User:ShadowKirby/Music

NOTE. Describing and detailing music in Template:GameTitle. Its format will be loose until sufficient content is added. Point of reference: Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer Soundtrack.

Shiren 1 SFC

All composed by Koichi Sugiyama.

Track 01: Story

"Story" (Japanese: 旅ガラスは行く) plays during the title screen cutscene.

Composition: traditional Japanese instrumentation (presumably hyōshigi, koto, shakuhachi). It opens with a [koto] solo intro: a rising phrase within A minor pentatonic scale, then has a [hyōshigi] intermission and repeats slower. The following D minor main phrase played by the [shakuhachi]: D-F-E-A, with a supporting [second sakuhachi]. The main phrase plays in several variations, modulating and leading back to D minor's dominant. During the resolution, the music slows down. Doesn't loop.

This main phrase of theme appears throughout a majority of the soundtrack, thus serving as the game's main motif.

As a part of the track:

• "Golden Condor"
• "Canyon Hamlet"
• "Koppa's Theme"
• "Successful Journey" at 0:40

As a motif:

• "Old Cedar Road" at 0:28
• "Old Mine" at about 0:50
• Fay's Final Puzzle[?] at 0:58
• "Cryptic Rock Valley" at 1:07
• "Monster House" at 0:32
• "Special Monster House" at 0:37
• "Table Mountain (1)" at 0:44 (and both arrangements)
• "Table Mountain 4" at 0:59
• "Table Mountain 5" at 0:49 (and Table Mountain 6)
• "Final Trials" at 1:21

Track 02: Main Menu

"Main Menu" (Japanese: 憩いの町) plays at the game's menu and the demo reels' scoreboard. A cheery rhythmically varied arrangement of "Mountaintop Town".

Track 03: Golden Condor

"Golden Condor" (Japanese: 旅立ちの前に) plays during the opening story cutscene.

Composition: dramatic and rhythmically varied C minor version of the main motif from "Story".

Track 04: Canyon Hamlet

"Canyon Hamlet" (Japanese: 旅ガラスの町) plays in the eponymous location. It's an extended version of "Story".

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Traveling Condor Departs ~ Town of the Traveling Condor" (Japanese: 旅ガラスは行く～旅ガラスの町)

Track 05: Fay's Puzzles

"Fay's Puzzles" (Japanese: フェイの問題) plays within all 50 of Fay's Puzzles. Metallophone version of "Main Menu", which in turn is an arrangement of "Mountaintop Town".

Track 06: Old Cedar Road

"Old Cedar Road" (Japanese: 杉並の旧街道) plays at floors 1 - 2 of Table Mountain, Old Cedar Road.

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Old Cedar Road ~ Pegasus Ridge" (Japanese: 杉並の旧街道～天馬峠) (medley)

Composition: the track is centered around plagal harmonic progression in C minor, alternating with its subdominant, F Dorian mode. Its melody begins with a rising fourth, repition of the top note, and descending scale in groups of eighth notes and two sixteenth notes. In its second section, it modulates to C-sharp minor for its lyrical section: a quotation of the main motif from "Story". [Incomplete]

Track 07: Bamboo Village

"Bamboo Village" (Japanese: 旅ガラスの宿) plays in the eponymous location.

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Inn of the Traveling Condor" (Japanese: 旅ガラスの宿)

Composition: played by a solo [koto], this track is set in F-sharp minor, and is sedate in character. [Incomplete]

Track 08: Mountaintop Forest

"Mountaintop Forest" (Japanese: 山頂の森林) plays at floor 7 of Table Mountain, Mountaintop Forest.

Composition: this track is set in D Dorian mode and characterized by a steady and broad swaying pulsation in the bassline. [Incomplete]

Track 09: Pegasus Ridge

"Pegasus Ridge" (Japanese: 天馬峠) plays at floors 5 - 6 of Table Mountain, Pegasus Ridge. It's an extended version of "Mountaintop Forest" with more delicate instrumentation.

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Old Cedar Road ~ Pegasus Ridge" (Japanese: 杉並の旧街道～天馬峠) (medley)

Track 10: Mountaintop Town

"Mountaintop Town" (Japanese: 憩いの町) plays in the eponymous location.

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Town of Rest" (Japanese: 憩いの町)

Composition: after a diatonically descending progression of arpeggiated chords, the track starts with a steady swaying pulsation in C major. The melody combines C major and E minor pentatonic scales, thus forming a delicate balance of relative keys C major and A minor. [Incomplete]

As part of a track:

• "Main Menu"
• "Fay's Puzzles"
• "The End"
• [Unlisted] Mountaintop Restaurant

Track 11: Old Mine

"Old Mine" (Japanese: 廃坑) plays at floors 8 - 9 of Table Mountain, Old Mine.

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Old Mine" (Japanese: 廃坑) (derived from area name Old Mine at Mount Nebri)

Composition: with a high-pitched accompaniment of alternating tonic thirds and subdominant fourths, the track presents a melody with a dragged out first note, starting in D minor in the first phrase and shifting to [G major] in the second. [Incomplete]

Track 12: Cavern in the Cliff

"Cavern in the Cliff" (Japanese: 断崖の岩屋) plays at floors 10 - 11 of Table Mountain, Cavern in the Cliff. It's an arrangement of "Old Mine" with a well-defined bassline.

Note: appears in a medley with "Old Mine" in the Special Arrange Version, despite it not being listed in the name.

Track 13: Cave of the Mountain Spirits

"Cave of the Mountain Spirits" (Japanese: 山霊の洞窟) plays [].

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Cave of the Mountain Spirits" (Japanese: 山霊の洞窟)

Composition: features a D-flat to E-flat ostinato and a shrill flute melody. [Incomplete]

Track 14: Cave of the Mountain Spirits 2

"Cave of the Mountain Spirits 2" (Japanese: 山霊の洞窟2) plays []. It's a reinstrumented arrangement of "Cave of the Mountain Spirits" [].

Track 15: Cryptic Rock Valley

"Cryptic Rock Valley" (Japanese: ???)

Track 16: Table Mountain Intro

"Table Mountain Intro" (Japanese: 奇岩谷)

Track 17: Table Mountain

"Table Mountain" (Japanese: 雲上の世界で) plays [].

Composition: the theme is dominated by repeating and often dissonant chords. Its melody begins in the bass. [Incomplete]

Track 18: Table Mountain 2

"Table Mountain 2" (Japanese: 雲上の世界で) plays []. It's a [] arrangement of "Table Mountain".

Track 19: Table Mountain 3

"Table Mountain 3" (Japanese: 雲上の世界で) plays []. It's a [] arrangement of "Table Mountain".

Track 20: Table Mountain 4

"Table Mountain 4" (Japanese: 試練の時) plays [].

Composition: this track is slow and sorrowful, with an unclear tonality blurred by dissonance.

Track 21: Table Mountain 5

"Table Mountain 5" (Japanese: 天にとどく) plays [].

Track 22: Table Mountain 6

"Table Mountain 6" (Japanese: 天にとどく) plays []. It's an [organ?] arrangement of "Table Mountain 5".

Track 23: Final Trials

File:Shiren 1 SFC - Final Trials.mp3 "Final Trials" (Japanese: 試練の洞窟) plays [].

Names:

• Mystery Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer Special Arrange Version: "Final Trials" (Japanese: 試練の洞窟)

Track 24: Golden City

"Golden City" (Japanese: 黄金都市)

Track 25: The Cave Behind The Waterfall

"The Cave Behind The Waterfall" (Japanese: 滝壺の洞窟)

Track 26: Successful Journey

"Successful Journey" (Japanese: 黄金都市～そして旅は終わった)

Track 27: Monster House

"Monster House" (Japanese: お化け屋敷) plays [].

Track 28: Special Monster House

"Special Monster House" (Japanese: 化物小屋) plays [].

Track 29: Shop

"Shop" (Japanese: 怪しい店) plays [].

Composition: the track starts off as a light-hearted and somewhat goofy theme in C major with an oom-pah accompaniment and frequent accidentals. [Incomplete]

Track 30: Thief!

"Thief!" (Japanese: 泥棒状態) plays [].

Composition: this track gives off a sense of urgency with its fast tempo and rapid passages. It opens with a falling chromatic scale in A minor.

Track 31: Koppa's Theme

"Koppa's Theme" (Japanese: 旅ガラスは行く) plays []. [Koto?] arrangement of the main part of "Story".

Track 32: Pekeji's Theme

"Pekeji's Theme" (Japanese: ド演歌･ペケジのテーマ)

Track 33: Gaibara's Theme

"Gaibara's Theme" (Japanese: ガイバラの屋敷) plays during the second demo reel.

Track 34: The End

"The End" (Japanese: 完) [Said to be arrangement of "Mountaintop Town"]

Track 35: Waterfall Marsh

"Waterfall Marsh" (Japanese: ???)