Some folks liked them, some complained about them, and they don't seem to work now (at least on Firefox) probably due to me using non-standard code to embed them back in 2001. A partial list of the MIDI music tracks that played at you on viewing certain web-pages on the NIWG site followeth:
Front page: "Paint it Black," The Rolling Stones. Nicked this one from another Thelemic site, can't remember the name.
Introduction to OTO: "The Imperial March" by John Williams from The Empire Strikes Back.
Constitution of OTO: Another version of the Imperial theme, which I can't actually find on any of the Star Wars OSTs, starts slower than the above and builds up. The choice of this and the above perhaps reflects my ambivalent attitude to the Order and its leadership at the time this site was built, as well as a long-running private joke among various OTO members in Leeds, which has even resulted in the track being played for or at various senior members of the Order in this country in more recent years.
"The Degrees of OTO" and "OTO Synopsis of Degrees": "Stairway to Heaven." Yeah, well.
"Hymn to Lucifer": "Sympathy for the Devil." Removed because it was a large file and didn't really work as a MIDI sequence anyway.
Liber V vel Regula: "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden. Needs no further explanation.
Liber XV, "Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ": "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy. For Templum Amoris, now the York Lodge of OTO, which was originally named for this song.
Liber 106, "Concerning Death": "Eventide," best known as the musical setting for the hymn "Abide with me" as commonly sung at funerals, Spiritualist meetings and the FA Cup final.
Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX: "The End" by The Doors.
"The Daughter of Fortitude" (ink drawing by John Tindsley): "O Fortuna" from Carl Orrf's setting of the Carmina Burana. This was the artist's suggestion if I remember correctly.
"The Degrees of OTO" and "OTO Synopsis of Degrees": "Stairway to Heaven." Yeah, well.
"Hymn to Lucifer": "Sympathy for the Devil." Removed because it was a large file and didn't really work as a MIDI sequence anyway.
Liber V vel Regula: "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden. Needs no further explanation.
Liber XV, "Ecclesiæ Gnosticæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ": "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy. For Templum Amoris, now the York Lodge of OTO, which was originally named for this song.
Liber 106, "Concerning Death": "Eventide," best known as the musical setting for the hymn "Abide with me" as commonly sung at funerals, Spiritualist meetings and the FA Cup final.
Liber AL vel Legis sub figurâ CCXX: "The End" by The Doors.
Liber 800, "The Ship": "Tubthumping" by popular Leeds beat combo Chumbawamba, chosen for the chorus line "I get knocked down / but I get up again / you're never gonna keep me down."
"The Daughter of Fortitude" (ink drawing by John Tindsley): "O Fortuna" from Carl Orrf's setting of the Carmina Burana. This was the artist's suggestion if I remember correctly.
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