Falalalan

[LodovicoAriosto]

For a long time I have been playing EU and HoI with the music turned off. Andreas' soundtracks are awesome but after hundreds gameplay hours they got a bit repetitive.

I have a giant pack of historical music related to different eras (several versions of Falalalan incl.) and listen to it instead.

 

[El-Diablito]

Are you guys telling me, that the first thing you do when you install a new game isn't to mute all ingame music?

 

[LodovicoAriosto]

yes. I usually listen to the in-game soundtrack for something like 100 hours, then switch to my own playlist.

 

[Titan79]

That's odd... I used to almost hate it back in the EU2 days, but now I've discovered I like it very much. It's probably due to me being more mature .

Thumbs up!

 

[John Forseti]

Are you guys telling me, that the first thing you do when you install a new game isn't to mute all ingame music?

If I'd done that I'd have missed some of the best music I'd ever heard.

 

[ANO1453]

Are you guys telling me, that the first thing you do when you install a new game isn't to mute all ingame music?

No, on the contrary. And EU3 has some really nice music - my sister even asks me if I'm playing the game with the cool music when she hears it

 

[takedown47]

period music for eaach century makes more sense than falalan in 1790.

 

[vintis88]

Does anyone have an mp3 file of this?

 

[unmerged(61524)]

How about this one!
It's so much nicer to siege walls of Vienna with your Ottoman guns listening to this classic!
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8PsrvjihdE

 

[Jolt]

period music for eaach century makes more sense than falalan in 1790.

Falalan only happened during the XV/XVI Centuries in EU 2, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Bertouch]

period music for eaach century makes more sense than falalan in 1790.

What falalan in 1790? Genuinely curious, because the genre died out about 150 years before that.

Falalan only happened during the XV/XVI Centuries in EU 2, if I'm not mistaken.

You're correct. Started up around 1525-1550. Kept going for about 100 years, perhaps a bit less. Very popular in Paris, London, and in a few Italian cities. Was seen as a light alternative to the very heavy, serious madrigals that were all the rage.

 

[Chamoisking]

No, thanks. I prefer Dies Irae.

 

[Daffius]

Falalan all the way, yes please! Oh the memories...

+1

 

[Idiotboy]

We the People demand Falalalalan for EUIV

 

[AdkEric]

I like the music in EU3. I totally would like to see more music though, and have it be based on where and when you are as well as what you are doing to at least some extent.

The EU3 music always worked in Europe for me, but not so much when I played in Asia or the New World. Falalalalan sounds perfect for Mideast/east nations, or when anyone (Germany for example) is focusing a lot in that part of the world.

 

[Haresus]

I like the music in EU3. I totally would like to see more music though, and have it be based on where and when you are as well as what you are doing to at least some extent.

The EU3 music always worked in Europe for me, but not so much when I played in Asia or the New World. Falalalalan sounds perfect for Mideast/east nations, or when anyone (Germany for example) is focusing a lot in that part of the world.

Pretty sure Falalalan has nothing to do with eastern countries. Pretty sure it is Spanish/Catalan, and spread through western Europe for a bit.

 

[TheLoneGunman]

There's no bad time for Falalalan.

 

[grull]

wat

 

[grull]

There's no bad time for Falalalan.

Also, lol at your signature! XD

 

[Bertouch]

Pretty sure Falalalan has nothing to do with eastern countries. Pretty sure it is Spanish/Catalan, and spread through western Europe for a bit.

Started in Italy (frottolas, villanescas) and France (the court madrigals, very light in character). Can provide examples, if you'd like. Did a couple, a few pages back.

EDIT: Spanish classical music at the time had little to do with external developments. The powerful and brilliant Guerrero had enough backing from the Spanish church to publish a diatribe against the Council of Trent's desire to clarify mass and motet texts by employing syllable-to-note delivery and removing much of the imitative counterpoint. The lute, which caught on in the rest of Europe, was ignored in Spain for the guitar. Spain also exported little, musically speaking. The main exchange occurred later in the 17th century with the spread of Spanish control in the Italian States, and then it was almost all one way: Spanish monarchs sought to impose Italian tastes (especially that of Naples) on Spain. Jose de Nebra, in the 18th century, had to contend with this, balancing Ferdinand VI's love of the music of Alessandro Scarlatti, Leo, Vinci, and Galuppi, with the public's preference for a more indigenous folk style.

But I digress. Sorry about that.