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Temple (from “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link​”​)

from Horns of Hyrule by The Game Brass

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Notes from Daniel Romberger about this arrangement:

I really like arranging tunes from NES games (even though this one was made popular by Super Smash Bros. Melee) because there is so much opportunity to add color. An interesting thing about the temple theme (and most of the Zelda II soundtrack) is that nearly all of the phrases of the melody come in identical pairs. This kind of writing makes sense for the original game since it's a way of getting more mileage out of the same material. However, it presented an additional challenge when I was doing the arrangement. I didn't want to restate the phrases exactly because wanted to have a broader emotional arc for the piece. So I did my best to introduce variation through dynamics, orchestration, and even syncopation (like at the part 45 seconds in). Working with an ensemble of 16 brass forces provided a lot of opportunity to do this, and I hope you find the emotional narrative of the arrangement satisfying while still being faithful to the original tune.

Fun fact, this is actually my third time arranging this piece. The first time was for Zeldathon Forces as the final part of a big Zelda II medley (since it was noticed that that soundtrack doesn't get as much love). However, we never managed to coordinate a time where all the musicians could play together since there was so much going on at the marathon. Then, over the previous winter, I visited Alex and re-arranged this part of the Zeldathon medley for brass quintet. We played it through at his house but haven't recorded the quintet version yet. There are some ideas from each of the two previous versions (such as the cameo of the Zelda I dungeon theme) that made it in here as well, and maybe we'll record the quintet version of this theme at some point later.

Also, there was some debate about calling this the Zelda II dungeon, palace, or temple theme; we went with "Temple" since that's how it's known in the Super Smash Bros. series even though "palace" seems to be how the dungeons are known now.

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from Horns of Hyrule, released July 23, 2021
John Robert Matz: Piccolo Trumpet
Avery Yonehiro: Trumpet
Nathan Banegas: Trumpet
Brooke Ferd: Trumpet
Robby Duguay: Flugelhorn
Danny Flam: French Horn
JohnStacy: French Horn
Lauren Stacy: French Horn
Alana Yee: French Horn
Daniel Romberger: Trombone, Arrangement
Eric L.: Trombone
Allison Martin: Trombone
Rebecca Patterson: Bass Trombone
Abigail Lannan: Euphonium
Isaac Smith: Tuba
Alex Hill: Tuba
Thomas Kresge: Mix Engineer

Originally Composed by Akito Nakatsuka
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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