Brood War Aria

"I wrote it quickly, and I was really inspired. It’s a defining piece, but it doesn’t quite define StarCraft&mdash;it’s not the space cowboys theme. It’s just something I’m proud of having done, by way of it being a good piece of music."

- Glenn Stafford

Brood War Aria is a composition by Glenn Stafford. It originally featured in the trailer for StarCraft: Brood War. While obstensibly part of the terran OST, it is stylistically divorced from most of the terran music in the original game, being more orchestral rather than synthesized. The aria briefly features in the game's intro cinematic.

The aria made a return in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, in the cinematic where Jim Raynor boards the Bucephalus, where it is being listened to by Valerian Mengsk. The actual aria forms part of the I, Mengsk track within the game. The singer is female in Brood War, and male in Wings of Liberty.