EarthBound’s Full Soundtrack in Sheet Music Form!

This is the best. Thank you so much, Ellie!

Oh my goodness. I think I’m going to cry. This is wonderful, how did I not know about this?

Ellie, you are amazing!! 😀
Can someone explain “In C” and “transposed”? I’m not familiar with sheet music. I’m just gonna make my roommate play it for me.

Also, would you happen to like help with the song titles? You have a mixture of official titles and fan names. For example, you have Twoson’s theme under the official title “Boy Meets Girl”, but Onett’s theme is just “Onett” instead of “Let’s get this Adventure Started”. And Humoresque of a Little Dog is named here as “Buy Somethin’ Will Ya!”, which isn’t even a Mother reference or grammatically correct (lacking a comma).

Are you familiar with keys in music? “In C” means that all the sheets are written in the key of C major. That’s good for playing because, barring accidentals, there are no sharps or flats. A piano player can play this entirely on the white keys, only using black keys for accidentals.

Now, not every song in EarthBound is in C in-game. Off the top of my head, I believe that Onett is in C major, while Twoson is in G major. So, if you played Onett using the score in C, it’ll sound just about the same as it does in-game, but Twoson in C will sound either higher or lower than in-game. I haven’t actually looked at the sheets yet, but I’m guessing that the transposed sheets would contain Twoson in G?

The score in C means it’s displayed like it would be for a piano or other instrument with a C tuning. The transposed score means the different instrument parts are transposed for their particular instruments, like a Bb trumpet, where what looks like a C on the score would actually play a Bb.

They do this with instruments that come in different pitches so a player of that instrument can pick up an instrument of any pitch and use the same fingerings to play the correct notes. It’s more like the sheet music tells the player what kind of fingering to use rather than what the actual note is they’re playing.

Ah, thank you guys. 🙂

Thank you!

I love how the Happy-Happy Village theme is highlited in blue

@linkdude20002001 The names came from the starmen.net website, so they might not be too standard, sorry.

@Ellie
Ah, okay. Well, I’ll work on getting the site updated in that area finally.