Game:

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)

Duration: 0:43

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Music: Reunion / Tatl & Tael
Composers: Koji Kondo
Platform: Nintendo 64 / Nintendo 3DS

Music theory analysis and piano cover visualization project made with the actual audio tracks from the original Nintendo 64 game. Extracted with a specialized audio software, we can now dig inside the score for the first time; offering us a glimpse for how each instrument contributes to the whole.

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Musical Analysis:

Introduction to the concepts and influences of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask:
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Structure: Section 1 / Section 2
Time Signature: 3/4
Tempo: 80 (ritardando to 60 at the end of Section 1, ritardando to 50 at the end of Section 2)
Melodic and Harmonic Profiles: G Ionian/Major

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What? But if it doesn't sound anything like the original track!
- There are a couple of reasons that make it impossible to get a perfect conversion between the music from inside the game and the audio files. First, there is the fact that the audio inside the cartridge uses a music sequence format called Music Macro Language, a format that has additional information for the playing in-game; then there is the problem of reproducing the particular reverb effect that the N64 used–even the team behind the sound for the 3ds remake had trouble replicating the effect!– and third we have the audio compression that is absent here and helped to glue the instruments together, affecting the final mix.

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