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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 18, 2023 ^^
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I remember playing Dragon Quest VIII in my grandparents' house many years ago, and when my grandma listened to the music, she instantly was like "Oh so that game has classical music?"
Btw, I love that Château is included, because its greatest inspiration is actually Air, from Bach.
Koichi Sugiyama was truly a wonderful composer, RIP.
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Sugiyama did all of the Dragon Quest games. He had a stronghold over the music right, meaning his estate owns it all. So much so that he had witheld the release of sheet music for the series for years. Sugiyama also did all of the music for the side games as well along with many other games. Shiren the Wanderer, Hanjuku Hero, and Portopia Murder Case come to mind. He also did work for TV and film like the 1971 Return of Ultraman and 1989's Godzilla vs. Biollante.
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The only one that threw me was the Beethoven harpsichord piece. Not because it was harpsichord, but because it did some compositional things I didn’t think Beethoven would do; the leap of the augmented second as he was moving down the scale, jumping up from the leading tone past the root to the b9, etc. Gotta check the piece out now.
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I started binging the DQ series just last Christmas, so this dropped at a perfect time! The music is such a trip, practically nothing like it for video game OSTs.
I'll be honest, watching you guys get them wrong is a large part of the enjoyment 😅ahah, since idk, I guess it's validating to know that the vg music you like could be confused for being made by a classical genius. I also simply enjoy the reaction to the music in general. I savored whenever you'd let it play after the guess.
Would love more of this series, although I don't know how many combinations of composers/games can work as well as this. Hildegard von Bingen vs Mega Man???
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Thanks be to the algorithm for recommending me this. I got 'em all, but I also have all the mainline Dragon Quest symphonic suites in my library. Sugiyama was the first video game composer to compose the pieces for orchestra and basically force the programmers to figure out how to make them in the games (from what I understand the battle theme from DQ IV was particularly difficult to render on 8-bit hardware), rather than what was then the standard method of trying to make something somewhat pleasant out of the bleeps and bloops afforded by 8-bit MIDI.
Accordingly, with the popularity of the series over the years, the suites have been performed by the likes of the London Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra (IIRC conducted by the man himself) over the years, to beautiful results.
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@RyanLeach
1 year ago
👾 Is it DEBUSSY or MINECRAFT? Musicians take quiz https://youtu.be/Dawd9YUW1XM
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