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Hyrule Field (from “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess​”​)

from Horns of Hyrule by The Game Brass

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Notes from Daniel Romberger about this arrangement:

Twilight Princess is the antithesis to Wind Waker graphically (and arguably in terms of story as well) despite both games debuting on the same platform. It was such a joy to go over the game footage and re-experience that huge, definitively Zelda look and environment. And the center hub of the Eldin, Faron, Ordona, and Lanayru Provinces is this, Hyrule Field!

Whereas with the Wind Waker arrangement, I took the approach of "link"-ing semi-related themes together, for Twilight Princess's Hyrule Field, I kept pretty much to the original source material. However, I did want to incorporate the adaptive audio variations that occur. Some of these variations happen when enemies approach and when Link is idling in the pause menu.

But the real crux of this music is what Koji Kondo and Toru Minegishi call the "Advantageous Theme!" After looking at gameplay footage, I couldn't make out a particular gameplay pattern that causes the Advantageous Theme to appear, but the composers said in an interview that it was originally intended to play when Link was winning a boss fight. Recognizing how important the Advantageous Theme is to the emotional arc of the piece, I wanted to be very careful with how I used it for the emotional arc of this arrangement.

In the end, I decided to have the Advantageous Theme play twice, first as a somber flugel solo (one of my favorite brass tropes). This plays halfway through the arrangement that follows the enemy encounter to mark a sort of pyrrhic victory. Story-wise, without going into super spoiler territory, there is a bit of tragedy that also happens about halfway through the game, and after that tragedy occurs, Hyrule Field is the place where Link is goes. Then, the second place where the Advantageous Theme plays is right at the end of the arrangement, representing the true victorious brass fanfare that signals the end of the musical journey!

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from Horns of Hyrule, released July 23, 2021
John Robert Matz: Piccolo Trumpet
Nathan Banegas: Trumpet
Robert Burton: Trumpet
Robby Duguay: Flugelhorn
Danny Flam: French Horn
JohnStacy: French Horn
Lauren Stacy: French Horn
James Naigus: French Horn
Eric L.: Alto Trombone
Ethan Santos: Trombone
Jacob McNatt: Trombone
Allison Martin: Trombone
Daniel Romberger: Trombone, Arrangement
Isaac Smith: Tuba
Alex Hill: Tuba
Thomas Kresge: Mix Engineer, Trumpet

Originally Composed by Toru Minegishi
Arranged by Daniel Romberger

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The Game Brass is a brass quintet (and friends) who make covers of video game music. Their mission to become the brass quintet of video games, bringing classical chops to the game world, and showing off game music in the classical world. Featuring:
John Robert Matz (Trumpet),
Robby Duguay (Trumpet),
JohnStacy (French Horn),
Daniel Romberger (Trombone),
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