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Piano sheet music for "Vector of the Heavens"/Xion's Final Boss Theme from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days! :,) So much beauty, argh. Free PDF downloads and a little set of program notes below ^^

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The Quiet Collection.

#1: Vector To The Heavens (Theme of Xion's Final Form)
Release Notes.

I honestly wonder if anyone didn't cry when they fought Xion's last form with the music on. It's the most beautiful boss fight I know from a DS game, and to no one's surprise, it hails from the overly poetic and melodramatic Kingdom Hearts series.

Don't get me wrong - despite accepting that the series gets a little too serious all the time, I still love the Kingdom Hearts series and its beautifully designed recurring characters. Except Vexen. Screw him, seriously.

...anyway.

"Vector to the Heavens" opens with an aggressive piano hemiola rhythm - triplet chords pounding in the left hand and an empty ostinato in quaver fourths against it. String textures flood the room, and an expressive descending C minor scale on the violins soars over the beautiful chaos below. From the empty noise, the violins dig into their strings with the characteristic "octave up, fourth down" motif of Xion's theme, on the melodramatic Kingdom Hearts Theme opening progression: bVI - bVII - i.

The piano, in octave chords, breaks into a passionate, heavy waltz as an inversion of the Xion motif leads in the expressive "Vector" melody that defines this track. The piano gets its time to show off here with pianistic flourishes. And then it transitions smoothly to a bold statement of the "Xion" theme in the piano, doubled by the strings. A brilliant orchestral ritardando, the roll of a timpani, and the music reaches its emotional climax - the strings soar high and sing a melancholic counter-melody while the piano slams down the Xion melody at full-force, while the meter makes an abrupt shift from compound time to simple time (suggested by the piano accents). It's a powerful climax that definitely put me to tears. Not even denying that. :p

Arising out of the climax is a three-bar linking passage based on the Vector theme - with all instruments stretched to their highest registers, screeching in the collective pain of both Xion and Roxas, clashing in the most poetic fight in any game I've ever played. And then from the dust and sparks of the powerful clash, the Kingdom Hearts theme emerges back in compound meter, killing all tension, backed up by a simple waltz rhythm - as if in a sign of mutual forgiveness - before the fight begins again and the Xion theme returns in the strings.

There are very few games with the sheer depth of Kingdom Hearts, and very few game tracks as poetic and symbolic as this one. Here the Xion melody shines, finds itself fixed in the gamer's emotionally overloaded mind, and creates the most beautiful death scene in a game when the real Xion Theme plays as she fades away to nothing. From the ashes of "Vector", Xion's Theme picks up the Xion melody and sets it to a folk-ish, singable accompaniment. And you're probably going to cry here, provided you hadn't exhausted your tears in the Xion battle.

My arrangement aims to re-create the emotional intensity that made this fight so memorable for me, giving focus to the adrenaline-pumped hemiola rhythms and the operatic singing of the piano octave melody. The poetic chords that define Kingdom Hearts tracks tell the story by themselves, and as an arranger I can only emphasise the rhythms that give life to this boss fight. That is, I cannot re-interpret the Kingdom Hearts story, but I can re-create it. And, of course, above all else, I hope you'll be able to re-create those memories and moments for yourself through this sheet :)
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