MIDI Week Singles: "The Prayer of a Tragic Queen (Stage 5 BGM - Palace of Versailles)" - Castlevania: Bloodlines (GEN)

"The Prayer of a Tragic Queen (Stage 5 BGM - Palace of Versailles)" from Castlevania: Bloodlines on the SEGA Genesis (1994)
Composer: Michiru Yamane
Album: Akumajo Dracula Best Music Collection BOX
Label: Konami
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Konami

Here we are again in the world of Castlevania!  This time we visit the one Castlevania game that was released on a SEGA system and now thanks to the Castlevania Anniversary Collection (available on multiple systems), you too can hear this wonderful Baroque-esque piece from Michiru Yamane.

Now, I have only played the first two stages in Castlevania: Bloodlines so I have never heard this music in-game aside from watching a longplay, but I love that this game has both John Morris and Eric Lecarde traveling all over Europe and in Stage 5, they reach the Palace of Versailles.  The Hall of Mirrors, which looks like the art department from every Castlevania game in existence (when you look at the layout, all of the chandeliers, statues holding (electric) candles just asking to be whipped) was constructed between 1678 - 1684, which is smack dab in the middle of era of Baroque music (right at the beginning of the Late Baroque Period), which perfectly corresponds with Michiru Yamane's Baroque-style "The Prayer of a Tragic Queen" music in this stage.

The point being, that Michiru Yamane nailed the musical style with both the Castlevania aspect of the game, and the setting for the level.  And it's a great song too.

~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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