The Music of Kingdom Hearts: 𝝌[chi] Saga

Описание: By exploring with you how the music of the 𝝌[chi] Saga has contributed to the musical tradition of the series, I hope I’ll have been able to express how the music in these games not only pay homage to the past...but also how they have set up musical arcs to be resolved in the future as well.

Table of Contents:
00:00:00​ - Introduction
00:05:09 --- CHAPTER I: 𝝌[chi] SAGA ORIGINALS
00:05:52 - "Before The Daylight" & "Wake Up, World!"
00:12:10 - "Dream Eaters" / "Shipmeister's Shanty" / "Hand in Hand"
00:16:14 - Tsuyoshi Sekito's Compositions
00:18:32 - "TWISTER"
00:25:25 - "Scala ad Caelum"
00:26:57 - "Passing the Power"
00:28:53 - "Master of Masters"
00:30:58 - "The Foretellers"
00:35:26 - "Dearly Beloved" group
00:47:24 --- CHAPTER II: NOTABLE MUSICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHARED SCENES OF THE 𝝌[chi] SAGA
00:55:02 - Post-Tutorial Differences
01:06:58 - Differences in Credits Sequences
01:11:46 - Luxu and the Box
01:17:15 - Intermission: "Rowdy Rumble -Hoedown-"
01:22:26 --- CHAPTER III: ADDRESSING SPECIFIC MUSICAL DECISIONS WITHIN THE 𝝌[chi] SAGA
01:37:22 - Ineffective Musical Decisions
01:51:04 - Inspired Musical Decisions
02:03:16 --- CHAPTER IV: 𝝌[chi]’s LASTING MUSICAL IMPACT ON THE KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES
02:04:34 - Reused Track Wrapup & Musical Redundancies
02:07:28 - Individual Contributions to the Series’ Musical Narrative
02:11:28 - Re-summarizing 𝝌[chi]’s Originals
02:13:17 - Conclusion & Credits

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~Resources~
Read-along script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N...
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Charts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wlk...

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Thanks for watching! So many folks to thank: Kinode (    / kinodevgm   ) for general consultation, image-editing, and coloring advice. PJ (  / cabletownpod  ) also helped out a bunch with photo editing for various graphics & logos. KHNyctophiliac’s KH stock was an incredible resource for many chi-related image isolations that saved a ton of time (   / kh-stock   )! Roboloid, along with his collaborators ( https://roboloid.github.io/khux/about ), provided many of the additional data-mined assets from the games that I used. Luna (   / deewhydeeecks   ) was a big help in diving into the data of filenames for different tracks. Additionally, Kaishun (   / khxrips   ) ripped many of the moving images and world bg layers from 𝝌[chi] that I used for animations. The KHUX Wiki and KHDatabase were so useful for double-checking plot points and the various Limited Event listings for KHUX. User Zak6009 on Gamefaqs compiled a list of every piece of music in the 𝝌[chi] Saga, which was used to corroborate my own observations--very helpful to have a second set of ears collecting this information! Of course, major credit goes to VGMdb ( https://vgmdb.net ) for archiving album information, performers, and general credits for all the soundtracks I've been able to take a look into. I’d also like to thank KH-Vids, Everglow, and many miscellaneous KHX Youtubers for their footage of various events in these titles--without their video archiving, many of the first-hand musical observations in this analysis wouldn’t have been possible.

I also want to thank the many musicians who collaborated with me in producing the “TWISTER -OoHeeHee MIX-” (https://open.spotify.com/track/3NomXu...) and “Rowdy Rumble -Hoedown-” (   • "Rowdy Rumble -Hoedown-" (from Kingdom Hea...  ) tracks. Finally, I’ll thank everyone else at the Requiem’s Sanctuary discord server for being helpful voices with whom to bounce script & presentation ideas. Y’all are stars.

The next game I'll address will be KH3; please look forward to it.

--Green Requiem
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