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‘In My Heart’ FFVII x FFVI music arrangement

Posted 18th June 2022 by sara-garrard

An arrangement combining “Holding Thoughts in My Heart” and a bit of “Aria di Mezzo Carattere” (the opera scene from FFVI), both by Nobuo Uematsu.

I made a video combining footage of me on oboe, harp and music box together with shadow puppet theatre and a string orchestra….. that sadly is not actually playing this piece, I’m just using images their lovely Dvorak footage (Orchestral Ensemble Seoul OES conducted by Gyu-Seo Lee, licensed under Creative Commons).

You can listen to 63 other chill vgm covers on the SoundoleChillOut2022 playlist here.

Cloud Smiles (FFVII Advent Children) – oboe and piano

Posted 2nd January 2022 by sara-garrard

The last thing I filmed before Christmas, this gorgeous piece from the end of the Advent Children movie, by Nobuo Uematsu. I watched Advent Children last Christmas Eve, for the first time since it came out (and in the Complete version which I guess I hadn’t seen) and honestly loved it this time round. Also felt like I’d been missing out on the soundtrack all these years. I’ve made a ff7 soundfont version, a music box version, and now…

The first melody is on the oboe in the full orchestral version too so I wanted to see how an oboe and piano take would sound.

I had to practise that piano part quite a bit!! (And even then don’t expect me to ever manage it live.) And the oboe, phew, a lot of sustaining needed.

Jessie’s Theme (FFVIIR) two ways

Posted 9th November 2021 by sara-garrard

Last year I did a bit of an arrangement/restyle of Jessie’s Theme by Masashi Hamauzu from FFVII Remake:

Lately I recorded this in a live piano and oboe version:

Consolation for oboe and piano

Posted 15th October 2021 by sara-garrard

Consolation, a little piece for oboe and piano.

was also performed on EWI by Peter:

I love this version!

I also put the sheet music up here on musescore.

Liberty, Romance

Posted 22nd July 2020 by sara-garrard

Live piano/oboe version of a track from the Infinity Crystal soundtrack.

‘Home Away From Home’ (FFVII Remake) oboe and piano

Posted 20th July 2020 by sara-garrard

I did a quick transcription of another pretty piece from the Final Fantasy VII remake. This piece is by Takafumi Imamura, using themes by Nobuo Uematsu from the original game (Main Theme and Holding Thoughts In My Heart). And I played it on piano and oboe 🙂

Home away from home (in Bb) score on musescore

THROWBACK THURSDAY: What News The Eagle Brought

Posted 10th October 2019 by sara-garrard

How about a Throwback Thursday? I should probably make sure I post some new music in between throwbacks, so maybe this will be a not every week event (specially as I’m mired in writeups at the moment), but this sounds like fun.

This is a piece of film-style music from … March 2008!

“Sire,” said the Eagle, “when you have heard my news you will be sorrier of my coming than of the greatest woe that ever befell you.” The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis.

Sad, bleak, empty… I wrote this and I think one other piece for this “score” – there’s a snippet of the bad guy theme from that at the end of this. Featuring live oboe (I think that bit at the start with the rising phrases and the silences and the squishy strings and sadness is my favourite part?), and alongside the Nice Orchestral Sound Library, some particular free soundfont percussion I remember with great fondness.