a nice mix of feeling like an old trapper’s village and a relaxing, reflective mood. I wish they would’ve just added the OG New France songs in addition to the newer stuff, because my biggest complaint about the pre-2020 Soundtrack was that it was too short and repetitive.
Also, funny enough, this means New France and Kings Dominion’s Old Virginia now share the same soundtrack - or at least part of it.
Do you have any idea which of the Planets by Holst are played there? There are a lot of different parts to it.
Thanks for pointing that out! Mars is the only theme that they play.
Also, since someone asked earlier in this thread; I haven’t been able to get the track playing-order yet, since at least the official theme song seems to play at random intervals. As you can imagine, that realization kind of threw my musical memory off. ?