Id (Purpose) | Orchestral Cover

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Here it is - a transcription of what I can hear in "Id (Purpose)" from Fire Emblem: Awakening and a recording I made alongside it using the transcription to test how accurate it is!
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➤ Analysis:
The track opens with a huge statement of the "Id" motif (heard previously throughout the game's soundtrack with the other "Id" themes), now decorated with swift semiquaver passages in the bassoons and cellos, melodic doubling in the choir, violins and trumpet (0:31) and Latin text.
After the "Id" theme repeats, it concludes on a suspended 4-3 chord which never resolves (0:56) - Eb-Ab-Bb - before moving via an interrupted cadence into E major (or Fb major). We have now transitioned into the 2nd part of the "Id" theme, with sweeping 7th chords (1:02; B major 7th to D major 7th, to C# minor 7th).
By 1:25, we begin to build back up for a return to the 1st "Id" theme, which is then repeated in all of its glory. By 1:57, we get another unresolved 4-3 chord (again, Eb-Ab-Bb), now extended further with increasing percussion and fleeting semiquavers as we progress into a new original section with another interrupted cadence (2:02).
Here, we get floating added-note chords akin to "Id (Beginnings)", which swim around on top of the percussive (Purpose) underlay. This material is expanded at 2:17 with strings in octave unison, as more material is added to prepare for the abrupt shift into B minor with a brand new section (2:34).
Here, remarkably, the tone of the track changes completely: the tempo has changed; the time signature has changed to 4/4 (from 3/4); and the melodies have switched from the "Id" themes to the main "Fire Emblem" motif (appearing in the alto entry at 2:49). This entire section is one big repetition of a circle of 5ths sequence, progressing from Bm - Em - A - D - G - C# diminished - F# - repeat. With each repeat, another choral voice is added, and the overall material increases, until we get to the climax at 3:31.
The track slows down at 3:42, to prepare for a return to the original tempo and time signature of 3/4. On our return, we get more floating added-note chordal material, again akin to "Id (Beginnings)" and previously at 2:02. We modulate into A major briefly to allow the harmony to fall down back to the tonic of G minor seamlessly for the track's repeat.
The accordion and choir were particularly challenging to recreate in the recording - twas my first time using wordbuilder, so go easy on me.
The lyrics were adapted from shadowofchaos's wonderful transcription from the 'Serenes Forest Forums' - serenesforest.n...
I am no master of latin, so the changes I made to the text were purely phonetic based to what I heard in the original audio.
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The score was created in Sibelius 7.5, and the audio was created in Cubase using the brilliant EastWest sample libraries.
★Game: Fire Emblem: Awakening
★Developer: Intelligent Systems
★Publisher: Nintendo
★Composer(s): Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh
★Software: Sibelius 7.5, Cubase Elements 7, Adobe Premiere Elements 15, EastWest Sample Libraries
★Tags: Fire Emblem, Awakening, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fire Emblem OST, Fire Emblem Awakening OST, Fire Emblem Awakening Soundtrack, Id (Purpose), Id Purpose, Fire Emblem Id Purpose
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