Mother 3 - Love Theme (Orchestral Arrangement)

Honestly, this is probably the best remix I've ever done. I'm very proud of it!

Released this one a few hours later than I wanted to, but oh well. It took a little longer than the other ones I've done so far to both do the remix and edit the video (the fact that the YouTube Uploader apparently doesn't work at my school didn't help matters!). Which doesn't really surprise me since it's much longer than the usual.

I tried to do something new with the video on this one and tie everything together into a "philosophical narrative" (so to speak) that fit in with the song. All the images and quotes pertain to love, with the emphasis being on unconditional love. I tried to represent the four types of love as defined by C.S. Lewis: agape (unconditional love), eros (romantic love), storge (familial love), and phileo (friendship/companionship). The last one was probably the least represented. I mainly focused on storge when making the video since the love that the theme refers to is mainly between Hinawa, Claus, and Lucas.

Naturally, the music is radically different (being an almost 5 and-a-half minute arrangement of a 1 minute song) than the original. I tried, like in Radish Ruins (and to a lesser extent, Mt. Pyre), to mold this one into a classical form. This one, depending on how you interpret it, could be a five part Rondo (ABABA), an abridged sonata form with a coda and no development, or a repeated binary form with a coda. I personally intended the first one of those. I also extended the b-theme from the original a bit, so it could flesh out its own section.

I also did something a little different than usual and added a prominent role for vocalists (synthesized, of course). There's an operatic soprano solo throughout most of it and a choir in the second half. The rest is pretty much my standard orchestration (which is getting much better, I hope).

It's also a bit hard to hear, but I totally quoted "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and pastiched the second movement of Rach 2 (which is a bit more obvious) in counterpoint to the B-theme. It occurs both times it occurs (the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" quote shows up in the Oboe first, then the Second Violins). I mainly did that as a joke, because the extended B-theme was reminding me so much of that melody that I had to slip it in there!

Hope you enjoy!

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