Hopefully we get some nice ambient sound as well... birds chiring when looking at the woods, marching when moving an army, etc. Little things like that make the difference between a good game and a great one.

I need choruses somewhere in that soundtrack. Epic choruses ftw.

I'm hoping to hear lots of trumpets and woodwinds, in the same sense that they were used in Master of Magic (just less obviously MIDI)    Music is one of my favorite parts of games, and stardock has given me the impression they are really happy with the music they have for Elemental.  So I can't wait to hear it.

Ya epic sound tracks really help games like this. Personally I find that the music included in the fall from heaven 2 mod really helps with the immersion, but then again I really liked (most of) the civ 4 soundtrack. Yes I know its not orginal and just a collection of "appropate music" but its still cool. Other sound track I really love were the Homm2-3 sound tracks. Large operatic chorus of Homm 2 were awesome, where as the ochrestal (city) music for Homm 3 was really good to listern to. Especially that orc faction's (stronghold?) music.  Sometimes I'd bring up the city menu just to listern to it

Just as endofdayz said, I would really love for the game to have some really awesome ambeint sounds like for example to go with the awesome music. Perhaps the mordor wastelands need random cracks of lightning and the wailing of my slaves to help bring it to life. In my opinion sound is often more important for immersion than graphics, though obviously gameplay is king.

Epic music is good if used sparingly, epic music used all the time stops being epic...

For a game like this, I'd expect most of the music to be instrumental, some flutes, some strings... While in a city some more folky, tavern music. The really epic music should be reserved for close battles, important finds or events (Hey, you just befriended a dragon...) and off course the end game (victory or defeat...).

For some reason, for games in the fantasy genre, I have a much higher expectation for the soundtrack than others. I would like a variety of tracks, tired of listening to the same track over and over again in strategy games in general, epic and little neat sound effects. Themed music for each race and/or alignment sort of thing would be interesting too.

Thrawn, the epic music of total war (rome and m2 in particular) seriously made those games. If elemental could pull something off like that it would be absolutely incredible. I never auto-resolved in M2 because of how good the music was. Never. Please Stardock, music is seriously something worth investing in.  

From a question I asked on twitter:

TeamElemental@Three_kings Our music (since PM2004) has been done by Mason Fisher...its rennisance meets fantasy meets classical. It's good stuff, IMHO

Mason Fisher's website: http://www.masonfisher.com/

Sweet.