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Early Video Post! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-06-20 05:03:12
Imported:
2026-10

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New format, let me know if you'd like to see more of this kind of collaborative video in future! Enjoy!

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Analyzing the Orchestration of Skyward Sword - feat. @ChristopherSiu

Orchestration is one of my weaker points in musical analysis, so I brought on fellow music YouTuber Christopher Siu to help analyze the orchestration of the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's Sky Theme. It's a bit of a more casual format, but I think there's a lot here to enjoy! Check out Chris's channel for more orchestration tips: https://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherSiu Check out Chris's 'Orchestration Essentials' here: https://www.christophersiu.com/8bit 0:00 - Intro 2:21 - Sky Theme Intro 6:48 - A Section 14:46 - A' Section 22:30 - B Section 26:10 - B' Section 28:19 - Ending / Loop Back to Intro 33:15 - Chris's Orchestration Essentials PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/8bitmusictheory Check out my album: https://8bitmt.bandcamp.com/album/lets-play DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8bmt TWITTER: https://twitter.com/8bitMusicTheory Check out my video editor's own channel here: https://www.youtube.com/gamescorefanfare #Zelda #SkywardSword #8bitMusicTheory

Comments

Martin Fabian

It's a excellent idea with the transcription of orchestrated music; I thank you very much for your full score transcriptions of the Zelda 3 music. Prokofiev (Peter and Wolf e.g.) offers an historic background to the "mischievous wood wind"-sound, which in turn can be traced via Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet and the shifts between soloist groups and the full orchestra ("tutti") belongs to the tradition of the Concerto grosso from Baroque era. But I wonder if it's really that big of a difference between live recorded vs virtual instrument compositions . Both Zelda 3, Castlevania SOTN and Skies of Arcadia for example, are vastly superior to Zelda SWS in quality from a listener's end perspective, I'd say.

Lavos

This is great! I recall in your Hyrule Field video that you did not have much to say about this one because it had so little relation to the others. I was bummed out that we didn't get a chance to do a deeper dive on it, so this is a great way of going about that. Also, full orchestration is something I know very little about which makes it great to learn more. Thanks!

Grant Kinney

This was a great balance of talking about theory and talking about orchestration, loved it! And as always, the top notch editing held my attention the whole time. Would love to see more collaboration videos as well done as this one.

Stewall Gonzalez

This format was super enjoyable. The back and forth with an expert in a particular field elevates the content even more. It's great to feel like you're learning things alongside us as well. I hope you do this again.

8bitmusictheory

I feel the same way, feels good to go back and give this tune some attention after brushing it off in that original video!

8bitmusictheory

I do enjoy listening to a lot of early video game 'orchestral' music more than a lot of music written for a real orchestra - there's something very charming about the sound of SNES samples. The considerations for writing each type of music are very different, of course. Maybe there's something to be said for the scope of early game scores, where one person could be in full control of everything coming out of the tv speakers. With a several hour long fully orchestrated modern game score, the number of people involved in the process of writing, arranging, orchestrating, mixing, etc. might mean there's less personality in the final product? Thanks for your comment!

Martin Fabian

Ah, I agree with you about the charm of "low-bit samples"; not forgetting to mention the very different personalities in the Sega Mega Drive samples v SNES. Actually, there's some research about the average number of people involved for writing a hit song; it has risen to 6 nowadays compared to 2 in the 60s ... surely the same trend in videogamemusic can be seen, as you say. I was very sceptic that the Final Fantasy VII Remake could do anything but destroy the previous score (in a bad way, that is), but I'm baffled how amazing the re-arrangements and additional music turned out. Guess that "personality" is possible as long as there's good teamwork. https://tedium.co/2023/02/04/why-do-modern-pop-songs-have-so-many-credited-writers/