Music to DBA By

The following hand-picked music CD titles are selected to provide an appropriate audio backdrop to your ancient/medieval wargaming sessions. If you have a favorate title that you'd like to see added, drop me a note at brant@erols.com.

Braveheart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (May 1995).

More Music From Braveheart (May 1995)(original soundtrack plus additional brief conversation vignettes and 20 minutes of bagpipes).

Conan the Barbarian: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sept. 1992).

Conan the Destroyer: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Feb. 1993).

French Military Marches performed by the Garde Republicaine (April 1998).

German Military Marches performed by various artists (Sept. 97).

Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (April 2000).

Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky, etc., composed by Sergei Prokofiev, conducted by Leonard Slatkin and performed by Arnold Voketaitis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. (Aug. 1991).

Ma Vlast, composed by Bedrich Smetlana; conducted by Rafael Kubelik and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Oct. 96). (Alan Saunders: Smetana's "Ma Vlast" includes sections about Jan Ziska and the Hussites (Tabor and Blanik), as well as celebreting Czechoslovakia's medieval past.)

Merlin: Original Soundtrack (May 1998).

The Mission: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (July 1987).

The Prince of Egypt: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Nov. 1998).

Rob Roy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sept. 1995).

Scheherezade, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, conducted by Leonard Berstein and performed by John Corigliano Sr. and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. (Nov. 1998).

The 13th Warrior: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Aug. 1999).

Fanatici Recommendations

Matthew Grippin recommends:

Badawi, "Soldier of Midian," November 2001, CD: Complex percussion and a subtle level of electronic manipulation create a powerful, ancient sound that evokes locales from the Sahara to the Silk Road. Imagine whirling dervishes, Arabian Nights, Central Asian horsemen, etc.
Badawi, "The Heretic of Ether," February 1999, CD. Although heavier on the electronic manipulation and less accessible than "Soldier of Midian," this album offers an amazing display of Near Eastern percussion and atmosphere.

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