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This page records the music used in the Plants vs. Zombies series. Here is a list of the known composers who’ve made music on the series, along with what music they’ve written.

Laura Shigihara composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies for Nintendo DS (collaborated with Morihiro Iwamoto on the soundtrack), Ancient Egypt's waves (Guy Whitmore did the Final Wave’s extra percussion) and victory theme & the scrapped Pirate Seas theme in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Stan LePard composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures. Peter McConnell composed a majority of the music for Plants vs. Zombies 2 & Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, and the entire soundtrack for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare & Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. Feiyu Music (绯雨音乐) composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars. Becky Allen composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies Heroes. Barry Dowsett composed the music for Plants vs. Zombies 3.

Several composers have helped compose just one or a few songs in the series:

In Plants vs. Zombies 2, Chris Ballew composed Zombie Time, Korby Sears composed the Pianist Zombie’s Theme, C. Andrew Rohrmann composed the Zen Garden themes & Barry Dowsett composed the Z-Corp Takeover and The Zombosseum II thymed event themes. In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, LeShiya Audio (乐石涯音频) composed Renaissance Age, Heian Age and the upcoming Zombie Scene music, Suihua (虽华) composed Parkour Party and 窝窝头Runkeben composed Fairytale Forest's Zomboss Battle theme. In Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, Ricardo Almeida composed Great White North (except it’s minigame theme) & Seeds Of Time, using Peter’s audio files to remix his songs.

Two of the composers of the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 (the first one composed Kongfu World, Sky City and Steam Age & the second one composed Fairytale Forest) and the composers of the entire soundtrack of Plants vs. Zombies Online are currently unknown.

Plants vs. Zombies

Area music

Day

The Day music is called "Grasswalk."

Grasswalk's sheet music

Night

The Night music is called "Moongrains." This track is the only one with a different time signature (2/4, while the others are played on 4/4) and overall sounds in the huge waves.

This music also plays in Zombiquarium.

Pool

Watery Graves' sheet music page 1

The Pool music is called "Watery Graves."

Watery Graves' sheet music part 2

Fog

The Fog music is called "Rigor Mormist."

Roof

The Roof music is called "Graze The Roof."

Other music

Mini-games

Most of the Mini-games (Wall-nut Bowling, Wall-nut Bowling 2, etc.), 1-5, 2-5, 3-5, and 5-5 feature the track "Loonboon."

Dr. Zomboss Battles

Level 5-10 and the Mini-game Dr. Zomboss's Revenge feature the track "Brainiac Maniac."

Levels X-10

Levels 1-10, 2-10, 3-10, the Mini-games Column Like You See 'Em and Air Raid, and Brain Busters feature the track "Ultimate Battle."

Puzzle

Level 4-5, Vasebreaker and I, Zombie levels feature the track "Cerebrawl."

Credits

The credits sequence features the track "Zombies on Your Lawn."

Game Over

The game over music plays when a zombie enters the player's house. It is associated with two biting sounds, a "NOOOOOOOO!" scream and "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!" text, and then followed by the "GAME OVER" (or "You survived for (number of flags that the player completed) before dying a GRUESOME ZOMBIE DEATH!!" in Survival Mode) dialog box. In Zombiquarium ("All your pet zombies have perished!"), Last Stand (mini-game and puzzle versions; "You survived for (number of flags that the player completed)!"), Vasebreaker Endless ("You made it to a streak of (number of streaks that the player completed)" with the same losing message also appears in I, Zombie Endless), and I, Zombie (non-endless levels; "You lost all your zombies!"), this only plays without a biting sound, scream and "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!", and it is possible to skip the music by restarting or exiting the level while the music plays.

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures

Battle music

These soundtracks are played during map stages and were composed by Stan LePard, who is known for being the composer of the Windows Setup Music along with various game soundtracks.

Battle 1

The music Samples from "Rigor Mormist" From the original game.

Battle 2

The music samples from "Cerebrawl" from the original game.

Battle 3

The music samples from "Moongrains" from the original game.

Battle 4

The music samples from "Choose Your Seeds" From the original game

Battle 5

This music samples from "Loonboon" from the original game.

Incursion music

These tracks were played in the game, most likely during a brainball round. They sample from "Grasswalk" from the original game.

Incursion 1

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Incursion 2

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Incursion 3

A variation of the Incursion tracks.

Trivia

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies

• "Rigor Mormist" is a portmanteau of "Rigor mortis" which means "a recognizable sign of death where the muscles stiffen," and "Mist" which means "fog" which indicates the Fog Level.
• "Ultimate Battle" was originally intended to be used for Melolune, one of Laura Shigihara's games. The game designer, George Fan, overheard the song and requested it for use in Plants vs. Zombies, given that Shigihara is still allowed the use the song for her own game.
• "Graze The Roof" is a portmanteau word of "graze" which means "to put" which probably indicates the fact that Bungee Zombies put down Ambush Zombies in Roof levels, or "to eat," which indicates the fact that zombies eat the plants, and the phrase "raise the roof," which means "to produce noise.“
  • "Graze" also means to touch or scrape lightly in passing. This may refer to the zombies traversing the roof, and their rather slow movements.
• "Grasswalk" is a portmanteau of "grass," which indicates the lawn with which there is grass, and "cakewalk," which means "something that is extremely easy to do," which indicates that the Day levels are the easiest levels in Adventure Mode.
• "Loonboon" is a portmanteau word of "loony" which means "a person who behaves in a strange way," which probably indicates the zombies, and "boon" which means "happy and cheerful," which fits the melody of the music.
• "Cerebrawl" is a portmanteau word of "cerebral," which means "relating to brain," which indicates that the purpose of the zombies is to eat brains, and "brawl," which means "rough, noisy fight."
• Levels 1-10, 2-10, 3-10 and the Mini-games Air Raid and Column Like You See 'Em are the only levels to have a music piece called "Ultimate Battle," because Level 4-10 has no music played and 5-10 plays Brainiac Maniac.
• There is also an unreleased track called "ZomBotany". It was supposed to be played during the final battle with Dr. Zomboss in 5-10 and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge.
• There is an infrequent glitch that usually occurs on Pool levels, where the music will randomly change from Watery Graves to Grasswalk.
  • This also occurs with the Zen Garden on the DS version. It is unknown whether this occurs elsewhere.
• "Loonboon" was originally supposed to be twice as fast as it is currently.
• The only music played in Plants vs. Zombies that is not in a minor key is Zen Garden (C major). All others are in minor keys.
• The music in seems to intensify during a huge wave of zombies.
  • These are called "Horde Themes."
  • This feature is missing from the Android and iOS versions.
  • This music plays through the whole level in the DS version.
• There is no Fog level that uses the "Loonboon" and "Ultimate Battle" tracks.

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies Adventures

• The soundtrack composer, Stan LePard, is also known for his contribution on various media soundtracks, most notably for composing the Windows XP Setup music "Velkommen."

Specific to Plants vs. Zombies 2

• The music is longer because, unlike in the first game, the music is not designed to loop.
  • However, all Chinese exclusive worlds in Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 still using loop music.
• Some of the music are remixes of music from the first game. For example, the Player's House and Modern Day have a remix of "Grasswalk," and Kongfu World is a remix of the seed selection music.
  • Laura Shigihara composed the entirety of the Ancient Egypt theme. However, the Outro, Ultimate Battle, Demonstration Minigame, Zomboss Intro and Losing themes were made by Peter McConnell.
  • In addition, there are also remixes of "Ultimate Battle" and "Brainiac Maniac" in all worlds except Neon Mixtape Tour (which don't use them) and all Chinese exclusive worlds (due to Chinese worlds' music not being composed by Peter McConnell).
  • Modern Day also has a "Graze the Roof" and a "There's a Zombie on Your Lawn" remix.
• Since the 6.3.1 update in Plants vs. Zombies 2, all levels play their world's theme. Ultimate Battle and Demonstration Mini-game soundtracks have been removed.
• Since the 1.8.0 update in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 on iOS and 2.0.0 update on Android (consider that all world except Neon Mixtape Tour on Android version using incomplete first wave music from Ancient Egypt from 1.5.0 to 1.9.0), Kongfu World's boss battle levels (Ultimate Challenge and Evil Invasion) uses the level theme instead of the Boss Battle theme.
• From 1.5.0 to 2.0.0 in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android, all world's music, Ultimate Battle music and Brainiac Maniac were deleted. Due to the music deletion, all world's music were replaced by low quality incomplete Ancient Egypt first wave (while choose your seed part replaced by beginning notes of Player's House music) except Neon Mixtape Tour jams (however, they're still in low quality and certain sections are cutted).
  • The iOS version since 1.5.0 also downgraded all music's quality, removed all Ultimate Battle, Demonstration Mini-game and boss battle music and cut a lot of music (Ancient Egypt using same track that Android version uses, Pirate Seas and Wild West nearly being pure ambience, and all other worlds lacking one mid-wave track).
  • Although Android version since 2.0.0 began to restore music, it only restored post-1.5.0 version music used on iOS.
    • 3.2.7/3.2.8 fully restored every world's music to high quality, and added back the Ultimate Battle, Demonstration Minigame and boss themes for every world, even including the lost unused Demonstration Minigame track for Big Wave Beach.

Piano Sheet Music

Found on Laura Shigihara's wordpress, there is a zip file of transcriptions transcribed by Tobias Deussen from Germany of the pieces Shigihara posted on to YouTube, containing the following 8 pieces: Brainiac Maniac (Dr. Zomboss), Cerebrawl, Choose Your Seeds, Grasswalk, Graze the Roof, Loonboon, Moongrains, and Watery Graves. The link for these files can be found here

Keys

• Grasswalk is in A minor.
• Moongrains is in A minor.
• Watery Graves is in G minor.
• Rigor Mormist is also in A minor.
• Graze The Roof is in A minor.
• Braniac Maniac is in C minor.
• Loonboon is in G♯/A♭minor.
• Cerebrawl is also in A minor.
• Main Menu Music is in G minor.
• Zen Garden is in C major.
• ZomBotany is in C minor.

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