Mononoke Hime - Journey to the West - with Score (Analyzed) - Joe Hisaishi - Full Score 

That's true, brass were born for calling (war/hunt horns) and celebrations often related to royalties etc (and even nowadays there are brass bands etc), so it does connect with Ashitaka being a prince. I think musically it was also to have a "cool-down" section after the full orchestra that was still "warm" (sometimes he uses Woodwinds alone, this time brass makes sense). And thank you for your kind words! More content is coming, also tomorrow I am giving a talk about 'Interactive Music in Games' at Game Sound Conference.

@@tommasoannoni481 That’s awesome! You should definitely share the link if people are able to tune in live. Also would love some content like this on some of your favorite game scores! 🔥(Jesper Kyd’s Assassin’s Creed is highly overlooked...just sayin lol)

Thank you for your articulate comment, it gives me the energy to do more!

Thank you! Feel free to subscribe to be notified when the new one comes out.. pretty soon..

I am doing more! Will upload much more, with also more resources on Patreon, as soon as I get my working visa.

Thank you for your warm words! More is coming and I am so excited yayyy

Aww, thank you so much for your kind words! I love teaching. I did a lot of tutoring etc in the past. To have a full-time teaching job, I guess some things have to align just the right way, but who knows..

I did more, also including the movie video, but they "took it down". I think in the future I may have to do a mock-up of the music. I don't know how other channels like "Film Scoring Analysis" manage to keep everything original in their public videos. What would you like to see analyzed?

Oh btw this has a bunch of woodwinds that are not there. Like a lot of piccolo etc (this was meant to be performed live so it's a little different from the original and I didn't fix it, anyway).

@@tommasoannoni481 I was so sad to see Legend of Ashitaka taken down! I had used your transcription to make a staffpad mockup and analyze the score but I hadn't fully completed it when it was taken down. You're doing amazing work and it's very educational for me personally. I hope you can find a way to put the second part back up! Thanks for your hard work Tommaso and take care!

@@Dklampanis Thank you again, and just to let you know I managed to have The Legend of Ashitaka video now up on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/legend-of-hime-46234340

Yes, he writes beautiful music

Grazie a te! Si, quando ho un po' di tempo finisco le nuove trascrizioni, se ti iscrivi con la campanella youtube ti avviserà.

Yes this I did just by ear, actually it’s been easier than other pieces (like “The Legend of Ashitaka”). But yeah it takes some time to investigate some doublings etc

Thank you! Yes, I've been planning and preparing a few things, soon I'll have more time and will restart doing more. I've been saying it for a while, but it should really be happening in the next month finally - new content, maybe new format as well. Anyway, thank you for your kind words and support!

I should be resuming to upload content soon!

Is full score fine even tho the staves are then very small?

I agree with tom. A reduction means that instruments are never in the same place. A full score even though smaller means theyre consistent. And its also nice to see what is not playing.

My pleasure, thank you

Grazie mille!

Thank you! Yeah, I have been away from this for a while now, I think in maybe a month I'll be back doing more!

Prego e grazie a te!

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@@tommasoannoni481 That has been done right away!

@@nRGmusicproduction Oh grat! Thanks! Sorry, youtube didn't notify me. I'm spamming everyone looool

Thank you! Feel free to subscribe as more is coming!!

Thank you! Feel free to subscribe if you'd like to see more !

You're welcome! Hopefully, new things are coming soon..

Feel free to subscribe if you'd like to see more, much more is coming!

I am glad! Thank you

It's definitely a double reed, probably a Hichiriki? But I am not 100% sure. And, I think it's played *very* well (the legato and the soft/delicate moments, even such a short phrase is not easy to be played that clean!). In the original, the previous line of flute is not played on European flutes (likely some Japanese wooden flutes?). Then, the melody you refer to, it's definitely a double reed instrument, over the pizzicato strings. I am not an expert of Japanese instruments, but my best guess is that it's the Hichiriki. It's "similar" to the oboe (in that is a high range double reed), and it may look like a duduk (or a piccolo flute body, which has a straight "embrochure" and a double reed), but it's different. The sound of the duduk is definitely different, more "dark" if you want, and there are less higher resonances (although it varies with range, and also it depends on the hardness of the reed, but for that melody I don't think it's a duduk, which also is a middle easter instrument. But that's a good guess! We could say that the Hichiriki is the Duduk's Japanese cousin - and vice-versa). Hichiriki can have quite a different color when it plays lower, but when it gets high, that "Journey to the West" sound comes alive. For example, if you listen for this piece here (link below, Hichiriki is the player on the left of the screen), already from the first note you can tell that the tone-color is very similar to that Hisaishi solo (just a 2nd or 3rd below it, but the color gets very close): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yXPGIMm-xEI.html&ab_channel=whatdafunk6 I hope that helps! The only way to know for sure would be: 1) contacting someone that worked on the score, or the recording; 2) finding a released album which "book" contains the name of all the orchestral players ("ethnic" solos may be mentioned even if the whole orchestra is not mentioned); 3) contact anyone that plays the Hichiriki (like from a facebook group dedicated to the instrument, or from reddit), sending them a link to the original track (like from spotify for example) and asking them if they think that's a Hichiriki or not. And, thank you for your kind words! PS: maybe this example of the Hichiriki here is better: (embedded timestamp from 2:42): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QRZ1eNlzhoA.htmlfeature=shared&t=162

More is coming! Sooon! Also some videos deleted by youtube are now on the Patreon

I did “The Legend of Ashitaka” too, but youtube removed it :’( So, the next ones maybe I’ll have to do an orchestral mockup of the audio.

Thank you. Since the harmonic progression in this piece repeats a lot (bVI, bVII, I, then tonicize the relative major), I didn't kept repeating the same, but in the future I will definitively put more attention to that. Feel free to check out the new video that I just uploaded, I wrote more harmonic considerations there.

Thank you! My Patreon is: www.patreon.com/TommasoAnnoni And I just uploaded this cue, just for you! I can't sell the scores directly, since they are not mine (copyrights), but I can give lessons where I use the music as examples, hence why all the analysis. I'll leave it up on the Patreon for now, but may have to reconfigure things later. I will also soon upload full scores analysis of other cues, maybe midi too, and on Patreon I also have more videos, that RU-vid removes. More is coming soon to RU-vid as well, so feel free to subscribe to be updated! New video coming tomorrow, or in the next days!

@@tommasoannoni481 That's awesome man, I'll make sure to subscribe to your patreon in a couple of days !

It was blowing up and youtube kept removing it, so here you can find it: www.patreon.com/posts/legend-of-hime-46234340 Which is on my Patreon page, www.patreon.com/TommasoAnnoni More analysis are coming soon! The next one is epic, I believe

The music is instantly recognized, therefore I cannot monetize the video (you can see the info about the track used just below the video description). This happens because the music is already on youtube (the publisher gave permission to use it on youtube and it is already uploaded in some other video by them). I am not sure why similar content is instead banned. I wish some real person could review my banned videos, to understand that my work is analysis, I used material already on youtube, and I am also using content under the educational purpose law. I honestly do not know how to avoid the “copyright-strike” when it happens.

@@tommasoannoni481 Thank you, I just uploaded my analysis :)

Sorry that I never saw your comment until now: - I used Finale to write the music (I also use Sibelius, but recently I switched to Dorico) (aided with a piano to check the notes). - Then I used the "Preview" app in Mac to make the colors, highlights, arrows, added notes, etc (adding notes on PDF, lated converted in JPEG, if I remember correctly). - Then I used Final Cut Pro to make the video (with fades between each appearance of new highlights etc).

I will open a Patreon soon, with various resources.

Dominik Svoboda Thank you for your suggestions. I used the reference track that is in the video description (the ost cue is on youtube, but not available in USA, so I also wanted to avoid the video being taken down). I agree that bar 21 is weird. Also in the start of page 2 the original has no strings, for example. I will be more precise with the harmonic analysis in the future, if that’s important to people, but honestly if there is a 9th that resolve in half bar, I don’t really want to analyze as “Dadd2 D”: the score is there and everyone can se what happens counterpoint-wise (it’s even colored), so I think I prefer to have the harmonic analysis highlight the bigger context, so that at first glance everything is clear (direction wise and key center wise). I’ll think about it. But thank you for your notes!

Hi Chiz, thank you! I'll be honest: since I could not find the score for this movie, and I transcribed all by ear, it took a lot of time. So I am thinking of creating some more material and then opening maybe a Patreon (so I can offer the clean and analyzed score for a low tier, and then maybe more materials for a higher tier). Or maybe a paid enhanced youtube channel with resources, like Film Scoring Analysis. I'm not sure yet. Would that interest you? It would be very affordable for you, but at least it would make more sense to me to invest the time.

Tommaso Annoni Yes! I would be very interested as long as they are full orchestral transcriptions. I prefer those scores as I can study the orchestration on top of the other usual elements (harmony, etc.). I follow Film Scoring Analysis too, it’s a great channel. I’m also interested in videogames’ and anime’s music transcriptions.

@@ChizFreak Great! I am also very much into videogames, so I think I will definitively add that kind of material. What is a music piece or a game of which you would like to see an analysis?

@@tommasoannoni481 First few that come to mind: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Mor Adain / Roaming the Wastes (Day) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tx3AbguQZHU.html Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty - Main Theme ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d5An5z5Gk60.html Monster Hunter - Proof of a Hero ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O3Ha8GCv788.html

@@ChizFreak Wow, those tracks are very good! I want to do the Xenoblade one so bad, but I already know it's gonna take a while! uwu it's very full, dense I'll probably upload some other musics that I am already working on, but it will come their time: I'll keep you updated thru the channel!