Myst (Video Game Soundtrack)

Artist: Robyn Miller
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724384552824
EAN: 0724384552824
ASIN: B00000603V

Release Date: 1998-10-06

Myst (Video Game Soundtrack)

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Tracks:

Myst Island: Myst Theme
Myst Island: Treegate
Myst Island: Planetarium
Myst Island: Shipgate
Myst Island: The Tower
Myst Island: The Last Message (Forechamber Theme)
Mechanical Age: Fortress Ambience Part I
Mechanical Age: Fortress Ambience Part II
Mechanical Age: Mechanical Mystgate
Mechanical Age: Sirrus' Cache
Mechanical Age: Sirrus' Theme-Mechanical Age
Mechanical Age: Achenar's Cache
Mechanical Age: Achenar's Theme-Mechanical Age
Stoneship Age: Compass Rose
Stoneship Age: Above Stoneship (Telescope Theme)
Stoneship Age: Sirrus' Theme-Stoneship Age
Stoneship Age: Achenar's Theme-Stoneship Age
Selenitic Age: Selenitic Mystgate
Channelwood Age: The Temple Of Achenar
Channelwood Age: Sirrus' Theme-Channelwood Age
Channelwood Age: Achenar's Theme-Channelwood Age
Finale: Un-finale
Finale: Finale
Fireplace Theme
Early Selenitic Mystgate
Original Un-finale

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Customer Reviews:

Mystical.......2007-01-03

If you have played the games, you will like this. If not, it is probably not for you.

Remember Myst with the music.......2006-06-03

Remember Myst without going there. That's what this CD does. Each time you hear a track you remember the place you heard it in. The music from each age is on this CD, if you heard it in Myst you'll hear it on this CD. The music isn't exactly the same as it was in the game, its longer and is really the versions heard in realMYST. The only thing the doesn't make it the soundtrack to realMYST is that it doesn't have the music from the Rime age. If you liked to music from Myst and want to hear it agene without playing the game, buy this CD!

A must for Myst fans.......2006-02-26

I don't know why I waited so long to get this soundtrack. It brought back so many great memories from when I first played MYST. I loved it! I make sure to keep it with me at work to relax from all the craziness. The tracks are soft and soothing. They have an exotic feel to them to take you away to that beautiful island in the middle of a great sea.

I'd love it if not played differently.......2005-01-20

Actually it's played differently at times; several of the tracks still seem to be played the same as they were in the original Myst. For those who like those versions, these tracks are:
Treegate
Shipgate (sadly shortened a tiny bit)
Fortress Ambience (Part 1)
Fortress Ambience (Part 2)
All of Sirrus' and Achenar's Themes (excluding Temple of Achenar (see parentheses for Shipgate). Notice also (for those who have realMYST), that the only difference between the music in this soundtrack(excluding the bonus tracks (a.k.a. tracks 24 to 26)) and the music in realMYST, aside from having other tracks (3 of which composed by Tim Larkin) is that Achenar's Cache fades out halfway at the end in this soundtrack)
Compass Rose (including both parts)
Above Stoneship (Telescope Theme)
Selentic Mystgate
Finale
The rest of the tracks I didn't mention are either played a tiny bit differently and/or lengthened.
Robyn also didn't put in the music you hear when the Mechanical Age book is visible (which is logical (in reference to Treegate and Shipgate) to title Geargate) and the music you hear when you go down to the generator.
I hope that Robyn eventually makes a remake of this soundtrack, featuring all of the music in their original versions and including the two tracks I just mentioned.

Cute.......2003-10-11

Back when Myst was just a new CD-Rom game and the franchise hadn't even begun to build up its huge fanbase Robyn Miller wrote this score to create a mood for certain scenes. Originally his idea was to have no music for the game at all, with mood only created with sound effects and ambience. For the most part this generally worked but he experimented giving musical life to moments such as the Planetarium (or the dentist's chair as some people call it) and the tower. When he saw how his music affected things he went on to write an entire score. And it's pretty cool stuff.

It may be rather basic, lacking the maturity of Riven or the class of Myst III, but it still manages to be provocative and force particular feelings out of you, even emotions you didn't think you were in the mood for. Though Miller did create the feel of the Myst universe with this score and it surely signals the brilliance that was yet to come. It's an interesting CD to have, but perhaps only for fans.

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