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The aim with Pianoforte Collections: Final Fantasy X was to consider the groundwork of individual compositions in order to transform these pieces into piano arrangements. That was preferable to simply performing music from the game on the piano. The success of the concluding production was in large function fabricated possible by Kuroda-san'due south versatility as a performer.

Masashi Hamauzu

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Piano Collections: Final Fantasy 10 (ピアノコレクション - ファイナルファンタジーX, Piano Korekushon - Fainaru Fantajī X ?) is a pianoforte arranged album of tracks from Final Fantasy X, performed past Aki Kuroda. The liner notes have the tracklist in mixed Japanese and English, a picture of Nobuo Uematsu and Masashi Hamauzu watching Aki Kuroda play the pianoforte, a profile of Kuroda and messages from Hamauzu and Uematsu.

Track listing [ ]

1. Zanarkand — iii:19
   (ザナルカンドにて, Zanarukando nite ?, lit. At Zanarkand)
2. Tidus'southward Theme — 4:08
   (ティーダのテーマ, Tīda no Tēma ?)
3. Besaid — iii:02
   (ビサイド島, Bisaido Shima ?, lit. Besaid Isle)
4. Hum of the Fayth — half-dozen:18
   (祈りの歌, Inori no Uta ?, lit. Song of the Prayer)
5. The Travel Agency — iii:01
   (旅行公司, Ryokō kōshi ?)
6. Rikku's Theme — 2:50
   (リュックのテーマ, Ryukku no Tēma ?)
7. Guadosalam — three:09
   (グアドサラム, Guadosaramu ?)
8. Thunder Plains — three:21
   (雷平原, Kaminari Heigen ?)
9. Attack — 3:29
   (襲撃, Shūgeki ?)
10. Via Purifico — three:fourteen
    (浄罪の路, Jōzai no Michi ?, lit. Path of Cleansing)
11. Suteki Da Ne (Isn't Information technology Wonderful?) — 4:18
    (素敵だね, Suteki da ne ?)
12. Yuna's Decision — 3:02
    (ユウナの決意, Yūna no Ketsui ?)
13. Servants of the Mount — four:04
    (極北の民, Kyokuhoku no Min ?, lit. Northern Tribe)
14. Final Battle — 3:55
    (決戦, Kessen ?, lit. Decisive Battle)
15. Catastrophe Theme — 5:34

• Special Presents "Final Battle" (only in the Piano Collections sail music book; same every bit the "Final Battle" arrangement with a new added section)

Liner notes (translated from the original Japanese) [ ]

The offset time I met Ms. Aki Kuroda was a year ago, when she was the pianist at Rikki's live concert. Ms. Kuroda began formally studying classical pianoforte when she was little and went on to graduate from the pianoforte department at Tokyo University of Arts and Music, and yet her forceful tango piano performance at that show really surprised me. She seemed to play the Argentine tango more with her blood than with technique, which could I think exist considered the more profound arroyo, and the event was truly splendid. As Last Fantasy is a series which blends various music genres together, I thought it would be good to have a performer who didn't incline towards any particular blazon of music and had a number of performance styles to hand, so asked Ms. Kuroda to play for this anthology. Please enjoy Aki Kuroda'south World to the fullest. And I would like to thank Mr. Hamauzu for his spectacular arrangements. You're a man who'south going to go far.

Nobuo Uematsu (Composer), January eighth, 2002

For someone like me, who usually relies upon MIDI, confronting the staff music for a pianoforte score is an backbreaking process. You can't bury clumsy progressions in the mix, or alter the surface of the music with other instruments. You can't predict the results until the occasion of performance, when your canvass music is given estimation. And so you have to prepare the score with equally of thoroughness and precision. It was a trying experience but, equally someone who came to composing late, participating in such a musical project was a valuable opportunity to amass skills, for which I am extremely grateful. I've always appreciated the value of chances to darken staff paper with dots, then accepted this job with a positive outlook.

At any rate, this was the most difficult project I've e'er worked on. I had previously been given the responsibleness of using the piano to encapsulate the world of SaGa Frontier 2, but when the championship is "Collection", the meaning changes subtly. Rather than adapting myself needlessly to listeners' tastes, I was cognizant that to limited my ain integrity as much every bit possible, I needed to deploy my power without discrimination against any tendency. Only the unusual consistency in my attitude here gave me nothing but problem. I couldn't hide my irritation in my lack of ability. If I hewed only to established pianoforte drove tradition, I would live or die past skills still untested, and even if the results sounded "like" a particular manner, they wouldn't concord upward when compared to the real matter. Yet if I stuck merely to my strengths at the expense of everything else, the effect would depart from the connotation of "collection", and ignore the possibilities afforded by live piano performance. And while this was a rather hard pick, no matter how many avenues I explored or how much studying I attempted, I soon wound upwards with zippo but rage. I tried to absorb those techniques with which I lacked feel to the point where I could say they were a strong betoken, just the time I had to do it in was brief. My head filled upwardly over many days. To take upward the double-edged sword of conveying out my truthful intentions, or a lesser blade that would not exhaust my confidence? I finally arrived upon the abnormal path of taking the double-edged sword and sharpening information technology into a bract of truth. And Ms. Aki Kuroda's expert performance gave me confidence that my decision was the correct ane. I never expected at the start that I could do something that would exist so satisfying. I thought of chalking information technology up to my dislike of studying, but it was really thanks to the depth of feeling that music itself possesses, a lesson I volition carry with me ever.

From the bottom of my centre, I thank everyone who gave me this wonderful opportunity.

Masashi Hamauzu (Composer, Arranger), Jan eighth, 2002

Sheet music [ ]

Book comprehend.

Published past Yamaha Music Media, the Final Fantasy X Piano Collection Sheet Music book contains the canvass music for the tracks on the Piano Collections: Final Fantasy Ten album, plus a slightly different version of the "Terminal Battle" with an added section. The pieces are arranged for solo piano and the difficulty level is from intermediate to advanced.

References [ ]

1. ↑ 13 Questions for Final Fantasy 13'southward Composer Page two (dead) ( Accessed: March 17, 2016 Retrieved from http://www.1up.com/features/13-questions-final-fantasy-13?pager.offset=one ) at 1UP.com

External links [ ]

• iTunes
• VGMdb
• VGMdb (reprint)

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