I am having difficulty identifying the sources of several jingles from three computer games by New World Computing (Macintosh versions only). Most of the music was NOT composed for these game but tracked from other albums (including classical, movie soundtracks, and stock music libraries). There is a possibility that some musics were composed directly for the game (as is the case with the Introduction Theme for MM1 and MM2); but I personally think all the rest was tracked. These games pre-date CD-ROM games and it sounds as if at least some of them were recorded straight from LP Vinyl. The jingles are at the most about 10 seconds, and the compositions from which they are stolen are usually much longer in length. (I cannot imagine that the game designers actually had actual permission to use all these.)
Might and Magic I (1987)
Might and Magic II (1990)
King's Bounty (1991)
SOME NOTES:
The "210 Audience with the King" is definitely a brass fanfare from some stock music library. This cue is also found in "Herbert the Timid Dragon" in 1985 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3jkN2mAJw at 1:34). Herbert primarily uses old KPMLP releases (some of which are no longer in the KPM catalog) and also some Bruton music. If that fanfare is from one of those albums, it may help find the source for more... But so far I cannot find the source of that fanfare. However, a longer version (or the first cue edited together with a second cue) was present in a TV show in 1993 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sJ5Z0yxjIo).
Since three tracks from Might and Magic I were taken from David Munrows "Pleasures of the Royal Courts" and some unidentified ones sounded similiar, I checked as many of his albums as I could find, but I did not detect any more of the unidentified tracks.
ADDITIONAL CUES:
There are also two more games in question:
Most of the SFX from Might and Magic 4(1992) were taken from stock music CDs and then altered. I have all of the source data directly from the original music/sound designer, and this track is not part of his material. This makes me think that final game programmers took it from another source -- probably also from some stock CD.
At some point, a group of fans hacked one of the Might and Magic games and edited it in 1995 to make Swords of Xeen. In the process, they added one unique composition to the game. I am not certain if they composed it themselves or tracked it from elsewhere as they were only hacking the game, and I have not been able to find any way to contact anyone from that project so far.
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See the excel spreadsheet for a list of which tracks I have identified:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SK-Ih-8GlMDUh8Id36IwyRiJL1piotpK/view?usp=sharingDownload the archive of all the tracks:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwVP37X0k3UKzfkOoDu5CKHKOlPvQ3Wt/view?usp=sharingThank you very much for any help in tracking down the identity of these remaining cues!
