I always think about this. I love both games, and I believe the choice of music can affect the gameplay.

I'd like to know what everyone else thinks about this, as I'm sure I'm not the only one. For me, it would have to be the Morrowind title song, but the Oblivion in game music.
The music in Oblivion has more of an action theme to it, where as Morrowind is more atmospheric. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I just prefer Oblivion, although I'm not sure why.

What about everyone else?

i defenatly like more the morrowind theme song. although i like oblivion, the morrowind song almost always gets stuck in my head.
in terms of music i havnt played morrowind that much to really have an opinion.

Morrowind music is my personal favorite, I love it. But, Oblivions music seemed to send my girlfriend at the time off to sleep. Which was just amazing. She'd sleep and I'd play Oblivion. The stuff heavens made of.

I'm not fond of the Morrowind theme song or the Oblivion theme song. Some of the explore songs in MW are decent, but they were implented badly as they shouldn't be played in dungeons. Oblivion did better there as it had proper dungeon music, but it was still rather lacking, as I would like to see more music based on the locations and time. Different music in taverns and so on. Daggerfall from 1996 had it, why can't a TES game from 2002 or 2006 have it? Certainly hope that the next TES game will have it, game music that is properly integrated into the game can enhance the game experience quite a bit.

I know what you mean. Wouldn't there be a mod for that?

I like Oblivion's theme better. As for background music, they're equal.

overall I like Oblivions soundtrack better, but there are one or two songs in morrowinds soundtrack that are really really good.

Without a doubt Morrowind's soundtrack is better than OB's.
OB's was nice, but didn't touch MW's.

With the exception of the intro from Oblivion I think Morrowinds music is better.

Morrowind title music, Oblivion adventure music. Although, I do like Morrowind's music better overall.

I like both games' music equally, however, the way Oblivion handled dungeon music was much better than in Morrowind, considering Oblivion's dungeons used unique music for dungeons that went along with atmosphere of those dungeons. Morrowind's dungeons are the least atmospheric in the series due to that. Both Daggerfall and Oblivion's dungeons are creepy, but Morrowind's dungeons have the same peacefully happy music that plays in towns and while exploring playing.

@Freddo, I agree with you about more variety in music, but wouldn't it have been easier to make Daggerfall's sounds? Did any composer actually have to compose something, or did Bethesda just need to program the game to use its limited sound and make patterns that became the music of Daggerfall? I've been able to do a similar thing in one of my classes in school involving programming and I programmed my robot to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. My program looked something like this:

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I prefered Morrowind's soundtrack in general over Oblivion's, but as others have said the lack of Dungeon-specific tracks in Morrowind was bothersome to say the least. I had to mute the music in order to immerse myself in a dungeon within Morrowind.

I liked OB's soundtrack better than MW's, the MW theme song is #1 on the list though

Morrowind a much better theme. I feel like they're more or less equal with everything else though. But there can be only one, so I'll go with Morrowind's music since I feel so much nostalgia when I hear it.

There is, want a link?

I'm not currently playing Morrowind at the minute, but a link would be nice for anyone who is.

I like the soundtrack for both, I'm just getting a little bored of epic orchestral arrangements. How to improve them? Electronics. Not electro pop or anything, something slightly more subtle and fitting.

Something like Johann Johannsson's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2w-TROUQ0. I'm not saying I want the music all to be heavy like this track, but something other than typical orchestral would be nice. If you can find the track Chimaerica by Johann Johannsson that is pretty much exactly what I'm talking about.

The composer is named Eric Heberling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf78NWrFuhE&NR=1

I think electronics don't ft, and I hope not to hear it. Music is as much a part of the setting as are houses and NPC's. Put electronic music in and you might well have modern skyscraqers and business suits.

I have played Daggerfall and I know what its music sounds like. After the music was composed, wasn't it just programmed in?

I'm not saying synth heavy tracks, but a little infusion can complement the strings and percussion, adding new layers to the music.

Morrowind's is more peaceful and calming, whereas Oblivion's is intense. While both are great, I prefer Morrowind's theme.

Im with you on this, the tracks are already great, but smooth synth strings are very atmospheric and i think 'swampy'... Where as in combat I think they could perhaps be a fraction more daring also, some subtle crunching fret noises for a form of percussion from a distorted guitar. Yes i am a muso:p

I repeat subtle. They are already good. Im sure the artists could implement something more ambitious much better than we could imagine... Bethesda can afford to step away from the beaten path

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I never have music on in my game, nor have I played Morrowind yet, so can't possibly have an opinion either way.

But I have heard MW's opening theme music here on the 'Net. Meh..can't say I like it any better than Oblivion's. They're both epic themes, typical of RPG-type games, which is fine.