World of Warcraft Adds New Menu Music to the Dragonflight Beta

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World of Warcraft recently added the new Dragonflight menu music to the expansion’s beta testing client. With the World of Warcraft expansion right around the corner, the new theme gives players a taste of the sort of music they can expect in Dragonflight.

The theme was added to a recent build of the Dragonflight beta. With no other music currently in the beta, the Dragonflight menu theme is the first taste of the new expansion's leitmotifs since World of Warcraft first revealed it.

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The menu music for Dragonflight offers the 10th take on the memorable theme from World of Warcraft. Though it begins with the familiar minor-key dirges players will immediately recognize from previous menu themes, they are offset by inspiring, hopeful key shifts. Then, halfway through, the theme takes off with a magnificent, soaring melody reminiscent of How to Train Your Dragon. The Dragonflight theme is quite short in total, clocking in at under three minutes. This makes it comparable to the earliest menu themes, like Vanilla WoW and Burning Crusade, rather than the longer themes which began in Wrath of the Lich King.

The Shadowlands theme was nearly four times the length, with a long and meandering take on the iconic menu music. Each section of the theme seemingly passed through each of the major Shadowlands areas, including Oribos, the Maw, and all four playable zones. The World of Warcraft: Dragonflight menu theme is significantly shorter and more concise in comparison. World of Warcraft may have done this intentionally to hearken back to its earliest roots.

Many World of Warcraft players are excited to get their first taste of the music of Dragonflight. The