Sound Track

On the previous entry, I have posted about many genres in music nowadays. And now, I want to talk about music as sound track.

Soundtrack music is recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game. The other meanings are commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

For this entry, I want to talk about soundtrack in video games. The first composers for music in video games in computer are Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway (you can check it on Wikipedia). Meanwhile, the man named Koji Kondo was an early and important composer for Nintendo games. As the technology improved, polyphonic (music that consists of two or more independent melodic voice and accompanied by chord) and often orchestral soundtracks replaced simple monophonic (music that consists of melody without accompanying harmony) melodies starting in the late 1980s and the soundtracks to popular games such as  "Final Fantasy" series began to be released separately.

Now, there are many video games with their own soundtrack. Like Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Atelier Iris, Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time (Role Playing Games, or RPG for short); Grand Theft Auto; and many games on computer.

Below are the examples of video games soundtrack

This is from Final Fantasy (Main Theme from Final Fantasy VII)

This is from Kingdom Hearts (Sinister Sundown - Field and Battle from Kingdom Hearts I)

And the last, this is from Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time (this is piano duet from pianist with youtube's nickname : kylelandry ; Legend of Zelda - Gerudo Valley)