Liontamer ⚖️ Posted June 15 Posted June 15 Artist Name: Bluelighter Hi OCR, Here is a piano arrangement of some themes of ff9, composed by Nobuo UEMATSU. Theme of “Terra” was a lot declined in the game, but Terra’s version is certainly my favorite version. Uematsu managed to put a lot of emotion in this one with a minimalist instrumentation. I could play the zone in loop just to listen this melody when I played the game. So, this arrangement is mainly based on Terra. I used also the introduction of “An Irrevocable Past”, the same theme with additional ingredients. Finally I took from “Ceremony of the Gods” whose melody in fourths call back “An Irrevocable Past” About the arrangement, I’ve a little reviewed harmony of Terra’s theme. But I’ve kept haunting atmosphere with a repetitive and sad rhythm. At the middle, the arrangement wins in intensity, with introduction of “Ceremony” and “Irrevocable Past”. The melody here has religious sonorities IMO. The culminating point of Terra comes after. And the arrangement concludes by “An Irrevocable Past”. Enjoy! Guillaume Breakdown Part 1: 0'00 ("Terra" 0’00 -> 0’07) -> arpeggio Part 2: ("Terra" 0’07 -> 0’57) -> rhythm A) 0'10 B) 0’40 Part 3: A) 1’07 ("Terra" 0’57 -> 1’15) B) 1’25 ("Terra" 0’07 -> 0’57) arpeggio C) 1’47 ("Terra" 0’57 -> 1’15) Part 6: animated A) 2’03 (“Ceremony of Gods” 0’20 -> 0’55, winks to “An Irrevocable Past” 0’00 -> 0’12) B) 2’15 (“Ceremony of Gods” 0’20 -> 0’55) Part 7: 2’28 ("Terra" 1’15 -> 1’45) culminating point of the piece Part 8: (“An Irrevocable Past” 0’00 -> 0’12) A) 2’56 (animated) B) 3’07 (soft) C) 3’17 (main rhythm to conclude) Games & Sources Real Name: Guillaume SAUMANDE Game & Songs: ff9 & Terra, Ceremony for the Gods, An Irrevocable Past Composer: Nobuo UEMATSU
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted June 15 Author Posted June 15 Very beautiful intro; this is going to be a nice interpretation, you can tell off the bat with this swung feeling to the rhythm. Cool stops of the swing at 1:25 & 1:36 for nice bits of contrast, then sounding a measure more forceful at 1:48. Smooth transition at 1:56 in the brief pivot to "Ceremony of the Gods", and then another seamless shift to "An Irrevocable Past" at 2:56. Love the delicate and measured yet personalized piano approach, Guillaume, you make it sound effortless. :-) YES
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted June 24 Posted June 24 opens with some beautiful descending arpeggiated action, and settles into a 12/8 feel before starting with the Terra melody (really the main theme of the game in various forms). i really appreciate the space added to the melodic representation. the ascending blocks in the left hand are nice too. at 1:25 we get the melodic represented an octave up, which i think is a good choice as you move away from the left hand block for a bit each time - a nice break. about two minutes in we get the Ceremony of Gods section, which has some stacked/blocked chords in a way that feels very chant-like - neat idea. there's a quick transition to the Terra theme complete with a fun new landing chord in here, and then the track moves out on An Irrevocable Past as an ending vehicle. it'd be easy to believe that these were all the same piece of music originally. the transitions are seamless and the performance is excellent as expected. this is a layup, excellent work. YES
Hemophiliac ⚖️ Posted July 1 Posted July 1 The subtle changes and execution here are awesome, Guillaume. The variation in the left hand was done to perfection, changing up the part right when it needed to happen. As you said, it has the "religious sonority" you were talking about with the parallel intervals with An Irrevocable Past. Dynamic and evoking of divinity. I also have to mention the time sig adaption, great choice to change it up. This alone contributes so much to both feeling like the original and new at the same time. So expressive, great work. YES
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