DAY 520) Atelier Firis - Rabbit & Crow
Composer: Kazuki Yanagawa
GUST sound team is at it again! With their soundtracks that randomly have high abundances of odd time, like this one!
(0:00 - 0:11) 10 bars of 6/8
(0:11 - 0:31) [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] x6
(0:31 - 0:46) 16 bars of 6/8
(0:46 - 0:54) 6 bars of 4/4
(0:54 - 0:57) 4 bars of 6/8
(0:57 - 1:29) 32 bars of ¾, [hold]
(1:29 - end) [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] x8
I’m counting this at superfast tempo, and also counting every chord change as a separate bar basically. Some people might want to combine some of the bars together to make the 6/8 into 12/8 (happy 12/8 time day!!), or count the 6/8 as ¾ instead.
I also can imagine many would also count the [6/8 + 2/4 + 5/8 + ¾] sections as [5/4 + 11/8] instead. You could also group it in plenty of other ways too though, I just did it based on when the chord changes are to be consistent with the 6/8 and ¾ sections of the rest of the music where there’s a chord change per bar. I also counted the first of the 4 chords in that loop as 6/8 and the last as ¾ to differentiate between 3+3 vs. 2+2+2. The whole section is [3+3]+[2+2]+[3+2]+[2+2+2], but I can imagine someone easily putting the brackets in different places if they aren’t directly hearing separations where the chords change.
Anyways the fast constant mixed meter of the :11 and 1:29 sections of this are absolutely wonderful to me, one of my favorite sections of anything on this soundtrack, which I loved as a whole. It’s really cool to see a fairly typical heroic emotional chord progression/melody be so bluntly rhythmically chopped up and destroyed like that, while retaining the same basic form otherwise. At this tempo it’s hard to follow if you don’t know it and I love that about it.
There is also this cool “electro version” of this that track I really like in terms of having more electronic audio production, but it’s far less metrically complex unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlqxyR2MQc
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