Leitmotifs?

[Evil Panda]

Basically, if your AC showed up in a game, what would its theme song be when it shows up to attack the player? I mean, Nineball has 9, and White Glint has his own theme... What would yours be?

 

I'll start~

 

Kira, true to his feelings - from Gundam SEED Destiny, aka Strike Freedom's theme (besides Vestige, anyway). Even those who hated the direction the writers took it in can't deny the quality of the soundtrack, let alone this song. The

rendition isn't half bad either.

The 13th Anthology - from Kingdom Hearts, more specifically Yoko Shimomura's Drammatica album. 'Nuff said. Also see

, the track on which Anthology is based.

- another KH one. Yoko Shimomura is great...

Premonition - ...and Nobuo Uematsu isn't too far behind, either. This one's from FF8. =3

 

Post your own Ravens' leitmotifs here, too

Edited May 7, 2011 by Evil Panda

[Bakuhatsu Pengin]

[Niji Superfan]

...That's... Not what leitmotif is, at all. None of the examples you gave use leitmotif in any capacity. Nineball's theme seriously hasn't changed in any respect from AC1 right up to Nexus, not counting the obligatory remix it had on the Revolutions disk (which, by the way, is in no way associated with him). A leitmotif could not be any more different from a recurring themesong, even on premise. A themesong is used to represent a specific place, event or character. A leitmotif is a recurring melody across various musical pieces that is used to tie them all together in some way.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RPY-oiDAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7dk1qUeRn4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGMeiRCH_n8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKUOyqZX1QU

 

This is leitmotif. The lead melody is the same, across each song linked. It's used to tie each song together in such a way that it reflects on a specific character, namely Terra (the de facto main character of the game). Here's another example:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkSI0YzgSRc

 

There. The first movement of Dancing Mad borrows heavily from the first song linked, even though it's not quite the same song. The point here is to link common themes together to group these songs together and better emphasize the characters they represent. In the same way that Terra's theme and the songs that borrow from it are used to emphasize her, Dancing Mad is used to emphasize Kefka (to that end, the last movement of Dancing Mad borrows from Kefka's theme as well). Leitmotif is used in this case to set these two characters apart (independently of one another) from the many core characters in the game, each of whom are heavily elaborated on throughout the course of the storyline. FF6 is notable for its meandering plot focus, with no distinct "main" character by the end of the game and a continual shift from one viewpoint to another. To that end, leitmotif is used to add a greater level of distinction to these two characters, so to as to highlight their significance.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgQ_63EDwH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKb9q2_fPfg

 

This is another example from a completely different game. It's less pronounced, but there is a recurring theme between both songs, at around 1:20 and 0:40, respectively. I could go on, really. QED, leitmotifs are completely different from themesongs, and you have no idea what you're talking about. The only examples of leitmotif in the entire series are in AC3 and SL, most obviously in the tracks labeled Artificial Sky I through IV and Silent Line I through IV.

[Mom]

This is my leitmotif for Causticity:

 

 

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[Bakuhatsu Pengin]

i would use hugehurl more often if i could fit the links into chat

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Is Lil' Jon a melody?

 

[Griffon]

A leitmotif could not be any more different from a recurring themesong, even on premise. A themesong is used to represent a specific place, event or character. A leitmotif is a recurring melody across various musical pieces that is used to tie them all together in some way.

Altaire, to be fair, the description of a Lietmotif does sound a lot like the idea of a theme song, even if in reality it isn't. Hell, I made the same mistake when I made an identical thread a year ago, also mistakenly using the term "leitmotif".

 

 

That said, my theme song would definitely be "

" from Devil May Cry. This has been my unofficial theme song ever since I first played that game.

[Mom]

I read a leitmotif as more of a recurring quality to a variety of songs that represent a character-- not just an entire song itself.

 

 

FF8's soundtrack, one huge group of songs based on the two same leitmotifs over and over again.

Edited May 8, 2011 by TMRaven

[Bakuhatsu Pengin]

technotronic

[YUNG MASTERLESS GLENCOUR]

[The Talentless]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJ09XhaB4E

[LCC]

[K.K]

<- I'm still waiting for proper software to techno this.

[Niji Superfan]

Altaire, to be fair, the description of a Lietmotif does sound a lot like the idea of a theme song, even if in reality it isn't. Hell, I made the same mistake when I made an identical thread a year ago, also mistakenly using the term "leitmotif".

 

In all honesty, I don't see how it sounds at all like a theme/themesong if you can put two and two together. They wouldn't be two separate terms with contrasting definitions if not.