I wonder if this was a deliberate stylistic choice or, again, influenced by the individuals the composer had in mind writing the music. The ambiguous nature of the "melody" in the Lavender Town theme means the piano voice is often the dominant one, whereas music for solo instruments with piano accompaniment typically put the focus on the solo instrument. The interesting thing to me is the unusual use of each voice. One example is this French horn and tuba arrangement found on MuseScore.Īnother is this version for piano and cello. These seem to be designed either for fans to experiment with timbres, or to allow them to play the music with their friends. Many Lavender Town transcriptions seem less specifically connected to the timbres suggested in the music. It is truly a "reinterpretation," whether the arranger intended it or not, and serves as a form of both creative and curative fandom. (Christians only make up a tiny minority of the Japanese population, and the "Kanto" region in which Lavender Town resides is based on the real-life region of Japan by the same name.) This shows how players, either out of ignorance or deliberately, can bring their own life experiences and cultural backgrounds into their interpretations of this music. The church bells/funeral connection is a distinctly Western, Christian construct, while Lavender Town's supernatural elements are non-Christian, most closely influenced by Japan's native Shinto traditions. This is particularly interesting given that this is distinctly different from the macabre/supernatural influences over the Lavender Town music. (Their playing immediately precedes the first appearance of the Dies Irae theme.) If the fan arranger was not influenced by Berlioz, they are likely influenced by the many uses of tubular bells in film music as signifiers of the supernatural and the macabre, also due to their similarities to funerary church bells. It can be found here and has the option of listening to it. The choice of tubular bells is interesting in light of their use in the fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, where they are also used to sound like church bells in connection with death/funerals. An anonymous user of includes an arrangement for glockenspiel, tubular bells, hand bells and piano. I also found some fan arrangements for other instrument groups. Here is a video that shows the various versions of the Lavender Town theme:įans who attempt to do a stricter transcription of the Lavender Town theme usually arrange it for piano, as in the case of user "Bespinben" who uploaded a piano transcription to the archive (short for "Nintendo Sheet Music"). Most fan transcriptions are based on the "infamous" original version. The remakes of each game followed suit, with re-orchestrated versions of each theme. The Gold, Silver and Crystal games removed the creepier elements of the Lavender Town plot and likewise, made the music less unsettling, adding major tonalities that gave it a more lullaby-like feeling. ![]() These associations combined with the unsettling music to create lots of online urban legends (called "creepypastas") related to the location, and especially its music. In the game, the character encounters these Pokemon as well as mediums who battle using Ghost-types, and must do battle against the ghost of another dead Pokemon. It fit the atmosphere of the town, a location for a gravesite for dead Pokemon that was crawling with "ghost type" characters like Gastly, Haunter and Gengar. ![]() ![]() Beginning in the first generation games, the town featured infamously "spooky" music, using atonal and multitonal harmonies. ![]() Music Transcription and Video Game Fandom : A Reception Study Main Menu Rose Bridges c93a583371290f494c7329456b1a42585b44b932 Lavender Town 1 media/pokemon lavender town.jpg T11:11:20-07:00 Rose Bridges c93a583371290f494c7329456b1a42585b44b932 11207 12 How do fans reinterpret Pokemon's spookiest theme? image_header T11:13:33-08:00 Rose Bridges c93a583371290f494c7329456b1a42585b44b932 The music for Lavender Town is among the most infamous in the Pokemon series. Please enable Javascript and reload the page. This site requires Javascript to be turned on.
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