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Undertale Piano Collections
VGMO: Video Game Music Online
(2017)
Abstract
Materia Collective, a fellowship best known for its comprehensive remix of Final Fantasy VII, is no stranger to Undertale, Toby Fox’s satire of and homage to JRPG classics like Earthbound and Shin Megami Tensei. Last year the label released the game’s original soundtrack; it has since organized four additional Undertale projects, including this one. But unlike the grandiose Fallen, a seven-disc tribute, UndertalePiano Collections, arranged by David Peacock and played by Augustine Mayuga Gonzales, opts for minimalism. Just fifteen of Undertale’s 101 tracks were arranged for piano, and the translation from plenty to prudence reveals the fragile beauty in many of Fox’s compositions even as it weakens others.
Keywords
- soundtracks,
- music,
- video games,
- toby fox,
- arrangement
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 1, 2017
Citation Information
Michael Hughes. "Undertale Piano Collections" VGMO: Video Game Music Online (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_hughes/21/