Inpursuit/Final Fantasy Tactics musical motives analysis
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Music of Final Fantasy Tactics is a work of classic in the modern game music history. One of the prominent successes of its soundtrack is that composer Hitoshi Sakimoto wrote several motives which are ingeniously variated and even interwound in the scores.
Motives
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| Motif | (OST track order) Example | Note | MIDI sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1.01 Title Back (Bland Logo) (0:12 to 0:36) | Main theme of Final Fantasy Tactics. | A1, A2 |
| B | 1.14 Hero's Theme | Protagonist Ramza Beoulve's motif. | B1, B2 |
| C | 1.36 Ovelia's Theme | C1, C2, C3 | |
| D | 1.22 Brave Story | Old men's motif. | D |
| E | 1.03 P.R. Movie | E1, E2 | |
| F | 2.04 St. Ajora's Theme | F | |
| G | 1.41 Delita's Theme | G | |
| H | 1.01 Title Back (Bland Logo) (starting at 0:46) | H | |
| I | 1.10 Commander in Training | I1, I2 |
Structure by trackEdit
| (OST track order) Track | Motives sequence |
|---|---|
| 1.01 Title Back (Bland Logo) | A, H. |
| 1.02 BackBorn Story | A |
| 1.03 P.R. Movie | Crystal motif, E, Crystal motif. |
| 1.06 Prologue Movie | Bagpipe intro, C1, H, B1, E2, B1. |
| 1.07 Pray | C1 |
| 1.08 Enemy Attack | B1 |
| 1.10 Commander in Training | Variation of I. |
| 1.13 Battle Complete | E2, Crystal motif. |
| 1.14 Hero's Theme | B |
| 1.22 Brave Story | D |
| 1.26 Alma's Theme | H |
| 1.29 Cry of Pain | I2. |
| 1.33 Game Over | Oboe intro, C1. |
| 1.35 Random Waltz | Variation of H. |
| 1.36 Ovelia's Theme | Variation of C. (2 separate tracks in-game.) |
| 1.37 Apoplexy | Variation of I. (2 separate tracks in-game.) |
| 1.41 Delita's Theme | G |
| 2.01 Memories | Variation of B. |
| 2.03 Antipyretic | C1, A2, B, A. |
| 2.04 St. Ajora's Theme | Variation of F. |
| 2.06 I Walked Away | B |
| 2.07 Espionage | F |
| 2.09 Ovelia's Worries | C1, G, C2, C3, B. |
| 2.11 Battle on the Bridge | E1, B1, E2, B1. |
| 2.13 In Pursuit | F, A1. |
| 2.14 Shock!! ~Hopelessness | Intro, C1, B1. |
| 2.15 St. Ajora's Theme Deluxe | Variation of F. |
| 2.16 Cry of Pain! | C1 |
| 2.21 Thunder God Cid | Variation of D. |
| 2.22 Treasure | H |
| 2.25 Ultema The Nice Body | Variation of F. |
| 2.28 Epilogue Movie | D, H, D (oboe), D (strings). |
| 2.29 Staff Credits | H, B, H. |
| *69 The Queen's Bed | C1, C2. |
| *80 Ajora's Masque | Variation of F. |
| *? Death of High Confessor | D |
* Sound test mode only.
On a trivial note, although Masaharu Iwata is the co-composer of the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack, his scores never shared the motives with Sakimoto's, except for BackBorn Story which only contains a very small fragment of A at the coda. This trait of composition continues in their later works such as Stella Deus, Final Fantasy XII and Odin Sphere.
