Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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By request, here's the full transcription of "A Settlement in the Red Bluffs" from Octopath Traveler - a very fitting jig!
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➤ Analysis:
The theme accompanying Therion's starting town, Bolderfall, is this lively little Irish Jig, complete with accordion, tin whistle and solo violin on the main melody.
The rhythms here are particularly tricky; they can both be written in a 4/4 time signature (as I chose here), or alternatively a 12/16 signature (which to me was far more difficult to read). So I decided on using a 4/4 signature with frequent triplet rhythms.
The work is incredibly modal, using in particular the "Dorian" mode in A (A, B, C, D, E, F#, G, A) with its characteristic F# (0:12), before modulating up to the subdominant - D Dorian (D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D) with its characteristic B-natural (0:39). The work then concludes back into A Dorian to allow a seamless repeat (0:58).
Even though the work is mostly Dorian, there are some quick excursions to the flattened-6th degree (which in A Dorian, would be F-natural, rather than F-sharp), as can be found at 0:17. This excursion occurs similarly when the work modulates into D Dorian, pivoting quickly on a B-flat (the flattened-6th) rather than a B-natural at (0:44).
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The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using the brilliant EastWest sample libraries.
★Game: Octopath Traveler
★Developer: Square Enix
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Yasunori Nishiki
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries
★Tags: Octopath Traveler, A Settlement in the Red Bluffs, Octopath Traveler OST, Octopath OST, Octopath Soundtrack, Octopath Settlement in the Red Bluffs, Red Bluffs
#OctopathTraveler
#ASettlementInTheRedBluffs
#SheetMusic
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By request, here's the full transcription of "A Settlement in the Red Bluffs" from Octopath Traveler - a very fitting jig!
--------------------
➤ Analysis:
The theme accompanying Therion's starting town, Bolderfall, is this lively little Irish Jig, complete with accordion, tin whistle and solo violin on the main melody.
The rhythms here are particularly tricky; they can both be written in a 4/4 time signature (as I chose here), or alternatively a 12/16 signature (which to me was far more difficult to read). So I decided on using a 4/4 signature with frequent triplet rhythms.
The work is incredibly modal, using in particular the "Dorian" mode in A (A, B, C, D, E, F#, G, A) with its characteristic F# (0:12), before modulating up to the subdominant - D Dorian (D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D) with its characteristic B-natural (0:39). The work then concludes back into A Dorian to allow a seamless repeat (0:58).
Even though the work is mostly Dorian, there are some quick excursions to the flattened-6th degree (which in A Dorian, would be F-natural, rather than F-sharp), as can be found at 0:17. This excursion occurs similarly when the work modulates into D Dorian, pivoting quickly on a B-flat (the flattened-6th) rather than a B-natural at (0:44).
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The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using the brilliant EastWest sample libraries.
★Game: Octopath Traveler
★Developer: Square Enix
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Yasunori Nishiki
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries
★Tags: Octopath Traveler, A Settlement in the Red Bluffs, Octopath Traveler OST, Octopath OST, Octopath Soundtrack, Octopath Settlement in the Red Bluffs, Red Bluffs
#OctopathTraveler
#ASettlementInTheRedBluffs
#SheetMusic
