Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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My favourite of the character themes - "Tressa, the Merchant" - a delightful little track for a delightful character from Octopath Traveler.
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➤ Analysis:
My favourite of the character themes, there isn't too much to analyze except that it modulates from its home key of A major and into D major (the subdominant) at 0:37, with the clarinet taking over the melodic material.
There is a long cycle of 5ths starting at 0:58, going through multiple keys (Bm - E - A - D - Gm - C - F - Bb - Eb) which reminds me quite a bit of Koichi Sugiyama's work on the "Dragon Quest" series, which would also often include long cycle of 5ths progressions.
To get from the distant key of Eb major and back into A major, Nishiki sneakily modulates into E major (up a semitone from Eb) with a suspended 4-3 chord (A - G#) to smooth the return into A major.
This was a rather tricky track to transcribe, as several instruments are quite drowned in the original mix (e.g. particularly the inner string parts and the piano), so some of that material was a bit of a blind guess, such as the piano at 0:58.
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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 and the SONiVOX Harmonica.
★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, SONiVOX Harmonica
★Tags: Octopath Traveler, Tressa the Merchant, Octopath Traveler OST, Octopath OST, Octopath Soundtrack, Octopath Tressa, Tressa
#OctopathTraveler
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🎵 Sheet Music & Parts ➤ musicnotes.com/l/Hl2Sq
💗 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
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🎵 Spotify ➤ bit.ly/TandASpotify
🎵 Deezer ➤ bit.ly/TandADeezer
🎵 YouTube Music ➤ bit.ly/TandAYouTube
🎵 Apple Music / iTunes ➤ bit.ly/TandAApple
My favourite of the character themes - "Tressa, the Merchant" - a delightful little track for a delightful character from Octopath Traveler.
--------------------
➤ Analysis:
My favourite of the character themes, there isn't too much to analyze except that it modulates from its home key of A major and into D major (the subdominant) at 0:37, with the clarinet taking over the melodic material.
There is a long cycle of 5ths starting at 0:58, going through multiple keys (Bm - E - A - D - Gm - C - F - Bb - Eb) which reminds me quite a bit of Koichi Sugiyama's work on the "Dragon Quest" series, which would also often include long cycle of 5ths progressions.
To get from the distant key of Eb major and back into A major, Nishiki sneakily modulates into E major (up a semitone from Eb) with a suspended 4-3 chord (A - G#) to smooth the return into A major.
This was a rather tricky track to transcribe, as several instruments are quite drowned in the original mix (e.g. particularly the inner string parts and the piano), so some of that material was a bit of a blind guess, such as the piano at 0:58.
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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 and the SONiVOX Harmonica.
★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, SONiVOX Harmonica
★Tags: Octopath Traveler, Tressa the Merchant, Octopath Traveler OST, Octopath OST, Octopath Soundtrack, Octopath Tressa, Tressa
#OctopathTraveler
#Tressa
#SheetMusic
