Eight Melodies Arrangement Played Live

May 30th, 2017 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Videos

A fan named Ari composed an Eight Melodies arrangement last year for a local orchestra to play:

Hiya Mato!

My name is Ari and I’m apart of UT Dallas’ Video Game/Anime Orchestra Ensemble. I’m apart of their music production team, and for the past 9 months I’ve been working on a Eight Melodies Arrangement/Transcription based off the track of the same name from the Mother 1989 album. I chose this specific track because while searching the internet, I haven’t been able to find sheet music remotely similar to this track.

Here’s a link to Anime Orchestra’s performance of Eight Melodies from our latest concert:

In the score I had to improvise some measures of particular parts because they were hard to hear, and also I wanted to have a little fun. The ending was also something I had to come up with as well since the original track fades out and doesn’t have a conclusive ending. This is only my second arrangement I’ve created (and bare in mind I was solely a choir gal in high school), so constructive criticism is welcomed! If you want the score/want to read along, attached to this will be the full orchestra score in a PDF.

If anyone has any questions, concerns, or they want to play my arrangement, please contact me at axl151130@utdallas.edu.

Thank you!

Ari included a PDF of the sheet music for this arrangement, which you can here.

I once heard that Eight Melodies was included in some Japanese music books used in schools. It’s neat to see the song spreading into other schools too now!