I was moseying around on the iTunes store the other day and came across a musician called Nobuo Uematsu. He’s a Japanese video game composer and he’s best known for creating the musical scores for most of the Final Fantasy video games. He has some very interesting music and some of his work has been performed by some major symphony orchestras. Although I wouldn’t be too inclined to purchase the entire soundtrack album for one of these video games, there are some very nice piano and woodwind pieces worth listening to. He reminds me a lot of Danny Wright if you’re into piano solos. Below are three of my favorite songs from his collection. The links will take you to YouTube versions of the songs.
For more information on Nobuo Uematsu, click here.
1. Tifa’s Theme from Final Fantasy VII (my personal favorite)
2. To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X
3. Aerith’s Theme from Final Fantasy VII
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I will have to listen to these songs when I’m not in class. But if you go to YouTube and type in either the composer or song title, a bunch of videos will come up. Some are fan-made videos with clips from the video games, and some are live orchestra pieces.
Thanks dudette! I updated the blog links to take you to the YouTube versions. Good studying music for you.
Those are good songs. I liked them all. Here’s a song that I like to listen to when I study:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/361323/Bella%27s%20Lullaby.mp3
I also really like the band Monarch, but there is a heavy metal band by that name too, and that is not the one I’m referencing. This Monarch is from Pittsburgh and their newest CD is called Lowly. I think both of their albums are on iTunes, but you can search those on YouTube to listen to the whole song I think.