My oldest friend B had a Commodore 64 too growing up, and he was who I got a lot of my warez from, actually. One of the most addictive, most imagination-capturing games he lent me was The Bard’s Tale, a first-person party-based computer fantasy role-playing game, akin to the more established Ultima series and Wizardry series. God knows how many hours, how many sleepless nights I spent grinding through the cellars and the sewers, getting killed by animated statues and unending swarms of berserkers.

One of the more interesting character classes was the eponymous Bard, whose expertise was playing songs that had magical effects on the characters in your party. (The Bard was also the only character class that could use horns, which, in MMORPG speak, was an AoE attack that didn’t require mana spell points.)

And the song that I found myself ordering the bard to play a lot was entitled “The Traveler’s Tune”, the effect of which was to make your characters more dextrous and agile. I have this memory embedded of wandering the streets of the northwestern section of Skara Brae, trying to assault the guardians posted in front of Harkyn’s Castle.

Turns out, “The Traveler’s Tune” is actually Antonín Dvoràk’s Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, B 78: No. 7 in C Minor (which apparently was also included in the Civilization 4 soundtrack as a tribute to The Bard’s Tale according to Google.)