Carl XII:s marsch vid Narva (Narvan marssi) - Vocaloid Choir

My first Vocaloid upload in Swedish (also first-appearance of Len and Luka in my vids). Mind you, I would have made the Finnish version but, because of copyright issues, I had to make the Swedish version. (Only the Swedish lyrics are old enough to be published.)

Vocaloid Choir:
Soprano: Miku
Alto: Luka
Tenor: Len
Bass: Mikuo

Song info:

Name: Carl XII:s marsch vid Narva
Finnish: Narvan marssi
English: Narva March

Composer: Unknown, probably of Irish origin

Arrangement: Johann Christian Haeffner

Lyrics: Erik Gustaf Geier

You can find the full poem here:

Finnish translation: Alpo Noponen

English translation by me. Please, feel free to give me suggestions to improve my translation!


Development history: I started working on the song on the 3rd of July and roughly managed to finish the notes and lyrics. I wanted to try out my new Vocaloids (Rin, Len and Luka), so Rin would have naturally been the soprano. Well, I tried using her at first, but she sounded too nasal and fuzzy compared to good ol' trusty Miku, so I switched her. (Don't worry, Rin! I'll let you sing a song, one day.) :D I started fine-tuning on July the 5th, which took me a lot of time. Actually, it was the first time I really used the clearness and brightness parameters of Vocaloid, but I think it turned out quite nice. :) After the Vocaloid work, I edited the sound with Audacity (compression and reverb). Making the video took most of the time, again. I used Lipsync, but I had to manually fine-tune the mouth movements to make it look good. I made the background with GIMP (I drew Mikuo by modifying Miku). Finally, I combined the video and music with Windows Movie Maker.

NOTE (18.8.2009): I think I made Miku sing too passionately at the end of the song. She is too loud and her vibrato's so over the top that it gets annoying. Well, at least now I know where to improve. :)

[Amallric]

I wonder why is that song so sad...the march of Carl XII on Narva was one of the most glorious moments on the swedish history wasn't it?

[msumungo]

The Finnish lyrics are truly and thoroughly pure darkness.

[Big-]

this is the music i listen to today!
6 juni.

[cqallenwalker]

This is SOOOO cool. I know a lady who speaks swedish. I really like it when people break the language barrier of Vocaloid. Keep up the good work!

[pulverapa]

Hello, thanks for the upload. This arrangement is better than the male chorus arrangement. Do you have this arrangement available somewhere? Would love to try it out.

[joonte]

1709* And it took him 22 years even with all hes allies to defeat Sweden

[Kudiz]

@E5rael stupidly enough he chased after them into ukraine, should've never done that. supply lines etc getting cut. should've settled at narva, rebuild army, secure borders, make pact with poland, attack mocow from st petersburg and narva simultaneously.. but oh well, the poles mentions us in their national anthem so, kinda cool :D

[Frozztie]

This Music is a old Swedish Battle Marsh...
Imagine hearing this and seeing the swedish army come out rushing att you screaming for your blood... gawd.... id piss my pants!
though the march version sounds alot diffrent from this version ^^

[Lilja]

@E5rael Well it is a poem from the biggining. And later it was turned into this form. In Finland i asume. So then it isnt really strange that the entire poem isnt used. The last parts mentions King Carl and king Oscar. So it makes sense if the Soumi pople didnt use those parts. Oscar was never king of Finland so then it isnt strange that they chose not to use every stanza in the poem. Its a nice piece of music tough!

[mishastiks]

I live in Narva, .. but never heard that song.. Perhaps it was made when Peter1 has broken the swedish army 1704.. Is there original version of the song?

[MRsverigeswe]

lol I did not understand a shit (and I'm from Sweden) until I turned on the subtitles
then I heard what they were singing XD

[SwedishEmpire]

i meant, as in not sung by anime characters.

[SwedishEmpire]

okay, that was...nice.
how about uploading this rare song in its original lyric form now instead.

or link where you got it.

[Lilja]

but this isnt the entire poem right? Isnt it longer than this?

[mishastiks]

OK, .. I thought about broken army because it is so sad song)) how they could fight listeting that)) I would cry :D

[SebastianAxelsson]

They were all swedes cuz those terretoris belonged to sweden.