I voted Morrowind because of the main theme and because it's the most solid soundtrack overall IMHO.

However, my favorite TES tunes still are Daggerfall's atmospheric and or creepy BGM. (Eerie, over snow, snowing ...)

Ah yes, that's a wonderful little melody. However, it's still no match for the beloved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ97I2p4_YY track.

Morrowind's Theme :rock: .

Dagger fall trailer best es tune ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MY0ihuJZcer

Definintly Morrowinds, when I first heard it years ago it just inspired me, I actually sat there and wrote a poem while listening to it,before even playing the game.

Oblivion. It fits in better.

Definetly the Morrowind main theme.. It's just too catchy ^_^.

I have a question here. The "Reign of the Septim's" track is all well and good, however, I much prefer the arrangement of this track played during the Oblivion title sequence to the one that's played during the menu screen. For some reason the music played over the opening cinematic is, to my knowledge, not available anywhere on its own. Which to me is really too bad since it had a bit more of a powerful, grand feel to it and I really wish it was available on its own. Anyone know why this piece is nowhere to be found? Incidentally I had to vote for the Morrowind title theme given the absence of the track I prefer from the world at large.

Nerevar Rising Reprise is the piece of music I think of when I think of The Elder Scrolls series as a whole, so I suppose I'd go with that even though it never made it into Oblivion.

The variation on Reign of the Septims played during the intro video of Oblivion when you create a new character would be a close second though. A shame it was never released on a soundtrack. And pretty much all of Daggerfall's music is absolutely top-notch.

EDIT: Speaking of Nerevar Rising Reprise, are there little hints of Oblivion's exploration music in there from 1:30 to the end of the song, or am I imagining things?

the theme that plays at the morrowind title screen

BEST BY FAR

Okay. I listened to all of these songs in order from arena and I loved Nerevar Rising the best. My first vote was sold to morrowind but after hearing that version it changed my mind

To me deffiently Morrowind, i love hoe the music slowly built up in the title screen while the text slowly came in... just classic.

I forgot the Morrowind one so I voted for Oblivion instead

I like the bits of Daggerfall that I have heard, and Morrowind's soundtrack.
Oblivion's was too sad for me, too depressing.

The Daggerfall theme kicks some serious ass.....but i have to go with Morrowind. Nothing captures that Elder Scrolls anticipation to explore a new world like that song.

On two occasions, that song alone has caused me to go back and play Morrowind years after i thought i was done with it.

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I'm surpirsed at the results of this poll.
Morrowind music set the bar, and was used in Oblivion, but the TES IV theme sounded so much more action packed and epic. Morrowind sounded like some sad orient fairytale, waiting to happen.

That is the word that irks me about it, it's all bombast-epic-showoff but feels more like it just covers somethign rather than complete it.

i found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2Jduxc2P8&feature=related song to be amusing

on topic though, morrowinds is better, Oblivion just sounds too epic, morrowind is relaxing. If i want epic music i'll listen to dragonforce

Morrowind's theme is just amazing.

Morrowind has best theme.

and for remix. Epinikion did best job IMO.
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Definately not Oblivion, I got tired of closing all those gates.

Edit: I guess I didn't read the full question. I thought it was asking which ES game had the best theme for a story. Best Music? I'd say Morrowind or Oblivion. Daggerfall is good for the variety of music to set the mood in whichever place your at, but if I play it again, I get tired of the synthisized midi music in a hurry.

noooooooooooo, why does every1 have to like everything about morrowind over the other games. its not fair, i mean come on guys the OB theme ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

... Because they have reasons not to? It's not like everything that's stamped with a Morrowind label wins purely and utterly because it's stamped with a Morrowind label.

I imagine that most, like me, found Oblivion's main theme to be too reaching at epic, to be too thick with heavy brass and too preoccupied with building mass crescendo and melodical/precussional tension where none really needed to be built (ironically mirroring the game it's a theme of). Whereas Morrowind's theme was a lot slower in pace, a lot more soothing without the false sense of epic and the massive crescendos and overpowering brass.

In fact, to demonstrate a lack of bias, when I first heard Nerevar Rising Reprise as a placeholder for the Oblivion theme in the E3 demo videos, I had never heard the reprise before, had no idea it was actually tied with Morrowind, and I legitimately thought it was the Oblivion theme they had chosen. And I fell in love with it instantly, and despite my believing it was part of Oblivion, I would have praised it as the best to this day. Of course, it wasn't until later that I learned that the Reprise was part of the Morrowind sound track and that all the reasons I had liked it (its gentle flow, building in intensity only briefly and just at the right moments, the gentle nature of the overall track, etc) all fit in with the rest of the musical composition choices for the Morrowind soundtrack.

Daggerfall had the best soundtrack, hands down. Whenever you went into a shop or guild or cave or town or whether it was sunny, night, raining or snowing, the music changed. And it fit very very well.
After Daggerfall I'd say Tamriel Rebuilt, then Oblivion, then Morrowind, then I guess Arena, Redguard, Battlespire, Shadowkey, etc...

Any other Daggerfall music lovers here?