‘A Broken World’ piano and orchestra arrangements

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Hiii so I seem to have posted a bunch of stuff on youtube that I haven’t updated here! For the sake of completeness and because these are quite nice….

‘Return to the Planet’ and ‘A Broken World’ are tracks from the Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack by Masashi Hamauzu that are original to that score – and, as you might be able to guess from the titles, really emotionally charged.

I did a fairly faithful piano arrangement:

And a really reimagined/new genre’d orchestral/soundtrack one:

FFVII R OST demake: Collapsed Expressway

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Another Final Fantasy VII Remake track done in the (broad) style of the original FFVII game. Actually this piece is really such a long way from the original style/genres and I didn’t completely rewrite it to make it fit, but I tweaked a few things and of course used the soundfont, so it sounds kinda like the original. And it sounds cool!

Also a little while ago I did the same with Avalanche’s Theme:

(Which I think actually sounds pretty reasonable as a FFVII era track.)

Cute music for dogs….

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There’s an amazing genre of videos on youtube, which is adorable dog grooming videos……. such as those by SHU AND TREE – I am hooked.

And there seems to be an associated broad ‘genre’ of really cute music….. I tried writing some. And added some freely available videos of dogs.

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my songs are all for her

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For Her

my songs are all for her whose love I fain would win:
each to her heart a wanderer goes singing, let me in.

her eyes my beacons be, her lips my rosy guides,
and in her heart a melody for every word abides.

be brave, be brave, my song, nor falter in the quest:
love in her heart has waited long to greet the singing guest.

and be it yours to know the latch lift on the door;
once in her heart — go, lyric, go be hers, for evermore

‘For Her’ by Frank Dempster Sherman.

a winter rose

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A SONG’S ECHO

My Love is like a Winter rose
That sweetly blooms alone,
That has of rivals none, and knows
A beauty all her own.

My Love is like a tender tune
That wakens tender words,
And fills December full of June,
And brings again the birds.

Her smile, my sun; her voice, my song;
Her face, my flower of bliss;
Oh, who could find the Winter long
With such a Love as this!

‘A Song’s Echo’ by Frank Dempster Sherman