Why is Rhalgr's Reach Music

[missybee]

I just don't hear it.

I want to, but I don't. Someone needs to do one of those side-by-side things.

[Mhaeric]

I just don't hear it.

I want to, but I don't. Someone needs to do one of those side-by-side things.

I don't hear the Australian national anthem at all either. The melody has a couple moments of similarity at certain points like cadences, which is to be expected given the nature of cadences, but it's pretty clearly a different melody for the bulk of the song.

The song "Anthem" from Chess is a different matter entirely, however. The Rhalgr's Reach music is the same melody with slight ornamentation differences throughout most of it. Even the original context of "Anthem" fits with the themes surrounding Ala Mhigo making the connection seem even more obvious. Whether this obvious similarity meets legal classifications of musical copyright infringement, who knows.

Starting from the same point in the melody:
https://youtu.be/O-qY1v6dNOw?t=41s vs. https://youtu.be/9TjtLcR6EB0

[Listrella]

I thought you were going to ask why it's the garlean national anthem?

[TheMightyMollusk]

I thought you were going to ask why it's the garlean national anthem?

It's not. It's the Ala Mhigan anthem, "The Measure of His Reach", a tribute to Rhalgr the Destroyer. The occupying Garlean forces rewrote it as "The Measure of Our Reach" to drive in the point of their conquest, but it was Ala Mhigo's first.