contains the music

Computer and video game music

Video game music is any of the musical pieces or soundtracks and background musics found in video games. It can range from a primitive synthesizer tune to an orchestral piece, usually such that the older the game, the simpler the music...

 from Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

's 1999 video game Castlevania

Castlevania 64

Castlevania, known in Japan as , is an action-adventure video game developed by Konami's Kobe branch for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It was released on a 64-megabit cartridge in North America on January 26, 1999, in Japan on March 11, 1999, and in Europe on May 14, 1999...

. It was released in Japan on March 26, 1999 at a retail price of 2,234 yen (approximately 19 United States dollar

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s). The soundtrack was also released in Europe.

Tomoya Tomita was the game's sound producer and director; Masahiro Kimura, Motoaki Furukawa, and Mariko Egawa composed the music. Their score is predominantly Minimalist

Minimalist music

Minimal music is a style of music associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School....

 and Ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 in composition. It features a wide variety of electronic instrumentation, ranging from the period harpsichord

Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

 to contemporary beat synths

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

. A notable exception is the violin

Violin

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 solo in "Introduction", which was studio-recorded. The piece was performed by Tomokuni Katayama and is featured prominently at the game's title screen.

Although many of the songs from Castlevania are featured on this album, some background music and most of the incidental music

Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, film or some other form not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the "film score" or "soundtrack"....

 from the game did not make it onto the soundtrack. A few of the prominent missing songs include a variation of the boss theme "Shudder", as well as the background music that plays during scenes in which the hero converses with Renon or Charles Vincent.

Track listing

Some of the official track titles did not include the original subtitles of the songs. In the following chart, tracks whose names differ significantly from their English counterparts have been translated in parentheses below the original title.

No.	Japanese title	Official English title	Usage	Length
1	オープニング - "血脈の印" (Opening - "Sign of Blood Relations")	Introduction	Title screen	1:46
2	セレクト (Select)	Setting	File select menu	1:10
3	プロローグ	Prologue	Prologue	1:04
4	戦慄	Shudder	Boss theme 1	1:06
5	侵入	Intrusion	Level 1 event, entering Dracula's castle	0:48
6	見張り塔	Watchtower	Level 2, Watchtower	1:57
7	別館 - "静かな狂気" (Annex - "Silent Madness")	Annex - Silent Madness	Level 3, Villa	2:48
8	村人 (Villager)	Hamlet People	Level 3 event, talking with the vampire	1:04
9	ローゼ (Rosa)	Rose	Level 3 event, meeting Rosa	1:12
10	迷路庭園	Maze Garden	Level 3, Maze	1:36
11	秘密の棺	Mysterious Coffin	Level 3 event, vampire encounter	0:52
12	闘争 1 (Struggle 1)	First Struggle	Boss theme 2	1:05
13	地下水路 - "深緑の罠" (Underground Waterway - "Dark Green Trap")	Underground Waterway	Level 4 (Carrie), Underground Waterway	2:46
14	地下坑道 - "Invisible Sorrow" (Underground Tunnel - "Invisible Sorrow")	Underground Tunnel	Level 4 (Reinhardt), Underground Tunnel	4:59
15	ローゼの悲しみ (Rosa's Sorrow)	Lamented Rose	Level 4 event (Reinhardt), meeting Rosa again	0:46
16	本丸 ～ メインテーマ (Castle Center ~ Main Theme)	Dungeon - Main Theme	Level 5, Castle Center	2:47
17	マルスの異変 (Malus' Emergency)	Malus Reappears	Level 5 event, meeting Malus again	1:17
18	アクトリーセ	Actrise	Level 4/5 event, meeting Actrise	0:57
19	サイファ (Sypha)	Cipher	Level 5 event (Carrie), fight with Carrie's relative	0:48
20	プラネタリウム	Planetarium	Level 5 event, breaking the seal	0:43
21	予期せぬ出会い	Unexpected Encounter	Level 5 event, meeting Rosa and Death	0:46
22	決闘塔	Duel Tower	Level 6 (Reinhardt), Duel Tower	2:18
23	科学塔	Tower of Science	Level 6 (Carrie), Tower of Science	2:40
24	処刑塔	Tower of Execution	Level 7 (Reinhardt), Tower of Execution	2:07
25	魔法塔	Tower of Sorcery	Level 7 (Carrie), Tower of Sorcery	2:11
26	闘争 2 - "獄幻界乱舞" (Struggle 2 - "Wild Dance in the Illusionary Prison World")	Second Struggle	Boss theme 3	1:17
27	歯車	Toothed Wheel	Level 9, Clock Tower	2:01
28	暗雲階段 (Stairway to the Dark Clouds)	Stairway to the Clouds	Level 10, stairway to the castle keep	1:18
29	闘争 3 - "幻想的舞曲" (Struggle 3 - "Illusionary Dance")	Third Struggle	Boss theme 4	1:36
30	短い静謐	Moment of Silence	Level 10 event, before leaving the castle keep	0:55
31	天守からの脱出 (Escape from the Castle Keep)	Castle Escape	Level 10, running back to the clock tower	0:44
32	闘争 4 - "異次元狂想曲" (Struggle 4 - "Another Dimension Rhapsody")	Fourth Struggle - Concert of Another Dimension	Mammoth Bull Demon and final boss theme	1:38
33	青い墓標 - キャリーGoodEnding (Pale Grave - Carrie GoodEnding)	Carrie's Good Ending	Good ending (Carrie)	1:51
34	誓いとその影 - BadEnding (Shadow Oath - Carrie BadEnding)	Bad Ending	Bad ending	1:51
35	再会 - シュナイダーGoodEnding (Reunion - Schneider GoodEnding)	Schneider's Good Ending	Good ending (Reinhardt)	2:45
36	スタッフロール (Staff Roll)	Credits	Credits	4:20
37	Melodies of CastleVania	Castlevanian Melodies	Remix of track 16	3:38
38	Invisible Sorrow	Invisible Sorrow	Remix of track 14	4:52
39	A night in peace and quiet	A Night of Peace and Quiet	Remix of track 33	2:43