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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Raindrops
Verse 1-1: The Dream Begins
Verse 1-2: The Seaside Town of Ritardando
Verse 1-3: The Forest of Feelings
Verse 1-4: The Rain-soaked Wood, Part One
Verse 1-5: The Rain-soaked wood, Part Two
Verse 1-6: Ogre Battle
Chapter 2: Revolution
Verse 2-1: The Road to Forte
Verse 2-2: The Abandoned Fortress
Verse 2-3: The Nervous Capital City
Verse 2-4: Cliff-sides and Confrontations
Verse 2-5: Clash on the Big Bridge
Chapter 3: Fantaisie-Impromptu
Verse 3-1: The Silent Swamp
Verse 3-2: The Poisoned Groves
Verse 3-3: The Haunted Cemetery
Chapter 4: Grande Valse Brillante
Verse 4-1: Pirates!
Verse 4-2: The Royal Mirror, Part One
Verse 4-3: The Royal Mirror, Part Two
Verse 4-4: The Snowbound Kingdom of Baroque
Verse 4-5: Secret of the Forest
Chapter 5: Nocturne
Verse 5-1: Return to Ritardando
Verse 5-2: The Church Catacombs
Verse 5-3: Return to Baroque
Verse 5-4: Key-Hunting and Bar Fighting
Verse 5-5: The Frozen Temple
Chapter 6: Tristesse
Verse 6-1: Return to Agogo Forest
Verse 6-2: The Ancient Ruins
Verse 6-3: Scale the Summit
Chapter 7: Heroic
Verse 7-1: City of the Dead
Verse 7-2: The Shining Tower and the Mysterious Desert
Verse 7-3: Tower of the Shadow of Death, Part One
Verse 7-4: Tower of the Shadow of Death, Part Two
Verse 7-5: Broken Balance
Chapter VIII: Mysterious Unison
Verse VIII-I: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part One
Verse VIII-II: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part Two
Verse VIII-III: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part Three
Verse VIII-IV: A Reunion with Death
Verse VIII-V: Reunification
Chapter IX: Encore Mode
Verse IX-I: Chapter 1 Redux (and a short primer)
Verse IX-II: Chapter 2 Redux
Verse IX-III: Chapter 3 Redux
Verse IX-IV: Chapter 4 Redux
♪♪~ Soundtrack (in order of appearance)
(All non-Chopin music composed by Motoi Sakuraba)
Think of Me
Reflect the Sky, Bloom the Life
Relaxing Place
Leap the Precipice
Well-Done
A Faint Light Grasped in the Hand
The Mediocrity Sought Out By Everyone
An Inspection Which Values Harmony
Underground for Underhand
Rapid Fire
Opposition Resignation
Can You Recite the Dream
Illuminant Lives
Pyroxene of the Heart
When We Are Together
Your Circumstances
A Step
Innumerable Animals
Raindrops (Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28 No. 15)
Pressure
A Flicker Which Divides Light and Darkness
Can We Be Both Different and Alike
Strategy
Revolution (Étude in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 12)
Dive into the Vast Expanse of Plains
A Wall With No Front or Back
Breeze the Conductor
Trembling Homefront
Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33 No. 4
DANTOTSU!
The Posture You Do Not Despise
From Strength to Kindness
Pursuit
I Bet My Belief
Silence and Life
Wonderland of Wanderer
Endure and Resist
No No I Don't Die Noooo!
Fantaisie-Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66
A Buffer for Quiet
Walk of the Heart
Seize the Artifact for Tallness
White Mirror
Grande Valse Brillante in E Flat Major, Op. 18
Journey to the Projective Mind
The Royal Mirror
Little Dog Waltz (Waltz in D Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 1)
From Tomorrow On...
Rock and Burn You
Someone's Evening, Someone's Daybreak
Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Repeated Tide
The Boundary Between Snow and Ice
Grim Purpose
Tristesse (Étude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3)
Continuous Divider
Embarrassment Consistency
Your Truth Is My False
Captured Phantom
Funeral March (Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 35 mov. III)
Where We End Up
The Etudes of Spirit
Spiral Twister
Broken Balance
The Unreasonable Theory
Heroic (Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op. 53)
Two Ends of My Dose
Glossary of Musical Terms
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Score Pieces
1 (piano) / 2 (violin) / 3 (recorder) / 4 (accordion) / 5 (violin) / 6 (harpsichord) / 7 (violin) / 8 (oboe) / 9 (piano) / 10 (recorder) / 11 (clarinet) / 12 (string section) / 13 (piano) / 14 (violin) / 15 (piano) / 16 (oboe) / 17 (horn) / 18 / 19 (electric guitar) / 20 (piano) / 21 (organ) / 22 (cor anglais) / 23 (celesta) / 24 (pizzicato violin) / 25 (synth harpsichord)
Bonus Material
Artwork
Allegretto (scratchy) (sword detail) (render)
Aria Temple exterior
Baroque Castle exterior
Beat (alternate pose) (in-game render) (box art render)
Claves (alternate pose) (render)
Crescendo (render)
Double Reed Tower exterior
Elegy of the Moon
Falsetto (render)
the fortuneteller (turnaround)
Frederic (alternate pose) (render)
Fugue (render)
Heaven's Mirror Forest (flower field)
Jazz (render)
Legato (render)
March (render)
Polka (scratchy) (with parasol) (render)
Rondo (render)
Salsa (render)
Serenade (render)
Tuba (render)
US PS3 box art
Viola (no bow) (alternate pose) (render)
Waltz (render)
JP Soundtrack/Strategy Guide Scans
Allegretto (turnaround) (sword detail) (early design)
Beat (NA box art pose) (hammer gun detail) (medal closeup)
Bestiary (2) (3)
Claves (2) (early design)
Falsetto (turnaround)
Jazz (earlier design)
Motoi Sakuraba biography/statement
Polka (earlier design) (parasol detail) younger Polka (1) (2)
Rondo
Stanislav Bunin biography/statement
World map (JP) (ENG)
A Closer Look at Motoi Sakuraba's Musical Career
Part 1: Beginnings (Before Game Music)
Part 2: Solo Albums
Part 3: The Early Days
Part 4: Tales of Star Ocean
Part 5: An Entire Post About Mario Sports Games
Sources:
Motoi Sakuraba Profile for VGM Online by Chris Greening
progarchives entry for Deja Vu
progarchives entry for Pazzo Fanfano di Musica
Translated interview on shmupulations
VGMdb discography
♪♪~ Recommended Listening
Pieces by Chopin:
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 1 in B Flat Minor / No. 3 in B Major
12 Études, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major / No. 4 in C Sharp Minor / No. 8 in F Major / No. 9 in F Minor
Fantasy on Polish Airs in A Major, Op. 13
Rondo in E Flat Major, Op. 16
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A Flat Major / No. 3 in F Major / No. 5 in E Minor / No. 7 in C Sharp Minor / No. 11 in A Minor
24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor / No. 3 in G Major / No. 8 in F Sharp Minor / No. 9 in E Major / No. 13 in F Sharp Major / No. 16 in B Flat Minor / No. 17 in A Flat Major / No. 21 in B Flat Major
Impromptu No. 1 in A Flat Major, Op. 29
Four Mazurkas, Op. 33
Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 34 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 35
Impromptu No. 2 in F Sharp Major, Op. 36
Two Nocturnes, Op. 37
Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 42
Polonaise in F Sharp Minor, Op. 44
Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 49
Impromptu No. 3 in G Flat Major, Op. 51
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
Three Waltzes, Op. 64: No. 2 in C Sharp Minor / No. 3 in A Flat Major
Grand duo concertant, B. 70 (with Auguste Franchomme)
Pieces by other composers:
Keiko Abe - Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Samuel Barber - Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Amy Beach - Romance in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Margaret Bonds - The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Troubled Water
Lili Boulanger - Nocturne / Prelude in D Flat
Frank Bridge - A Fairy Tale
John Cage - Dream / In a Landscape
Claude Debussy - Bruyères / La Cathédrale engloutie / Trois Nocturnes
Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla
John Field - Nocturne No. 3 in A Flat Major
Inti Figgis-Vizueta - a bridge between starshine and clay
Jennifer Higdon - blue cathedral
Gustav Holst - Lyric Movement
Leoš Janáček - On an Overgrown Path
Franz Liszt - Grandes Études de Paganini, No. 3 in G Sharp Minor ("La campanella")
Fanny Mendelssohn - Easter Sonata
Francis Poulenc - Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G Minor
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus
Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau / Menuet Antique / Piano Concerto for the Left Hand / Sonatine / Valses nobles et sentimentales
Steve Reich - Cello Counterpoint / Eight Lines
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 / Sarabande No. 1
Ethel Smyth - Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5
Maria Szymanowska - Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
Germaine Tailleferre - Ballade for Piano and Orchestra / Piano Trio
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Raindrops
Verse 1-1: The Dream Begins
Verse 1-2: The Seaside Town of Ritardando
Verse 1-3: The Forest of Feelings
Verse 1-4: The Rain-soaked Wood, Part One
Verse 1-5: The Rain-soaked wood, Part Two
Verse 1-6: Ogre Battle
Chapter 2: Revolution
Verse 2-1: The Road to Forte
Verse 2-2: The Abandoned Fortress
Verse 2-3: The Nervous Capital City
Verse 2-4: Cliff-sides and Confrontations
Verse 2-5: Clash on the Big Bridge
Chapter 3: Fantaisie-Impromptu
Verse 3-1: The Silent Swamp
Verse 3-2: The Poisoned Groves
Verse 3-3: The Haunted Cemetery
Chapter 4: Grande Valse Brillante
Verse 4-1: Pirates!
Verse 4-2: The Royal Mirror, Part One
Verse 4-3: The Royal Mirror, Part Two
Verse 4-4: The Snowbound Kingdom of Baroque
Verse 4-5: Secret of the Forest
Chapter 5: Nocturne
Verse 5-1: Return to Ritardando
Verse 5-2: The Church Catacombs
Verse 5-3: Return to Baroque
Verse 5-4: Key-Hunting and Bar Fighting
Verse 5-5: The Frozen Temple
Chapter 6: Tristesse
Verse 6-1: Return to Agogo Forest
Verse 6-2: The Ancient Ruins
Verse 6-3: Scale the Summit
Chapter 7: Heroic
Verse 7-1: City of the Dead
Verse 7-2: The Shining Tower and the Mysterious Desert
Verse 7-3: Tower of the Shadow of Death, Part One
Verse 7-4: Tower of the Shadow of Death, Part Two
Verse 7-5: Broken Balance
Chapter VIII: Mysterious Unison
Verse VIII-I: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part One
Verse VIII-II: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part Two
Verse VIII-III: The Purgatorial Labyrinth, Part Three
Verse VIII-IV: A Reunion with Death
Verse VIII-V: Reunification
Chapter IX: Encore Mode
Verse IX-I: Chapter 1 Redux (and a short primer)
Verse IX-II: Chapter 2 Redux
Verse IX-III: Chapter 3 Redux
Verse IX-IV: Chapter 4 Redux
♪♪~ Soundtrack (in order of appearance)
(All non-Chopin music composed by Motoi Sakuraba)
Think of Me
Reflect the Sky, Bloom the Life
Relaxing Place
Leap the Precipice
Well-Done
A Faint Light Grasped in the Hand
The Mediocrity Sought Out By Everyone
An Inspection Which Values Harmony
Underground for Underhand
Rapid Fire
Opposition Resignation
Can You Recite the Dream
Illuminant Lives
Pyroxene of the Heart
When We Are Together
Your Circumstances
A Step
Innumerable Animals
Raindrops (Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28 No. 15)
Pressure
A Flicker Which Divides Light and Darkness
Can We Be Both Different and Alike
Strategy
Revolution (Étude in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 12)
Dive into the Vast Expanse of Plains
A Wall With No Front or Back
Breeze the Conductor
Trembling Homefront
Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33 No. 4
DANTOTSU!
The Posture You Do Not Despise
From Strength to Kindness
Pursuit
I Bet My Belief
Silence and Life
Wonderland of Wanderer
Endure and Resist
No No I Don't Die Noooo!
Fantaisie-Impromptu in C Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66
A Buffer for Quiet
Walk of the Heart
Seize the Artifact for Tallness
White Mirror
Grande Valse Brillante in E Flat Major, Op. 18
Journey to the Projective Mind
The Royal Mirror
Little Dog Waltz (Waltz in D Flat Major, Op. 64 No. 1)
From Tomorrow On...
Rock and Burn You
Someone's Evening, Someone's Daybreak
Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Repeated Tide
The Boundary Between Snow and Ice
Grim Purpose
Tristesse (Étude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3)
Continuous Divider
Embarrassment Consistency
Your Truth Is My False
Captured Phantom
Funeral March (Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 35 mov. III)
Where We End Up
The Etudes of Spirit
Spiral Twister
Broken Balance
The Unreasonable Theory
Heroic (Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op. 53)
Two Ends of My Dose
Glossary of Musical Terms
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Score Pieces
1 (piano) / 2 (violin) / 3 (recorder) / 4 (accordion) / 5 (violin) / 6 (harpsichord) / 7 (violin) / 8 (oboe) / 9 (piano) / 10 (recorder) / 11 (clarinet) / 12 (string section) / 13 (piano) / 14 (violin) / 15 (piano) / 16 (oboe) / 17 (horn) / 18 / 19 (electric guitar) / 20 (piano) / 21 (organ) / 22 (cor anglais) / 23 (celesta) / 24 (pizzicato violin) / 25 (synth harpsichord)
Bonus Material
Artwork
Allegretto (scratchy) (sword detail) (render)
Aria Temple exterior
Baroque Castle exterior
Beat (alternate pose) (in-game render) (box art render)
Claves (alternate pose) (render)
Crescendo (render)
Double Reed Tower exterior
Elegy of the Moon
Falsetto (render)
the fortuneteller (turnaround)
Frederic (alternate pose) (render)
Fugue (render)
Heaven's Mirror Forest (flower field)
Jazz (render)
Legato (render)
March (render)
Polka (scratchy) (with parasol) (render)
Rondo (render)
Salsa (render)
Serenade (render)
Tuba (render)
US PS3 box art
Viola (no bow) (alternate pose) (render)
Waltz (render)
JP Soundtrack/Strategy Guide Scans
Allegretto (turnaround) (sword detail) (early design)
Beat (NA box art pose) (hammer gun detail) (medal closeup)
Bestiary (2) (3)
Claves (2) (early design)
Falsetto (turnaround)
Jazz (earlier design)
Motoi Sakuraba biography/statement
Polka (earlier design) (parasol detail) younger Polka (1) (2)
Rondo
Stanislav Bunin biography/statement
World map (JP) (ENG)
A Closer Look at Motoi Sakuraba's Musical Career
Part 1: Beginnings (Before Game Music)
Part 2: Solo Albums
Part 3: The Early Days
Part 4: Tales of Star Ocean
Part 5: An Entire Post About Mario Sports Games
Sources:
Motoi Sakuraba Profile for VGM Online by Chris Greening
progarchives entry for Deja Vu
progarchives entry for Pazzo Fanfano di Musica
Translated interview on shmupulations
VGMdb discography
♪♪~ Recommended Listening
Pieces by Chopin:
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 1 in B Flat Minor / No. 3 in B Major
12 Études, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major / No. 4 in C Sharp Minor / No. 8 in F Major / No. 9 in F Minor
Fantasy on Polish Airs in A Major, Op. 13
Rondo in E Flat Major, Op. 16
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23
12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A Flat Major / No. 3 in F Major / No. 5 in E Minor / No. 7 in C Sharp Minor / No. 11 in A Minor
24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 2 in A Minor / No. 3 in G Major / No. 8 in F Sharp Minor / No. 9 in E Major / No. 13 in F Sharp Major / No. 16 in B Flat Minor / No. 17 in A Flat Major / No. 21 in B Flat Major
Impromptu No. 1 in A Flat Major, Op. 29
Four Mazurkas, Op. 33
Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 34 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 35
Impromptu No. 2 in F Sharp Major, Op. 36
Two Nocturnes, Op. 37
Waltz in A Flat Major, Op. 42
Polonaise in F Sharp Minor, Op. 44
Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 49
Impromptu No. 3 in G Flat Major, Op. 51
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
Three Waltzes, Op. 64: No. 2 in C Sharp Minor / No. 3 in A Flat Major
Grand duo concertant, B. 70 (with Auguste Franchomme)
Pieces by other composers:
Keiko Abe - Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Samuel Barber - Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Amy Beach - Romance in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Margaret Bonds - The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Troubled Water
Lili Boulanger - Nocturne / Prelude in D Flat
Frank Bridge - A Fairy Tale
John Cage - Dream / In a Landscape
Claude Debussy - Bruyères / La Cathédrale engloutie / Trois Nocturnes
Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla
John Field - Nocturne No. 3 in A Flat Major
Inti Figgis-Vizueta - a bridge between starshine and clay
Jennifer Higdon - blue cathedral
Gustav Holst - Lyric Movement
Leoš Janáček - On an Overgrown Path
Franz Liszt - Grandes Études de Paganini, No. 3 in G Sharp Minor ("La campanella")
Fanny Mendelssohn - Easter Sonata
Francis Poulenc - Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G Minor
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus
Maurice Ravel - Jeux d'eau / Menuet Antique / Piano Concerto for the Left Hand / Sonatine / Valses nobles et sentimentales
Steve Reich - Cello Counterpoint / Eight Lines
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 / Sarabande No. 1
Ethel Smyth - Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5
Maria Szymanowska - Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
Germaine Tailleferre - Ballade for Piano and Orchestra / Piano Trio
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 37
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