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Super Mario World - Ending Theme (Synthesia) // Tom Brier
updated
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Big thanks to ValleyBell for their midi conversion tools.
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Big thanks to ValleyBell for their midi conversion tools.
00:00:00 スウィング (タコにささげるよ) - Swing (Tako ni Sasageruyo)
00:03:14 南洋でヨイショ - Nan'yo de Yoisho
00:08:52 本当のこと言えば - Hontou no Koto wo Ieba
00:14:09 私と百貨店 - Watashi to Hyakkaten
00:17:38 ペリカン - Pelican
00:21:14 まだ - Mada
00:24:52 テーマ - Theme
00:00:00 めだか - Medaka
00:03:25 ミュン ミュン - Myun Myun
00:09:19 おちょーし者の行進曲 - Ochōshi-Mono No Kōshinkyoku
00:14:15 You Need Me
00:20:21 これから死んでゆくすべての生命体に捧げる詩 - Korekara Shindeyuku Subete No Seimeitai Ni Sasageru Uta
00:24:28 いとほに - Itohoni
00:29:01 Free
00:32:38 III
00:34:52 微笑む - Hohoemu
00:40:40 ちょっと痛いけどステキ - Chotto Itai-Kedo Suteki
00:00:00 福の種 - Fuku no Tane
00:03:34 マヌカン - Mannequin
00:07:57 あこがれ - Akogare
00:13:25 島の娘 - Shima no Musume
00:17:56 東京スウィート:モーニング・トップスオープン・スペースグッド・ナイト東京 - Tokyo Suite: Morning Tops, Open Space, Good Night Tokyo
00:26:18 いっしょに - Issho ni
00:29:04 アイ・アム・ソーロー - I Am Sorrow
00:32:42 空の友達 - Sora no Tomodachi
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Arranged by: Kossetsu-Inryo
PDZF.COM as in the PC-98 tool, not a website if such exists.
RCP file sequenced by: AN
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
I don't think LMZ2 is fully compatible with SC-88 Pro, which makes some instruments display as "Bank Error".
Arranged by: 踊れK
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
00:00:57 Aldynes - Stage 6
00:02:30 Battle Ace - Act 2
00:05:14 Blazing Lazers - Queen Brawla [Area 4]
00:07:05 Blood Gear- BGM #08
00:08:39 Bloody Wolf - Stage 1
00:10:54 Bloody Wolf - Stage 5
00:12:40 Bloody Wolf - Stage 6
00:14:06 Bomberman '93 - Password
00:15:04 Bomberman '93 - Blossom (Planet B)
00:16:42 Bomberman '93 - Surf (Planet E)
00:19:00 Bomberman '94 - Title Theme
00:19:30 Bomberman '94 - Area 2: Vexin' Volcano
00:22:11 Bomberman '94 - Area 3: Slammin' Sea
00:25:12 Break In - Challenge
00:25:44 Break In - Ingame 1
00:27:55 Break In - Results
00:29:00 City Hunter - Mission 1: Gone with the Beauty
00:32:00 City Hunter - Mission 4: Escape from Hell
00:34:03 Cyber City Oedo 808 - Crime Spirit
00:35:57 Cyber City Oedo 808 - Reasoning
00:37:24 Devil's Crush - Main Theme
00:41:07 Digital Champ - Ending
00:43:20 Download 2 - Syd's Condo
00:44:29 Download 2 - Intermission 4
00:45:22 F-1 Dream - Time Trial
00:46:29 F-1 Dream - Ending
00:47:52 Hyper Dyne Side Arms - Round 1
00:49:36 Hyper Dyne Side Arms - Round 3
00:51:29 Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu - Spire of Silence
00:54:34 Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu II - Slash for Chap
00:57:13 Kaze no Densetsu Xanadu II - Down to the Abyss
00:59:03 Legendary Axe, The - Level 3
01:01:09 Legendary Axe, The - Level 4
01:03:50 Legendary Axe II, The - Opening
01:04:29 Magical Chase, The - Rampish Chase (1st Stage - WALL TOWN)
01:06:54 Magical Chase, The - Waltz of Meditation Part 2 (5th Stage - HELL FIRE)
01:09:48 Magical Chase, The - Variations on a Ra Melody (6th Stage - SUNCTUARY)
01:12:10 Neutopia - Demo
01:14:28 Neutopia - Subterranean Sphere
01:17:14 Neutopia - Water Sphere
01:19:00 Neutopia II - Sphere 4
01:20:35 Pastel Lime - BGM #01
01:21:51 Psychosis - 1st Cause
01:23:27 Shin Megami Tensei - Home
01:24:51 Shin Megami Tensei - Jakyou no Yakata
01:27:03 Star Breaker - BGM #01
01:29:17 Star Breaker - BGM #02
01:31:57 Super Star Soldier - Over Again [Opening]
01:32:44 Super Star Soldier - Dislapidated Zone [Stage 3]
01:34:14 Susanoou Densetsu - Prologue
01:36:04 Susanoou Densetsu - Town
01:37:25 Susanoou Densetsu - Credits
01:38:55 Tatsujin - Unknown [Stage 5]
01:41:14 Zero4 Champ - BGM #21
01:42:18 Zero4 Champ - BGM #10
Screenshots from mobygames. Track titles from vgmrips/joshw archive.
Arrangement based on a track of the same title from Gradius 2 (MSX).
00:00:00 Junya Nakano - Accelerated Universe
00:05:07 Tadahiro Nitta - Gakuroku Sanrei -XETREV-
00:14:10 Norio Nakagata - McCoy
00:21:46 Saori Kobayashi - Golden Blvd. 1992
00:25:51 Tsukasa Masuko - Dawn on the Horizon
00:29:30 Tomomi Otani - Memory RE the Brain
00:32:49 Koichi Namiki - Altered Cosmos
00:36:09 Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Lift me Up!
00:40:58 Toshiya Yamanaka - Midnight Overdrive
00:45:49 Yuriko Keino - Fantastic Meditation
00:51:54 Keishi Yonao - NEXUS
This video will be taken down on request from copyright holders/when the album is officially provided to YouTube.
GG Shinobi (composer: Yuzo Koshiro)
00:00:00 Opening
00:00:30 Rush [Highway 1]
00:01:37 First Step [Harbor 1]
00:03:09 Spirit [Valley 1]
00:04:16 Woodland 2
GG Shinobi II: The Silent Fury (composer: Yuzo Koshiro, Motohiro Kawashima)
00:05:15 Intro
00:05:44 Factory 1
00:06:54 Extro
Sylvan Tale (composer: Saori Kobayashi)
00:08:17 Title Screen
00:10:26 Overworld (Verda)
00:12:01 Desert Labyrinth
00:13:41 Labyrinth (Sylva)
Lunar - Sanposuru Gakuen (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare, Isao Mizoguchi, Two Five)
00:15:12 Intro Fanfare ~ Title
00:17:04 Burg Home, Agid Cape (Port)
00:19:54 Boss Battle
Nazo Puyo - Arle no Ru (composer: Tomonori Minami as Ba.M)
00:22:01 Title Screen
00:24:10 Choose Your Character & Level!
00:26:15 It Starts Off Easy Here
00:27:57 It Only Gets Harder From Here
00:30:43 The Real Challenge Begins!
00:32:55 Time to head home, and make curry!
Ninku Gaiden - Hiroyuki Daikatsugeki (composer: Eisaku Nambu)
00:35:35 Opening
00:36:59 Title Screen
00:37:34 Ice Field - Stage Theme
00:39:52 Boss
00:42:16 Unknown 2
00:44:29 Castle - Stage Theme
00:46:20 Unknown 3
00:48:36 Ending
00:49:53 Credits
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:33 Stage 1 - Graveyard
00:02:09 Stage 2 / Stage 4 / Stage 8a
00:04:37 Stage 3 - Waterfalls
00:06:37 Stage 7 - Ice World
Master of Darkness (composer: Takashi Horiguchi, Yoko Wada)
00:08:43 Story
00:10:23 Thames River (Round 1)
00:12:40 Epitaph (Round 3)
Moldorian: Hikari to Yami no Sister (composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto)
00:14:55 Opening
00:15:53 Town
00:17:10 Boss
Shining Force Gaiden - Final Conflict (composer: Motoaki Takenouchi)
00:18:43 Legend of Light
00:20:59 Fight! with the Ancient Light
00:22:00 Place of Rest
00:24:49 Devoted Soldier's Requiem
00:26:06 Prelude to Battle
00:27:12 Hole in the Heart
GG Aleste (composer: Keiji Takeuchi)
00:29:11 Title / Bonus Area
00:30:51 Round 3
00:32:30 Round 4
00:33:51 Round 8 / Final Boss
GG Aleste II: Lance Bird (composer: Chie Ōya as Imami Pon, Tomonori Minami as Ba.M)
00:35:44 Title Screen
00:37:12 Weapon Select
00:38:58 Stage 1 - Space Plant
00:41:09 Stage 2 - Ground Base
00:42:58 Stage 4 - Ancient Ruins
00:45:13 Stage 5 - Cyber Road
00:46:50 Cyber Road ~ Boss
00:49:13 Ending
Music ("Love Theme") composed by Bob Harris, performed by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra.
Audio replaced with remastered version from album Lolita: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2014, WaterTower Music).
Published in 1922 by Irving Berlin Inc.
Arrangement based on piano roll from this video youtube.com/watch?v=sdWuU8GiQf8
Piano – Kathryn Stott
From album Nocturne - discogs.com/release/11402758-Truls-M%C3%B8rk-Kathryn-Stott-Chopin-Nocturne
All tracks arranged by Akiragumi.
00:00:00 Cosmic Psycho - Neptune
00:02:25 Cosmic Psycho - Bar
00:04:00 Cosmic Psycho - School
00:06:32 Cosmic Psycho - Sadness
00:08:41 Cosmic Psycho - Begin
00:13:21 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - No Regrets (後悔しない)
00:15:39 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - White Night (白夜)
00:17:14 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - Premonition (予感)
00:18:44 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - Lovely Girl (愛すべき乙女)
00:20:18 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - Suspense (サスペンス)
00:21:14 Kimi Dake ni Ai o... - Eternal Dream (永夢)
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator.
Screenshots from mobygames.
00:00:00 Kyouhaku - Darside Visiter
00:01:36 Dual Soul - Bar (酒場)
00:04:11 Dual Soul - Elf Village (エルフの里)
00:07:03 Inma Seifukugari - H Scene: Kyoko Sakuragi (Policewoman) (Hシーン・対 桜木 今日子)
00:11:15 Majogari no Yoru ni - Town (街)
00:14:13 Majogari no Yoru ni - Witch (魔女)
00:17:38 Majogari no Yoru ni - H Scene 1 (Hシーン1)
00:21:47 Majogari no Yoru ni - H Scene 3 (Hシーン3)
00:26:45 Majogari no Yoru ni - Ending (エンディング)
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator.
Screenshots from mobygames.
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Imagical Musion Depot Vol.1 / 1994 Active Gamers
00:00:00 - Osamu Ishikawa (尼っ子2号) - Aim at the head of the enemy!
00:03:39 - Osamu Ishikawa (尼っ子2号) - Hero's a road
00:08:02 - Go Adachi (げぺるん) - Into the Battle
00:09:16 - Go Adachi (げぺるん) - 「SELF」より「街のテーマ」
00:11:06 - Go Adachi (げぺるん) - Desert Field
00:13:20 - Akito Monden (もんでん) - Adversity ~逆境~
00:14:50 - MKR - Small Wedding
Imagical Musion Depot Vol.2 / 1995 Active Gamers
00:18:35 - あにま - be at an end
00:20:43 - Go Adachi (げぺるん) - High Tension
00:22:13 - Go Adachi (げぺるん) - Shake off your sorrow (悲しみを振り切って)
00:24:20 - yon” - Dragon Shrine
00:27:45 - yon” - Solid Knight
00:32:03 - Akito Monden (もんでん) - Jail Break ~Extended Version~
00:34:13 - Akito Monden (もんでん) - Tomorrow is a new day (明日は明日の風が吹く)
00:36:24 - Akito Monden (もんでん) - Behind The Scheme
00:38:02 - Akito Monden (もんでん) - Marksman
00:39:30 - M.SIRACONO - Keep on Shakin'
00:42:04 - M.SIRACONO - HOSHI FURU YORU NIWA..
Imagical Musion Depot Vol.3 / 1996 Active Gamers
00:44:53 - Naoki Tate (NT-3) - Tricky (トリッキー)
00:48:34 - yon”, arr. by よっしゅ - 未だ見ぬ地の果てに
00:52:30 - OSATOH - Urban Cats
Imagical Musion Depot Vol.4 / 1997 Active Gamers
00:55:57 - NYA - 西小路三郎探偵事務所
00:58:34 - Takahiro Yonemura (CHEMOOL) - Emotional Flame
00:00:00 Soshi Hosoi - Journey into the Brain
00:05:17 Takeshi Abo - THE FIRST VISION
00:09:21 Hiroshi "hiro" Kawaguchi - MASSIVE POWER
00:13:42 Shinji Hosoe - Folding Moire
00:17:48 Toshiya Yamanaka - Path to the Square
00:22:25 Kohta Takahashi - Prologue
00:27:20 Motohiro Kawashima - Cheap Trip Beat
00:31:30 Masahiro "KAJA" Kajihara - Pathos
00:36:08 Yukiharu Urita - M・B・F
00:39:36 Ryu Takami - Another Past
00:42:23 Mahahiko Ishida - At That Time
00:45:38 Yasuhisa "Yack." Watanabe - Night-Arms 81.3MHz
00:48:59 Tamayo Kawamoto - 3.5D at the point of death
00:55:23 Hirokazu Koshio - Whipped Cream Dream
01:00:48 Keishi Yonao - CHAOS THEORY
This video will be taken down on request from copyright holders/when the album is officially provided to YouTube.
Thanks ctr for hoot files.
Thanks ctr for hoot files.
Full credits: vgmdb.net/album/2435
Manabu Saito composed soundtracks for games included in this video while being 19-20 years old. He passed away at the age of 22.
00:00:00 - [PC-88] Providence - Opening
00:02:38 - [PC-88] Providence - Juanelia Country - Spacecraft (ジュアネリア国~宇宙船)
00:04:41 - [PC-88] Providence - West Theme (西部のテーマ)
00:07:33 - [PC-88] Providence - Cave of Plateau (台地の洞窟)
00:08:44 - [PC-88] Providence - Theme of Prifimia (South) (プリフィミア(南部)のテーマ)
00:10:03 - [PC-88] Providence - Theme of Yofanes (North) (ヨファネス(北部)のテーマ)
00:11:14 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - The Deal
00:12:36 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - Snappy TIme
00:15:22 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - The Advent of ... !
00:17:11 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - A Pack of Cigarettes
00:20:16 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - Showering Sunshine
00:22:45 - [X68000] 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu - Lost Truth
00:23:35 - [X68000] Yami no Ketsuzoku - Marie's Death (マリーの死)
00:25:57 - [X68000] Yami no Ketsuzoku - Tea Ceremony Dream (喫茶 茶此夢)
00:28:39 - [X68000] Yami no Ketsuzoku - Ending (闇の血族 エンディング)
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator.
Screenshots from mobygames and videos linked below.
youtube.com/watch?v=hedsjetA-0I
youtube.com/watch?v=gNa8IGVu-fc
youtube.com/watch?v=DpYxHaehw6I
Album: MIDI POWER ver.5.0 (KICA-7645)
Year: 1994
I used CD recording as audio, midi file (from MIDI Power Pro) was used only for visualisation. Some channels are hidden.
00:00:00 - Black Bird - More Powerfull
00:00:10 - Black Bird - Howl of Crow
00:03:36 - Black Bird - Explorer
00:08:03 - Black Bird - Violence Energy
00:10:39 - Black Bird - Black Bird Works
00:12:43 - Black Bird - Danbai
00:15:07 - Black Bird - Rainy
00:17:03 - Mahou Shoujo Fancy CoCo - Event Cleared (Successful Completion) (イベントクリア(正常終了)) // arranged by Ryu Umemoto
00:18:16 - Star Trap - Fairy Pistir (妖精ピスティル)
00:20:55 - Star Trap - Space (宇宙空間)
00:23:22 - Sound Ceremony Vol.3 - Stardrops
00:27:18 - Sound Ceremony Vol.3 - FM Kid's
00:30:19 - Sound Ceremony Vol.3 - La'RuberAster
00:33:40 - Sound Ceremony Vol.3 - PsychoChemical
00:36:51 - Sound Ceremony Vol.3 - Music box on the table (テーブルのオルゴール)
00:38:33 - Metal & Lace 2 [Ningyou Tsukai 2] - Vs Cavier
00:40:24 - Metal & Lace 2 [Ningyou Tsukai 2] - Staff Roll
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator.
Screenshots from mobygames and vndb.
Game: Mahou Shoujo Fancy CoCo*
Source: FMP Music Disk Vol.4
Sound board: PC-9801-86 (the 86PCM channel isn't visible in the video)
Year: 1996
*It's basically an OPNA version of a track titled "Summer" from PC-98 game called Mahou Shoujo Fancy CoCo, which had an OPN soundtrack.
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator. Spectrum from foobar2000.
Game: Grounseed*
Source: FMP Music Disk Vol.5
Sound board: PC-9801-86 (the 86PCM channel isn't visible in the video)
Year: 1996
*This track titled "Demo" or "Shop Demo" is not actually present in the game. It was written for an eye-catcher used to demo the game in computer shops. Source file was released with fifth volume of FMP Music Disk series for PC-98.
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator. Spectrum from foobar2000.
Each instrument is mapped either to SC-55 or SC-88, I was trying to follow the CD-audio version.
Thanks to zoast (twitch.tv/zoasty) for looping the midis.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:40 - Human War Room
00:07:31 - Human Campaign 1
00:12:45 - Human Campaign 2
00:17:06 - Human Campaign 3
00:21:25 - Human Campaign 4
00:27:26 - Human Death
00:28:55 - Human Victory
00:29:58 - Orc War Room
00:31:27 - Orc Campaign 1
00:35:40 - Orc Campaign 2
00:40:27 - Orc Campaign 3
00:45:12 - Orc Campaign 4
00:50:00 - Orc Death
00:51:00 - Orc Victory
00:00:00 - Desire - Ishtal
00:05:39 - Desire - Reflector
00:10:11 - Desire - Beginning
00:17:40 - Dengeki Division - Forest
00:24:33 - Xenon - Main Theme ~ Staff Roll
00:30:05 - Xenon - Towering Past
00:36:32 - Xenon - Magnify
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator.
Picture of Ryu Umemoto uploaded by Audun Sorlie.
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator with no low pass filter set.
For Neural Gear I enabled PCM8 output, because even though I haven't heard it used for this ost anywhere else, it does seem to be programmed to be able to take advantage of it.
Keishi Yonao isn't officially credited as composer for Star Trader.
Most of the screenshots taken from mobygames.
00:00:00 - Asuka 120%: Burning Fest - Title Screen
00:00:15 - Asuka 120%: Burning Fest - Character Select
00:01:52 - Asuka 120%: Burning Fest - Asuka Theme
00:03:17 - Asuka 120%: Burning Fest - Tamaki Theme
00:04:54 - Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force - Opening 1
00:06:42 - Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force - Stage 1
00:09:09 - Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force - Stage 4
00:10:50 - Neural Gear - What You Change? (Opening)
00:12:00 - Neural Gear - Systematic Eyes
00:15:20 - Neural Gear - Merry Dancers
00:17:36 - Neural Gear - Fluxion
00:20:51 - Pitapat - Sentimental Girl's
00:23:45 - Pitapat - This Word Send For You
00:25:56 - Star Trader - The Logic of Shooters (Stage 1 Zone Silva)
00:29:17 - Star Trader - Moon Space (Stage 3 Zone Lufa)
00:32:54 - Star Trader - Else (Stage 5 Zone Molgana)
00:36:15 - Star Trader - Intention to Mystery (Credits Roll)
Names of some instruments aren't accurate.
Piano: Michel Camilo
Bass: Anthony Jackson
Drums: Horacio Hernandez
Lower keyboard shows bass notes.
Played back using Sound Canvas VA (SC-88PRO).
Names of some instruments aren't accurate.
Names of some instruments aren't accurate.
Names of some instruments aren't accurate.
Names of some instruments aren't accurate.
MIDI Power Pro 2:
00:00:00 - Silvery Wings Again
00:03:31 - The Plot of Prince Nonsense ~ Shizoid Doll
00:07:18 - Sensation
00:11:32 - Speed
00:15:30 - Wonderful Armor
00:20:00 - In Order To Meet You...
MIDI Power Pro 3:
00:24:10 - Ana's Theme
00:28:50 - Lavender
MIDI Power Pro 4:
00:34:21 - Surrounded by Flowers ~Nozomi, met by chance by the flower bed~
00:40:59 - Central Park ~Central Park Date~
00:45:27 - Planetarium ~Planetarium Date~
MIDI Power Pro 5:
00:50:06 - Power of Anger
00:55:47 - Departure Again
01:01:58 - Fly High
01:08:11 - Thunderbolt
01:14:09 - Sensation
MIDI Power Pro 6:
01:22:34 - Nocturne in the Moonlight
01:25:11 - Dracula's Castle
01:31:31 - Marble Gallery
01:37:34 - The Tragic Prince
01:43:39 - Wandering Ghosts
MIDI Power Pro 7:
01:49:24 - Return Theme
01:53:30 - Oceanus
I didn't include the first album as it's only a selection of tracks from previous MIDI Power albums produced by different team than people behind MIDI POWER Pro albums.
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Recordings aren't identical to album versions.
Album: MIDI POWER Pro Best Selection (KICA-7670)
Year: 1995
Played back using Roland Sound Canvas VA.
Hideki Naganuma - Fly Like a Butterfly (Jet Set Radio Future)
Maps in order of appearance:
atlas.dustforce.com/6895/gardener
atlas.dustforce.com/8264/another-break
atlas.dustforce.com/8749/bobma-casual
atlas.dustforce.com/8166/prism-smash
atlas.dustforce.com/8587/shufflelad
atlas.dustforce.com/8451/hard-forest
atlas.dustforce.com/9352/goto-3000
atlas.dustforce.com/9171/goto-2000
atlas.dustforce.com/8715/star-dust
atlas.dustforce.com/8729/lnileyprism3
atlas.dustforce.com/8469/aster
atlas.dustforce.com/7732/wildflower
atlas.dustforce.com/7826/orange-juice
atlas.dustforce.com/8656/skip
atlas.dustforce.com/7958/lolol
atlas.dustforce.com/9416/goto-4000
atlas.dustforce.com/9169/goto-1000
atlas.dustforce.com/9231/peril-in-pantomime
Composer: Frédéric "Moby, elmobo" Motte
Game: Fury of the Furries
Year: 1993
I first heard the Amiga version of this music a long time a ago in a 2002 game from Fallen Angel called Furry, where it was used probably without the consent from the composer. Recently I accidentaly found where it originally comes from and that it has an AdLib version which I like even more.
Composer: Frédéric "Moby, elmobo" Motte
Game: Fury of the Furries
Year: 1993
I first heard the Amiga version of this music a long time a ago in a 2002 game from Fallen Angel called Furry, where it was used probably without the consent from the composer. Recently I accidentaly found where it originally comes from and that it has an AdLib version which I like even more.
Mazurkas are based on traditional Polish folk dances: Mazur, Kujawiak and Oberek. However, while Chopin used them as his model, he was able to transform his mazurkas into an entirely new genre. Chopin started composing mazurkas in 1825 (age of 15), and continued composing them until 1849, the year of his death. The number of mazurkas composed in each year varies, but he was steadily writing them throughout this time period.
„Perhaps a bit surprisingly for those not too familiar with them, Chopin’s Mazurkas show him at the absolute height of his genius, and in all moods: baleful, anxious, sarcastic, lyrical, triumphant, forgiving, anguished, placid. They’re some of his most harmonically, rhythmically, and texturally advanced music, and have a pretty justified reputation as being very difficult to perform effectively despite the fact that on a purely technical level they’re not that challenging. Interpretively however, the Mazurkas are a puzzling blend of innocence and incredible musical sophistication, and it’s very hard to convey their often-heady, sometimes-Delphic, always-rapt musicality. [You can find in Mazurkas] tonal ambiguity (17.4 […]), rhythmic displacement (6.3), striking harmonies (7.1’s middle section, 17.4 again, 41.1, the Renaissance-like Notre Temps and the modal middle of 68.3), works ending on the bare dominant or the wrong key (7.5, 24.4, 30.2), very daring modulations (33.4, 41.2+3, 68.4 […]), works which expand into almost Ballade-like proportions (56.3, 59.1), and, especially in the later works, an increasing amount of counterpoint (50.3, 63.3, […]).” (2)
„More than for other composers, history plays an enormous part in understanding Chopin's music. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Polish were a people without a sovereign state to call their own. They were under the thumb of an oppressive Russia, and their territory was being reduced by a series of political moves that went against the Polish. Their resistance gave rise to an armed revolt against the Russians, which initially peaked between 1797-1802. This event gave rise to Poland's national anthem, a mazurka written by Józef Wybicki in honor of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's bravery. A series of conflicts ensued in the decades following. The violence peaked again in the Uprising of November 1830, which escalated into war with Russia but quickly ended in defeat for the Polish a year later. Chopin was on a concert tour in Western Europe at the time the fighting broke out, and was unable to return to Poland following this conflict. Poland was reorganized as a Russian territory and heavily repressed as a former aggressor for decades following. Chopin's patriotism and homesickness for his homeland shaped the emotional framework for his life's work from thereafter. He was not really content being an émigré, taking part in the Polish experience only by proxy. Chopin was recognized in his time for his Polish patriotism. Remarkably, Robert Schumann wrote the same year of Chopin's exile to Paris, in 1831, "If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are cannons buried in flowers." This was the earliest recorded recognition of the importance that Chopin's work had in the form of protest music; in his charming, deceptively simple mazurkas, he embodies a message of defiance, of solidarity with the men and women who were resisting on his behalf and fighting for a unified, free Poland.” (3)
Performed by: Artur Rubinstein
(1) - Joanna MacGregor, soundcircus.com/chopin-the-complete-mazurkas
(2) - Ashish Xiangyi Kumar, youtube.com/channel/UC2q7OXP-mPxHzJerA9tXe7Q
(3) - Jeffrey Jones, from their YouTube comment
Thumbnail - Chopin's portrait ©Rue des Archives/Varma/Forum
Recorded using hoot Sound Hardware Emulator
Screenshots from YU-NO come from Elf Classics edition, others were taken from mobygames.com
It sounds like YouTube conversion caused some sound artifacts in a few spots unfortunately. Though if this video gets you interested in this kind of music I'd recommend listening to it through hoot anyway.
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