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Green Requiem
Добавлен 25 май 2008
Second channel. Miscellaneous collection of travel videos, video essays, and various other things I wanted to document. Current project: "The Music of Kingdom Hearts" video series.
Replacing "VERUM REX" with "Reality in the Dark"
just thought it'd be a neat thing to see :^)
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thinking about "Dearly Beloved -Forest Memory-"
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gonna unlist this video when the Music of KH3 is published (bonus progress report for those of you who clicked the description "The Music of KH3" script is somewhere like 90% done with the first draft at 141 pages. I can't estimate a finish date for the final video, but it /is/ being worked on. Thanks for readin^^) spoofy: open.spotify.com/artist/60GjYJQp1BJxmUNrr2cF6S koofi: ko-fi.com/davidrus...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts: 𝝌[chi] Saga
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By exploring with you how the music of the 𝝌[chi] Saga has contributed to the musical tradition of the series, I hope I’ll have been able to express how the music in these games not only pay homage to the past...but also how they have set up musical arcs to be resolved in the future as well. Table of Contents: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:05:09 CHAPTER I: 𝝌[chi] SAGA ORIGINALS 00:05:52 - "Before...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage
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By exploring each of these pieces and the ways that instrumentation and referential material is used, we can come to a more valuable recognition of the impact 0.2’s music had on the following games in the series. The creativity in 0.2's original score perfectly encapsulates the adaptive potential of Shimomura’s series-wide musical groundwork, and it serves a breath of fresh air that the series ...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
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DDD’s focus on innovating older melodies rather than just reappropriating motifs will mark a change in the series’ musical direction. In this video, we’ll establish the connections and more generally, the underlying musical advancements that Dream Drop introduced to the series through Shimomura’s changing compositional philosophy for the game and how she, Ishimoto, and Sekito were able to assis...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts Coded
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This video explores various musical connections within the original soundtrack for all entries of Kingdom Hearts Coded. In this video, we'll look a little more closely at how various individual pieces are used throughout all three versions of Coded to try to come to an understanding of how some tracks and particularly some of the multifunctional event tracks seem to have been understood by the ...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
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This video explores various musical connections within the original soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. This story carries with it the burden of expanding Nomura’s universe while staying true to traditions established from the previous games. But with the help of Sekito and Ishimoto, Shimomura was able to musically provide interesting resolutions to the on-screen events by making use ...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Просмотров 6 тыс.4 года назад
This video explores various musical connections within Yoko Shimomura's original soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Although this entry to the series did not introduce many original pieces, many tracks from previous games reprise their role, and there are some interesting narrative observations to be made among the pieces within this game. Table of Contents: 0:00 Introduction 2:20 Days' ...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts II (KH2)
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This video explores Yoko Shimomura's magnificent score for Kingdom Hearts 2: a soundtrack teeming with callbacks and self-referential musical material, and also one that helped further establish and lay important groundwork for the musical future of the series. Table of Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 1:52 - KH2 Categorization Chart 6:55 - KH2 Motif Connection Diagram 9:20 - Evolutionary tracks 1...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Просмотров 7 тыс.4 года назад
In this video, we dive into Yoko Shimomura's score for Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (CoM) by exploring notated examples that show relevant motivic links to other tracks within CoM. We also take a look into how these tracks, as well as several of the pieces they're based upon, help to setup the musical introduction of the primary antagonists in the series: Organization XIII. Table of Conten...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts (KH1)
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This video explores Yoko Shimomura's dynamic and highly interconnected soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts 1 with notated examples that show relevant motivic links to other tracks within the game and, more generally, within the broader musical narrative of the whole series. Table of Contents: 0:00 Introduction 3:04 KH1 Connection Diagram 3:41 Orphan themes 6:53 "Always on My Mind" 8:13 "Where Is This...
The Music of Kingdom Hearts: Prologue
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This is the first of a series of videos about why I think the soundtrack of the Kingdom Hearts games is so great. In this Prologue to these video essays, I outline my goals with the project: namely, I will aim to broadly summarize the soundtrack of each chronological game with notated examples showing relevant connections to other tracks within each game and, more generally, within the broader ...
final xehanort and the 30-second C
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.4 года назад
let me be petty about my favorite game series for a hot minute
Xehanort but each of his finger movements makes a piano sound
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Xehanort but each of his finger movements makes a piano sound
Miraculous Ladybug "Umbrella Scene" RESCORED | No Dialogue
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Miraculous Ladybug "Umbrella Scene" RESCORED | No Dialogue
"Xion's Theme" (Kingdom Hearts OST) on a Homemade Music Box
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"Xion's Theme" (Kingdom Hearts OST) on a Homemade Music Box
"Aqua's Theme" (Kingdom Hearts OST) on a Homemade Music Box
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"Aqua's Theme" (Kingdom Hearts OST) on a Homemade Music Box
This was meant to be KH3's title theme, but it got the boot when Nomura thought it wasn't grand enough for the game meant to end the Xahanort saga. But they didn't want her work to go to waste, so they slid it here. That's why it has the character refs in it, to say, it's time for the hearts within sora to awaken once more. There was an interview about this, I believe.
You know, I've heard this a couple times actually! I've been trying to find the interview where this was said, but i've had a lot of trouble trying to locate it. It'd be a great point to bring up during the KH3 video--do you know how to find it?
Wow dude that's fantastic fits perfectly!
Lol cool idea! Makes me like this faux-trailer that ate up precious dev time and Munny ever so slightly more! “Liberation of Reynatis” from Reynatis would probably also work really well
Ishimoto frustrates me so much cuz It is so obvious he's forcing a style he has no experience on whenever he tries to compose. I am sure if he tried what he knows best for KH, his work would be better appreciated and stand out more. But in any case, yeah, this fits way better
This is so cool! Much better than the original and wonderfully choreographed :D
Neat thing indeed! (And perhaps even possible with modding if isolating the SFX is possible)
The fact that Ishimoto did compose the original track for this scene and also the final boss theme makes me worried he might be head composer for the next game. Which like, no please 😭😭😭😭 Also super excited for the kh3 vid!
I doubt it seeing the secret boss theme and secret ending theme was Shimomura. I expect him to be an arranger at most
Hell yeah, love it when a new Green Requiem video drops!
No, no, this can't be right. A clear melody? Sonically pleasant orchestration? Buildup that actually leads somewhere instead of pointless choir patterns? Outrageous!
Also am I crazy or does part of this song sound like a heartbeat
Alllll my homies hate Ishimoto compositions. This is sooooo much better.
Yozora reaching for Nameless Star is how I feel waiting for Green Requiem's new music analysis and KH4 🙃
Hmm, if Kingdom Hearts had a loser with it's 4th wall... I could guess that the inappropriate music choices could be "explained" by the bug blocks and glitches messing with the soundtrack. Though not even that can work for the phone version's decision with "The 13th Struggle".... that must have been one MASSIVE collective brain fart for no one to catch that.
I wonder if there was just some "one size fits most" kind of application for the small Coded game where they needed one track to apply for lots of different uses? Although, I don't understand then why not just use "Forgotten Challenge" for everything in CO if it were some kind of space issue haha. It's a weird one for sure
@@GreenRequiem *shrug* Maybe.... depends on if the inappropriate songs are used elsewhere as well. But yeah, that CO deal will probably be a mystery for the ages.
I know I’ve watched through the “The Music of” series before but I just finished going through it again and wow! It truly heightens my already seemingly insurmountable appreciation for the music of this series and I want to thank you for the time and effort you’ve put into this series! Drawing out all the connections and evolutions for the tracks/motifs is astounding, in addition to the great editing and intermissions out in, especially for this video!
What an AMAZING video!! Not only did you spectacularly break down the relationships between songs, but I loved how the video was edited so we could listen along and hear these connections. SO GOOD!! I never realized how amazing Kingdom Hearts was at its music narratives.. I love BBS so much!! (My favorite soundtrack is Dismiss and my fav character is Terra 💕)
One thing I think that was missed is At Dusk actually does have another reference. It references Vector to the Heavens intro ostinato! Foreshadowing that you have to defeat your best friend AT the place your friendship grew. Not only is Xion’s theme tragic but it’s the callback to At Dusk that really makes Vector to the Heavens so powerful. It’s that ostinato that’s actually omitted in Eternal Moments in BBS because you have Lea and Ventus but no Xion equivalent.
Great analysis. By the way, I also think this game was really well made even though it's short. But it makes up with good replayability. Kinda makes me want to replay it tonight for the first time in over 2 years.
Can you break down Sekito's instrumentation? I'd like to explore his cheap style. Honestly, Kingdom Hearts music got worse with his arrival. His tracks sound too bland and uninspired, and the instrumentation is just too cheap to be likeable.
11:00 I think the idea behind "Xemnus" is actually very interesting. It's no accident that it's misspelled, never associated with Xemnas, and has no musical ties to his other themes. With its use in the movie as an "Axel and Saïx traitor theme" I think it speaks somewhat to the idea of these orders coming from "Xemnas" (air quotes and all) but since the quotes couldnt be used for a track title, the intentional misspelling is used instead. As for its original use, only during the scene where Xion finds out her keyblade is replicated (leading her to find out SHE is replicated) it still holds this meaning wherein it's "not the real deal." As a point of note, Xemnas barely actually appears in Days, and only in cutscenes. He's never a character with which the player has any interaction. He's never in the grey area, never goes on a mission, never fights with or against you.
"Wiggly Finger Piano Keys are Never Animated Correctly"
time to listen to this whole series of videos at work today! glad i decided to search "kingdom hearts music analysis" randomly
Just rewatched this video series and it's still very impressive! I especially appreciate the evolution in visuals and editing. In particular showing scenes where the tracks play helps me a ton to follow along personally. Aside from the Twister segment which I thought was a bit too meanspirited and unnecessary this is really enlightening and helpful. Some thoughts I had on Other Promise in the credits of Backcover: As was discussed in the comment section of your days video, it does symbolize the tragedy of an inescapable fate, which feels kind of fitting for backcovers story looking at it from that perspective 🤔 I'm not saying it's perfect but maybe it's a consideration for why they chose it.
This series has been an absolute joy to watch. I love music and obviously KH has some absolutely stellar pieces and use cases to examine. Waiting warmly for the KH III breakdown if that's still in the cards!
The use of The Key of Light at the first keyhole might not be as random as you think. The entirety of Turning the Key, the keyhole locking/unlocking theme from KHI, is present in The Key of Light from 32 to 47 seconds in. This might mean that The Key of Light is an evolution of Turning the Key, since they're both related to the keyblades and keyholes. The equivalent section in The Key of Darkness from 37 to 54 seconds is reminiscent of Turning the Key, but is clearly different from its portrayal in The Key of Light. Maybe that segment of The Key of Darkness could be considered some sort of dark version of Turning the Key since they share the segment of their tracks that they occupy. The Dearly Beloved motif entirely replaces both the Turning the Key and "dark" Turning the Key segments from The Key of Light and The Key of Darkness as far as I can tell. Maybe some of the background melodies are shared but if there is a resemblance it's no longer front and center.
MAN THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT WOOOO. Thanks a million for this out-of-the-blue discovery I'd never even considered before reading this--the Turning the Key and The Key of Light connection is absolutely there!! It makes me super pumped to learn about any other connections I had brushed off with the super short tracks from KH1. As you can imagine, it can be difficult to keep several hundreds of melodies in mind when writing these scripts and preparing talking points^ I've updated the spreadsheet with this information!
You pointed out a connection between A Fight to the Death and The Tumbling where the latter uses a similar part to the former but without the Dearly Beloved resemblance, but there might be another The Tumbling connection. In Fate of the Unknown from ~33-45 seconds in and again from ~69-81 seconds in, a snippet of notes similar to the ones you pointed out in The Tumbling seem to be featured. Edit: Additionally, it says to check which Olympus Coliseum field theme is used in the spreadsheet, be it KHI or II. It's neither. Rather it and Go for It! are their ReCoM versions. Road to a Hero's rendition is also a new version for BBS rather than reusing (reunusing?) I or II's. I also believe this unused BBS Road to a Hero is the version that would go on to be used for a scene in Country of the Musketeers in DDD, making it no longer unused as of that game's release. Would that then count this version of Road to a Hero as a BBS or a DDD version since while it was composed for BBS it was only used for DDD instead?
Thanks for the info about Olympus tracks!! I just checked myself and you're absolutely right. And since you brought up the note in the spreadsheet--I recall I had meant to check if the additional melody present in the KH2 version existed in the field theme (and now we know that since "Olympus Colieseum" is the re:COM version, the BBS file does not include this melody) re: the fate of the unknown / tumbling connection--I hear that the glock is the same soundsource! I think the pitches are different though, and in this case, there would seem to also be no reason to connect Fate of the Unknown with a random other battle theme in the game haha. Cool thing to pick up on though for sure--I've updated the spreadsheet with the relevant discoveries here Thx for the comment!!
Ok this is really really late and might have been mentioned already but what do you think of the beginning of the melody/theme in wave of darkness [G Ab F]? Destati? (There is also the violin downward semi quavers figuration but what has demon tide got to do with Tension Rising 🤔?)
Usually, I default to just coincidence in happenstances like this. The "darkness motif" (those three notes from destati) are such a tiny musical buildingblock that the statement really has to be either completed or stated very slowly and with little-to-no following material in order for me to think it could be an intentional reference. So, Wave of Darkness is almost certainly just a standalone track that's not referential imo^
@@GreenRequiem first of all ty for reply! I think the three-note motif is quite persistent though, occurring every two bars almost (it also kept the long-short-long rhythmically so to speak), maybe it’s my classical (common practice) musical mind doing such thinking lol On another note, are you planning on a similar video for KH3 in the future? I also likes how you had collabs with other people such as Pat Great work!
@@crobatchoppurple8728 KH3 video in the works, yes!
Small observation as it's already a medley piece, but part of "Fantasia alla marcia" (from 1:05 to 1:55 in the song) is actually a combination of quotes from "The Afternoon Streets" and "Lazy Afternoons" in a part that you marked as simply original material. It starts with "The Afternoon Streets" melody followed by a similar downward contour from "Lazy Afternoons," then repeats. Also, I noticed you fixed on the spreadsheet that Working Together quotes Dearly Beloved, I was about to call that out. Love this video series! Would have made it myself if it didn't already exist.
That scene really got me. İt is even more romantic than when they kissed i think ❤
I really appreciate this video. Idk man. Borders admiration. Cause why even do it this professionally? It just seems like you respect the content to the max. You really make the fans enjoy the content with you and your study of it. Much love.
I did it. I'm 3 years late, but I found all of the emblems since I haven't seen anyone but one person mention it!! 😅 Secret Emblems: 1:29 Roxas 9:52 Bottom Left of Xion 14:56 Paopu Fruits "Plucking" 22:02 Saïx 25:40 Trees Edit: Thank you! It was fun, and I recently finished 358/2 Days, so I felt the need to find them all, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. 😢😂
Late to the party. But it makes perfect sense to me& I absolutely cannot wait for this full video.
I had the ps4 kh3 theme so I would hear this everytime I'd start it and although it got old after a while I was still able to sit back and appreciate it sometimes? If that makes sense? Anyways, looking forward to the KH3 music breakdown, been loving these
Ok but why does the music climax *BEFORE* Xion gets "revealed" and Xion's actual part is in the reverse shot to Lea?
What do you mean the cutscene didn't go like this??? 💔(To be fair I only saw it maybe once, but listened to this version of Dearly Beloved multiple times, so my brain must've conflated the two experiences and just assumed...) Either way, lovely video, your headcanon makes perfect sense! I will wait patiently for the full KH3 musical analysis! 💜💜💜
I noticed in your notes for Kh3 you were disappointed for Kh3 scala songs what are your opinions on the Missing Link scala field and battle theme
Oh man. This is so cool, i love this much better
You may be onto something
ur brain
I guess pre rendered scenes don't come with adjustable sound but I managed to mute all music or voice or sfx in other scenes
So cool, and so exact I struggle to imagine an explanation of why this would have been written this way otherwise! Can't wait for the KH3 video!
3:48 AM. Damn, burning that midnight oil.
wowwww. that's incredible
KH3 seems to have a lot of weird music quirks that seem to have been switched around. I know we've talked about Edge of Existence possibly being originally the Final World battle theme, like: - In-game, the track is listed under "ew" which is the world identifier for the final world. - If you use mods to spawn in an enemy in the Final World, Edge of Existence plays - Edge of Existence as a name just seems a lot more thematic for the Final world i have some beef with the kh3 dev team lmao
I wanted to add Forest Memory into the dearly beloved medley I did last year but it was too complicated to adapt, so I just added the little quotes and that's it. But the orchestration is so lush and beautiful, I love it.
I've always wondered why the character references, especially the statement of Xion's theme, were cut out from the final game. Shimomura went through all the work of creating an extra "Dearly Beloved" only for it to fade out before the most interesting part? This thought experiment makes total sense, I am now a believer.
It might have been done to remove the Ven reference (as At Dusk is more specific to Axel/Lea, Xion, and Roxas). Ventus is very tangential to the scene
Making me cry bro. This doesn't seem like that crazy of a head-canon , It works perfectly with the shot. I think it makes lots of sense. I think the Days song might have just ended up conveying Axel's attempt at remembering more transparently and they just went with that instead.