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[1.10] HANE Music - Historically accurate normalized European music

This mod adds over 100 historically accurate, volume-balanced European pieces to Victoria 3, evolving with the in-game year for maximum immersion.


Whenever you hear a song from this soundtrack, it will have been published before your game's current date. After a song's publishing date, it will continue to be active for roughly 10 years.

You'll hear the soundscape evolve over time, experience
- The early romantic period of the 1830s
- The fervor of the 1840s and the age of revolutions
- The nationalism of the 1850s
- The golden age of Opera in the 1860s
- The start of impressionism in the 1890s
- The neoclassical revival and modernism of the 1920s

If you like Mahler, sorry but you'll have to wait until 1898 before you can hear him!

In order to make sure there's always a supple selection of songs available to be played, there are at least 10 unique songs in each decade.


Volume normalization is the process of shifting the volume of a song such that the loudest part and the quietest part of the song are within a certain range of each other. In other words, the song will not blow your ears out or be too quiet to hear.

When you volume normalize across an entire soundtrack, you make sure that all the songs are relatively as loud as each other so that the user doesn't need to constantly fiddle with the volume level each time a new song comes on. Spotify, YouTube, television stations, all media serving platforms normalize their shows/movies/songs so that you don't always need to be changing the volume.

Many of the soundtracks I found available for Vicky 3 in the workshop aren't volume normalized. I find myself always needing to change the volume. One song at 10%, the next at 80%, and sometimes I'd forget the volume slider is at 10% and go an hour in silence. This annoyance is the entire reason I decided to make my own music mod. Play the game, not with the volume slider.

Each song has been volume normalized to a level that keeps the dynamic crescendos at play without needing you to baby the volume slider to protect your ears.


Every song that has been picked has been made by a European composer and was listened to by Europeans in the Victoria era.

Now that I've justified the acronym, here's some other things to know.

Think opera is cringe? Don't want distractions? Open the music player and disable the vocal soundtrack, leaving you only with the instrumentals!

This is a hand-curated playlist but I'm very open to suggestions! In order to hit the 10 songs per decade goal I had to control myself, in some decades, to not add too many songs as I needed to spread my energy evenly throughout the Victoria 3 time period. Have I missed a really important piece? Maybe your favorite? Leave a comment below and if there are enough comments suggesting a particular song, I'll see about adding it.

HATE a song? Low sound quality? Mod author with ♥♥♥♥ taste? Again, leave a comment and if there are enough complaints about a song I'll see about removing it.

Spanning the decades, you will hear the music of 47 different composers. Many big names and a few who's fame is now in the past.

Home Sweet Home (1823) - Bishop
Death and the Maiden (1824) - Schubert
Symphonie fantastique op. 14 mov 4 (1830) - Berlioz
Revolutionary Etude op 10 no 12 (1831) - Chopin
Casta Diva (1831) - Bellini
Papillons, Op. 2 (1831) - Schumann
Una furtiva lagrima (1832) - Donizetti
Nocturne op 9 No 2 (1832) - Chopin
The Hebrides (1833) - Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 Italian (1834) - Mendelssohn
Carnaval op 9 (1835) - Schumann
Dichterliebe (1840) - Schumann
Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, Mov 2 (1842) - Schumann
A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 61 (1842) - Mendelssohn
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls (1843) - Balfe
Polonaise Op 53 (1843) - Chopin
Nocturne in F Minor, Op 55 (1844) - Chopin
Piano Concerto Op 54 (1845) - Schumann
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (1845) - Mendelssohn
Tannhäuser Overture (1845) - Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries (1845) - Wagner
Symphony No 3 Mov 4 (1851) - Schumann
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105 Mov 1 (1851) - Schumann
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (1851) - Liszt
La campanella (1851) - Liszt
Il Trovatore Anvil Chorus (1853) - Verdi
Libiamo ne' lieti calici (1853) - Verdi
Trio for two flutes and a harp (1854) - Berlioz
The Imperial (1855) - Berlioz
Les Troyens – Chasse royale et orage (1858) - Berlioz
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (1858) - Strauss II
Infernal Galop (1858) - Offenbach
String Sextet No. 1 Mov 4 (1860) - Brahms
The Power of Fate (1862) - Verdi
Hymn of the Nations (1862) - Verdi
Vergnügungszug (1864) - Strauss II
Liebestod - Tristan und Isolde (1865) - Wagner
Cantique de Jean Racine (1865) - Fauré
Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams" Mov 4 (1866) - Tchaikovsky
Light Cavalry Overture (1866) - Suppé
The Blue Danube Waltz (1867) - Strauss II
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude (1868) - Wagner
Hungarian Dances No 1 (1869) - Brahms
Hungarian Dances No 5 (1869) - Brahms
L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 (1872) - Bizet
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1874) - Tchaikovsky
Danse macabre (1874) - Saint-Saëns
Carmen Toreador (1875) - Bizet
Carmen Love is a rebellious bird (1875) - Bizet
In the Hall of the Mountain King (1875) - Grieg
Waltz from Swan Lake (1876) - Tchaikovsky
Siegfried's Funeral March (1876) - Wagner
Dance of the Hours (1876) - Ponchielli
♥♥♥♥♥ Airs (1878) - Sarasate
Academic Festival Overture (1880) - Brahms
Serenade for Strings in C major Mov 2 (1880) - Tchaikovsky
In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880) - Borodin
1812 Overture (1882) - Tchaikovsky
España (1883) - Chabrier
Flower Duet (1883) - Delibes
Salut d'Amour (1888) - Elgar
Festival at Baghdad (1888) - Rimsky-Korsakov
Don Juan (1889) - Strauss II
Emperor Waltz (1889) - Strauss II
The Sleeping Beauty Waltz (1890) - Tchaikovsky
Carnival Overture (1891) - Dvořák
Two Arabesques (1891) - Debussy
Prelude Op 3 No 2 (1892) - Rachmaninoff
Waltz of the Flowers (1892) - Tchaikovsky
Havanaise (1894) - Saint-Saëns
Humoresque No 5 (1894) - Dvořák
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895) - Strauss II
Symphony No 1 Mov 4 (1898) - Mahler
Enigma Variation 9 (1899) - Elgar
Flight of the Bumblebee (1900) - Rimsky-Korsakov
Prelude in G minor (1901) - Rachmaninov
Pomp and Circumstance (1901) - Elgar
Jeux D'Eau (1902) - Ravel
Romanian Rhapsodies (1903) - Enescu
Valse triste (1903) - Sibelius
Symphony No 5 (1904) - Mahler
Clair de Lune (1905) - Debussy
Dance of the Seven Veils (1905) - Strauss II
Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1908) - Debussy
The Girl with The Flaxen Hair (1910) - Debussy
Petrushka (1911) - Stravinsky
Berceuse héroïque (1914) - Debussy
Intermezzo from Goyescas (1916) - Granados
Symphony No 1 Op 25 Finale (1917) - Prokofiev
Romanian Folk Dances Sz 56 (1917) - Bartók
The Planets Jupiter (1918) - Holst
The Planets Mars (1918) - Holst
The Firebird (1919) - Stravinsky
Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919) - Elgar
Pulcinella Suite (1920) - Stravinsky
In A Persian Market (1921) - Ketèlbey
Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24 (1922) - Hindemith
English Folk Song Suite (1923) - Williams
Pines of the Appian Way (1924) - Respighi
Symphony No 1 (1926) - Shostakovich
Sinfonietta Fanfare (1926) - Janáček
Russian Sailors Dance (1927) - Glière
Viennese Musical Clock (1927) - Kodály
Boléro (1928) - Ravel
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1935) - Rachmaninoff


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