Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Well, what a chaotic one - "Sol Sanctum Erupts" from the cataclysmic start of Golden Sun!
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➤ Analysis:
Blimey, where to begin - this has been the biggest arrangement to create so far! The original is intensely chromatic and dissonant - very surprisingly so for the capabilities of the Game Boy Advance! - with an incredible amount of tritone intervals ("Devil Interval") of an augmented 4th (e.g. B + F) and semitonal clashes (e.g. B + C).
With respect to this chaos, I had a field day with orchestrating it, bringing out those semitonal clashes and tritones even further and adding several other dissonances (e.g. the suspensions in the opening horn melodies creating a further semitonal clash).
By the time we get to 0:32, all hell breaks loose: the winds go off on their own chromatic scales and trills (with homage to Stravinsky); the trumpets bring in sporadic staccato passages and crescendo semitones; and the harp litters in occasional glissandi - all the while the original material (which was already dissonant) is sounding in the choir and strings.
The choir largely sing random text, with some references to religious themes (e.g. "Sanctus" = "Holy", and "Agnus" = "Lamb"), which I thought fitting for an event related to Alchemy (arguably the religion of Golden Sun's universe).
The Cubase file for this arrangement hit my limit on MIDI tracks (I can only have 64 per project!), so I had to use two projects to create it. Thus the Cubase footage above is the raw MIDI information, rather than the tweaked MIDI (as I couldn't fit it all into one project!). I think it's time to upgrade my workstation!
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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: Golden Sun
★Developer: Camelot Software Planning
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Motoi Sakuraba
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries
★Tags: Golden Sun, Golden, Sun, The Lost Age, Golden Sun The Lost Age, TLA, GS, Golden Sun Orchestra, Golden Sun Cover, Golden Sun Remix, Golden Sun Arrangement, Sol Sanctum, Erupts, Catastrophe, Sol Sanctum Erupts
#GoldenSun
#Orchestra
#TheLostAge
🎵 Sheet Music & Parts ➤ [Removed by Nintendo JP]
💗 MIDI / XML / Sibelius ➤ bit.ly/TandABundle
🎹 Commissions ➤ jshaw.co.uk/commissions
🎮 More Arrangements ➤ jshaw.co.uk/TandA
👍 Facebook ➤ bit.ly/TandAFacebook
🐦 Twitter ➤ bit.ly/TandATwitter
🎵 Bandcamp ➤ bit.ly/TandABandcamp
🎵 Spotify ➤ bit.ly/TandASpotify
🎵 Deezer ➤ bit.ly/TandADeezer
🎵 YouTube Music ➤ bit.ly/TandAYouTube
🎵 Apple Music / iTunes ➤ bit.ly/TandAApple
Well, what a chaotic one - "Sol Sanctum Erupts" from the cataclysmic start of Golden Sun!
--------------------
➤ Analysis:
Blimey, where to begin - this has been the biggest arrangement to create so far! The original is intensely chromatic and dissonant - very surprisingly so for the capabilities of the Game Boy Advance! - with an incredible amount of tritone intervals ("Devil Interval") of an augmented 4th (e.g. B + F) and semitonal clashes (e.g. B + C).
With respect to this chaos, I had a field day with orchestrating it, bringing out those semitonal clashes and tritones even further and adding several other dissonances (e.g. the suspensions in the opening horn melodies creating a further semitonal clash).
By the time we get to 0:32, all hell breaks loose: the winds go off on their own chromatic scales and trills (with homage to Stravinsky); the trumpets bring in sporadic staccato passages and crescendo semitones; and the harp litters in occasional glissandi - all the while the original material (which was already dissonant) is sounding in the choir and strings.
The choir largely sing random text, with some references to religious themes (e.g. "Sanctus" = "Holy", and "Agnus" = "Lamb"), which I thought fitting for an event related to Alchemy (arguably the religion of Golden Sun's universe).
The Cubase file for this arrangement hit my limit on MIDI tracks (I can only have 64 per project!), so I had to use two projects to create it. Thus the Cubase footage above is the raw MIDI information, rather than the tweaked MIDI (as I couldn't fit it all into one project!). I think it's time to upgrade my workstation!
--------------------
The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using the brilliant EastWest sample libraries.
★Game: Golden Sun
★Developer: Camelot Software Planning
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Motoi Sakuraba
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries
★Tags: Golden Sun, Golden, Sun, The Lost Age, Golden Sun The Lost Age, TLA, GS, Golden Sun Orchestra, Golden Sun Cover, Golden Sun Remix, Golden Sun Arrangement, Sol Sanctum, Erupts, Catastrophe, Sol Sanctum Erupts
#GoldenSun
#Orchestra
#TheLostAge
