I present you one of the best scores ever composed for a video game.
Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) is the most popular game from Germany and one of my all time favorites. This is all due to the impressive "artwork like" graphics and of course the beautiful music.
Seldom I am emotionally attached to a game just because of its music but this is a rare exception.
The music was composed by Tilman Sillenscu and the Dynamedion Team who made a name of themselves with powerful orchestral scores like Paraworld, Rise of an Empire, Battleforge etc.
One of the reasons I like them so much is because they are actually working together with the game developers and try to know as much about the game as possible to match the music with the gameplay and setting. They always convince the producers that it's better to use a real orchestra instead of cheap synths to enhance the experience.
This game is no exception and my is my personal favorite of all the music they've done.



Anno 1404 [Complete Score]


Download Part One (http://www.mediafire.com/file/l4ytn5jx2ug/AnnoScore1.7z)

Download Part Two (http://www.mediafire.com/file/yhttjnnykmq/AnnoScore2.7z)


Genre: Orchestral/Choral/Eastern/Harmonic/Majestic/Relaxing/Dark/Action

Number of Tracks: 114

Duration: Over 3 Hours !!!

Audio Quality: 160kb/s VBR

Composer: Tilman Sillenscu & Dynamedion


Dynamedion in short:

Dynamedion was founded in 2001 by Tilman Sillescu and Pierre Langer, two composers with university degrees in music.
With a steadily increasing number of contracts and growing customer base it has since become the leader in soundtrack composition and sound design
on the continental european computer game market. Over recent years, Dynamedion has worked on over 160 projects in the video game, TV and film industry
and been showered with numerous prizes and music awards. In 2005 Dynamedion produced highly successful, first benchmark live orchestra recordings
for a German game soundtrack.
With numerous further orchestral productions for the video game industry, Dynamedion has earned itself a reputation for unsurpassed quality and
integrity in this area.
In 2003, 2005 and 2006 some of the team’s compositions were performed live at the opening concert of the Games Convention in Leipzig,
Germany – the first event of its kind in Europe.


Interview with Tilman Sillenscu about his new work for the German strategy game Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery):

- He was the leading Sound Sound Designer (Is not very fond of Synths and Samples)

- Spent 5 entire months with the "Staatsorchester Halle" (National Orchestra Halle) and the "Phillharmonic Choir Leipzig" to compose the music

- The music should not be a complete historical recreation of the time period but the score needed certain elements from eastern music for the new culture in the game

- The music for the western world should have a religious presence and feel. Therefore Tilman and his team decided to use a lot of medieval instrumental,
choral and vocal elements throughout the score

- Although there were many changes in the musical direction compared to its predecessor (Anno 1701), the music should still contain the typical Anno
feeling of adventure, exploration and lighthearted fun. Some tracks from the previous games were rerecorded for that purpose

- Over 2 hours of orchestral music and 40 minutes of choral music were recorded, many latin influences, each track with a different emotional feeling

- He used the games artwork, screenshots and wallpapers for inspiration of his score to connect the player emotionaly with the game


Highlights of the Score:

Part One:

- When Cultures Meet (Title Theme)
- Dawn of Discovery (Main Menu)
- Banquet for his Majesty
- A new Island (Sub Title)
- Beautiful Morning (Anno 1701)
- A Town in the Forest
- Idyllic Spring
- Island Harbour (Anno 1701)
- Departing Ships
- Naval Engagement (Anno 1701)
- Tournament
- Market
- Del Torro (Villain Theme)
- Prepare for Battle
- Battle Hymn
- The Outpost (Sub Title)
- Crossroads
- Road to the East
- Sand of Dreams (Sub Title)
- Monumental Mosque

Part Two:

- Oriental Mysteries
- The Red Corsair
- Infestation
- Thousand Feet March
- Fight for Freedom (Anno 1701)
- Salt Of Earth
- Time of Peace (Anno 1701)
- Ora et Labora
- Moneycounters
- Monumental Cathedral
- The Battle (Anno 1701)
- Del Torros Revenge
- Last Struggle (Final Battle)
- Restored Kingdom
- Friendship between Cultures (Ending Cutscene)
- Coronation of a King
- Endless Campaign (Sub Title)
- Eternal Discovery (End Title)
- Without A Care in the World
- A New World (Anno 1701 Main Theme / Anno 1404 Theme of the King)

Enjoy this jewel of Game Music

Thank You!

Audio Quality: 160kb/s VBR
:notgood: Eine Limited Edition f�r 70 Euro und dann sowas. Eindeutig: Fail.

Thank you, too! ^_^

Thank you!

:notgood: Eine Limited Edition f�r 70 Euro und dann sowas. Eindeutig: Fail.
Clearly it is a gamerip or the quality wouldn't be so bad.

Clearly it is a gamerip or the quality wouldn't be so bad.
According to vgmdb the Bonus DVD contains the soundtrack in this exact quality, too. I'll see it for myself when I receive the edition in the next days, though.

Reuploaded

Reuploaded

Good news, because it's quite a superb score. :)

thanks for the share dude.

Reminds me of the score I posted here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1272306&postcount=13341) 8 months ago.

Someone has information about the soundtrack from the add-on Venise who is released these days?

still downloading....can't wait to hear the music...thank you so much

Thanks.

I've downloaded it for many months now, and I forgot to thank you for this outstanding ost. hope it is not too late

It's never too late to be grateful for other peoples efforts. I really appreciate it
and the more attention this score gets the better ;)

Thank you!!!

Extreme post, greatfully appreciated!!!

Thanks for uploading this, the Anno series is great 'peaceful' background music for whatever you are doing.

Dynamedion has to be one of the best things to happen to video game scores and scores in general! Wish much of what being 'composed' sounded this good!

VERY VERY VERY THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Yup, I love Dynamedion already for Paraworld. So I'm very interested in this one. Vielen Dank!

Thank you .

The soundtrack is astonishing and it's a shame it is not being sold as a standalone, high-quality album. Very belated thanks for the upload!

Thanks!

I've been searching for this soundtrack for months and wait whether it will be included in the Game of Year Edition or something.. but nothing.. till finally found your post..
Thanks.. good audio quality by the way..

I thank you very much.
I am currently downloading this. Thanks for reupload.If some1 will want the soundtracks later when the links will be broken just send me a P.M.

Thank you for this music and for the excellent presentation. I'm listening to it now and it's beautiful. I love orchestral music, and especially fantasy/adventure music. Runes of Magic has been my favorite soundtrack so far. I even made two 90min aesthetically sorted albums out of my favorite selections (one album for daytime and one for evening) and gave names to the unnamed cues. PM me if you're interested in them and I'll give you a download link (I'll used my personal server and I don't want to publish that to the world). If anyone else wants them, PM me.

thank you, klnerfan
tillman is somewhat nice to listen to

Awesome!

Thanks.

THANKS...

thank you very much - I genuinly appreciate it

could someone tell me the source of these songs? the names are different and there are more songs than in the game files

Many thanks.

Excellent, the links are still alive 5 years later. It is very rare for file hoster links to last this long.

thanks, great soundtrack i love the anno series

Thank you!