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TitleDarkness 東方 Touhou Piano 129
ChannelKakashiMr
Published2009-12-13T19:27:45.000Z
DescriptionTitle: かく扉を叩く
Artist: ししまい三号(DauGe)
Circle: ししまいブラザーズ (sisimai-brothers)
Album: 東方夏風一過
Original: 運命のダークサイド (Dark Side of Fate)

"Original song is No. 1 favorite song, 『The dark side of destiny. His favorite is somehow able to come (laughs).
Scratch hit the door, in the course of Beethoven's "destiny" You are. When hearing the song in his trial, why "Oh, Beethoven" came in a flash and it was a pretty aggressively this Arenji (^^;) Riyu ー
Beethoven is one of my most favorite composer was Chopin, along with those who practice a lot. Naa alive if I never became friends. Arrangements used in this way and also No way he would be unthinkable.
I enjoyed playing this song and Naa. Or two combined to measure the timing of a single melody on the piano ... .... I knew I twin piano fun.
I made a piano solo and with all your heart. Let's play for you, Rutobihhi!"
- ししまい三号(DauGe), sisimai-bros, original from his site http://sisimai-bros.unofficial.jp/ translated by Google translate

First of all, no, my level of English has not been reduced to what you read above. What you read above is a rough translation by Google Translate from something I found while lurking around thinking of what to add in this description. You see I decided to check out sisimai's homepage and I noticed that for each of his arranges HE (yes, it's one guy) added a little commentary commenting on what he felt while arranging said song or just a random commentary. It's quite fun to read, really, while listening to the song itself, you can actually imagine the artist arranging it, in a certain sense. Furthermore, fusing your favorite ZUN song with one of your favorite classical artists is like a... dream, right?
That aside, I officially love this guys even more then I did before. Fusing Beethoven with ZUN is pure brilliance. I should ask him to do Chopin's Nocturne + Evening Star.

But, actually now that I listen to the original better it does bear a close resemblance to Beethoven's 5th Symphony (the main melody), I credit sisimai for making me notice this by actually doing it themselves, If you haven't noticed it yet, I'm referring to 0:55. Well it's no big surprise, a lot of ZUN's songs have secrets hidden in them, the most OBVIOUS example is Remilia's theme and Beethoven's Piano Sonata "Pathetique", third movement.

Note that I'm not accusing ZUN of plagiarism and for all I know ZUN might have done this without knowing, actually I personally think it's just plain coincidence, so no need to overreact.

Well that's not the only reason I uploaded this, Hina's theme is another very quick song to play on the piano, actually in the MoF OST (which isn't actually very piano heavy) it's only matched by Native Faith, which is undoubtedly ZUN's fastest and most complicated theme to execute on a piano, ever. Love the percussion in this arrange.

Cheers for sisimai! Thanks for watching!
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