Place I'll Return To Someday

Forsaken Lover · 08:02 AM

I'm no expert on music so I'm not sure what it's called but it seems like the opening screen song is remixed in the game. I mean it sounds like the beat is the same but has different instruments or something.

Original "Place I'lL Return To Someday/Place To Call home" you hear when starting up FFIX:
YouTube - Final Fantasy IX Music - A Place to Call Home

Then "Oeilvert" which you hear..iN Oeilvert:
YouTube - Final Fantasy IX Music - Oeilvert

"Ipsen's Heritage" from ipsen's Castle:
YouTube - Final Fantasy IX Music - Ipsen's Heritage

"Four Mirrors" played during the plan of attack on the Four Shrines.
YouTube - Final Fantasy IX Music - The Four Medallions

"Terra":
YouTube - Final Fantasy IX Music - Terra

Anyway, which is your personal favorite? Mine is the Ipsen version.

Kawaii Ryûkishi · 06-27-2009, 12:22 AM

It's called a motif, generally. Every Final Fantasy since FFIV has featured similar rearrangements of its main theme.

My favorite arrangements of this one are the title screen track, the Oeilvert track (just because it's the first version you hear in the game itself, and it's far along enough in the game to surprise you with the connection it makes), and the serene theme of Terra.

turkeyberry · 06-27-2009, 02:17 AM

Terra, because it's basically my favourite from the IX soundtrack.

sdm42393 · 06-27-2009, 03:26 AM

I like them all but my favorite would have to be the Four Medallions version.

Depression Moon · 06-27-2009, 03:32 AM

Damn, I just realized that they're all remixes I've had to have played this game at least 11 times and yet I couldn't see it or the symbolic relationships. That's funny.

charliepanayi · 06-27-2009, 10:50 AM

I love the opening music on the title screen for FFIX, it's one of my favourite pieces of FF music. It is a fun motif for FF music to use a main theme as the backbone for various tracks throughout the game. In a similar fashion I think Melodies of Life gets used in the World Map theme and the music playing when Garnet/Steiner arrive at South Gate.

Rantzien · 06-27-2009, 12:08 PM

Daughter of Madain Sari is pretty much a mix of Eiko's Theme and Melodies of Life. Garnet's Theme also partially uses the melody of Melodies of Life.

Protecting My Devotion, Loss of Me and Rose of May (notice also the similar-sounding names of the latter two) are also variations on the same melody.

They do this a lot in the game. It's pretty interesting to look for connections, since they're never randomly the same. The music has a connection, generally, when the situations they're played in are connected.

Kawaii Ryûkishi · 06-27-2009, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Rantzien ^

Protecting My Devotion, Loss of Me and Rose of May (notice also the similar-sounding names of the latter two) are also variations on the same melody.

"Loss of Me" and "Rose of May" are the exact same track; the title just got transliterated two different ways. (For the record, the latter interpretation is the correct one.)

turkeyberry VICIOUS GEEK SOOT~ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ Location: in my scrumplybee tree~	#3 (permalink) Terra, because it's basically my favourite from the IX soundtrack.
06-27-2009, 02:17 AM

sdm42393 Kweh! Location: Angel Island	#4 (permalink) I like them all but my favorite would have to be the Four Medallions version.
06-27-2009, 03:26 AM

Depression Moon Hypnotic Location: Lavender Town	#5 (permalink) Damn, I just realized that they're all remixes I've had to have played this game at least 11 times and yet I couldn't see it or the symbolic relationships. That's funny.
06-27-2009, 03:32 AM

charliepanayi The Misanthropist Location: London, UK	#6 (permalink) I love the opening music on the title screen for FFIX, it's one of my favourite pieces of FF music. It is a fun motif for FF music to use a main theme as the backbone for various tracks throughout the game. In a similar fashion I think Melodies of Life gets used in the World Map theme and the music playing when Garnet/Steiner arrive at South Gate.
06-27-2009, 10:50 AM

Kawaii Ryûkishi Administrator Long Ranger Location: Future rhythm	#8 (permalink) Originally Posted by Rantzien ^ Protecting My Devotion, Loss of Me and Rose of May (notice also the similar-sounding names of the latter two) are also variations on the same melody. "Loss of Me" and "Rose of May" are the exact same track; the title just got transliterated two different ways. (For the record, the latter interpretation is the correct one.)
06-27-2009, 01:13 PM