O'Donnell has stated that he laid down the core melody of the theme in about half an hour during the drive to the studio at Salvatori’s house. He was also inspired by the first verse of The Beatles' song " Yesterday", which inspired the four-phrase structure of the Gregorian chant. To best convey this impression, O'Donnell drew inspiration from his studies on Middle Ages music and decided to incorporate Gregorian chant into the theme, which has since become a staple of the Halo series in its various forms. Staten told O'Donnell that the theme needed to evoke the game's "ancient, epic and mysterious" atmosphere. However, the music would need to be first recorded and shown internally within Bungie on Monday - the same day Bungie representatives would board the flight to New York for the presentation on the following day. O'Donnell was asked by Joseph Staten on a Thursday to compose a soundtrack for the then-upcoming Halo MacWorld premiere demo on the following Tuesday. Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori composed the Halo Theme over the course of three days in July of 1999. As for the tempo, the starting choir is set to 95 bpm (beats per minute), while the middle section speeds up to 120, before the ending choir chant which settles back to 95. The first part of the song is a choir chant which is repeated at the end, and this is set to a beat of 4-4, with the middle section featuring string instruments and percussion this is set to a beat of 12-8 and is significantly faster than the choir chant. The song is set in the key of D major, with two sharps: F and C.
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