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~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: KomeijiKoishi on May 01, 2009, 03:16:09 PM

Title: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: KomeijiKoishi on May 01, 2009, 03:16:09 PM

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3955345

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-vpHOfWiE&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChjemnUI4A&fmt=18

When you love Touhou Music, then you HAVE to watch these!

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: shinyjam on May 01, 2009, 03:33:51 PM

Very inspirational, good find there!  :P

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on May 01, 2009, 04:34:15 PM

... oh, come on, the first Underwater City/History of the Moon and the Lunatic Princess ones are really reaching. :P

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Iryan on May 01, 2009, 07:04:23 PM

Oh yeah, hood ol' Cryptomnesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia) never lets you down.

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on May 01, 2009, 10:46:29 PM

Ah, that's what the term for that is! I was trying to remember it a couple weeks ago ...

See also: this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoD_BCYA7k&fmt=18), about 17 seconds in. Sound familiar (1:07)? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSC-Aj_XNM&fmt=18)

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Schpwuette on May 01, 2009, 11:30:22 PM

I outright disagree with some of these comparisons... some of them are, at best, a single bar that might be considered similar.
A few are stronger though. Metal man - Rumia's theme for example.

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Azinth on May 01, 2009, 11:44:13 PM

Yeah, a lot of these are either just similar harmonic progressions that have been used by many people over the years, or little snippets of melodies that are probably just coincidence.  Though I knew about that Septette/Pathetique similarity before watching this vid, and I always thought it sounded pretty fishy.

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Quintafeira12 on May 03, 2009, 06:46:39 PM

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Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: nintendonut888 on May 03, 2009, 08:39:07 PM

The only two in that video I really felt had a connection was Casket of Star and Fall of Fall. The rest are vague enough to be coincidences.

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: M. Burusu on May 03, 2009, 11:04:45 PM

An in-Touhou music influence thing.

I was listening to Legend of Hourai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx38XwMlPE4) from Dolls in Psuedo Paradise, and couldn't help but feel that there were some parts that sounded a bit like parts of Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke -- for example, the bit starting at 0:55 on the linked video (you can't miss it).

I know that they're both by ZUN, but it's still uncannily similar. Thoughts on this?

Title: Re: Origins of Touhou Music
Post by: Drake on May 03, 2009, 11:25:18 PM

Quote from: MBurusu on May 03, 2009, 11:04:45 PM

An in-Touhou music influence thing.

I was listening to Legend of Hourai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx38XwMlPE4) from Dolls in Psuedo Paradise, and couldn't help but feel that there were some parts that sounded a bit like parts of Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke -- for example, the bit starting at 0:55 on the linked video (you can't miss it).

I know that they're both by ZUN, but it's still uncannily similar. Thoughts on this?

But they're obviously connected so