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Going to Largo’s room, accompanied by the Woodtick theme’s transitions and variations What we have here is a combination of horizontal resequencing and vertical re-orchestration that is very subtle but still paradigmatic for the Monkey Island 2 soundtrack. Because of Largo’s absence, there is only a hint of his presence in the hotel room - and a hint of his theme in the music. This is one of the examples of the smooth transitions iMuse became known for: no break will be noticed by the player/listener as the semantic nature of the musical signal is just as clear at the same time. Largo’s hotel room combines the two themes: when Guybrush enters the room in Largo’s absence, the Woodtick theme continues supplemented by Largo’s theme, which is now tonally and rhythmically adjusted to the slow Woodtick reggae. The music in the gameplay has the ability to directly link persons with locations, but it further helps to show new perspectives of the characters with the expressiveness of variations and the different style of the songs.
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The leitmotif can also be heard on a more free version at Largo’s hotel room when he is away, but it is absent on the Amiga port. The tough guy Largo LaGrande has its own dark swing melody. Still in the first chapter there is plenty use of leitmotifs. The music can describe the world, the thoughts of the characters and it can also give clues and hindsights about future and past events. (cited in The Adventurer Staff 1991: 13). Land stated before the game’s release that he wanted the music to cheer you up like a happy syncopated music coming out from a radio, but as the evil pirate LeChuck becomes prominent, the tones gets darker and more sinister. The initial theme of the Woodtick village sets the mood of a peaceful Caribbean island, but it also reflects the peaceful state of mind for Guybrush and his ignorance about the upcoming events.
The soundtrack’s style is an upbeat calypso reggae that matches apparently the world and the visuals.
A great missing element is the dynamic music at the village of Woodtick, which it sonars as film like quality on the changes between the scenes. This limited port can also be noticed on the graphics with the motionless backgrounds instead of the vivid moving images that they give liveliness to the game. The reason was always the space, because more data meant more floppies for the game and more costs for the company. This meant to be inconvenient for the Amiga system, “ because the songs were so much larger while games were still shipping on floppy disks” (Wing 2015: 3).
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Instead the Amiga computer uses MOD files that they contain music data inscriptions and digital sample of the instruments.
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The reason is that the PC computer uses MIDI files to play music that they contain only music data inscriptions. The PC version has 3 and half hours of music, but the Amiga port has only 90 minutes. The project leader Ron Gilbert described its soundtrack as “ an ever-evolving piece of music”, because the music begins at the start of the game and finishes at the finale (cited in Smith 2008: 65). Monkey Island 2 is one of the first adventures with wall to wall soundtrack. This sentence of musicologist Tim Summers excuses the long audio analysis below, between the versions for the PC and the Amiga. “ As scholarship begins to build a canon of game music (as problematic as such activity is) Monkey Island 2: Lechuck’s Revenge has been mentioned so often in research papers and books that it has become an established ‘great work’ of video game music.” (Summers 2016: 72).