http://intothescore.blueandbrownbooks.com/2007/06/25/08-the-kingdom-key-is-eb-major/ the only podcast solely dedicated to the academic study of videogame music! Sun, 20 May 2012 20:29:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://intothescore.blueandbrownbooks.com/2007/06/25/08-the-kingdom-key-is-eb-major/#comment-321 maelkashishi Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:42:35 +0000 http://intothescore.blueandbrownbooks.com/?p=5#comment-321 Nice analysis of what makes the score work. A thing I could not determine: does Shimomura use the device of starting off a world with a known song and then using the instruments or some of them for the other songs? I do not know many of the songs from Disney movies, so I could not tell, it only struck me someplace that the world clearly started with the theme from the movie (Winnie and some other place) Off-topic: Whatever means Kingdom Hearts? Is it me or is this a kind of strange title (well, in the light of Square latest stroke-of-genius game name "Infinite Undiscovery" not as much). I ask as there is also a song some people might have heared of that is supposedly called "Dancing Mad", which also doesn't sound very English to me... what is up with that? With the latter I guessed that it was a way to translate the Kenji or dunnowhats directly that made up the original title, but with KH, well: don't they use the Latinized English titles like they do in, say, the Neon Genersis Evangelion logo? Finally, in wiki and show we learn that "she [Shimomura] often pretended to be composing her own music by playing the piano randomly". Well, didn't we all? Well at times not pretending, and I like collaging monophone melodic lines for minutes on end in my head and on my voice (to the best of my quasi-non-abilities) even today sometimes. Nice analysis of what makes the score work. A thing I could not determine: does Shimomura use the device of starting off a world with a known song and then using the instruments or some of them for the other songs? I do not know many of the songs from Disney movies, so I could not tell, it only struck me someplace that the world clearly started with the theme from the movie (Winnie and some other place)
Off-topic: Whatever means Kingdom Hearts? Is it me or is this a kind of strange title (well, in the light of Square latest stroke-of-genius game name “Infinite Undiscovery” not as much). I ask as there is also a song some people might have heared of that is supposedly called “Dancing Mad”, which also doesn’t sound very English to me… what is up with that? With the latter I guessed that it was a way to translate the Kenji or dunnowhats directly that made up the original title, but with KH, well: don’t they use the Latinized English titles like they do in, say, the Neon Genersis Evangelion logo?
Finally, in wiki and show we learn that “she [Shimomura] often pretended to be composing her own music by playing the piano randomly”. Well, didn’t we all? Well at times not pretending, and I like collaging monophone melodic lines for minutes on end in my head and on my voice (to the best of my quasi-non-abilities) even today sometimes.

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