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zygoma · 11-27-13, 01:59 PM

Hiya, all. Sorry to have been gone so long. My main PC had a hardware fault that I didn't discover until some software "oopses" were cleared out, and it's taken til now to get a machine running that will handle SH3 with GWX.

So I ran it for the first time today (GWX), and I'm drawing a blank.

The chorus that's being sung during the opening sequences -- who can identify that for me, please?

I know it's not from the Brahms Deutsche Requiem (besides, that would be pretty gloomy) because I've performed that a handful of times. I thought it might be an excerpt from Götterdämmerung, but I haven't played in an opera pit orchestra for over 30 years. I don't know the German language at all, so I'm unable to translate the lyrics and do an online search.

Götterdämmerung would be eerily appropriate for the all-too-usual fate of U-booters. With my fading memory of Wagner, however, it could as easily be a chorus from Die Walküre that's just not as memorable as their ride's theme.

Sorry to take up valuable bandwidth with a silly question, but I really did try to figure out myself. I usually turn the music all the way down once in the game, but I'm glad I hadn't gotten to the Options page yet -- pretty haunting piece of music, short though it is.

73 & good hunting,
-- Zyg --

11-27-13, 01:59 PM	#1
zygoma Loader Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 84 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	Theme music on GWX 3.0? Hiya, all. Sorry to have been gone so long. My main PC had a hardware fault that I didn't discover until some software "oopses" were cleared out, and it's taken til now to get a machine running that will handle SH3 with GWX. So I ran it for the first time today (GWX), and I'm drawing a blank. The chorus that's being sung during the opening sequences -- who can identify that for me, please? I know it's not from the Brahms Deutsche Requiem (besides, that would be pretty gloomy) because I've performed that a handful of times. I thought it might be an excerpt from Götterdämmerung, but I haven't played in an opera pit orchestra for over 30 years. I don't know the German language at all, so I'm unable to translate the lyrics and do an online search. Götterdämmerung would be eerily appropriate for the all-too-usual fate of U-booters. With my fading memory of Wagner, however, it could as easily be a chorus from Die Walküre that's just not as memorable as their ride's theme. Sorry to take up valuable bandwidth with a silly question, but I really did try to figure out myself. I usually turn the music all the way down once in the game, but I'm glad I hadn't gotten to the Options page yet -- pretty haunting piece of music, short though it is. 73 & good hunting, -- Zyg -- __________________ If it's long and dark green and its bite makes you scream, that's..... a Moray. 7/5 of adults don't understand fractions. I'm told that two things can be reliably predicted to fail with increasing age. The first is memory. I can't remember the other right now.