Something for #TuneTuesday which I have rarely tuned into. #PaletteMusic
Since this is on my favs list, it gets primacy of placement
Condition Green, by Hiroko Kasahara
https://animethemes.moe/anime/mobile_police_patlabor/OP2-NCBD
Watch Mobile Police Patlabor OP2 Version 1: Condition Green ~Kikyuuhasshin~ on AnimeThemes.
This #TuneTuesday 's theme is #MyGoldenOldie - the oldest song on your personal playlist.
Shamefully, even I can't weeb this one up!
I am going to count "things that there could have been an album of when they came out" because otherwise I'd have to spend a lot of time chasing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era ๐
Considering when the phonograph came out and commercial recordings could start being sold, it seems likely to be a John Philip Sousa or Scott Joplin?
I'll give it here, as I used to listen to Joplin basically on repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2rMET4MVw&list=RDND2rMET4MVw
Apparently this #TuneTuesday theme is #NonLexicalVocals
Oh no! Another excuse to post Yoko Kanno and a track from some of the best OST of all time in Macross Plus? Heaven forfend!
For a #TuneTuesday that is #WideOpenSpaces I, for once, am compelled to start non-weebishly. (Which does not mean I will ONLY...)
A composer I leaned into heavily as a young'in, and basically "equates to wide open landscapes" is Aaron Copland. And while everyone knows at least a little from cultural osmosis (like Fanfare for the Common Man), I'm here to convince you to take in a ballet. (Well, the orchestral arrangement of a ballet he composed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Qt0AIRK-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxd1cmenki8
It's only 25 minutes, what else you got going on? ๐
First link has marvelous wide-open imagery, and the second has Copland conducting, which is super-cool.
It is overall... a lot to take in. Mountains' worth! And well worth it.
Holy shnikes, with #TuneTuesday being #BigCrescendos it has happened upon one of my very favorite things, which I was recently discussing with a friend.
My form is not "volume" related, so much as "start out slow and soft, keep adding instruments and phrases, and top out right before the end of the song magnificently" and my first example of this is just a simple background track from Kimagure Orange Road
One others may have heard before is the ending music of Gundam F91, Eternal Wind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPw7lvzTY8Q (Movie version)
https://youtu.be/bPXS-74Vpnk (Kickin' Orchestral version)
...and the most-popular IP but probably a relatively-unknown album, Pray from Final Fantasy: https://youtu.be/glz2S-qWBZ8?si=vQ3bO5RCSGgOCuR5
I'll go hunt for more later, but these are my Big Three
A #BlackMagic #TuneTuesday you say?
Looks like I can not resist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIb7Zc-4Xrk
"Finaly: Street Dancer ni Ai wo Komete (FINALY~ในใใชใผใใปใใณใตใผใซๆใใใใฆ)" by Yuuki Kitahara
Credits music, ending the anime OAV Black Magic M-66
Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #SteppingStonesSongs (or #SteppingStoneSongs) - songs that introduce you to a specific (sub(sub(sub)))genre of music.
This will require a bit more thought than "throwing something up right before I head to work" so to start, I will toss out for #AniSong specifically--anime theme songs, which are usually their own takes within and around #JPop or #JRock or otherwise.
And the one that looms largest for me is "Konya we Hurricane"
from Bubblegum Crisis (1987) - by Kinuko Oomori
It does a marvelous job linking "the MTV Generation" to anime, including titillation and action and sci-fi horror aspects in the opening scenes of BGC, and a fully 80's-captured style in the music video.
Watch Bubblegum Crisis OP1 Version 1: Konya wa Hurricane on AnimeThemes.
Another #TuneTuesday #SteppingStoneSongs that came to mind, for... #MovieScores
That "Hollywood soundtrack" feel? Probably most-cemented by one Erich Wolfgang Korngold, especially from the success and impact of The Adventures of Robin Hood
https://youtu.be/idp_TZBs9Oo?si=1i8HBmSYL52ylLX8
...though you will find his motifs and influence spread all over his works, especially for your smaller composers like John Williams, for relatively unknown scores like Star Wars.
https://youtu.be/sf47W9rXzRM?si=3BF1qqMFXyRysI0F
Original, dramatic scores would proliferate through many influences, but perhaps none so much as Korngold for its adaptability to the modern audience. A simpler sophistication, and with musical queueing more thematically linked to the characters and action on screen.
Another one I think I'll start now, and perhaps explore more later, is with #VideoGameMusic
Video games had sound effects from the beginning, and you started to get things like "level songs" with Frogger, and for years... there was a lot of "this is nice for the first few loops but I HAVE HEARD IT PLENTY AT THIS POINT PLEASE PLAY SOMETHING ELSE" ๐
I am sure for many, the earliest prominent example of "not just a simple chiptune loop, and there is enough variety through the levels" was Super Mario Brothers, and indeed that looms largest.
But I'd like to place up a different NES game which for me hit harder and deeper, and I think more specifically started the ball rolling, in Rygar.
https://youtu.be/xTGxk8rGI-Q?si=xOA3RGjfD-rXT_4G
Something that starts a bit closer to "piece" than "level ditty"
Yay!
I enjoy how you break down the function of a movie score and how it originated.
Bonus props for the "smaller composers/unknown scores" sarcasm.
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@lucyruthe ๐๐
Remembered a good video by Sideways on this, and interestingly it migrates into videogames by the end as well. Hopefully will have time this evening to explore further and link things.
CT
Manda