Saturos' Battle Theme | Orchestral Cover

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It's been a while! Here's an orchestral arrangement I've created of Sakuraba's brilliant "Saturos' Battle Theme" from Golden Sun.

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➤ Analysis:

Although Sakuraba did himself create an updated version for Dark Dawn, I wanted to have my own attempt at updating his classic theme as it is one of my favourites (and was good fun to create!)

A highlight of the original is the use of pitch-bending on the synthesizers, which I placed in the trombones here (0:25) as they are able to easily recreate a true, smooth glissando.

In the original, the gorgeous passage of 0:35 has a delay effect on the harp, causing each note to be echoed quickly after playing. So here, I orchestrated a literal echo effect using two harps, a glockenspiel, celesta and piano, all playing closely together with some a quaver (8th note) late. This passage also uses the Dorian mode, heard by the characteristic raised 6th at 0:40 (here, B major in the key of F# minor).

As is quite common in Sakuraba's battle themes, he switches to a 5/8 meter at 0:46 (which can alternatively be scored in 5/4) with more pitch-bending. He follows this with a cheeky 12/16 + 4/16 passage at 1:05 (reminiscent of the introductory upbeat/anacrusis) in order to get back into the original 12/8 meter.

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The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using the brilliant EastWest sample libraries.

★Game: Golden Sun
★Developer: Camelot Software Planning
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Motoi Sakuraba

★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries

★Tags: Golden Sun, Golden, Sun, The Lost Age, Golden Sun The Lost Age, TLA, GS, Golden Sun Orchestra, Golden Sun Cover, Golden Sun Remix, Golden Sun Arrangement, Saturos, Menardi, Saturos Battle Theme, Saturos' Battle Theme

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