Difference between revisions of "The March to War"

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The March to War is the march, used in some games from Wolfenstein series. The melodies of several traditional Americana songs make up The March to War including, Yankee Doodle, Dixie (I Wish I Was In Dixie), The Star-Spangled Banner, My Country, 'Tis of Thee, and Taps. This gives the tune an very patriotic sound to Americans.

Games

Wolfenstein 3D (DOS)

Wolfenstein 3D (DOS)

Released 1992-05-05 Length 1:08 Format IMF

This music plays for the boss stages of four episodes: E1M9, E2M9, E4M9, and E5M9.

The March to War is track 3 in the game's data files, and the IMF meta tag title is "WARMARCH". The title comes from Bobby Prince's archive.

Bobby Prince composed the song using Sequencer Plus Gold.

Voxelstein 3D (W32)

Voxelstein 3D (W32)

Released 2008-04-19 Length 1:08 Format IMF

Wolfenstein 3D (WEB)

Wolfenstein 3D (WEB)

Released 2012-05-05 Format UNK

Wolfram (W32)

Wolfram (W32)

Released 2012-06-10 Length 1:08 Format OGG

This music plays on level 9 for the boss stage of Gans Grosse. This version is simular to the DOS, but the format is OGG and the drums were properly recorded from the game.

The name of this file in-game is "warmarch_ambient.ogg".

Wolfenstein 3D (AND)

Wolfenstein 3D (AND)

Released 2013-??-?? Length 1:08 Format IMF

Wolfenstein 3D (GEN)

Wolfenstein 3D (GEN)

Arranger GASEGA98K Released 2014-??-?? Length 1:01 Format UNK

Links

• youtube.com/watch?v=2GycbP2HjNI - played on keyboard by Nick Kalata (skip until 8:00 to listen).