Someone sent me this tune a couple years ago. I finally got around to writing it down tonight. Apparently it’s from a doujinshi game (fan-made material based on established characters). The…
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It took me about half the song to realize it was an arrange of music from
Super Marisa Land, haha. It was definitely interesting hearing your take on
it. It might be interesting to note that the creators of Super Marisa Land
also made a Megaman-style game with Marisa as well and had a stage that
parodied Super Marisa Land with an arrange of the same song: Megamari Music
– 21 – Patchouli Stage 3
Touhou Project is a series of “danmaku” or “bullet hell” arcade shoot-em-up
style games made by a single man, known as ZUN, and has a lot of great
fan-made works with no fear of copyright prosecution. I think a lot of art
should be more like that. I often find the original works and many fan
works inspiring.
I actually have this game along with the other officials but never bothered
running it. Turns out I even have this track in a big collection of the
game’s music and their various arrangements that I haven’t quite listened
through…This piece may very well be an arrangement of an official track
though nothing stands out as obvious to that to me at the moment. This
series has a lot of very heavily arranged fan music.
I learned a lot from reading this. Thanks for the hefty transcription work.
Does your notation software not have an option to swing certain strings of
note values, or was leaving this recording straight merely your choice?
Maybe leave a ♫ = ♪.♪ (best I can do with a keyboard, I think) kind of
thing at the beginning of the score for the unfamiliar.
A 15 year old PC? Impressive.
Never thought I’d see a piece from a doujin game from you, Keeper1st! And
Super Marisa Land no less… Maybe I should have expected nice,
lesser-known things ever since way back when you featured Nocturnal
Illusion’s OST.
The Touhou Project games actually have quite an eccentric composer in ZUN,
the creator. The soundtracks tend to be as colorful as the games
themselves. While they’re not ragtime and more influenced by classical and
orchestral music, they’re worth a listen in my opinion.
As always, great work in the transcription. Since you called it Stride
MARISA, this should be the transcription from an arrangement of the
original tune used in Super Marisa Land. The original for the game itself
(Stage 1 theme) is composed by U2, the arrangement (Stride MARISA from Toho
Jazz 2008) was made by Sound Holic, both notable Touhou doujin composers.
You’d be amazed with the sheer quantity of derivative works, music
included, that Touhou enjoys. I’ll definitely think of you if I hear
anything that might be of your interest in style.